In hindsight that should have been enough, but at the time I didn’t want to discard a possibly good candidate because of that (reasoning that maybe he had some reason for it). Being subject to SQL injections also is not the end of the world, everyone makes mistakes. Not realizing it even after me pointing the line could also be overlooked as “we need to train this person”. But insisting that there isn’t even after the interviewer tells you there is, means you don’t want to learn, and at that point I can’t help you.

As an interviewee it’s nothing much, but when they asked me to sort a list, I find that question to be completely pointless, I will never implement a sort IRL, and most people who get it right are because they have it memorized.

As an interviewer, a person who sent their take home as a .doc file inside a zipped folder. I didn’t understood why they sent it that way, but got the code to compile, and found very serious issues. When confronting the person they claim there were no issues, which happens so I pointed out at a specific line, and still nothing, I asked them if they knew what an SQL injection was and his answer was “yes, and you’re wrong, there’s no SQL injection happening there”, so I sent him a link for him to click that would call that endpoint on his local instance, and dropped the entire database for the take-home assignment. No need to tell you he wasn’t hired.

That is a very logical way of replying to someone telling you you’re the sort of person to flip a turtle. In other words, found the replicant.

Imagine you’re interviewing for an Architect position at a company that’s designing a hotel, and your take home assignment is to design a hotel.

No, from Supernatural. I don’t remember Crowley from Good Omens claiming to be bad

Character that insist is evil but clearly isn’t: Crowley from Supernatural.

But I think that character that is actually evil but still charming is more interesting, and for that I bring forward Baal from Stargate.

So? What’s your point? All of those are open specifications.

Next you’ll tell me that Linux is not open source because Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, X32, X64 architectures, server and home versions. Not even counting the various distros derived from any of them nor the different kernel versions.

USB is absolutely not a standardized connector,

USB is absolutely standardized, I even sent you the 2.0 spec, you can get the spec for the other versions on the same website.

otherwise it would only be one type of connector, not the dozen or so they’ve made over the decades.

Different versions/connectors have different specs, all of them open, otherwise different manufacturers wouldn’t be able to create devices that use it.

There’s nothing universal about it.

That’s ridiculous, first of all the name relates to the fact that it can be used for any data transfer as long as it’s serial. Secondly the sheer amount of different devices from different manufacturers that can be plugged via USB should give you a hint of just how universal and open the standard is.

And if it was open source, then why doesn’t VirtualBox release the source code for their USB extension package?

The standard is open, implementations of it are not, it’s like OpenGL or Vulkan.

The protocol of communication of computer parts is open source? Since when?

Since forever, which protocol do you think it’s not? For a few examples here’s PCI and DDR5

What the fuck is USB? And why is that proprietary?

USB is a standardized connector, with again an open source protocol. Here’s the specification in case you’re interested https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-20-specification

Regardless, AMD vs nVidia might work together, but not optimally these days.

I would need a source for that, I’ve had AMD +Nvidia up until very recently and it worked as expected.

It’s from the “I, Robot” movie, but would fit perfectly well in Futurama hahaha

Used to be where NVidia GPUs could run in an AMD motherboard. I happen to own older things on both ends of that compatible spectrum.

I don’t know what you mean by that. The protocol for communication of computer parts is open source. Desktop computers are a great example of interchangeable parts. An Nvidia GPU that can’t run in an AMD motherboard is either not from the same era (so an equivalent AMD GPU wouldn’t work either) or a different form factor (e.g. trying to plug a laptop GPU on a Desktop)

He’s not talking about punch card programming, that’s way more advanced and requires a Turing machine, what he’s talking about is computers as the term was using before what you would think as a computer existed.

The example in the video is for the computer on a cannon in a battleship. If there wasn’t a computer you would need to adjust the angle and height of the cannon, but that’s not something a human can know, what humans can know is angle to the ship and the distance to it, so instead you put two inputs where a human inputs that and you translate that into angle/height. Now those two would be very straightforward, essentially you just rename the height crank to distance. But this computer is a lot more complex, because wind, speed, etc can affect the shoot, so you have cranks for all of that, and internally they combine into a final output of angle/height to the cannon.

Please tell me this doesn’t run on gas! Gas explodes, you know?

Because the charismatic ones you are less likely to notice. Also most people who work for Evil Corp know their company is evil, so if a polite charismatic person is taking advantage of the system you’re less likely to go dig out what they’re doing.

For example if in OPs story the guy had been polite and charming, he would have never gone into his account to check what was up, because it would be just a nice customer being nice. What’s to tell you that there weren’t other dozen like that that flew right under OPs nose, just because they never awoke suspicion.

Have you watched Primer?

But that is internally coherent from what I remember. I.e. time always works that way, changes in the past are propagated, and time travelers get the effects sometime after it.

The biggest one for me is in Butterfly effect, when he goes back in time and gives himself the scars, it goes against everything we learned about time travel in that movie. If he did that he would have had the scars all along, they would not have appeared out of thin air, also the timeline would have diverged there.

Oh yeah, because everyone will obviously remember what a guy mentioned off hand on a random episode 5 years ago.

I agree that a “previously on” for what happened the previous episode is bullshit, but that’s almost never the case.