I mean, the meme could've been ‘oh, it's JS, shoot me’

turning a data structure into a string is usually called like "marshal" or "render" or "dump" or something, "stringify" doesn't really imply anything except something about the json being turned into a string. for all i know it could be replacing all the values with toString'ed versions.

Lol, I work with far too many serial APIs which are just sending three hex bytes for a key and value pair.

only on the web.

Sure, but then you'd be using json_encode, json.dumps, Json.Serialize, etc., not JSON.stringify.

Do people really conflate json and javascript normally though? Java and javacript I get but no one actually says the full json acronym and it basically has an identity of its own.

Stringify is used to serialize an object. This is useful if you are going to store the object or transfer the object contents to some other system or component, possibly over a network using a network protocol.

For debugging, you should use a function like console.log, which depending on the client might even offer an interactive UI to explore the object with structurally aware context. Not just print a giant string, which you get from stringify.

Not only used for debugging and also if you log a complex object, the way it gets displayed in the console is not always easy/possible to fully inspect. It will get.. truncated for lack of a better word

Its ok, JavaScript is an interpreted language so the client won't notice until after we've shipped.

Name 3 UML diagrams and 3 architectures!

Jesus Christ!

I once had a candidate give the join link to the meeting out to several people (there were 3 unknown people in the call in addition to me and him). I immediately explained we can't do the interview with all these other people on the call and he proceeded to try and gaslight me that there were no other people in the call, like he honestly thought he had jedi mind truck powers.

I called over several coworkers to witness the clusterfuck, many lols were had.

Haha I have also done an interview where the person had a friend in the room feeding them answers, though this one must have assumed his mic was worse than it was and didn't mute at all, so we could hear the mumbling of answers. To make it even funnier, though, their friend wouldn't have gotten hired either because none of their answers were good.

I kinda wanted to tell them they should find a smarter friend to help them cheat at interviews but instead just thanked them for their time and ended the interview.

Though tbh, I wasn't really impressed by any of the new grads from the schools we were looking at. Some of them made me wonder if they learned anything at all about software development during their time at school.

I would have accepted this answer.

I was hoping for json.dumps, but that'll work.

immediate ban.

It is my GOD given RIGHT to pull half of NPM through MY MACHINE (and get compromised by 500 different MALICIOUS packages) due to my NEED for the MOST up to date PACKAGES!

I WILL have my hourly update to iseven() or I WILL have DEATH.

"There's just no way to prevent these kinds of attacks" says only language where this consistently happens.

If you ARENT updating your libraries every 15 MINUTES are you even a REAL PROGRAMMER!?

I MUST get ALL of the latest vulns and exploits on my machine NOW!

I've even written a script to change my API tokens for me since they get STOLEN so OFTEN because my OTHER SCRIPT updates NPM dependencies CONSTANTLY so I can ALWAYS be the FIRST to PULL IN the newest MALWARE.

They may think they have gotten over me, but they always come back.

What if I told you the guy that invented it is named Jason?

He’s probably not, but what if?

Dammit... Now I can't say it correctly