TopHatCroat

Correlates well with the amount of anxiety in the world

Did anybody else notice that ever since AI started taking over, (some) people have become better at describing exactly what they want?

Suddenly everybody using AI can experiance first hand the pain of poor specification and this actually helps us being better at communicating in general?

No Ricky nooo, this isn't right

And with a 69 seconds pole lap, nice

Actually useful technical interviews How I conduct technical interviews and what I find effective, it's not about the technical knowledge

Technical interviews really shouldn't be focused that much on the technical part of it, you're trying to hire a person to work you'll work with so focus on good communication and pragmatism of the candidate. I've tried to explain that in this blog post open.substack.com/pub/tophatcr...

Why isn't there an emoji for "I don't want to sound like an asshole"?

Or am I the asshole already for needing an emoji for that?

I don't think CSS is hard, more that what we are expecting to do with it these days is quite advanced and that makes it hard

Yeah agree, but no one got rich of open source.
These companies' sole purpose is to make money for their stakeholders not the greater good.

I was on the brink of curing cancer when I realised my build was done an hour ago, and now I don't remember where I left off in either of those endeavours.

Does it get refined quarterly or on each encounter?

How many universally recognised kinds of ugly people are there?

Depends on the content of said fashion garment

The neat part of that is that it forces you to stop and think about your approach

Whenever I hear "I don't make mistakes" my brain automatically autocorrects that to "I don't learn"

A monologue in how disappointed you are if post-its are are note done.

And if that doesn't work, lock the wooden cabinet that the fridge is in. /s

Do you need more features then what post-its on a fridge offer?

To paraphrase Mark Twain, if I had more time I would have coded a smaller class.

As someone who has coded since 12, it doesn't matter how good you are at solving a coding problem. It matter how good you can solve a human problem.

I really hope that inverting a binary tree is just a meme and that nobody actually asks that in tech interviews, because that would be like hiring a firefighter because they can piss very far, impressive, but hardly useful on a real fire.

Then there is the opposite example, 3 months of working on an RFC (10% time maybe, but still long period) with requirement that every teams signs off and everything get's agreed ahead of time.
Then 1 week into the project the entire RFC is scrapped because reality is different to theory.
Balance.

I need to stop hoping that the book will get better after a few chapters. I'll get to better books sooner that way

Recently I've started turning my to-dos into "Do X for 10 minutes" where X = literally anything I want to work on and it actually works. I have a top tier monkey brain

Regardless of everything happening, I would still prefer to live today than in any other point in our history

for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do

The world would be far more balanced if we got game designers and dungeon masters to write our laws. They might go insane though

Hmm, it's fair to assume people might think that. Though in that case I would only look at people the person is following, not who is following because I would assume no one really bothers filtering out their followers

I would compare that with how automation tests only started getting wider adoption in 2000s. It took time for best practices and tooling to catch up, and I think we are there right now with AI.

Honest question, why does it matter? If you block them you don't see anything by them right?

Wait, was I supposed to make a post exclaiming that I've joined here?

And a beer if I can help it