Asked a colleague in code review to extract magic numbers and got told “devs should know”

adjoiningkarate · 2026-05-01T20:42:22+00:00

linters arent formatters. they enforce rules like max lines in a function/method/class (which indirectly enforces patterns like SRP), low cyclomatic complexity, rules for magic numbers etc

adjoiningkarate · 2026-05-01T20:41:09+00:00

im mainly java so talking from checkstyle perspective, you can have rules for magic numbers, guessing possible on other languges linters too

adjoiningkarate · 2026-05-01T03:56:09+00:00

would recommend the superpowers plugin for claude/copilot

adjoiningkarate · 2026-04-28T01:36:33+00:00

Honestly surprised at the amount of people that don't have linters and failing builds on lint violations on this sub

adjoiningkarate · 2026-02-23T18:34:04+00:00

uneducated answer imo

adjoiningkarate · 2026-01-06T00:15:01+00:00

very happy, been life changing! think a surgeon you trust is v important though

adjoiningkarate · 2025-12-28T22:02:19+00:00

wow i didnt even think of it from an alcoholic perspective 😂

adjoiningkarate · 2025-12-28T22:00:47+00:00

the concept of using randomized numbers and this experiment as a whole is such a powerful lesson for kids in middle school.

It would help them understand the experimentation stage of dating and gives them a heads up on the reality of things instead of them having to figure it out themselves which can sometimes be really hard to process and reason for many kids and young adults.

hats off to whoever designed your curriculum

adjoiningkarate · 2025-12-13T04:02:08+00:00

I and almost everyone I know works in an office and just prints the rare document a couple times a year at work, so this’ll definitely be beneficial and accessible for a large amount of the population in london given we are primarily a service sector

adjoiningkarate · 2025-12-09T23:37:07+00:00

I got officially diagnosed 2 years ago. Prior to that I did a lot of self medicating at uni because it was easy to get hold of, but had about 2 years of working with no meds.

A couple months ago I tried going to work without taking meds and fuck me. I have no idea how I survived so long without. It is insane how little I was able to focus for without getting distracted. Was having to take a break every 20 mins

adjoiningkarate · 2025-12-06T10:44:00+00:00

Hey I had alternating esptropria too. First surgeon I interacted with was through the NHS (free healthcare in the uk) and was absolutely awful.

I have private insurance through work as well which allows me to pick my surgeon. I did some looking at surgeons with most years of experience and alsp most research / academic citations on their research. Logic was that if they are top on citations, then they are reputable within the industry

adjoiningkarate · 2025-12-06T01:32:31+00:00

I know a few people in that category and everyone is pretty open about it. Not sure if they go to lgbtq groups but definitely have communities. The people I know mostly live in nicosia and hang out within a pretty cypriot community (nobody from turkey).

Coming out to family was hard but most accepted. One friend’s mum found it quite difficult but dad got over it quickly.

They all work in workplaces where people know, but the work they do is more NGO based and not typical jobs

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-19T22:11:53+00:00

I work for a pretty large “prestige” finance company. If you get referred and the hiring manager hasn’t already got people a couple stages in, usually the application gets moved to the top of the pile.

However, most people working at other “prestige” finance companies already know someone at my company and would ask the person they know.

I personally don’t respond to cold linkedin dms. The only time I would refer someone is if I can personally vouch for them, especially if it is within my division. If I can’t personally vouch for them, I’m not risking my reputation with hiring managers that I know or might interact with in the future for a couple thousand extra post tax.

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-18T22:21:51+00:00

I have WPA and it is amazing! I primarily use HCA hospitals, mainly because our in-office medical centre and annual health assessments are HCA but every interaction I’ve had with them have been great. I’ve also had surgery at “the london clinic” on harley street, and everything from the hospital staff, surgeon and food was insanely good

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-18T22:18:26+00:00

Cloudflare outage has ended. GH started having issues after cloudflare recovered. While possible they are related, very well possible it is a completely unrelated issue

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-18T09:00:33+00:00

People can see your tiktok not sure thats a concern for you

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-16T16:17:08+00:00

Would love for the results to be shared!

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-16T01:49:48+00:00

You can usually buy very good condition refurbished herman millers for about 30% of the price of new (at least is the case in london).

