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09-25-2014 , 10:19 PM

#14701

KatoKrazy

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I'm super nervous I have a phone interview in the morning with IBM. This is my first interview for a real adult job and I only got notified this afternoon so not much time to prepare.

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09-25-2014 , 11:36 PM

#14702

jjshabado

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Good luck!

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09-26-2014 , 12:49 AM

#14703

Barrin6

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Originally Posted by KatoKrazy

How far along are you? Try to find a paid internship.

Only took Java 1 last semester and currently taking Python and C++ right now. Not sure if I am qualified enough to find something now.

Guess I don't know until I apply eh?

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09-26-2014 , 12:17 PM

#14704

KatoKrazy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jjshabado

Good luck!

Thanks! It must have went well because I have an in person interview setup for next week.

Next week is gonna be crazy. 3 tests and an interview to prepare for.

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09-26-2014 , 12:20 PM

#14705

KatoKrazy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Barrin6

Only took Java 1 last semester and currently taking Python and C++ right now. Not sure if I am qualified enough to find something now.

Guess I don't know until I apply eh?

Yep. Start now. Don't wait until right before your last year like I did, because **** happens. I got a call the week of finals that the place I had an internship lined up with had instituted a hiring freeze so now I have no internship and have to rely completely on a strong GPA.

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09-26-2014 , 01:03 PM

#14706

KatoKrazy

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So I am taking a practice test for the programmer aptitude test IBM gives all applicants and I think I got every question except I am stumped on this one darn question:

6 5 7 4 2 6 -- What is the next number in the sequence? a. 0 b. 2 c. 4 d. 8 e. 10

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09-26-2014 , 01:17 PM

#14707

kazana

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a. 0 is my best guess. I hate sequences.

Reason:
6 starting point, first round: next two numbers are minus and plus the number of rounds (6-1 and 6+1).
Then start next round (#2) at previous' round starting number (6) minus absolute difference between the derived numbers (6-abs(7-5)=4).
Which leads to 4 plus/minus 2 (round #2).
Starting point for next round would be 4-(6-2)=0 which may or may not be the answer

This drivel makes about as much sense as these types of questions do. Just my opinion of course.

Last edited by kazana; 09-26-2014 at 01:25 PM.

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09-26-2014 , 01:21 PM

#14708

Anais

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Gullanian

Although it works well for sound effects, not so well for songs:

Need to modify that but it's not easy, the wave representation is accurate. (Anyone know why this is and how to make it look better with deeper troughs?)

I'd suggest either the studio sub forum here and ask some sound engineers, or maybe an actual sound engineer forum.

As far as I understand it, some of the processing involved with released songs is both condensing and, uh, the opposite of that. You have to make the loud parts equal to the quiet parts equal to the medium volume parts. I did a bit of this tinkering when I was recording and processing the audiobook I made for Gizmo's wedding present.

My sound engineer friends would know more, but they may not know enough to fix the particular issue you're encountering.

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09-26-2014 , 03:26 PM

#14709

daveT

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Quote:

Originally Posted by KatoKrazy

I'll say 2 because all the stuff aside from 6 and 4 is noise, ie (+/-) 1, 2, etc.

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09-26-2014 , 05:58 PM

#14710

KatoKrazy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daveT

I'll say 2 because all the stuff aside from 6 and 4 is noise, ie (+/-) 1, 2, etc.

See, your answer along with several others could easily be argued here. All the other problems of this type I was able to almost instantly come up with the answer.

I got the question from here btw: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-P...20-6762-2.html

The job is doing lower level DB2 stuff, so I guess I better at least brush up on basic querying, etc. I don't want to look like those morons you interviewed (I think that was you earlier in this thread?) who couldn't even do a select all.

The recruiter (who is also a manager in this department) claimed I shouldn't need to do anything to prepare for the interview, but you never know if they will slip in some technical stuff or not.

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09-26-2014 , 06:28 PM

#14711

gaming_mouse

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Code:

6   5   7   4   2   6
 -1  +2  -3  -2  +4  (-6) ?
                     (+6) ?

