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03-12-2015 , 01:55 PM
iTunes on OS X is better than Windows from my experience.
I myself don't have much problems with it but I believe there are tons of features missing that it should have. It would be very nice to be able to rearrange albums instead of just relying on making playlists.
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03-12-2015 , 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Stake Monster
Just finished a 9-week Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Vancouver (CodeCore)... it was awesome. If anyone has questions on the format or the specific course I'd be happy to answer any.

What we covered:
- Ruby on Rails
- HTML/CSS
- JS/jQuery
- Git
- PSQL
- React
Cool! What was your coding experience before? Are you looking for a job now?
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03-12-2015 , 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Grue
^ that's pretty surprising to me.
I am on my work mac most of the time at home. But I still keep my music library and iPhone backups on my home PC, which I got for poker - with a 30" monitor and 2 21". I also like that setup for Photoshop. I really don't want to have to buy a thunderbolt or two just for photoshop. So PC still seems to make the most sense.

But then again maybe I can get a Mac laptop and drive both of the monitors with that. I don't need the other 21" that bad. I already had to get a $90 adapter to drive the 30" with the Mac, but it works.
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03-12-2015 , 02:40 PM
Btw our intern candidate with no experience knocked the sudoku problem out of the park imo (with C++, which he has some familiarity with). I did give it to him as homework instead of white board. But still I was really impressed. I didn't even tell him to print it out, he did that on his own.

Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <ctime>
#include <random>

int ** createDataStructure(int N)
{
  std::vector<int> myVector;
  for(int i = 0; i< N*N; i++)
    myVector.push_back(i);

  std::random_shuffle(myVector.begin(),myVector.end());

  int ** ptr = new int * [N];
  for(int i = 0; i<N; i++)
    ptr[i] = new int [N];

  for(int i = 0,k = 0; i< N; i++)
    for(int j = 0; j<N; j++,k++)
      {
	     ptr[i][j] = myVector.back();
	     myVector.pop_back();
      }
  return ptr;
}

void printOutTheBoard(int ** ptr,int N)
{

  for(int i =0; i<N;i++)
    {
      std::cout<<"---------------------"<<std::endl;
      for(int j = 0; j<N;j++)
	      std::cout<<"|"<<ptr[i][j];
      std::cout<<"|"<<std::endl;
    }
}
int prompt()
{
  int N;
  std::cout<<"---------Welcome to sudoku-------"<<std::endl;
  std::cout<<"Please enter the N size of board:"<<std::endl;
  std::cin>>N;
  std::cout<<"---You have entered:"<<N<<std::endl;
  return N;
}

int main()
{
  int N = prompt();
  int ** tempHoldData =  createDataStructure(N);
  printOutTheBoard(tempHoldData,N);

  for( int i = 0 ; i < N ; i++ )
    {
      delete[] tempHoldData[i];
      tempHoldData[i] = nullptr;
    }
  delete[] tempHoldData;
  tempHoldData = nullptr;
}
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03-12-2015 , 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Btw our intern candidate with no experience knocked the sudoku problem out of the park imo (with C++, which he has some familiarity with). I did give it to him as homework instead of white board. But still I was really impressed. I didn't even tell him to print it out, he did that on his own.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that code doesn't generate valid sudoku boards.
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03-12-2015 , 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by daveT
I feel like starting a thread on the worst software you've ever used, but I feel like my OP would be /end thread, /winnar, or whatever. I'm seriously trying to figure out how to start invoicing this company for all the wasted time.

After pondering the above conversation a bit, I realize that I'm coming from an extreme place, and I'll readily acknowledge that I'm likely wrong on quite a bit because it is possible that I'm blinded and excessively frustrated with the crap the current company is using.

