beejjorgensen

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The networked software is free, but the hosting is paid seems to be a great model for promoting interop and avoiding single points of failure.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (28 children)

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'm sure it was possible, but I'm also sure my car doesn't do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My 25-year-old car is certainly not transmitting anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I always left it open-ended and that seemed to work. Part of the interview was seeing what they'd come up with. I'm pretty sure people always brought things they'd already written.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My simple home page is 10 KB now. And you might not think that's such a big deal, but it has more content than Google's search page and that rings in at a couple MB IIRC. 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

One of my classmates years ago loved bash. They wrote a filesystem for their OS class in Bash. It was a really, really impressive and bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But how do you handle candidates who say something like "look, there's heaps of code that I'm proud of and would love to walk you through, but it's all work I've done for past companies and don't have access (or the legal right) to show you?"

It never once happened. They always knew in advance, so they could code something up if they felt like it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I asked candidates to bring me some code they were proud of and teach me how it worked. Weeded out people really quickly and brought quality candidates to the top. On two separate occasions we hired devs with zero experience in the language or framework and they rocked it. Trythat with your coding interview, eh? 🙂

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The double-edged sword of isolation.

On the one hand, poor communication between apps and waste of storage.

On the other, relative safety from malicious applications, or from otherwise-safe applications built on top of a thousand libraries none of which have been audited by the dev.

I don't know how it's going to go down, but I suspect something will come along to address these issues and snatch the market away from Flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hadn't tried it before, but went through the tutorial. Seems like a good editor; only modal editors for me, you know? :) I'll probably stick with Vim for now, but it seems like something to watch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If only you could pass a law respecting the establishment of religion you could banish these heathens...

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