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hackers.town: 2025-03-05 Wed 10:05
Mom and I riffing on the misbegotten “go back to Mexico” vibe in some circles
She: I’d tell them to go back to Germany
Me: “Go back to whatever English bog your ancestors were kicked out of”
hackers.town: 2025-03-05 Wed 19:06
Dangit I am just learning even more insolent responses to interview coding questions.
“Given this list of integers nums, find the top k frequent matches”
“No write it as a function”
oh sorry
“ok but what if we didn’t have that class”
oh sorry I didn’t know this was an SRE position well okay let’s talk about fixing our Python installation. Have you been messing with $PYTHONPATH or something?
(hypothetical, I hope it’s obvious)
hackers.town: 2025-03-05 Wed 19:18
I don’t use Python because it’s the fastest or the prettiest.
I use it because every workaday problem in tech is a solved problem, and not only has somebody probably already solved it in Python, there’s a good chance it’s a part of the standard library by now.