<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: marshray</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marshray</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:36:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=marshray" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marshray in "The Last Technical Interview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or no reason.</p>
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<p>Spaces were amazing.</p>
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<p>This reads as if he's really struggling not to say "Now that the applicants are desperate we can begin to interview them properly mwahahahaaaa!"</p>
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<p>> Musk chopped an awful lot of headcount at Twitter, right, and proved it was overkill, has that panned out?<p>Has X-Twitter released a single new feature since?</p>
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<p>Oh the dictionary defines a word, that makes it completely different then</p>
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<p>IKR? "from a 2002 war game"<p>Have there really been no other more interesting war games in the last quarter-century, or did all the negative attention this got just result in us never hearing about another one?</p>
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<p>Did you have to press a special key to get that diacritical, or are you a writer for the New Yorker?</p>
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<p>> Readers of a certain age may remember the so-called "dot com boom" that took place in the early 2000's.<p>Just call the undertaker for me already.</p>
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<p>I've heard it said that such systems may be used by militaries, where they have an organizational structure naturally-suited to large keystream distribution.<p>Unlike e-commerce, it's no problem to physically send the proverbial officer handcuffed to a briefcase to the nuclear submarine before it submerges for 6 months.<p>Also the messages to be secured are, um, short and... infrequent.</p>
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<p>As far as cryptographic security theater goes, it's hard for me to get angry about lava lamps.</p>
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<p>Except that an extremely complex algorithm involving large data tables is required for Unicode or other modern text encodings.</p>
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<p>Great. Please explain how the size of a call stack frame is determined and how exceeding the base allocation is handled on the particular platform you're proposing to recurse upon.</p>
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<p>Well I don't feel so bad for not having known it then. Thanks!</p>
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<p>The <i>Parrots</i> paper:<p>"Contrary to how it may seem when we observe its output, an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot."<p>So perhaps this has always been a negative claim, about what language model AI is <i>not</i>.</p>
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<p>I think that's what was meant by "reporting stuff, not transactional".</p>
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<p>There's nothing wrong with using SQL only when you know in advance exactly which records you wish to query.<p>But if you ever need to query unknown data, then probably you should learn SQL a bit deeper.</p>
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<p>"Assembly" is just another virtual machine instruction format sitting atop another, mildly better-hidden, pile of abstractions.</p>
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<p>I wrote the "function to reverse a string" in a job interview once. Then the interviewer reminded me that strrev() had been part of the standard C library since K&R.<p>I'd been programming in C(++) for ~15 years by then and had never had the occasion to reverse a string. I still wonder whether that makes it a good job interview question, or a terrible one. Some of both probably.</p>
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<p>Right. For the first many decades of computing, recursion was just always the wrong answer for a production software system. (Feel free to provide a counter-example, but please begin with an explanation of how the size of a call stack frame is determined and how exceeding the base allocation is handled on this platform).<p>So what tree-traversal/quicksort problems tend to measure is how long it's been since you last did CS class homework problems.</p>
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<p>Shell-only, but
<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#readonly" rel="nofollow">https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...</a></p>
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