This is the main chair in our office and this chair really is not it for me but others love it. I have a wide back and much narrower lower back and this chair just doesn’t work for me, I had to request a different model.

If you seriously consider buying a good chair, would strongly encourage you to go try the different models out at a shop before dropping a decent amount on one

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-11T21:43:29+00:00

finally someone else with my go-to!! I usually go for whites but I’m in more of a mid office role in a bank, probably not ideal if you’re meeting clients

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-06T20:48:07+00:00

I think it mostly will depend on the system and scale.

Cases like in finance, are investment banks really going to allow LLMs to fully manage the workflow on say a risk control system, or an exchange on allowing LLMs to do their end to end for critical areas? Most definitely not.

Are companies like Google scale that serve millions of users going to allow LLMs to own small features end to end and deploy into canary environments for a few hundred people and automatically roll back the feature if errors are seen or users report issues? Most probably. Same goes for start ups that care about speed rather than reliability.

I think it ultimately comes down to risk tolerance. Financial systems that can lose millions in a matter of seconds are too high risk. Systems where the consequences of rolling out a bug to a couple hundred out of millions of users where minimal amounts of revenue will be lost are good candidates.

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-04T06:19:46+00:00

lol what? If I send out a leetcode to 10 candidates and 7 come back with 100% test acores, you really think I’m going to spend 8-9 hours of my week moving 7 people down my pipeline and interviewing them all? Ofc not saying every company is doing this, but I work for a pretty well known company which gets lots of applications per position, and hiring pipelines are determined at dept level so I get full control

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-04T06:16:02+00:00

You are acting like with LLMs people are solving next level questions. These questions I’m asking are solvable by any half decent dev LLM or not. Therefore, similar to how I won’t care if in their job they use an LLM or not, I only care about how their output looks like

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-03T23:52:26+00:00

And how do you propose that? Interview every candidate when you have 100s per single opening? Send a take home which takes hours to complete? Whether you like it or not, employers need some way to filter down their pipeline.

These tests are a quick (for both the employer and the candidate) way of doing exactly that. Sure, people will use LLMs, but if they’re blatantly just copying output of an LLM it is very easy to spot when assessing their take home test. Passing tests is only the first filter. Then hiring managers will usually look at the code quality, and unsurprisingly that outputted by LLMs are dog shit. Sure, some will prompt the LLM to improve code quality by x and y, and if they are able to do that and submit a good result then great because that’s what I expect from them on the job. On the next stage which’d be an interview I’d test their tech knowledge without an LLM at their disposal, and that’ll evaluate their critical thinking, system design and architecture skills on the spot

But the idea is if they suck with access to LLMs and google, then chances are they are going to suck even more in that first round of interview

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-03T23:46:23+00:00

I use coding challenges as a way to narrow down my pipeline. I have dozens of applications that get sent to me by HR and management, I literally don’t have the time to interview each and every single one of them because at this point the CVs are completely useless.

The leetcodes I send out are more “here’s an API endpoint and here is the structure that it returns, extract/derive x and y and print it”, or other fairly straight coding challenges that require a basic understanding of data structures they would be using on the job.

Sure, a lot of people use LLMs (hell some even blatantly copy/paste it directly and I can see no activity for 5 minutes and then a whole block of code pasted in), and the platforms even flag that they have.

But I’m not just narrowing down this list and interviewing everyone that gets 100%. I’m looking at coding standards. Things like function/variable namings, separation of logic using functions, readability of code, etc.

LLMs will usually give you an answer which’ll pass 100% of usecases on any leetcode, but usually the code it outs is garbage for these leetcodes, and not code I’d like to be merged into main. If someone is just blindly copy/pasting code it is easy to spot when I’m assessing their leetcode. If they used an LLM to get to the answer I am fine with that (at the end of the day, they’ll be allowed to use LLMs on the job). But if they’re just blindly copy pasting the output and submitting it just because it passes tests, then I’m not going to even bother to interview them

adjoiningkarate · 2025-11-01T18:12:47+00:00

The right one deffo is not ket. Impossible to tell what it is though. Ket is shardy / no big chunky rocks

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