implmentor's comments

Not OP, but I would love to share some: I relate strongly to the anxiety induced descriptions in OPs text and thus try to avoid these when I interview devs as an engineering manager. Of all the candidates I have interviewed over the years I have never done a live coding interview because it is essentially worthless for me as an interviewer and only serves to discards potentially very clever people whose thought process does not work this way.

Instead I try to find an isolated problem/task we have in our backlog that the candidate should try to implement on their own time, so I can review what kind of solution they will actually deliver once hired. We then go through the solution with them and do a code review as they would go through if they got hired. You then see both the problem-solving skills as well as how they take feedback.

I would recommend checking out DuckDuckGo's excellent "How we hire" guide[0] which describes some of the best hiring process I have come across (albeit it may be too extensive to do in full for some companies).

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_hire.pdf

As someone doing mostly C development at work I've really come to enjoy Zig in my side projects at home. At work we are moving a lot of newer development to Rust, which makes sense in terms of safety, the speed we want from C and "modernising"/becoming more attractive as an employer. However, when I'm doing projects for my own amusement at home I want something that doesn't feel like work, and getting into Zig and have something working took me no time. It's so easy to interface with C libraries that I can spin up most things with existing C libraries for the things Zig doesn't already provide itself.

Started on these at mid-March when the recommendation for quarantine came in effect in my country. Most are incomplete and WIP (I love switching back and forth between projects):

- Slack RTM bot which picks up my morning and goodbye messages in our channel and stash the duration into our time registration system so I don't have to do it manually. Using Slack library for Go, compiled to C library using gccgo for C ABI compatibility, then using Zig's cImport functionality to develop the bot in Zig (because why do it the easy way)

- mbedTLS bindings to Zig (Zig can generate alot of this out of the box, but I'm tailoring it by hand)

- HTTP/1.1 client in Zig, ties into the mbedTLS bindings I want to provide TLS support

> Then they just decided to shut down 2 of our newest customers and hold 100% of their funds ransom for 180 days

So Braintree supports payments through a number of providers, credit cards and PayPal, Apple Pay, etc. When you say they hold 100% of their funds, is this for PayPal payments via Braintree, or is it also credit card payments (i.e. payments directly to Braintree)? In other words, are the 100% fund you mention stored at PayPal?

The reason I'm asking is because Braintree does credit card disbursement a couple of days (or something like that) after a credit card payment has been performed. So if they shut a customer down, wouldn't they "only" hold the money from the first transaction after the last payout, till the shutdown occured? In other words, if the last payout from Braintree happened on Monday, and there was another transaction on Tuesday due to be paid out to the merchant by Braintree on Thursday, and Braintree shut them down on Wednesday, this would mean the "100% funds" mentioned is the transactions happening on from Tuesday till Wednesday, since they were shutdown on Wednesday?

I hope the question make sense! Just trying to make sense of this :-) (using Braintree as well, but not Marketplace)

Alpine Linux has a glibc solution. The glibc problem lies with other applications.

Expert C Programming: Deep Secrets (http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...)

Advanced C: Tips and Techniques (http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Techniques-Hayden-Books-Libra...)

I can relate to the unstableness of the TypeScript intellisense for VS2012, although Web Essentials 2012 does improve things.

However, I easily trade the unstableness of intellisense for the type-safety of TypeScript.

Also: "I made something awesome in a functional language"

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Great stuff.

I gotta say, I'm pretty impressed with how Microsoft go in for supporting all these relatively new technologies on their own stack. Considering what they've done in the past.

Have you set your regional settings in DDG to "Sweden"?

Heres a comparison between search results when I chose "English" vs. "Norwegian" on a Norwgeian term: http://i.imgur.com/ReIa5.png

Again?

I find it interesting how 'everyone' seem to hate C++, yet, so many uses it. If C++ is so bad, why does people continue to code with it? Personally I have just started to look at C++ due to Microsofts integration with it on WinRT/Metro for Windows 8.

I mean, MongoDB, Node.js, Microsoft's Windows Runtime (which provides access to the systems API for both JavaScript, C#/VB.NET and C++), MySQL, Membase, Haiku, Chromium are all notable examples of software written in C++ that seems to be quite well.

Likewise.

Wikipedia says HN was created in 2007 and Reddit in 2005.

I had one many years ago but deleted it when they hit the fan regarding privacy. However, after the last update by Mark Zuckerberg about the improvements in Facebook privacy and the decision by FTC to regulate privacy made me change my mind.

* Github (http://www.github.com) - This and HN/Reddit for fun. I use Github to review my previously comitted code, marking comments in the code of ideas and thoughts so I can correct them when I get home (for profit), and exploring different languages, profiles and projects (for fun).

* Workflowy (http://www.workflowy.com) - Dump all the stuff I might need to remember or note about a project or task here.

* Trello (http://www.trello.com) - Scrum-board for my tasks, planner for the summer vacation, my wedding, etc.

* Diigo (http://www.diigo.com) - To save bookmarks, notes on pages, highlights of stuff I might need to reference, etc

* Toggl (http://www.toggl.com) - To keep track of how many hours I work on each project

EDIT: Typo/format

Nice! Great idea!

However, your quote on the front page makes me think: Will osod.im be here years from now?

I love the concept, but I would hate to loose it if I did choose to start writing a sentence a day, describing what I've done or thought about. If only to look back at it once myself or potential children. Have you considered 'open sourcing' it? Making it self-hosting.

It would also be neat to have a bit more settings, like whether or not stuff should be public, etc.

But I read that you hacked this in one night and might not have thought about all this (but I hope you do now!)

- Do you sleep continuously, or are you on a polyphasic sleep schedule?

I tried a polyphasic sleep schedule. And failed.

- How does your sleep schedule affect your work and the rest of your life?

Not that I can tell.

- Does the work you do affect your sleep?

No.

"Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship" by Uncle Bob.