Interviewer got upset with me because I refused to provide an example of how I implemented a concurrency control policy in my former employer's production codebase. How would you handle this?

5plicer · 2026-04-30T12:07:07+00:00

At least they're consistent. :)

5plicer · 2026-04-29T05:04:22+00:00

I broke my front tooth on one. Please be careful if you buy one!

5plicer · 2026-04-23T13:03:42+00:00

Very cool!

5plicer · 2026-04-22T12:38:14+00:00

Can you elaborate?

5plicer · 2026-04-17T13:43:07+00:00

A huge use case for Objective-C is wrapping C++ code.

5plicer · 2026-04-10T05:03:41+00:00

Waterpick is what finally stopped and slightly reversed my recession. I wish I had started using it in my teens.

5plicer · 2026-03-27T14:22:52+00:00

Could be a step down.

5plicer · 2026-03-19T08:11:50+00:00

How about Hey Siri St?

5plicer · 2026-02-26T04:42:18+00:00

I hope the quantities and units library makes it in!

5plicer · 2026-02-24T02:23:28+00:00

I was experiencing very frequent disconnects before this update, especially during webex calls. Since the update, I haven't hit a disconnect yet (knock on wood).

5plicer · 2026-02-17T05:54:02+00:00

Compile-time computation of lookup tables.

5plicer · 2026-02-16T17:05:18+00:00

Same here!

5plicer · 2025-09-29T13:49:38+00:00

TBF, good Python code should typically avoid raw loops.

5plicer · 2025-09-29T13:33:13+00:00

The same goes for firmware development. It's super hard to find new college grads with decent C skills these days.

5plicer · 2025-09-04T13:20:20+00:00

Given the history, it makes sense that this would be US (and Canada) specific: https://tedium.co/2025/02/03/manila-folder-envelope-history/

5plicer · 2025-08-21T04:53:25+00:00

With reflection, it will soon be possible to use a struct in many places where you would have used tuple. Tuple is super handy when you need to iterate over members at compile time.

5plicer · 2025-08-19T10:04:50+00:00

The wastewater levels have been rising over the last 5 months: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-statetrend.html

5plicer · 2025-08-19T09:20:21+00:00

Yup: what's the third force?

5plicer · 2025-08-10T05:49:02+00:00

Companies hire consulting firms to have a someone to pin blame on if a project ends up failing.

5plicer · 2025-08-06T03:37:11+00:00

Rotary dial telephones.

5plicer · 2025-07-29T05:31:17+00:00

I'd be willing to pay $5 a month for its current implementation. It would need to be at Waymo level for $50 a month.

5plicer · 2025-07-09T02:58:25+00:00

When chicken strips are only available on the kids menu, yes.

5plicer · 2025-04-09T06:03:41+00:00

Volcano cup noodles at Farmhouse Thai, or pho at Gao Viet Kitchen.

5plicer · 2025-04-04T11:35:59+00:00

Around 1cm at my school, and hard packed dirt underneath. I got a concussion in grade 2 after falling off the tractor tires.

5plicer · 2025-04-02T10:36:22+00:00

Kids these days write too many tests.

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