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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:nah, amazon deserves to be shamed for treating people like that and it is the responsibility of people who go through those experiences to let the world know that amazon's HR practices can suck a dick it seems that everyone who has ever worked at amazon says that it's a horrible meat-grinder company whether you are in corporate or packing boxes in a warehouse, so running people off early is doing them a favor.
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Blinkz0rz posted:i wish we could just talk about the stuff we've done like literally every other field instead of taking stupid quizzes at least it's better than the mid-00s when all of that "interview 2.0" poo poo was in full swing everywhere and even people applying for menial jobs were getting grilled on "if you filled the super dome with water and dropped in a 747 filled with golfballs how much would the water level rise? please be precise to the millimeter."
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hobbesmaster posted:lol if you think computer science has anything to do with computer hardware that's way data-oriented design is good also anyone who suggests that a linked-list is the correct answer to a problem is wrong 99% of the time
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cis autodrag posted:you mean infinity cache misses for easy insertions isn't a good tradeoff? there are no cache misses in theoreticalville also the hookers and booze are free
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there is no best answer when it comes to sorting something simple like insertion sort can be the fastest option if the data set is small or already sorted/nearly sorted. quicksort has worse worst-case complexity than something like heapsort (o(n^2) vs o(nlogn)), but in the real world quicksort is usually the faster option as long as you aren't feeding it data which has already been sorted. of course, quicksort and heapsort aren't stable sorting algorithms, so if you need that you need something like merge sort (which potentially needs to allocate memory) or the more naive sorts like insertion if it needs to be in-place cis autodrag posted:i mean, the two options i know of are either using a bucket (which itself may be a hashtable, array, linked list, whatevs) or doing the thing i can't remember the name of where you put the collided value into the next nearest available index (possibly incrementing by some amount >1 in your search). but afaik the tradeoffs end up being super specific to the use case and most of the time your still better off with the standard library version in whatever lang you use because they are less likely to have hosed up the basics than you are. open addressing with linear probing. it's real fast if you store the hashes and data in separate arrays since the search portion just becomes running over an array of integers. it's not too hard to write something which beats unordered_map since it ends up traversing a linked list for many operations The_Franz fucked around with this message at 16:15 on May 30, 2017 |
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xxhash by the guy who designed lz4 and zstd is real fast and good, particularly the 64-bit version
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FamDav posted:I don't think I've ever filled out one of these because that's a form for security clearance, not a job application
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FamDav posted:security clearance has you fill out many more details than what they are describing idk, i've never had to fill out every place i've ever lived or list high school jobs with contacts on an application, even when applying for a federal job where part of the application process included being fingerprinted for an fbi background check. i've never applied for something that needed real clearance though and i probably never will since i'm a dual citizen and that's basically an automatic disqualifier. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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ThePeavstenator posted:A long-time buddy of mine does intelligence work involving computers in the Air Force and has a top secret clearance and AFAIK is still a dual Japanese and American citizen. i thought japan didn't allow dual citizenship? an acquaintance in college who was born in the us to japanese nationals had to pick one or the other by the age of 22
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Cocoa Crispies posted:with which countries? us & canada isn't a disqualifier at all us and an eu country
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cinci zoo sniper posted:if it's not uk ur boned i think. if it's uk, there might be hope, but slim i'm a dirty southern slav, so yeah being able to freely live and work in the majority of the western world is more important to me than being able to work for a defense contractor and design things used to rain death on brown people
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Sapozhnik posted:swizterland kind of makes a point of not being in the eu so that's not the best example. but yeah. switzerland is in the schengen zone and has a pile of treaties which basically grants eu privileges to swiss citizens and vice-versa though. if you are an eu citizen you don't need a visa to move to and work in switzerland, just a residence permit after 90 days
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cis autodrag posted:now i have to practice using os x because the last apple product i used was an ipod classic in 2008 hide the dock, turn on multiple workspaces and learn to love spotlight basically use it like gnome 3
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qhat posted:In the terrible programmers thread there is a perfect example of when you need to roll your own parser (when the input is garbage and there's nothing you can do about it). It's also really not that hard. i've written parsers for xml, json and some other formats before and it's not hard, but i spent more than 3 hours on it to do it right and make sure everything worked
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carry on then posted:when i hear "parser" i imagine it must basically be a compiler and also be provably correct for all possible inputs. how do you put that together in 3 hours? same when i read "write a basic html parser" my brain turns it into "write something like rapidxml in under 3 hours"
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Captain Foo posted:boston is easy to drive in, you just have to spot the safe-travelling-distance gaps and know someone will fill it immediately and without a blinker in ~.25 seconds i was leaving somerville at about 5:50am a few years ago and was driving down mass ave with about a car length between me and the guy in front. we were the only 3 cars on the road, but the guy behind me drove into the parking lane and jumped the curb at a corner to get into that spot. i then watched several people treat a red light as a stop sign. even when there was traffic coming these people would just keep inching out into the intersection until the cross traffic started honking and had to swerve slightly to miss them. don't even get me started on the suicidal cyclists who don't seem to think that the rules apply to them
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:banks and financial firms hire a lot of computer touchers a lot of those might end up moving thanks to brexit since the whole reason why many of them are in the uk is to have a physical presence in europe and being able to access the entirety of the eu labor pool The_Franz fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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remember that euro salaries are post-tax numbers, so if you see something like €4k a month that's your actual take home pay. unlike us salaries where the tax man takes his cut of that big number and your $100k salary only ends up being $50k-$60k in your pocket
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Maximum Leader posted:this is not true anywhere in the eu every salary i've seen in central and southern europe was listed as net pay
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Dislike button posted:what kind of loser house is made out of wood? - computer janitor he's not wrong though. mcmansions are some of the worst constructed homes ever
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hobbesmaster posted:if you're customer facing there are expectations depending on industry when my aunt's brother got a job in the tech-side of a big wall street firm the employee handbook made it sound like he would have to buy a closet full of suits and dress super-sharp every day. when he actually started it turned out that the tech people were pretty casual (by wall street standards at least) and it was only the client-facing people who needed to dress-to-impress every day (because it's easier to bilk people out of money in a suit).
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eschaton posted:these are homeless people not tech bros reminder that google had (has?) an employee living in a box truck in the parking lot
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