sinedpick

I spent a while reading this post, he has to be trolling right?

nitter.poast.org inexplicably still works. I'm too scared to ask why.

holy fuck man i really wish I hadn't clicked on that hn thread.

butter

edit: was supposed to say nitter but I'm keeping it, deal with it

It's crazy, he co-authored the randomized algorithms textbook for a class I had in grad school. That and the information retrieval book he wrote are probably the two biggest components of his engineer cosplay, even to this day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139636

will no one think of the poor baby exec who makes 8 figures? how could they be so mean to him??

Ben Gomes is the counterfactual. I get the feeling you didn't actually read anything.

You have a lot of growing up to do.

It's a narrative whose connection with reality is hard to discern

If only there were email communications that all but prove the allegations.

One could instead say enshittification is an emergent and often unstoppable force, carried out by whoever happens to be in place at the time.

Yeah sure, and you can keep pissing into the ocean while you're at it while real people try to fix the problems they perceive.

All roads tend to lead to the same place.

Hopefully that's a place where no one has to read bizarrely dismissive drive-by comments made by people who have No Fucking Clue about what they're talking about and lack any kind of intellectual spine.

The amount of tone-policing in the comments is sickening though.

lol @ hn spam attack

the shitheadery is probably? due to the author being 19.

I mean sure? Swapping the pointers recursively is also fine. It's a question meant to see if the interviewee can talk about data structures or code, not to come up with a perfectly optimal working solution. Having a lengthy discussion about what "inversion" of a binary tree even means would even be totally fine imo.

I've interviewed a fair number of candidates and I ask them a very simple question with a bunch of edge cases and grade them based on how they talk about it, not the final solution.

I get the feeling that Max got frustrated and wasn't able to coherently speak about the problem, or the interviewer was dumb as rocks. I think both are equally likely.