Huh, this made me realize all these years that I've been pronouncing it as "jay-sawn." Is it really pronounced like "Jason?"
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Json Carter
"What does JWT stand for?"
"That's easy. JWT tokens are..."
"Shoot him."
Ah, I see where he went wrong. The correct answer was "JavaScript? Ew."
JSON Statham
I was with Jason Stringify just last night, but he tried to convert me to a new religion so I left.
just jq and cut to the chase
It's spelled "j/k"
Ugh, terrible memory unlocked.
I asked someone a similar question in an interview once. They weren't doing well and I wanted to end on a positive at least. I asked them to make a dict in python and for extra credit, turn it into a string using whatever library or method they want.
This was not for a junior position.
5 minutes of for loop insanity later they disconnected crying. I always felt bad for that guy.
when i last did interviews we didn't do live coding, but chatted to applicants about things they liked about their preferred language (this was a consultancy position). people who actually like to program tend to have loads of opinions. juniors moreso. the less engaged people were with those questions, the worse the solution the their take-home task tended to be.
a friend of mine interviewed a candidate who apparently visibly froze after every question, like it was a quiz. turns out they were being fed answers from people off-screen and those people hadn't expected casual conversation. they were found out when they forgot to mute.
I once had a candidate give the join link to the meeting out to several people (there were 3 unknown people in the call in addition to me and him). I immediately explained we can't do the interview with all these other people on the call and he proceeded to try and gaslight me that there were no other people in the call, like he honestly thought he had jedi mind truck powers.
I called over several coworkers to witness the clusterfuck, many lols were had.
man, what i wouldn't give for mind truck powers.
Subtle hint that this is not for them.
cat = dict(name=‘Garfield’, color=‘orange’)
str(cat)
Can I have that job?
I would have accepted this answer.
I was hoping for json.dumps, but that'll work.
When imposter syndrome meets an actual imposter!
Javascript is a human rights violation
i agree but hate to add the caveat that it (well, typescript) these days is by far the language that i’m most productive in, with the fewest bugs
it took me a long time to admit that to myself
it’s still a human rights violation
It is my god given right to pull half of NPM through my machine (and get compromised by 500 different malicious packages) due to my NEED for the MOST up to date PACKAGES!
I WILL have my hourly update to iseven() or I WILL have DEATH.
"There's just no way to prevent these kinds of attacks" says only language where this consistently happens.
If you ARENT updating your libraries every 15 MINUTES are you even a REAL PROGRAMMER!?
I MUST get ALL of the latest vulns and exploits on my machine NOW!
I've even written a script to change my API tokens for me since they get STOLEN so OFTEN because my OTHER SCRIPT updates NPM dependencies CONSTANTLY so I can PULL IN the newest MALWARE.
They may think they have gotten over me, but they always come back.
Ew JavaScript
Dude, it runs client side code for most of the Internet.
alternative scenerio:
Guy: "it turns javascript objects into texts in json format"
Soldier: "He uses javascript, shoot the poor bastard"
Are they from the army of Rust Neckbeardistan.
Alternative scenario:
Soldier B: Soldier A asked a JavaScript question instead of a software engineering question. He's not a real soldier, shoot him
Name 3 UML diagrams and 3 architectures!
Name 3 UML diagrams
Class diagram, use case diagram and... What was the useless, barely readable evolution of flowcharts called again? Activity diagram?
and 3 architectures!
MOS 6502, amd64, and... I've never figured out the ARM naming scheme. AAAAAAarch64 or something?
You only get shot in one knee.
By architecture I meant software architecture.
“It’s ok. Just shoot me.”
I ll do you a better one. Why is Jason?
Don't ask - if he told you then he'd have to kill you...
Jesus Christ!
No no no no no - keep up! We're talking about "Jason" - the one who was killed but came back to continue his task anyway... oh, I see the confusion now 🤔🤪
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TypeError: JSON.stringfy is not a function
Oh shit didn’t notice the typo. Probably the all caps didn’t help.
Its ok, JavaScript is an interpreted language so the client won't notice until after we've shipped.
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i've designed my own communication protocols that run directly on udp. i couldn't tell you either.
I refuse to believe you couldn't infer what this is, you're way too smart and you could definitely just guess.
turning a data structure into a string is usually called like "marshal" or "render" or "dump" or something, "stringify" doesn't really imply anything except something about the json being turned into a string. for all i know it could be replacing all the values with toString'ed versions.
doesn’t really imply anything except something about the json being turned into a string
yeah that's basically it, I know you're leaning into your existing knowledge (of likely C-based stuff) but you're line of thinking is about right about how you're inferring things ... naming and stuff gets a bit "different" or less serious when you go into JS land sometimes.
What's funny is if this were a real job interview question and you answered in the way that you did ... the way you answered it told me more about yourself and your qualifications than just getting it exactly right
man if i have to hear about "hydration" one mare time...
that's exactly why i always prefer doing conversation-style interviews rather than quizzing people. knowledge is fine, but you only really get opinions by actually using tools.
I mean, that’s fine, right up till you have to communicate with something else. Given that 99% of APIs out there use JSON.
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