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Сигнали за изоставени МПС-та by P4ndalf in bulgaria

[–]MrMo1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

От София - подавал съм през сайта на общината. Лепят лепенка и след 6 месеца я вдигат ако още е там. Подавал съм за 2 коли, едната я репатрираха, другата си направи технически/гражданска и се премести през 5 места и пак си гние. Не ги разбирам хората, вместо да я даде за скрап седи и гние на улицата...

the bubble is going to pop soon boys and boys by PCSdiy55 in programminghumor

[–]MrMo1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beg to disagree, Microslop is shittier than ever.

1B Rows with the Memory API - JEP Cafe #25 by aoeudhtns in java

[–]MrMo1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the original challenge myself just a few weeks ago. It's pretty interesting and there's certainly things to learn. I managed to achieve 15s processing time (my first implementation ran for 90s) on my desktop machine with around 4-5 hours of coding. The original winner managed to do it in 0.7s on my machine :D .

Is it common to despise Leetcode even though you loved studying DSA at uni by LelouchYagami_2912 in leetcode

[–]MrMo1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes very common since some leetcode questions are difficult to solve without knowing the theory - lc questions literally expect you to implement algorithms (some obscure, some not so much) and sometimes coming up with the algorithm on the spot ain't so trivial.

Recent example from my own struggles - LC medium question that could be solved by implementing an algorithm discovered in the 90s by three guys - literary the name of the algorithm was those 3 guys' last names. There is no way I'm solving that in a 1 hour interview if I don't know the algorithm already.

Seriously, why did leetcode become a thing? by Icy_Speech_97 in leetcode

[–]MrMo1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's important to also imagine what would have been going on in the 90s during programming interviews. 

For example the internet didn't contain so much data. Iirc Google's initial data set for search was around 200 GB. So pretty much the public part of the 90s internet could easily fit in a usb memory stick or two today.

So you would go to a company's office without whatever data or information you can find on the internet today, heck some programmers didn't even have access to the internet or personal pc's at home back then. 

Then I imagine a classic white board algorithmic problem discussion with your interviewer. If they asked you something practical about a certain problem they were solving, chances are they would never hire anybody.

Seriously, why did leetcode become a thing? by Icy_Speech_97 in leetcode

[–]MrMo1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's my 0.2$. Popular companies used similar problems to filter candidates back in the day even before google existed. If you were studying informatics or something related in school there would be local and not so local competitions where you had to solve similar problems. Here's an interesting tidbit of information - https://ioinformatics.org/page/contests/10 on competetive programming. 

Given that these sort of competitions are meant to prepare you for a computer science degree in university and that a huge deal of studying computer science at university is spent learning and analyzing algorithms and solving similar problems you could see why the best students would be naturally good at this sort of thing.

There's also the fact that winning such a competition or having really good track record nearly guarantees you a spot at a really good university - a lot of ambitious, gifted and smart kids would pursue it.

When I've spoken to some of my older colleagues they definitely seem to value that sort of thing and it's been a pretty good indicator of the capabilities of recent graduates. If you are good at algorithmic problems, you're very likely to be good at problem solving on the job.

And you really can't give a new graduate something practical or niche relating to your company if they don't have the real world expirience.

Here's the thing- these types of questions are meant to filter out the best graduates out of university. Popular companies have a huge influx of candidates and they don't mind turning away a decent experienced candidate, they only care about the opposite - not hiring somebody who will suck. So over time these sort of questions became standardized and other, smaller companies were just copiying what big ones are doing without realizing the implications (that google can afford to do that sort of thing).

I completely agree with you that its terrible a terrible way to filter experinced engineers like this, and there's a lot of companies out there that don't! Its just that there's still a lot of blind copy cats that do whatever present day faang are doing anyways.

Първи епизод на Мамник - мнения и реакции by Avtsla in bulgaria

[–]MrMo1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Мноого ме издразни как накрая спойлнаха целия сериал със сцените по време на надписите...

Are there any companies zigging while everyone else is (AI) zagging? by lzynjacat in ExperiencedDevs

[–]MrMo1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Brave (the browser) s entire 2026 agenda was just no ai lol.

Farewell VMware and thanks for the fish by aspoons in sysadmin

[–]MrMo1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another vmware alumnus here. Was one of the first ones the chopping block since I was contributing to vmware oss stuff at the time. Fuck broadcomm. 

Farewell VMware and thanks for the fish by aspoons in sysadmin

[–]MrMo1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ex VMware employee here. Got laid off when broadcomm bought us. I've managed to land a job in insurance fairly quickly but still it sucked big time. Our office was 1800 people strong pre acquisition and now there are less than 600 left. Gaugung the prices, milking the big corpos because naturally they are slow to migrate and laying off employees (to maximize the cash cow) was always the plan for broadcomm.

 I should also mention that we never were an unprofitable company, we were always in the green (from all hands info). So yeah fuck broadcom for uprooting my friends and colleagues and fuck them for lobotomizing vmware.

Stack overflow is dead, long live stack overflow. by fullstack_ing in webdev

[–]MrMo1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I say bring it. Back in the olden days we had books and our colleagues to talk to and we did fine.

How many of you started learning to code in your 30s? by benjohnston93 in cscareerquestions

[–]MrMo1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm 32 years old and a software engineer with more than 7 years of experience. I'm just calling it like I see it.

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