One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
When I was an intern at a big telecom company, there was one strange guy who wrote his function names in greek.
He wasn't greek either, but he wanted to teach greek to his son when he would grow up because there was some greek ancestry in the family.
He needed some practice with greek and found it at work.
I'm not sure if this was crazy or genius.
I'm not even sure it the limit between both is always clear.
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I think you'd have to be Australian to understand that this means essentially the same as an argument called dry_run which is a common command line argument on risky irreversible operations, that runs through the whole process without actual writing or committing any changes.
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Software developer with interest in all parts of CS, specially into UI and ML at the moment.
Outside of CS I am total outdoor person and currently i am trying to learn piano and german.
I remember this guy at my first job, but office in other country, he would name variables after himself. Like John1, John2 ... (john wasn't his name :) )
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When I was an intern at a big telecom company, there was one strange guy who wrote his function names in greek.
He wasn't greek either, but he wanted to teach greek to his son when he would grow up because there was some greek ancestry in the family.
He needed some practice with greek and found it at work.
I'm not sure if this was crazy or genius.
I'm not even sure it the limit between both is always clear.
Genius 🤣
I've always liked React's
__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED.came across a function named
deleteOldPeoplea few years ago. still makes me chuckle.A function argument called yeah_but_nah.
I think you'd have to be Australian to understand that this means essentially the same as an argument called dry_run which is a common command line argument on risky irreversible operations, that runs through the whole process without actual writing or committing any changes.
static 'reading-pgs' = async () =>{}
I'll be honest... I never realized that string properties could be declared that way in javascript, with no square brackets or anything
I remember this guy at my first job, but office in other country, he would name variables after himself. Like John1, John2 ... (john wasn't his name :) )