scuti🌱 on Nostr: have job interview tomorrow. I'm probably going to be asked "what is a pointer?" and ...
have job interview tomorrow.
I'm probably going to be asked
"what is a pointer?"
and I'll probably answer in an airheaded way like
"it's like a hexadecimal number that points to somewhere in memory, can be null, or cause segfault if I fuck up"
in a heavier than intended california (=surfer/pothead) accent.
Published at
2026-01-20 00:56:38 UTCEvent JSON
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