(Interview for sde-3 position)
(continuation of https://devrant.com/rants/2132431/... )

Interviewer - *opens laptop. Gives a question.* solve this.

Me - *a bit surprised that such questions were being asked on a sde-3 level*
this is the 4th or 5th question from geeksforgeeks, isn't it? I know the answer to this. Do u still want me to solve it?

Interviewer - *not believing me* Yes

Me - okay. Well this *writing down the original solution mentioned on the site* is the verbatim code mentioned on the website, with complexity O(n^2).
However I feel this is not the optimal solution. Let me write a better solution.
*I provide a better solution*
This has a complexity of O(n log n) . What do you think?

Interviewer - Nope. This could be a lot better.

Me - okay. Let me see. Did some minor changes, added some caching (obviously this will have no effect on the base algorithm) etc
How about now?

Interviewer - nope. Still not good.

Me - okay. Can you tell me how to improve it?

Interviewer - no we are not allowed to solve problems for you. It is not our interview, it is yours.

Me - that makes no sense. Interviews are a two way street. I'd very much like to know the optimal answer to this.

Interviewer - okay
*copies down the answer from geeksforgeeks*
This is good

Me - *at first I thought this was a prank or something. *
I just mentioned this answer here.
Then I spent the next 10 minutes providing a BETTER solution.
May I know how yours is better?

Interviewer - this solution has 2-3 loops. Yours has a function calling itself.

Me - that's called divide and conquer using recursion mf!
Anyways let's take an example and do a dry run.

Interviewer - okay

*we do dry run*

Interviewer - oh yes. Yours ran faster. But it will run fast only sometimes.

Me - yes. Each time the algorithm rolls a dice to decide if it should run fast or slow. You have one goddamn awesome weed dealer man.
I got to go. Thank you for meeting me.

"Oh no this platform is serverless"

I hate this "serverless" term.

How does a cloud platform run serverless?

HOW?!

"yeah but like we don't have to run updates and manage the underlying stuff and can thus deploy stuff serverless"

NO.

THERE ARE ACTUAL SERVERS RUNNING IN ORDER TO RUN THIS PLATFORM.

YOU CANT RUN THIS FUCKING PLATFORM WITHOUT ACTUAL SERVERS.

HOW WOULD IT RUN THEN, ON FUCKING STARDUST?!

IT. IS. NOT. SERVERLESS. AS. LONG. AS. SERVERS. ARE. INVOLVED. AT. SOME. LEVEL.

Open terminal, do this
telnet mapscii.me

Have fun

So in my culture when u have hiccups it is believed that someone is mentioning/talking about you, that means that hiccups are one of the first versions of push notifications 😅

I'm so used to terminal now

When I opened nautilus I tried to type cd

The feeling when you close 50 tabs after fixing a bug

Comprehensive HTTP Status Codes 😂

"Did you enjoy using our product?"

- I did until you showed this pop-up

How Wireshark works

Similarities between this spider and me:
- We both are web developers
- We both live in same room
- We both try to find bugs everyday

People on SO are plain stupid

Had to post this...

When edge don't want you to have options😂😂😂

IOS 12 😱
Now I can finally take a dicpic and measure it at the same time 🤷🏼‍♂️

Working with a team of interns, pointed out a bunch of unit tests are failing, they said they would take care of it.

10 mins later they opened a pull request to delete the tests that were failing.

fml, fml, fml, fml ... and ... oh yeah fml

Remote-working for a month, finally met a web developer pal (literally).

Such a relief

How developers deal with someone else's code!
Fixing bugs after bugs and it goes on.

PHP-art

Source: https://ilyabirman.ru/meanwhile/...

Today I decommissioned an old server, that had an uptime of 4130 days.

Visual Studio Code! It's Microsoft showing Atom that they can copy Sublime Text better ;)

Git.

The smallest utility made its way to being the largest companies must-have, the most critical part of the whole development landscape.

Using just plain C, Git can shred huge amounts of data insanely fast. It never gets old.

Git is a developer's scalpel.

With a sock in his hand he said: "Giulio is a free elf."

A client wanted "a video on a server".

I took a server, put it on the ground, stood on it carefully and took 'a video on a server' 😊

I was so tempted to just send it 😆

PHP porn

People are getting smarter..

Deadlines.

Get child support LOL

Why though? 😔

Valentine's day