>what the hiring manager wants to knowIn perfect information theory, yes. In practice we some HN article where on the fifth round some FAANG wants the applicant to juggle dry erase markers while reversing a hash algorithm while standing on their head.Multitudes of companies use hiring agencies, and at least from what I've seen these agencies are more about numbers than quality. An AI application that overstuffs your abilities is far more likely to be observed than the resume of an earnest person

vd (visidata) is amazing. The only tool that really works for me with millions of rows csv's

For something similar but different, I highly recommend people check out Visidata:https://www.visidata.org/It's saved my ass on multiple occasions for data wrangling and munging and highly recommend people use it in their own toolkit.

I would think visidata could.https://www.visidata.org/

It's weird but visidata is my favorite spreadsheet."But... visidata is not a spreadsheet"I know, that's what makes it so weird.On contemplation, I think I grew dissatisfied with the normal spreadsheet data model, I wanted something bettered structured than the "it's a big bag of cells" that spreadsheets present, I wanted row security. The best I found was the relational database. I currently use a local postgres db for most things I would have used a spreadsheet for. The interfaces sort of suck

Visidata[0] is a killer data swiss army knife. It's even inspired off Visicalc[0] https://www.visidata.org/

no, the bar is accurate and descriptive descriptions. You know how AI words are typically hollow and devoid of meaning? loads of grammatically fine words but not actually saying anything? well, these repos are the github version of that. Lots of words but so starved of meaning I shut off mentally trying to read half of them. Some descriptions are outright lies.

That's interesting. I have been thinking about how the vastly different reactions people seem to have to agentic coding could be influenced by what they value about coding. To me it seems like there are three joys in coding:1. Creating something2. Solving puzzles3. Learning new thingsIf you are primarily motivated by seeing a finished product of some sort, then I think agentic coding is transcendent. You can get an output so much quicker.If your enjoyment comes from solving hard puzzles, digging

I believe that Pilgrim here does not understand very well how copyright works:> Their claim that it is a "complete rewrite" is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the originally licensed codeThis is simply not true. The reason why the "clean room" concept exists is precisely since actually the law recognizes that independent implementations ARE possibile. The "clean room" thing is a trick to make the litigation simpler, it is NOT required that you are not exposed to the original code. F

Coming here virtually/in person to confirm that even though it’s a bit rude to “rank” people, I basically struggle to understand how incredibly good Frank is - extraordinarily fast, deeply capable, and kind to a fault. A very uniquely, typical, amazing Recurser.

Folks saying this offer is in bad faith or not generous enough dont seem to understand how low the bar is here for rewarding maintainers.I maintain Express.js and Lodash, as well as a number of express direct deps (as a TC member of both Express and Lodash).OSS has been my fulltime focus for over a year (aka Im unemployed). In 2025 I made $10 from open source, in the form of an amazon gift card for fixing a bug in another random open source project (I think they have VC money).Call it skill issu

More than yes. It's commendable.

> The temptation is to pull the lever 10 times in a row because it was so easy, but now I'll need a few weeks to process the changes as a humanYeah I really feel that!I recently learned the term "cognitive debt" for this from https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ and I think it's a great way to capture this effect.I can churn out features faster, but that means I don't get time to fully absorb each feature and think through its consequences and relationships to other existi

Heh, I actually turned that off because I kept getting confused about where I was. Perhaps there's a better UX there, or better styling that would make me less confused and keep the nav wrapping.

I recently discovered VisiData and I'm on a huge TUI kick right now because of it. I know GUIs have their advantages and I use them, but opening a file in vim or VisiData at light speed feels so good compared to firing up IntelliJ or some spreadsheet program. Good keybindings make working in the program a joy. These tools are often made by hackers/for hackers, not some corporate structure trying to pad their resume with whatever new feature looks good but works like shit that nobody asked for

Big fan of visidata https://visidata.org/ - one of those tools that does a lot but easily provides useful things with little complexity. For example open, select column, shift-f gives a histogram. Enter on one of those rows filters the data to just them.Can load a variety of data formats + anything pandas can (so parquet works).Edit - you can do a lot with it, quickly creating columns with python expressions, plots, joining tables, etc. but it's great for things like "pipe in kubectl output - ge

VisiData is amazing. It's one of the coolest open source projects I've seen in years. I use it extensively in my research.

The VisiData developers created a fun multi-part data wrangling puzzle last year called the Hanukkah of Data [1].It is not specific to any tool, so you can use command line tools, the TUI data explorer VisiData[2] or whatever data tools you want to solve the puzzle in your terminal.[1] https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5783/ [2] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

Related: in a reaction to a comment I wrote about logarithms about a month ago[0], saulpw recently linked his own idea of making logarithms more "accessible" to the masses by introducing magnitude-based notation:https://saul.pw/mag/I think it is a really nice idea that should be spread more widely. It might be Pi day, and while I traditionally complain that Tau is better for contrarian reasons (hey at least I'm honest), we might as well co-opt the extra attention maths gets for other mathematica