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Dessert Rose posted:According to some mathematical theorem, 7 is a large enough n to get a perfect shuffle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persi_Diaconis i saw a talk by him once, he was talking about fair coins and modeling tosses and how he glued dental floss to the side of a coin to measure how many times it would spin around in the air
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i've finally been on the other side of the programming interview it sucks. it went not great and it just felt like i was failing the interviewee by not phrasing my questions properly.
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i've finally been on the other side of the programming interview i have done this a few times now, enough that i feel like i should be good at it, but i'm still not. you were failing the interviewee. so did i. i think probably the least worst way to do those sort of things is to practice a shitload on your coworkers, both ones you do and don't respect. that way you'll get a basis of comparison
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i've finally been on the other side of the programming interview don't feel bad about it. approximately 100% of software requirements are imprecise, misleading, or just plain inaccurate, so lobbing them poorly-phrased interview questions is probably a great way to find out how well a candidate copes with real-world situations
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:still trying to come up with questions to ask people to find out if they know how to program good next time i'm in a position of having to interview people i'm going set up a VM with exercism on it, and watch them set up an environment and do the exercises for their language of choice.
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BiohazrD posted:
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i've finally been on the other side of the programming interview interviewers are like adults: pretty big and intimidating until you become one and realize they don't know poo poo
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it swaps the drawn card to the end and decrijments the "deck" size so you can't draw it
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Luigi Thirty posted:now as soon as someone writes a lisp machine emulator and I dig out one of those 400-key symbolics keyboards they already exist CADR for the CADR (with some updates too) Meroko for the TI Explorer and OpenGenera (still commercial, something like $5K, and only for DEC Alpha) for Symbolics Genera someone used the DEC Alpha assembly source included with OpenGenera to generate an x86_64 version of the emulator core and people have gotten that to run on Linux and OS X talking to an X server
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kalstrams posted:any suggestions, for python 2, to make program read itself and copy that somewhere else? the idea is that my program makes a thing, and it should make also a script including all the code in it so that one could just run it and replicate the result, given they have installed python and relevant public libraries on their own code:
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Corla Plankun posted:it swaps the drawn card to the end and decrijments the "deck" size so you can't draw it OH thanks. I didn't realize cards[count] was kind of getting swapped back in to the 'remaining' zone
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i've finally been on the other side of the programming interview it is not so bad if you just let the other coworkers ask the major technical stuff and you just do "cultural fit" BS questions instead
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eschaton posted:they already exist oh oh Jesus reminds me I never did get the HP 3000 I use as a nightstand working
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Luigi Thirty posted:oh you know you at least want to give CADR and Meroko a try they're based on the original microcoded CPU design for the Lisp Machine, which had eight 74LS181 ALU chips at its core Meroko, since the Explorer used NuBus, doesn't just do an accurate emulation of the CPU; it does a bus-transaction-accurate simulation of the entire Explorer, including things like parity checking. as a result it runs only a few times faster than a real Explorer on top-tier hardware. plus the Explorer has USER AIDS: come on, you know you want to
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does anyone here interview terrified undergrad students just got rejected from athena health and after the interview I feel like a dumbass shithead that's never gonna get a job. The question started as a dice on a piece of graph paper; how would you represent this idea in code. I made the dice an object, gave it data members like current face up value, current grid location, etc, etc. I was feeling good. Then I was asked to pathfind the dice. The greedy algo didn't work (value on top face was considered cost of taking said path) and then I realized I was basically being asked to do Djikstra's / A* off the top and I kind of melted down. help im gay and dumb
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1K Dollar Chair posted:does anyone here interview terrified undergrad students LOL that sounds harder that my interview at Amazon so don't sweat it and just keep trying.
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1K Dollar Chair posted:does anyone here interview terrified undergrad students I interviewed at Athena Health, while I was doing a coding on the computer the interviewer made fun of me to a coworker within earshot for using the Dvorak layout. Also they use Perl and are dumb.
