What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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LeetCode is popular, not because it works. Nah, it's for another reason.

It makes the interviewer feel good.

There's comfort in having a "objective" measure. A binary pass/fail or even a grade. It reduces the anxiety of making a hiring decision, makes it seem closer to "fair".

We choose the metric that's easiest to measure, not the one that's most predictive of success. Then we convince ourselves it's the right metric because it's the one we have data on.

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is a really interesting programming language - one of the most novel I've seen in recent years unison-lang.org/docs/quickstar

It's hard to describe, but to me it feels like some modern blend of ideas from , , and . I hope that it will manage to gain some traction and that I'll be able to play a bit more with it down the road.

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I've been using cron(8) for donkeys' ages, but this morning I'm surprised.

Machine was powered down since last Saturday (long story) and booted last night. I have a crontab(5) entry with day set to "*/2" and am surprised the job didn't run this morning: Dec 6th, I'd have thought */2 is even days only, but it seems it actually means "every second day of uptime". crontab(5) here doesn't really elaborate.

Until this morning I had not given that further thought.

Live and learn.

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OBのお偉いさんに連れられて会員制のクラブに入れてもらった
ウェイターが全員バニーガールという昭和臭全開の店で、令和の世にまだこんな店があるんやとびっくりした
メニュー見たけど、値段見て白目むいた店やった....
もう一生来れないやろうなぁ

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