So we have a sequence of 1 2 3, then 2 4 6 for the gaps between the numbers, with seemingly alternating signs in front of them, although the sign sequence resets when we go from the 1 2 3 sequence to the 2 4 6 sequence. in any case twelve is not option, so the answer is a. 0 imo

not satisfying, but the best i could do

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09-26-2014 , 06:56 PM

#14712

KatoKrazy

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I think 0 is correct.

Sequence would be - + -, - + -, - + -... and 1 2 3, 2 4 6, 3 6 9...

So -1 +2 -3, -2 +4 -6.

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09-27-2014 , 01:45 AM

#14713

Anais

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maybe we should make a homework thread for all us beginners who have simple questions and the like?

anyway, I had a problem like this:

Spoiler:

which i solved using what i think is a pretty elegant solution of:

Code:

void sort2(double & a, double & b, double & c)
{
	double temp;
	
	while (a > b || b > c)
	{
		if (a > b)
		{
			temp = a;
			a = b;
			b = temp;
		}
		else
		{
			temp = b;
			b = c;
			c = temp;			
		}
	}	
return;	
}

considering originally I was going to do some ridiculous nested if/else branching bull****.

Probably only works for 3 variables, but still, felt pretty

when I did all the permutations by hand and it seemed to work on paper.

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09-27-2014 , 01:48 AM

#14714

daveT

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So, is this Shellshock really less of a big deal than bending iPhones? I get that it's not Heartbleed, but it seems pretty damn severe to me.

Or is it that this is something we all have to just wait on, do daily updates until all is clear, etc, and no one really feels like making a big deal of it?

Last edited by daveT; 09-27-2014 at 01:57 AM.

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09-27-2014 , 01:56 AM

#14715

daveT

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Anais;

I'm not familiar with Java, but what happens when:

A < B
B < C
A > C

??

If this case is taken care of, I'll never respond to a Java question again.

Last edited by daveT; 09-27-2014 at 02:00 AM. Reason: What happens when the floats are really large? <-- ack, forget this one, lol

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09-27-2014 , 02:08 AM

#14716

gaming_mouse

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daveT

Anais;

I'm not familiar with Java, but what happens when:

A < B
B < C
A > C

??

If this case is taken care of, I'll never respond to a Java question again.

what happens when the transitive property of inequality over the reals is broken?

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09-27-2014 , 02:11 AM

#14717

blackize5

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daveT

Anais;

I'm not familiar with Java, but what happens when:

A < B
B < C
A > C

??

If this case is taken care of, I'll never respond to a Java question again.

The universe implodes.

If a is less than b and b is less than c, a cannot be greater than c

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09-27-2014 , 02:13 AM

#14718

KatoKrazy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daveT

Anais;

I'm not familiar with Java, but what happens when:

A < B
B < C
A > C

??

If this case is taken care of, I'll never respond to a Java question again.

Dave
That is not Java.

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09-27-2014 , 02:21 AM

#14719

daveT

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Time for bed...

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09-27-2014 , 02:24 AM

#14720

Anais

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Haha!!

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Originally Posted by blackize5

The universe implodes.

If a is less than b and b is less than c, a cannot be greater than c

That's what I was banking on, at least. (Well, something like that. TBH I hadn't thought it out that far, but it seemed like something like that should happen or be prevented from happening)

Loop should have to run through at most, what, two times?

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09-27-2014 , 02:33 AM

#14721

gaming_mouse

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yeah it will run twice at most. also you can slim down even more if you use the swapdoubles that the question provides for you:

Code:

void sort2(double & a, double & b, double & c) {
  while (a > b || b > c)
    (a > b) ? swapdoubles(a, b) : swapdoubles(b, c);
}

EDIT: actually with 3, 2, 1 it would run 3 times

Last edited by gaming_mouse; 09-27-2014 at 02:57 AM.

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09-27-2014 , 10:32 AM

#14722

well named

poorly undertitled

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daveT: I consider shellshock to be probably the biggest publicly disclosed security vulnerability in the history of the internet. That might be slightly hyperbolic, but only just slightly. I can't think of anything more severe in the last ~20 years