Did you read the article? The sugared JS would be a superset of the target JS. So you would only need to learn the sugared.

Need to learn both because I still need to know what is sugar in order to use the subset.

...and people criticise node's node_modules. At least you don't spend hours doing this

Not nearly as hard of a problem. Python does work just fine when it’s pure Python. The trouble comes with all the C/Cuda dependencies in machine learning

But you do because your local node_modules and upstream are out of sync and CI is broken. Happens at least once a month just before a release of course. I'd rather have my code failing locally than trying to debug what's out of sync on upstream.

So were the developments before the last AI winter..

Wait until you see China. There are multiple cities bigger than NYC or London that most people have never heard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...

Many of those cities are compromised of enormously large areas though. Chongqing is larger than the country of Austria and has a population density of 390 people per square km. London has a population density of 15000 people per square km.

There are still a lot of big cities and huge city centres but the Chinese meaning of city often includes the metropolitan area plus rural hinterland.

It sounds like you may be comparing the population density of a large, diluted area and not the downtown areas alone.

It doesn't get much denser than downtown Chinese cities, they have specialized in high-density mega-sized apartment buildings.

Even large US downtowns are dwarfed by the average Chinese city downtown flush with LED skyscrapers. They have way more people and manufacturing than other countries so it shouldn't be too surprising.

Not everyone here is American, "they" is more ambigous in the UK and Australia.

I've never heard that before. Is there any way for me to verify that.

^ This is the real answer that actually reliability works

They're trying to buy enough time to get enough people vaccinated before they "let it rip". Delta has an extremely high R value and will come back in force. This way we eliminate many more unnecessary deaths. Not hard to understand.

Let's be honest, the media is just giving the people what they want, people subconsciously want bias news, its not pleasent to read news that disagrees with your own views. Why do you think facebook modified their algorithms for this? This applies to both on the left and the right politically.

I can't think of a witty response. I fold.

While I agree with you that theres a few like that, you have forgotten about the candidates that genuinely don't want to spend their spare time grinding leetcode.

I worked at facebook, when I started looking for a new job, I had to start grinding leetcode again to prepare for a new job. Take a step back and realise how ridiculous this is.

Big companies that have prestiege and pay alot of money use it to eliminate false positives, not to actually recognise true positives. If your at a big company that can afford to throw away many true postives, sure use leetcode, but the rest are hurting themselfs by blinding following the mantra of FANG.

If you can't readily demonstrate ability to write a simple function but insist on getting hired as a developer you are, by definition, overestimating your ability as software developer, because you can't code.

If you need to grind to be able to write code you are doing something wrong. Like spending too much time at work copying code from stack exchange or relying on running your code to tell you if it is correct.

Grinding leetcode != software engineering. That is my entire point, not sure why you're confused.

Why do you assume it is I who are confused?

Never had to "grind" to get any software development job I wanted even though I am always expected to demonstrate my coding ability.

Actually, I wouldn't let myself be hired by a company that does not verify if their candidates can code. Too much of a drag working with people who can't pull their weight.

> Never had to "grind" to get any software development job I wanted even though I am always expected to demonstrate my coding ability.

Good for you. Either you are quite gifted or you're not talking about interviews in FAANG or other similar companies like Doordash, Instacart etc. but rather other "easier" SF startups.

I think you seem to be assuming two things: 1. Most interview questions are intuitive and one should be able to organically come to an efficient solution within 40 mins without any prior practice. 2. Anyone who can't do that, is not worthy of being a software engineer

In my experience, both those assertions are false. If you look at the difficulty of questions companies are asking, I can assure you that no reasonable software engineer (unless they do competitive programming as a hobby) would be able to solve them. On the other hand, even a mediocre engineer who has been "grinding" on Leetcode will have a far better chance on solving them since they have seen them before. In short your prep of interview

At this point, it appears to me that the companies know that Leetcode exists and that their questions end up there and they still ask the questions marked as "hard" since most serious candidates would have already prepared for the "medium" ones.

If the exercise requires some kind of leap then it is a bad task for interview. For example: "please, implement A-star". On the other hand, better task is one that removes unnecessary leaps: "given this description of A-star, please, implement it". Which is what I try to do when I prepare tasks.

After all what I want to learn is how a person approaches implementing something and not whether they have good enough memory and luck.

If those FAANG companies do something else, it is their problem. There are so many companies you don't absolutely have to work for them.

The only reason they can get away with this is exactly because a lot of developers think either FAANG or bust.