Just this person, ya know?petrillic@hachyderm.io
Oct 14, 2026, 12:24 AMCurrently watching someone write JavaScript in a Google Doc.
So I know how his life is going.
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- Just this person, ya know?petrillic@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 12:28 AM
Oh no.. it appears to be some kind of “leet code” interview bs. Truly life is not going well.
maya_b 🇨🇦maya_b@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 12:36 AM"leet code" for me is readable without any clever bs in it.
I've "failed" code interviews by writing easy to read (and debug) explicit code. after failing I explained to the head of software not only was my code much better, it was 3 orders of magnitude faster than the "clever" crap that was expected.
- Just this person, ya know?petrillic@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 12:39 AM
@maya_b something something Brian Kernighan something something
I had that experience at Google and just was like “nope you are not my people”.
- Just this person, ya know?petrillic@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 12:41 AM
@maya_b and I even used the quote and my interviewer didn’t know who that was. He (of course) was 20 years younger than my advanced years.
- maya_b 🇨🇦maya_b@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 12:42 AM
- Just this person, ya know?petrillic@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 12:43 AM
@maya_b “I’ve been making mistakes and learning from them since you were in diapers”
- maya_b 🇨🇦maya_b@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 12:45 AM
yea not sure I'll ever use that one - feels like carbon dating myself