He had an interview with Google and they asked him to invert a binary tree, which is essentially taking a tree of data and swapping the positions of all sibling nodes.

While most people agreed it was a pretty pointless question to ask at an interview, mxcl had a full “don’t you know who I am” shit fit on social media.

If anyone hasn’t made the connection, mxcl is the infamous Google interview binary tree guy

I googled “how to migrate from esxi to proxmox” last week. I must be psychic.

Exactly this. They aren’t for the company, they’re for you to have confidence that your shipped code isn’t going to blow anything up.

Hearing the 360 referred to as retro physically pains me

To repeat the other person’s point a bit, what you’re describing sounds very much like LLVM, and other IR languages.

IRs exist to allow a variety of programming languages to be specified in a way that doesn’t require direct compilation of that language to asm. This means the IR has to support some representation of the superset of all those languages’ features.

So I guess your question could be interpreted as: why don’t we just use an IR to write code? Mostly because they require you to forego many of the modern conveniences of modern programming languages. The whole point of going higher level and more opinionated in language choice is to allow you to turn designs into code faster than you can with lower level representations.

I don’t entirely follow what you’re trying to achieve with the plugins idea but it very much sounds like a combination of ideas that are found in LLVM combined with features from modern workbench IDEs. You might want to read about the architecture of Eclipse.

Eclipse was a popular development “workbench” that allowed you to plug in various tools at every level and stage of development and configure them to your taste, as well as allowing you to build your own plugins to work with languages in a bespoke way.

https://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Plug-in-architecture/plugin_architecture.html

Lol this is exactly it

Making games, which, I’ve come to discover, is basically the Santa Claus of programming because most professional developers that I know started for the same reason and absolute do not program or develop games.

Okay, I’m not crazy. Thanks for the info!

Is that Ed O’Neill? Shit I never made that connection, he sounds way different.

Futurama, Modern Family, Wayne’s World. Guy is an American national treasure.

Cascadia Code is my go to

I’m a huge fan of Cascadia Code so definitely gonna check these out.

That’s actually a really cool idea. Now I hope this too!

The code that I suggest is too verbose. It involves too much typing.

This seems to be the whole premise and it’s obvious that one does not follow from the other.

Overly verbose code is code that can be expressed more minimally for some benefit. I can’t think why anyone would argue that one of those benefits is less typing.

The author can solve this easily though: ask them why verbosity is an issue. Then they will know the answer and won’t have to presume something as tenuous as “amount of time spent typing”.

Me, to my wife, after three months of playing Celeste: “I think she might be gay”

Game totally wooshed me

Not much, what’s a quadrant with you?

Bubble Ghost. I had it on a 99 in 1 cart. Might just be that it wasn’t popular where I’m from.

There’s already a for HA that covers the use case where your hue bulbs operate entirely through voice assistants.

I’m hoping this sees expansion into a fully fledged replacement for the physical Phillips hub in the future.

This doesn’t meet your criteria for not phoning home, but still worth sharing: I use Logitech Harmony Hub and find the experience of using it with Hass to be excellent.

Harmony is really good at onboarding devices and has a huge library of supported devices, but the interface for using them is awful. Hass makes it much easier to build simple multi-device remotes, and to create nice automations. (Harmony’s version of this is utterly useless)

You also get a nice physical remote to use with it too, which I’m personally not interested in but the less technical members of my family love it.

Worth considering I think. You can always block the phoning home using Pi-hole, as I have.

Also interested in the answer to this.