Fizzbuzz will at least tell you you have a programmer of some variety if they can solve it.
Depending on how elegant it is, and if they took longer than 30 minutes, will tell you if they're a natural programmer, or just someone who studied what fizzbuzz was the night before.
haha what
A lot of recruiters will tell a comp-sci person to study up on fizzbuzz.
Then they struggle with ordering the if/else statement to make it work right, etc.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
if someone was actually doing really well on the easy C# questions I used to like to ask them what the yield keyword is for as it used to be hell of obscure.
but now it's pretty important to the language what with async and await so people should know it
Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
And all I have to say for canny edges is just--there are opencv implementations of that readily available. But if I want to recognize lines specifically instead of just getting a messy outline I would use Line Segment Detection, also already implemented in opencv etc.
But like, have I ever personally done this--no...but does that really matter?
Thank god I don't see myself changing jobs for a while, or applying for a senior scientist sort of position if I do...
Steam, LoL: credeiki
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
bizarre pointer arithmetic is my math rock new order cover band
southern poverty law has published their hate map for 2016 and
i am struck by how boring white supremacist groups names are
though there's one in virginia just called "silver bullet gun oil" and like
right to the point i guess
Are they only racist against werewolves?
that would be awesome actually
Some white supremacist group that's really particular about procedure when it comes to meetings, they're setting up the group and the leader steps up, "What's dark and comes in the night to steal our white women? That's right, N-"
"WEREWOLVES!"
"God dammit Jimbob... Lucille read back the minutes."
"Says werewolves here Joebob."
"God dammit. Guess we have to be racist against werewolves. Jimbob you dumb son of a bitch..."
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
One of my friends was interviewing people for a devops type job and about 50% of the candidates couldn't even fizzbuzz
people with honest-to-god CS degrees couldn't even start to make up a 10 line program in pseudocode
You can't be fucking serious.
I have a CIS degree and I can do that.
I'll be honest. I don't know if I could either. But I can find tests to break any program over my goddamn knee.
I bet you could
input: a list of random ints with values between 1 and 100
output: for each number print "fizz" if it's (evenly) divisible by 3, "buzz" if it's divisible by 5, and "fizzbuzz" if divisible by both.
I keep wanting to write a joke overly complex way to do this that'd still work, but I'm having trouble actually thinking of any.
I guess you could do it by writing too many functions and passing shit around those.
I had one that put the ascii for "fizzbuzz" into a byte array and read out of it starting different places using bizarre pointer arithmetic that worked out to be the right place for each integer used.
Oh man this is amazing
Oh here it is.
int main()
{
char* c = "fizzbuzz";
for(int i=1; i< 101; i++)
{
int s = 4*(!(i%5)&&(i%3));
int f = 4*(!(i%3)+2*!(i%5)-!(i%15));
for(int j=s;j<f;j++)
cout << c[j];
if (!f)
cout << i;
cout << endl;
}
return 0;
}
Looks like this one is similar but even more ridic.
int main()
{
long long c = 0xD6AA2D6926;
for(int i=1; i< 101; i++)
{
for(int j=4*(!(i%5)&&(i%3));j<4*(!(i%3)+2*!(i%5)-!(i%15));j++)
cout << (char)(((c>>(j*5))&0x1F)|0x60);
if (!(!(i%3)+2*!(i%5)-!(i%15)))
cout << i;
cout << endl;
}
return 0;
}
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southern poverty law has published their hate map for 2016 and
i am struck by how boring white supremacist groups names are
though there's one in virginia just called "silver bullet gun oil" and like
right to the point i guess
Are they only racist against werewolves?
that would be awesome actually
Some white supremacist group that's really particular about procedure when it comes to meetings, they're setting up the group and the leader steps up, "What's dark and comes in the night to steal our white women? That's right, N-"
"WEREWOLVES!"
"God dammit Jimbob... Lucille read back the minutes."
"Says werewolves here Joebob."
"God dammit. Guess we have to be racist against werewolves. Jimbob you dumb son of a bitch..."
southern poverty law has published their hate map for 2016 and
i am struck by how boring white supremacist groups names are
though there's one in virginia just called "silver bullet gun oil" and like
right to the point i guess
Are they only racist against werewolves?
that would be awesome actually
Some white supremacist group that's really particular about procedure when it comes to meetings, they're setting up the group and the leader steps up, "What's dark and comes in the night to steal our white women? That's right, N-"
"WEREWOLVES!"
