Thank you AI, very cool.

I thought this was AI generated too, but then looking at their comment history, they claim to be from Ethopia at least twice, the most recent time 8 months ago.

I did not know what to put in the description, so I put the blurb from the article. HN puts that as a comment. I am not an AI. Also I can't edit or delete it. It's not like other comments

Its a twitter thread

Which is unreadable to people without X accounts…

This was a roller coaster

The first implementation is in java and the second is in c. Even if you don’t know C you should give this book a shot!

It’s very company-dependent, but most are not wanting a regurgitated answer. If you have a solid grasp on data structures and traversals, you can solve a lot of those puzzle problems. Sure some have tricks, but they’re not completely pointless and certainly don’t indicate anything about the person being willing to “spend hundreds of hours doing meaningless work” or are “good at following orders”.

inb4 Apple releases this feature natively...

Plug for: https://www.migadu.com/

Thank you. I felt like I was the only one confused by the comparison.

Nim is wonderful to use and it's a shame it doesn't enjoy as widespread usage as languages in a similar space (rust).

Not a hiring manager, but of the engineering jobs i've had, school never came up (I have no degree). That said, i've had plenty of rejections without even getting into the interview process. Would a degree have changed that? Possibly.