Peel, cut them into fairly thick chunks and shove them in a hot oven with some oil.
You mean I've been shoving them in the wrong place this whole time?
Peel, cut them into fairly thick chunks and shove them in a hot oven with some oil.
You mean I've been shoving them in the wrong place this whole time?
So the MFT is a b-tree. That explains why is so easily corrupted.
Doesn't NTFS use a radically different directory structure than FAT?
I do know that recovering and/or repairing a corrupted file system is far easier with FAT than with NTFS.
Also, FAT won't give you weird permission headaches.
This all just sounds like another day at the office to me.
BTW, welcome to the exciting world of UPS integration.
Obviously the default date should be January 1st, 4713 BC. After all it's not rocket science (otherwise it would be (November 17, 1858).
I do realize the former may lead to numbers so large that some might consider them astronomical.
I think they are trying the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" strategy right now o_O
It seems to have worked for IBM.
Do they have manuals for the programming language and environment you ate using?
When I started programming there was no Google or Internet, but we still managed to write code.
There is no such thing as trivial time-related code.
This particular problem is only tangentially time related, in that the hands of an analog clock are a ubiquitous example of an angular system.
For an actual time and/or date problem, I would hope the candidate would ask what language and/or library functions are available. IMO, using existing standardized cider rather than rolling your own, is a clear delineation between a novice and seasoned coffee.
Step 1: person stands up
Step 2: person turns around
Step 3: person realizes the exit is on the other side of the meeting table
Step 4: person continues turning around until they have completed a full revolution
Step 5: person jumps over table
Step 6: person leaves room through giant wall hole next to door
Not too dissimilar from the candidates approach I the original post, bringing this thread full circle.
Sadly, seeing how many people I've encountered who say "he/she took a 360 turn" to indicate they metaphorically turned around and walked away from a situation, this isn't necessarily the case.
I would hope that the union of those persons and professional programmers would yield a small result set. Not expect, mind you, just hope.
had to think about it for 10 minutes, so I don't consider that "trivial," simply because I don't use that knowledge anymore.
I would consider any solution that can be written in under an hour to be trivial. Outside of any specialized knowledge, of course, but the number of degrees in a circle should be common knowledge.
As much of a super genius as those who can solve those 1 - 3 * 8 + 2 math problems. Yet, even the folks with the most seasoned resumes seem to struggle with it more often than not.
You would think that before the Internet and StackOverview, it would have been harder to get away with this, but even then I saw bbarely functional programmers somehow hang on to their jobs for years.
The main problem I see with this question, is that it assumes that a non-WTF web application is an actual possible thing.
Even for a senior position? I mean, I could understand it being a little intimidating for entry level (even though I firmly believe any decent CS college grad should still at least provide a working function, even if it's not as elegant as a senior would write it),
Is the clock problem not, in fact, reasonably trivial, or am I just some sort of super genius?
You people are EDUCATED STUPID.
Now that reminds me of some of the people that I have interviewed.
The real world, like that thing you're in when you're interviewing for a job, it's not a black-and-white world. There's no single "right" answer to the question. I'd hire a guy who showed genuine interest in solving the problem cooperatively, even if it took him a long amount of time. I'd probably refuse to hire a guy who instantly spat out a "correct" answer without bothering to discuss his approach. Because you don't want the latter type on your programming staff.
Is this attitude common? If I was given a simple task, I would assume that the interviewer simply wants to know if I have the skills to solve it quickly and correctly.
If you want to know what my thought processes are and whether I can work cooperatively, I would expect you to tell me this explicitly. Maybe you do and you didn't mention it or I missed it.
I'm genuinely trying to get an understanding of the interview process and I figured that a thread about interviews might be a good place to do that.
I already told you your function fails once a or b are negative. Which is clearly in the specs of "multiply two numbers"
You are correct. I completely missed that post. If I made that mistake here, I would also make it on the job. That's probably why I never earned more than $21/hour as a programmer on my life.
Well, if you want to see what my reaction would be if I were interviewing you and you gave that answer, I'm thinking your solution here isn't going to work. Because I'm not interviewing you.
Is there a way in which I could ask for your help/advice and you would willing to give it?
We're talking about interview techniques, it's not some dumb game where someone gives you a problem to solve in code. Nobody gives a shit that you can solve the problem in code, that's not the fucking point
Then I'm confused, because the interview question is specifically asking for the person to write some code, is it not?
That is precisely the answer that I would have given you if you had interviewed me, and I was attempting to ask you what your reaction would be to getting that answer during the interview.
