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TheGoldenEel
02/02/23 4:32:57 PM
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Theres a fairly large contingent of people who hire for software development jobs who think that whether you can define academic terms has any bearing on whether youre good at your job.

want to hear about the apps I developed start to finish all by myself, that are available right now for download? No? Youd rather know if I can define polymorphism on the spot after not thinking about that vocab word for the past ten years?

so freaking annoying

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Were_Wyrm
02/02/23 4:33:33 PM
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RIP man software died and shot up to 97 error messages.

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Robot2600
02/02/23 4:34:16 PM
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How else are they gonna test if you can use a font?

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GrandConjuraton
02/02/23 5:11:43 PM
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Were_Wyrm posted...
RIP man software died and shot up to 97 error messages.


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TheGoldenEel
02/02/23 5:58:20 PM
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Also this round of job searching Ive gotten a bunch of places that give me freaking homework

take a few hours of your time unpaid and write a program for us

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emblem-man
02/02/23 6:12:37 PM
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That sounds horrible

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VirtuousWrath
02/02/23 6:16:24 PM
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Actually, polymorphism is a pretty bog-standard computer science term that is relevant to your job.

Something academic-but-useless is like inverting a binary tree. For one, there's probably already a binary tree impl somewhere and 2: you're never going to need one directly let alone invert it.

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TheGoldenEel
02/02/23 6:26:02 PM
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VirtuousWrath posted...
Actually, polymorphism is a pretty bog-standard computer science term that is relevant to your job.

Something academic-but-useless is like inverting a binary tree. For one, there's probably already a binary tree impl somewhere and 2: you're never going to need one directly let alone invert it.
The concept of polymorphism, obviously. Its bog standard. But never once since college have I thought oh this is an example of polymorphism

as soon as I look up what it is, yeah I know exactly what it is. But outside of a job interview I have no use for knowing that as a vocab word

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darkmaian23
02/02/23 6:55:07 PM
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I understand that it is difficult, but if you know computer science fundamentals are why you aren't getting hired, you know what you have to do be more employable. That's better than having to guess.

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VirtuousWrath
02/02/23 6:57:11 PM
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TheGoldenEel posted...
The concept of polymorphism, obviously. Its bog standard. But never once since college have I thought oh this is an example of polymorphism
Well, if you understand polymorphism like you claim you do, you now know its name.

The most common example is obviously dynamic polymorphism in the form of inheritance + virtual functions.

Then you have parametric polymorphism like in C++ where you take a template T and just call random shit on it. This is also colloquially called "duck-typing".

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TheGoldenEel
02/02/23 7:04:02 PM
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darkmaian23 posted...
I understand that it is difficult, but if you know computer science fundamentals are why you aren't getting hired, you know what you have to do be more employable. That's better than having to guess.
This is what Im saying, I know all this shit, I use it. But over time the names of academic shit fades away. Im not sitting around defining the stuff I use on a daily basis, Im just doing it.

and yes, after an interview I inevitably check the definition and am like, oh shit yeah, obviously. But defining this stuff on the spot has nothing to do with the day to day work of a dev

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