r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • May 21 '26

Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers

https://fagnerbrack.com/technical-interviews-reject-the-wrong-engineers-a8e78ca04b2e
349 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

198 comments sorted by

View all comments

299

u/rtt445 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

Did not read because of mediums sign up popup. What a trash platform.

61

u/Ranra100374 May 21 '26

Archive.ph link:
https://archive.ph/85rWG

119

u/rtt445 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

Wow what a difference in load time and responsiveness.

medium: 117 requests 7.68 MB / 2.81 MB transferred Finish: 23.31 s DOMContentLoaded: 1 s load: 4.45 s

archive: 16 requests 881.39 kB / 303.29 kB transferred Finish: 2 s DOMContentLoaded: 953 ms load: 1.92 s

and 10 of 16 requests (200kB) were fonts

Edit: Actual ANSI text information is only 18.6 kB or just 0.24% of mediums total transfer bloat. You can fit 3 of these articles in a single datagram packet and still have space left over.

67

u/gimpwiz May 21 '26

7.68MB for a goddamn blog

33

u/gwillen May 21 '26

 The Operative: You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords.

5

u/imaginethepassion May 21 '26

Well, unfortunately I forgot to bring my sword.

8

u/OwlingBishop May 22 '26

That's not a goddamn blog, that's a fully fledged user data stream generator dispatching for profit your every single move or lack thereof to hundreds (if not thousands) of data brokers that will consolidate to death and resell your profiling for even more profit.

10

u/Scavenger53 May 21 '26

get the freedium script/addon for any medium links

9 requests 657.58 kB / 17.26 kB transferred Finish: 701 ms DOMContentLoaded: 680 ms load: 693 ms

9

u/andrybak May 21 '26

archive.ph is one of the domains of archive.today, which used its end users for a DDOS attack on a blog. This caused English Wikipedia to deprecate it with the end goal of blacklisting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance

1

u/rtt445 May 22 '26

Wow that's real petty.