I guess this is a an example of my inability to communicate clearly. I had been considering trying to get another programming job, but this has convinced me otherwise.
Then how about "Only using addition, subtraction, bitwise, and shift operators".
And this is exactly why I can't work in IT anymore. My boss says "here's the requirements, " I produce code matching those requirements, and he says "what about all these other requirements I didn't tell you about? "
It's not a trivia question.
My code fully meets the stated requirements. And is standard high school math really considered trivia?
"Write a function that takes two numbers and multiplies then, without using the multiplication operator (in your language of choice)"
What would you think of this?
function multiply(a,b) {
return exp(log(a)+log(b))
}
Banshee has it's own quirks, like sorting on the tags instead of just using the filenames. Of course, I have the tags in all my MP3s fixed because standalone MP3 players do the same thing, but god forbid I try to play files off of someone's thumb drive in filesystem order.
I don't know why they have to make big campaigns like this, instead of something like a small counter or progress bar on the side that said "Hosting has cost us $15,438 so far this year. We only made $8,300 in donations. Pls gib monies or no more wikipedia for you."
Still less annoying than the campaigns run by public radio and television.
So what does the data to be parsed look like anyway?
"Well I didn't expect this kind of task. I mean, who would ever store data in this strange format?"
Comma Separated Values is definitely an unusual file type that's rarely used in the real world...
Maybe this well known web site runs on WordPress and he does everything with plugins. There are a while lot of WordPress "developers" who can't write PHP or JavaScript, and barely know HTML and CSS.
Even stack overflow copy pasta isn't helping with this lack of understanding.
Just ask him what each line does...
Is programming really this hard? Am I some sort of supergenius? My actual experience with PHP can't be more than a couple man-month, but this is a trivial task. I would have to look up the functions online though, which feels like cheating.
"Don't come to me with problems, come with resign letter instead."
I didn't even do that. I just walked out and never went back. Now I have a minimum wage job and may never work in IT again because screw that crap.
Your apparent inability to understand simple variations in style may well be a symptom of the world's literacy problem.
I can only assume that I'd you saw a headline with the term "oil crisis, " you would somehow assume it meant that there was too much oil..
When i connect an Android phone to Linux/Windows, it shows the phone's file system and allows file transfers. Seems perfect. Where is the problem?
Not all Android phones will present themselves as a USB drive, no matter how much you fiddle with the settings.
Come on guys, with a name like Red Flag News, it must be totally legit...
This is possibly the biggest gripe I have with my staff members. How the fuck are we supposed to make better decisions if everybody keeps lying and yea-saying?
If like to live in this mythical land where you can tell your boss that they make bad decisions. In the tell world, that gets you fired.
Let's copy the Star Trek: The Next Generation formula, but only the shitty parts they discarded in season 2."
At least in Star Trek, when they meet creatures from other planets they were in outer space, and not on Earth, under the ocean.
Filed under: I'm agreeing with Blakey and actually feel good about it.
I needed a b-tree for something at the project I'm working I would have to implement it, because it have to run in shitty embedded platforms and MS-DOS.
That's where all the Real Programmers work. Everyone else is just a code monkey, regardless of the number of the digits in my salary.
There is nothing about Seaquest DSV that is not terrible. Season 2 is transcends "so bad its good" into "plain awful". Not worth watching even to make fun of.
It was as if someone was watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and said "let's make a show like this, only worse in every way."
@Lorne_Kates said:
That's a stupid name for a database
I name my databases "database1", "database2", etc.
This explore has been known since September, and even then only affected out of date versions of the software.
In other news, OpenSSL has a flaw that can expose user credentials...
Sounds to me like clinical depression. This is just the specific way it manifested.
Who remembers "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools"? Everyone remembers "the dragon book".
I never had this book, but now I want it.
Got it. I'll just imagine you using your sister's second-hand Macbook (with a bunch of Justin Bieber stickers over it) in your mom's basement.
Who told you about my setup?
If they are so pedantic, why are the even allowed around children?
Filed under: based on a true story
ar old PC with Fedora Workstation 22 + Cinnamon, with 2 monitors.
I was never able to get cinnamon to work with two monitors. It may have been my video driver. My recent experience has been that Linux video support is bit spotty.
Also the name is hilarious, I am a german and wix almost sounds like a slang for jerking off or maybe the result of jerking off.
I thought that was "vix," which was the reason Commodore rejected the name Vixen for their first color home computer. They found out too late that Vic was actually worse.