"God dammit Jimbob... Lucille read back the minutes."
"Says werewolves here Joebob."
"God dammit. Guess we have to be racist against werewolves. Jimbob you dumb son of a bitch..."
Sounds like the plot for a Mel Brooks skit.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I am tempted to make a fizzbuzz abomination with an array filled with the null character and "fizz" and "buzz" in certain locations that abuses the fuck out of c strings in dangerous ways such that it hits a null character as the start and is an empty string if the number isn't properly divisible by three or five.
We interview a lot of level 1 candidates in my department. Some of them are internals.
We get a lot of frauds. The resume screening process filters most them out, but some of them sneak through.
None of the stories are particularly funny, though. It's usually just walking them through a simple troubleshooting problem and discovering that they don't know how to use basic tools or even do basic process of elimination style thinking.
Stuff like
"An employee calls you on the phone and says that he can't browse any websites. What do you do?"
"Tell me what program or tool you'd use to perform a Windows password reset."
About 1 out of every 4 or 5 of our interviewees flub these two questions.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
+1
amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
Boss is out tomorrow. I took a half day but let's be real I'm gonna leave at like 10.
Going to the cabin, and going to spend Friday and Saturday night there so I've got to put together a project list.
I HAVE to:
- finish my knife
- work on the blunderbuss (it's not fitting together properly and needs some woodwork)
- wax my canvas pack
- get my new mead whiskey flask finished
I'd LIKE to:
- work on the other two rifles
- flintknap a knife point (I'm still shitty at this, nowhere near production ready)
- work on a bow that's been leaning up in the cabin for almost a year
- get my canvas tent ready for the camp out in May
- work on sewing a tobacco pouch out of waxed canvas
- work on a new pipe
are YOU on the beer list?
+2
Blameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered Userregular
We interview a lot of level 1 candidates in my department. Some of them are internals.
We get a lot of frauds. The resume screening process filters most them out, but some of them sneak through.
None of the stories are particularly funny, though. It's usually just walking them through a simple troubleshooting problem and discovering that they don't know how to use basic tools or even do basic process of elimination style thinking.
Stuff like
"An employee calls you on the phone and says that he can't browse any websites. What do you do?"
"Tell me what program or tool you'd use to perform a Windows password reset."
About 1 out of every 4 or 5 of our interviewees flub these two questions.
Screech loudly into the phone
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
the only thing fizzbuzz tells you is whether they fail it
almost everything you think you learn in an interview is not signal but noise
people are super different and so much depends on what kind of day they're having
i suppose if they just barely passed it it might tell me i should ask some more coding questions
I'm not a programmer, but I absolutely can figure out simple script shit if I'm at a keyboard and can test my way through it. Don't ask me to pseudocode it on a whiteboard, though, I'll forget every single bit of any language, up to and including English.
Boss is out tomorrow. I took a half day but let's be real I'm gonna leave at like 10.
Going to the cabin, and going to spend Friday and Saturday night there so I've got to put together a project list.
I HAVE to:
- finish my knife
- work on the blunderbuss (it's not fitting together properly and needs some woodwork)
- wax my canvas pack
- get my new mead whiskey flask finished
I'd LIKE to:
- work on the other two rifles
- flintknap a knife point (I'm still shitty at this, nowhere near production ready)
- work on a bow that's been leaning up in the cabin for almost a year
- get my canvas tent ready for the camp out in May
- work on sewing a tobacco pouch out of waxed canvas
- work on a new pipe
I will be:
-Fixing the damn misconfigured SAN
-Drinking Wine &| Beer &| Liquor.
-Watching Winter Brawl on Twitch
-Hunting them Pokemans.
the only thing fizzbuzz tells you is whether they fail it
almost everything you think you learn in an interview is not signal but noise
people are super different and so much depends on what kind of day they're having
i suppose if they just barely passed it it might tell me i should ask some more coding questions
I'm not a programmer, but I absolutely can figure out simple script shit if I'm at a keyboard and can test my way through it. Don't ask me to pseudocode it on a whiteboard, though, I'll forget every single bit of any language, up to and including English.
I do not know the password for our shared NAS drive. If you asked me to speak it to you, I could not. I absolutely have to be sitting at the keyboard and typing.
One of my friends was interviewing people for a devops type job and about 50% of the candidates couldn't even fizzbuzz
people with honest-to-god CS degrees couldn't even start to make up a 10 line program in pseudocode
You can't be fucking serious.
I have a CIS degree and I can do that.
I'll be honest. I don't know if I could either. But I can find tests to break any program over my goddamn knee.
I bet you could
input: a list of random ints with values between 1 and 100
output: for each number print "fizz" if it's (evenly) divisible by 3, "buzz" if it's divisible by 5, and "fizzbuzz" if divisible by both.
I keep wanting to write a joke overly complex way to do this that'd still work, but I'm having trouble actually thinking of any.
I guess you could do it by writing too many functions and passing shit around those.
I had one that put the ascii for "fizzbuzz" into a byte array and read out of it starting different places using bizarre pointer arithmetic that worked out to be the right place for each integer used.
Oh man this is amazing
Oh here it is.
int main()
{
char* c = "fizzbuzz";
for(int i=1; i< 101; i++)
{
int s = 4*(!(i%5)&&(i%3));
int f = 4*(!(i%3)+2*!(i%5)-!(i%15));
for(int j=s;j<f;j++)
cout << c[j];
if (!f)
cout << i;
cout << endl;
}
return 0;
}
Looks like this one is similar but even more ridic.
int main()
{
long long c = 0xD6AA2D6926;
for(int i=1; i< 101; i++)
{
for(int j=4*(!(i%5)&&(i%3));j<4*(!(i%3)+2*!(i%5)-!(i%15));j++)
cout << (char)(((c>>(j*5))&0x1F)|0x60);
if (!(!(i%3)+2*!(i%5)-!(i%15)))
cout << i;
cout << endl;
}
return 0;
}
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Boss is out tomorrow. I took a half day but let's be real I'm gonna leave at like 10.
Going to the cabin, and going to spend Friday and Saturday night there so I've got to put together a project list.
I HAVE to:
- finish my knife
- work on the blunderbuss (it's not fitting together properly and needs some woodwork)
- wax my canvas pack
- get my new mead whiskey flask finished
I'd LIKE to:
- work on the other two rifles
- flintknap a knife point (I'm still shitty at this, nowhere near production ready)
- work on a bow that's been leaning up in the cabin for almost a year
- get my canvas tent ready for the camp out in May
- work on sewing a tobacco pouch out of waxed canvas
- work on a new pipe
- Finally kill a group of teenagers who got lost in the hill billy area
Be a bigger cliche...
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
ok thank god I can code fizzbuzz in like 3 minutes making 1 syntax error (no colon after else lol; pretty usual for me to leave that out). Not the most fraudulent of frauds.
the only thing fizzbuzz tells you is whether they fail it
almost everything you think you learn in an interview is not signal but noise
people are super different and so much depends on what kind of day they're having
i suppose if they just barely passed it it might tell me i should ask some more coding questions
I'm not a programmer, but I absolutely can figure out simple script shit if I'm at a keyboard and can test my way through it. Don't ask me to pseudocode it on a whiteboard, though, I'll forget every single bit of any language, up to and including English.
I do not know the password for our shared NAS drive. If you asked me to speak it to you, I could not. I absolutely have to be sitting at the keyboard and typing.
Here's the thing. If I'm interviewing and I ask somebody "Do you know Powershell?" or "Do you know Cisco CLI?" I can tell the difference between somebody who actually does know it and just can't remember the details right now, vs somebody who is just bullshitting.
If I'm asking somebody to describe how they'd use Powershell to solve a problem and they're like "Well, I don't remember the exact command, but it's something like Get Mailbox, and then there's a switch that's like a hyphen and then Username, and then you can pipe that into a CSV..." that's enough for me to know that they've actually used Powershell for something in their life. I don't expect them to remember the exact commands or syntax.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
hey guys this is a quote from me, i said this
“I am the least anti-Semitic person you've ever seen in your entire life,” Trump Castle said. “Number two, racism, [I’m] the least racist person. In fact, weCastle did really well relative to other people running as a RepublicanMayor of Chat."
so please elect me
+2
amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
ha holy shit I COULD actually take some of the black walnuts that have fallen around camp (the outer shells have a mild toxin in them) and make tranq darts.
Posts
A lot of recruiters will tell a comp-sci person to study up on fizzbuzz.
Then they struggle with ordering the if/else statement to make it work right, etc.
ah
I don't think I've seen a main function since I started working
so in that instance you'd have file.cpp
and in it you'd have the static function declared and defined and then the main function
and even if you #include file.cpp in another file, you won't be able to get at the static because it's not related to a class?
but now it's pretty important to the language what with async and await so people should know it
dude she's just an analogy for every 17 year old girl so really she's like hundreds of thousands of years old.
SHE'S the pedophile
almost everything you think you learn in an interview is not signal but noise
people are super different and so much depends on what kind of day they're having
i suppose if they just barely passed it it might tell me i should ask some more coding questions
But like, have I ever personally done this--no...but does that really matter?
Thank god I don't see myself changing jobs for a while, or applying for a senior scientist sort of position if I do...
Some white supremacist group that's really particular about procedure when it comes to meetings, they're setting up the group and the leader steps up, "What's dark and comes in the night to steal our white women? That's right, N-"
"WEREWOLVES!"
"God dammit Jimbob... Lucille read back the minutes."
"Says werewolves here Joebob."
"God dammit. Guess we have to be racist against werewolves. Jimbob you dumb son of a bitch..."
Oh here it is.
Looks like this one is similar but even more ridic.
But white supremacists love werewolves.
Sounds like the plot for a Mel Brooks skit.
We get a lot of frauds. The resume screening process filters most them out, but some of them sneak through.
None of the stories are particularly funny, though. It's usually just walking them through a simple troubleshooting problem and discovering that they don't know how to use basic tools or even do basic process of elimination style thinking.
Stuff like
"An employee calls you on the phone and says that he can't browse any websites. What do you do?"
"Tell me what program or tool you'd use to perform a Windows password reset."
About 1 out of every 4 or 5 of our interviewees flub these two questions.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Going to the cabin, and going to spend Friday and Saturday night there so I've got to put together a project list.
I HAVE to:
- finish my knife
- work on the blunderbuss (it's not fitting together properly and needs some woodwork)
- wax my canvas pack
- get my new mead whiskey flask finished
I'd LIKE to:
- work on the other two rifles
- flintknap a knife point (I'm still shitty at this, nowhere near production ready)
- work on a bow that's been leaning up in the cabin for almost a year
- get my canvas tent ready for the camp out in May
- work on sewing a tobacco pouch out of waxed canvas
- work on a new pipe
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
Screech loudly into the phone
yes share if you agree
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'm not a programmer, but I absolutely can figure out simple script shit if I'm at a keyboard and can test my way through it. Don't ask me to pseudocode it on a whiteboard, though, I'll forget every single bit of any language, up to and including English.
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::four million boxes pop up::
I will be:
-Fixing the damn misconfigured SAN
-Drinking Wine &| Beer &| Liquor.
-Watching Winter Brawl on Twitch
-Hunting them Pokemans.
At least it wasnt sonny Preach.
I do not know the password for our shared NAS drive. If you asked me to speak it to you, I could not. I absolutely have to be sitting at the keyboard and typing.
Be a bigger cliche...
pleasepaypreacher.net
look them right in the eye
begin vocalizing wordlessly in monotone
don't break eye contact
if they break eye contact, they don't get the job
if they start making the same noise in unison, they don't get the job
continue for five minutes
if they patiently wait for you to finish, and then continue the interview as normal, you have a real potential candidate on your hands
Then make it a breathing tube.
There are two kinds of people in the world.
People who don't have sedative darts in their neck.
And people who do.
Which side do you wa
I like how you snuck this in on the hopes that people would quote it.
Why I never...
pleasepaypreacher.net
Here's the thing. If I'm interviewing and I ask somebody "Do you know Powershell?" or "Do you know Cisco CLI?" I can tell the difference between somebody who actually does know it and just can't remember the details right now, vs somebody who is just bullshitting.
If I'm asking somebody to describe how they'd use Powershell to solve a problem and they're like "Well, I don't remember the exact command, but it's something like Get Mailbox, and then there's a switch that's like a hyphen and then Username, and then you can pipe that into a CSV..." that's enough for me to know that they've actually used Powershell for something in their life. I don't expect them to remember the exact commands or syntax.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I continue my week of indolence! It's great!
I've already got like 10 cane fire bellows that I give out to scouts and stuff when they want something bushcrafty
Shouldn't you just hand them a bic and tell them to come up for air instead of just like staying down there?
pleasepaypreacher.net
“I am the least anti-Semitic person you've ever seen in your entire life,” Trump Castle said. “Number two, racism, [I’m] the least racist person. In fact, weCastle did really well relative to other people running as a RepublicanMayor of Chat."
so please elect me
wow.
WOW.