Hey, let hiring managers enjoy their riddles!

I also can’t get the printer to work.

OK, tiling window managers are neat and so are TUIs, but web pages are also supposed to work with keyboard only. On Windows, F6 will jump between different panels in an application - give that a try.

The key you’re talking about is the menu key, by the way.

Using a modern OS and the modern web with the keyboard only is essentially a solved problem, not only motivated by efficiency, but also to allow access to people with motor disabilities.

Coming at this from an accessibility… is there any reason the tab, arrow, scape, escape and enter keys would not suffice?

Is it about efficiency? Are Linux GUI apps not expected to be keyboard-only accessible by default?

Sounds like you may be interested in a certain manifesto.

Don’t mind me, I’m just picking the very best grains of sand to make my own silicon, like a real programmer (xkcd).

I think .NET and EF should handle navigation property nullabiloty better out of the box, especially when you explicitly set the foreign key to long?.

That said, while I understand these relationships in my own projects, adding clear annotations is very helpful for colleagues who may have to provide support in the future. That could even be me!

So there’s no perfect solution in this stack, but anything that makes a developer’s intent clearer helps. Privilege of least surprise, right?

Well, you still have to ! because it may, based on the annotation, be null.

Very handy, regardless. Microsoft’s docs on these attributes are very interesting, particularly the postconditionals.

An open source-ish corporate product is valuable in so much as it’s a vehicle for a paid service, right?

Interestingly enough, you also have amazon.co.uk, which combines the nature (commercial) and location served (UK), but in the opposite order.

But it could limit the usage of its TLD.

There’s a lot to talk about from this point alone, but I’ll be brief: having gone through university courses on processor design and cutting my teeth on fighting people for a single bit in memory, I’m probably a lot more comfortable with that minutia than most; having written my first few lines of C in 10 years to demo a basic memory safety bug just an hour ago, you’re way way ahead of me.

There are different ways to learn and gain experience and each path will train us in different skills. Then we build teams around that diversity.

There’s nothing like having your network go poof and knowing with 100% certainty that it’s your fault and you’re the only one who can fix it.

I threw together a quick image to ASCII conversion project to actually use a couple of concepts.

Sometime this week I’d like to make it not panic over every little thing. I feel like I should be shifting error handling left, but it’s not very natural for me, just yet.

I will say, the ergonomics for testing with cargo are excellent.

I said it’ll reduce friction, you said it might be easier. Looks like we’re in complete agreement, right?

This is super interesting. I’ll admit I wasn’t even aware of this effort. Even real-time usage of Windows relies on a parallel kernel.

This sounds like it’ll create a lot of cool opportunities and reduce friction.

We’ve all read this post multiple times. Isn’t it just the “young people are lazy” that’s been going around for thousands of years?

https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/

At most it’s a tangent on it…

I’m shocked and appalled! Isn’t the whole point of using Rust to prove you’re a better developer by using an extra hard language? At least that’s what I like about it.

I’m kidding, of course. Whoever has never copied and pasted code they didn’t understand from Stack Overflow can go ahead and complain about using a local LLVM.

Ultimately, what makes a good developer includes understanding and being really good with the tools they use, but the biggest impact comes from identifying problems and asking the right questions to solve them.

If you’re interested in learning more about SQL, throwing EXPLAIN at your query and the AI’s version may be really interesting.

I’m usually perfectly happy trusting my ORM, but even then it’s really helpful to dig a little deeper to figure things out, both in development and in production.

I used that and Rustlings and really liked both, but somebody mentioned this and I decided to take a look. It’s cool that it introduces other concepts.