Dessert Rose posted:

According to some mathematical theorem, 7 is a large enough n to get a perfect shuffle.

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

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.

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

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.

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

still trying to come up with questions to ask people to find out if they know how to program good

BiohazrD posted:

code:

int count = 51;
int cards = {1, 2, ..., 52};

while(drawCards)
{
  int cardToDraw = rand(0, count);
  int cardDrawn = cards[cardToDraw];
  cards[cardToDraw] = cards[count];
  count--;
}

no duplicates ever, memory efficient and runtime is nice and quick because you avoid "removing" elements from the array (which just creates new arrays)

if you need an easy way to keep track of cards already drawn, set cards[count] to cardDrawn and bam, everything past count is a list of cards already drawn

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

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.

Luigi Thirty posted:

now as soon as someone writes a lisp machine emulator and I dig out one of those 400-key symbolics keyboards

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

Corla Plankun posted:

it swaps the drawn card to the end and decrijments the "deck" size so you can't draw it

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

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.

eschaton posted:

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

Luigi Thirty posted:

oh

oh Jesus

reminds me I never did get the HP 3000 I use as a nightstand working

1K Dollar Chair posted:

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

1K Dollar Chair posted:

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

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.

kalstrams posted:

i've got no idea why would you mock any layout as long as person can type reasonably well on it

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

switched to Dvorak and now i can go entire weeks without feeling wrist pain

so, no, not justifiable

Bloody posted:

btw why ityool 2015 are computer graphics still a left-handed coordinate system with 0,0 being the top-left corner

so dumb

prefect posted:

serious question (because i am dumb): what should it be?

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

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.

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.

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

Bloody posted:

(i am rolling my own plotting library)

prefect posted:

what came first, printers or crts?

fritz posted: