Of course its me!

- repost

>= rant
While its really hard to get code wrong in Rust, it is also really hard to get code right in Rust. It took me a considerably long time to write a code which returns the first word in the sentence

I felt the borrow checker introduces a steep learning curve into Rust which is otherwise a beautiful language according to me. C++, my current favorite language, also suffers the same problem with respect to certain language features.

==rant
Cleaning up others mess is not a responsibility stated in the job descriptions of software engineers but they end up doing it every other day!

GCC is like an Indian mother, it keeps telling so many things irrelavant for me, when I do a mistake.

Who decides on the topics for the weekly rant? Just curious.

Does anybody use ProtonMail or Tutanota here? What are your thoughts on it?

I am a firmware developer with 4 years experience. C and sometimes assembly is my bread and butter.

Like 2 years ago, I was really interested to make a switch to application development. Got referred by my friend to her startup.

But I was a bit rusty with my data structures, high level languages and interpersonal skills.

The first question was to find the number of occurences for each word in a paragraph. The language choice was Java. But I was allowed to use C++ since it was the closest relative to Java that I knew.

And I started implementing a binary search tree from scratch and started inserting each tokenised word into it, wrote a traversal algorithm.

The interviewer, luckily, was a patient guy. After I completed my whole mess, he asked is it possible to do this in a slightly better way with constant time access without traversal.

I said yes, we can with a hash table but I dont know how to implement one. He replied I dont expect you to implement the hash table but see you use it. I asked him if I am allowed to used the standard library, for which he said ofcourse.

*facepalm*.

Finally I understood his expectation, referred cppreference.com and used an unordered_map.

Later there were some quesion on databases for which I tried my best to answer. And I frankly replied that I am not comfortable with JS frameworks as of now. Got rejected.

So the mistake is I never asked basic questions like what is the time complexity expects, if I was allowed to use standard library, didnt spend some extra time on studying stuffs needed for the domain switch and most importantly I panicked.

Anybody here is using or has used Star Labtops? What are your thoughts on it?

==stolen
Gf: Your mom wanted to talk to you. I think you should call her
Me: mom();

Seriously?

Well. Its not just learning when you watch Sean Parent's keynotes😄

==rant
Linkedin can you please remove this No Thanks button from the mobile app. Its the second time I pressed it while I was actually trying to press the Back button, for a job opportunity message from a company I am interested in. 🤦‍♂️

My manager from Germany says, "We have a saying in Germany. If you buy cheap, you buy twice. We must adapt it as, If you deliver fast, you must deliver twice". Scenario, faulty code delivery without checking the need of adoption work items.

Go home Outlook. You are drunk.

No comments on this 😛

Learn Rust becau... Write an operating sy... Build a Westworld host with consci...

That sums up about my patience and focus. Facepalm.

So atleast to complete the OS I started writing a month ago. And learn Rust and some AI.

Nightmare. 😂

TRUTH table!

Was in a middle of competitive coding trying to do some operation on a nxn matrix. Wrote this code.

for(i = 0; i < n; i++){
for(j = 0; j < n; i++){
.......
.......
}
}

Was waiting for the output, only to wait long enough for the coding platform to throw a timeout at my face and make me doubt my skills.

At last found the best way to debug 😂

A job requirement post I recently came across. Is there any other skill left? 🤔 Felt like these guys are looking for omnipotent being. Also left me wondering what skills I have since I can hardly cross out 1 or 2.

Got me thinking

When you have 113 build errors to fix, but you find a bubble wrap to pop.

Uncommented code, Satan's finest creation :/