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sarehu posted:I interviewed at Athena Health, while I was doing a coding on the computer the interviewer made fun of me to a coworker within earshot for using the Dvorak layout. that seems perfectly justifiable
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I used to have severe wrist pain from using a keyboard for more than a couple of hours, I did a lot of stretching every hour and it helped but always hurt at least somewhat switched to Dvorak and now i can go entire weeks without feeling wrist pain so, no, not justifiable
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 09:44 |
making fun of for using certain keyboard layout is just not justifiable period
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Unless it's Colemak or some French layout.
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i've got no idea why would you mock any layout as long as person can type reasonably well on it
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dvorak cures wrist pain djikstra claims self-esteem
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kalstrams posted:i've got no idea why would you mock any layout as long as person can type reasonably well on it the pro-dvorak people are obnoxious, so i'm okay with mocking them
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I like the slavonic dances but the keyboard layout is definitely one of his weaker works
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As a Dvorak user I can tell you being a Dvorak user is like being in a secret club -- when you meet another one, there's that unnecessary bit of implicit telepathy like that which you'd share with a fresh clone, where you know what each other's thinking: that Dvorak isn't really better than Qwerty but it's our little secret.
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Dessert Rose posted:I used to have severe wrist pain from using a keyboard for more than a couple of hours, I did a lot of stretching every hour and it helped but always hurt at least somewhat I switched to vim for that. Instant fix.
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source code pro is good and very needs suiting, thanks op
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 12:51 |
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btw why ityool 2015 are computer graphics still a left-handed coordinate system with 0,0 being the top-left corner so dumb
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speaking of secret minority clubs amongst programmers, you should totally try using a proportional font for your code. it sounds like sacrilege but honestly there's really no reason you have to use a monospace font for source code - most of the reason people still do is inertia.
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Bloody posted:btw why ityool 2015 are computer graphics still a left-handed coordinate system with 0,0 being the top-left corner serious question (because i am dumb): what should it be?
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prefect posted:serious question (because i am dumb): what should it be? everything else done on a cartesian coordinate plane is right-handed, where 0,0 is the bottom left corner. the difference being that positive increments in y are up in a RH plane vs down in a LH plane theres probably a good reason it's LH but i wish it was RH because then projecting poo poo from some arbitrary RH plane to the bounds of a bitmap would be less obnoxious (i am rolling my own plotting library)
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Bloody posted:theres probably a good reason it's LH but i wish it was RH because then projecting poo poo from some arbitrary RH plane to the bounds of a bitmap would be less obnoxious line printers print starting at the top of the paper and move downwards. it's natural to transfer the same conventions to an electronic screen.
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Jabor posted:line printers print starting at the top of the paper and move downwards. it's natural to transfer the same conventions to an electronic screen. this makes sense. but on the occasions where i have to come in contact with these kinds of coordinates, i always have trouble thinking of the y axis as positive numbers
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Jabor posted:line printers print starting at the top of the paper and move downwards. it's natural to transfer the same conventions to an electronic screen. isn't it to do with the start point for the draw on a crt? not much point having a printer if you haven't yet decided how to draw the thing you want to print after all
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:isn't it to do with the start point for the draw on a crt? not much point having a printer if you haven't yet decided how to draw the thing you want to print after all what came first, printers or crts?
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printers
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Bloody posted:(i am rolling my own plotting library)
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prefect posted:what came first, printers or crts? depends on your definition of printers probably. did the gutenberg press use line based printing? probably not because 1 in 4 pages isnt just 'pc load letter what the gently caress does that mean' printed 100 times
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tbf its really not that bad. idk why there's like no tolerable plotting libraries that'll plot real-time data, so i had to make my own. you can like kind of hack matlab into doing it and apparently matplotlib as well but it's janky, bad, and slow so i rolled my own in .net that'll plot data at many Ksps at 30 fps without issue stupid details are being a complete pain in the rear end though like axis labels that are numerically accurate and stuff
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