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PIEBALDconsult wrote:

A developer's first thought upon meeting a challenge (something the standard library or framework doesn't have) should not be "where can I find something that does that?", but instead "can I do that myself?"

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Vark111 wrote:

NPM needs to do the same thing that every other package manager does: You can only "un-publish" insofar as it hides your package from searches and new dependencies. Packages that had an existing dependency still keep that, and can still access your now-hidden package.

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But then again: the answer from one candidate this time was: yes. And he even started to explain that it may happen that the static method has access to an instance. It may get an instance as a method argument and through that reference, it can call an instance method. That person was right.

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It did not, however, change the fact that he did not know Java well enough, but as a matter of fact in this very specific question, she was right.

Dominic Burford wrote:

No other mention is made that other pertinent questions were asked, or what the rest of the interview consisted of

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We have to go on what was written here in the article. In which case, the candidate was rejected because they didn't give the expected answer.

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It did not, however, change the fact that he did not know Java well enough, but as a matter of fact in this very specific question, she was right.

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