Random Musings¶
Here is a list of most recent posts:
03 September - Hire Lucky
Jeff Atwood wrote about FizzBuzz in 2007. Google used to use weird brain teasers, but no longer does. That hasn’t stopped a plethora of companies who think they’re copying Google from asking tricky puzzle questions. No matter what the approach, though, interview questions measure how well someone answers interview questions.
24 August - Hello, Hacker News Readers
The other day, a friend of mine brought this to my attention:
12 July - Druggist
Due to some recent events, I’ve found myself in the position of needing to track medicine intake. There are medicines that have to be taken daily, which have to be audited (“Did I remember to take my bufaximol?”) and others taken as needed to manage symptoms (“How much metryptine have I taken today?”).
11 May - D4D4
A co-worker of mine (the incomparable Yohei Manabe) was looking at some disassembled ARM code the other day, and discovered something weird. Lots of
d4d4instructions, scattered about. LLVM’s objdump says this is a relative branch to-0x58. The weird part is that they were always unreachable.10 May - Magic File Names
A co-worker discovered an amazing thing the other day. He needed to check out our codebase on a Windows machine (for real, not inside WSL) to do something model-y with Matlab. It’s worked before, and it looked like it was going fine until he got this error: