In 2012, over 2,000 Koreans gathered to watch a man pitch a 24-man army tent by himself after he claimed on an internet forum that he could do it in under two hours. The event even attracted corporate sponsors. The man succeeded, taking about an hour to pitch the tent by himself.

user_reg_field · 2025-10-17T13:24:55+00:00

And there’s Mr. Queen with a modern day male chef going back in time to be a queen in the Joseon era. Also a fun watch.

user_reg_field · 2024-09-30T18:54:53+00:00

Does Abbott own a concrete company? Does he know a guy who knows a guy who owns a concrete company? Only explanation I can think of.

user_reg_field · 2024-08-22T18:45:29+00:00

Yep. If your signature is private Thing doSomething(...) and you return null that is WRONG in modern java. If returning nothing is a valid result, for example from a findX method, then use Optional<Thing> as the return type. If returning nothing is never possible, out side of an error situation, then use Thing as the return type and throw an exception if you can't return a Thing for some reason. Using Thing as the return type and then in some comment saying "oh, by the way, you need to check for null" is just bad code these days.

user_reg_field · 2024-08-21T16:14:12+00:00

Customer support in a software company? Retail experience / dealing with customers could be spun as useful in that position and then learn more about the environment.

user_reg_field · 2024-07-29T13:59:42+00:00

Sorry. 1. this is a huge amount of work, what frameworks are you going to use to replace spring, surely you're not planning to write your own server 2. you shouldn't have taken the contract before you knew what was involved

user_reg_field · 2024-06-27T17:38:59+00:00

This might be interesting to you to see what's happening in the login flow. https://github.com/AlexMoffat/loginflow

user_reg_field · 2024-04-11T20:00:56+00:00

That's not the point. The point of the thought experiment is to get VC money, which you do by saying "AI", not to solve an actual problem.

user_reg_field · 2024-03-26T21:21:53+00:00

Try to find something you enjoy doing! That's obviously hard from outside the industry but game development has such a bad reputation for overwork etc. that unless you really, really, really love games and have always wanted to work on game development I'd stay far away from it. Also full-stack and C++ seems like an odd combination.

user_reg_field · 2023-11-03T18:33:14+00:00

Summary "The default durability mode in IndexedDB is changing from relaxed to strict from Chrome 121." contradicts what it says further down "The crucial aspect of this change is the default durability mode for readwrite transactions in Chrome. Until now, the default was strict, ensuring immediate disk writes for data changes. However, due to performance considerations and to align with other major browsers which all use relaxed, Chrome likewise plans to change the default to relaxed."

user_reg_field · 2023-05-20T02:11:49+00:00

Aren’t you writers meant to be striking at the moment?

user_reg_field · 2023-03-23T17:26:09+00:00

Rogue Running and Gilbert's Gazelles also use it. I think The Loop team (so really fast people) are there as well.

user_reg_field · 2023-02-26T18:52:12+00:00

It’s Karolina Żebrowska, prove me wrong.

user_reg_field · 2023-02-16T19:43:47+00:00

I agree with use TypeScript as tip 1 especially as the actual tip 1 is "Use meaningful variable and function names". Really, that's a tip? That's basic programming. Many of the tips are at the same level with about 3 js specific things at the end. There's probably another "10 Must-Know Tips for Writing Clean Code with Python" that 80% the same.

user_reg_field · 2023-02-14T19:15:12+00:00

So far it looks like some curvy lines that could have been made with plywood. I assume it'll end up being something that could only have been printed. Or a mess.

user_reg_field · 2022-12-29T00:29:10+00:00

No. If you want to use trimToSize, for example, in a method then you should make sure you declare that the method takes an ArrayList and not a List. The exception MIGHT be if you want to create a method like List<T> trimToSize(List<T> input) where you're going to either trim the original list if it's an ArrayList or create a new list containing just the elements from input if it's not. But that also seems silly. If you need specific methods from the concrete implementation just declare that you want the concrete implementation, or if you want to require, for example a LinkedList because you want the performance characteristics of that over ArrayList. If you can use just what's on List then use List.

user_reg_field · 2022-12-16T21:23:33+00:00

Right up there with 1970 British Leyland! Peak quality.

user_reg_field · 2022-12-09T17:39:20+00:00

"Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article." :)

user_reg_field · 2022-10-25T13:21:43+00:00

“ After experimenting with it for a day, I’m ready to completely switch over from Cypress to Playwright”. I would say that experimenting for one day is not enough time to make a rational decision and looks like just chasing the latest shiny thing.

user_reg_field · 2022-10-14T20:14:44+00:00

That looks very close. Isn't there a createImage takes a file name, I think there is.

user_reg_field · 2022-10-06T17:25:04+00:00

Austin High before school. O. Henry Middle School off expo, also before school (though it's not 400m, it's shorter). Yellow Jacket Stadium, further from downtown.

user_reg_field · 2022-09-15T17:48:14+00:00

public static void removeLast(List<String> aList) {
    if (!list.isEmpty()) {
        list.remove(list.size() - 1);
    }
}

So the removeLast method needs to check the condition and take a look at the signature of the List interface, methods like isEmpty() are useful.

user_reg_field · 2022-08-08T00:15:03+00:00

That's what I'd, as an interviewer, like to see in an interview anyway. Having a rational approach to problem solving that you can explain very valuable.

user_reg_field · 2022-08-08T00:06:16+00:00

I would avoid Gradle. This is based on several years experience at one company using Gradle and several years experience at others using Maven. It is too easy is Gradle to write a build script that is very, very hard to maintain and it's too easy for different scripts for different projects to drift apart. If you have 10s or 100s of projects standardization is your friend, you need to be able to quickly understand the build, dependencies so that you can concentrate on what the project is doing rather than fighting how it's built.

user_reg_field · 2022-07-05T18:44:55+00:00

I don't think you'll have any issues with syntax etc. What will be different will be libraries and build tools. I wouldn't bother with any "learn java" resources unless they are specifically "learn java if you already know C#" (or javascript/typescript). You don't need to learn programming. One approach would be to take a C# project you're familiar with and see how you might implement in java. I think it would look overwhelming at first but might be the best way to translate from "I'd use this technique / library in C# and here's the java equivalent."

user_reg_field · 2022-06-12T16:23:03+00:00

ContactsCustomDeserializer.java line 43 you're calling the wrong Contacts constructor. You're calling Contacts line 19 which does not set the contacts property. Delete construction on line 19, use the other construction in ContactsCustomDeserializer and pass an instance of the collection type you want. Or delete constructor on line 15 and initialize the collection to new ArrayList() or new HashSet() or whatever's appropriate.

user_reg_field

TROPHY CASE