Sometimes I beg the stars that I'm wrong.
No sure if this counts but at the place I worked at, we used Microsoft Access with MSSQL as well. The senior DBA at the time said "If I had known we were using Microsoft Access, I would of not accepted the job". Fortunately for him, he found a new job just recently haha.
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03-12-2015 , 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Benholio
I hate to burst your bubble, but that code doesn't generate valid sudoku boards.
I know that. We just call it the sudoku problem because it's similar.
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03-12-2015 , 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
I know that. We just call it the sudoku problem because it's similar.
Oh, phew... I thought I might be crazy.
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03-12-2015 , 04:59 PM
nah, issue suzz had mentioned previously, probably just missed it when he brought it up before
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03-12-2015 , 05:12 PM
Leading in to our CIO at IT all-hands meeting with Smells Like Teen Spirit. Kill me now.
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03-12-2015 , 05:35 PM
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03-12-2015 , 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by candybar
Anyone else saw this on HN?

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/...g-starfighter/

I'm skeptical, because the world of software development is very large and it seems presumptuous for the founders, who may be very good, but are probably only experts in some narrow vertical, to think that they can judge every programmer's skill using some game.
The problem I see with it is that if you sink your time into side projects at least you have something on your github profile to show for it. Unless employers start taking your starfox scores seriously why not spend your time doing something more productive?

That said I always wanted to hack a gibson so I signed up.
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03-12-2015 , 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Craggoo
The point of a thread like that wouldn't be to brag that you've had the worst software experience of anyone here or at least it shouldn't be imo.
You're right. Also, I'm not one to name and shame. Regardless, this system feels like Bozo the Clown and Barney the Dinosaur collaborated on a project and handed it off to Ren and Stimpy for QA.

Honestly, I have no idea what the point of said thread would be. What do you think it would be?

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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Worst software you've ever used would be Adobe anything /thread.
PhotoShop and Illustrator are amazing pieces of software.

I hate using Visual Studio, but I wouldn't call it terrible, per se.

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Originally Posted by Barrin6
No sure if this counts but at the place I worked at, we used Microsoft Access with MSSQL as well. The senior DBA at the time said "If I had known we were using Microsoft Access, I would of not accepted the job". Fortunately for him, he found a new job just recently haha.
Ha. My tool at work is actually PostgreSQL with a "front end" of Access or Base. It was an utter pain in the ass to figure out how to set this one up. And yes, Access as a front end is pure misery.

Thankfully, my assistant graduated to .sql and batch files, so I don't have to worry about it so much.
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03-12-2015 , 10:17 PM
My ex-coworker is a cofounder of this site: http://www.codewars.com/

They got some funding, not sure how it's doing.
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03-13-2015 , 01:19 AM
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Originally Posted by e i pi
The problem I see with it is that if you sink your time into side projects at least you have something on your github profile to show for it. Unless employers start taking your starfox scores seriously why not spend your time doing something more productive?

That said I always wanted to hack a gibson so I signed up.
Yeah I mean it seems like the challenges could be fun and interesting, but I find it difficult to believe that these tests will reveal much in the way of desirable skills.

My exposure to things outside of web and mobile development is pretty minimal, but it seems the skills they're testing don't really transfer too well beyond the security industry.

Your ability to hack some locking mechanism written in assembly doesn't tell me if you can write a scalable rails application or write a maintainable ios app.
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03-13-2015 , 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
I know that. We just call it the sudoku problem because it's similar.
Similar?
o.0
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03-13-2015 , 01:32 AM
Well. It's got a grid with numbers in it.
Close enough, I suppose.
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03-13-2015 , 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
My ex-coworker is a cofounder of this site: http://www.codewars.com/

They got some funding, not sure how it's doing.
They could be doing pretty decent. They got some decent operations money and look like they are only a handful of people.
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03-13-2015 , 02:36 AM
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Originally Posted by daveT
You're right. Also, I'm not one to name and shame. Regardless, this system feels like Bozo the Clown and Barney the Dinosaur collaborated on a project and handed it off to Ren and Stimpy for QA.
Bozo the Clown and Barney the Dinosaur collaborating on a project... hand painting maybe? Oo

Maybe one good thing that could come of the thread is preventing other people from wasting time in horrifically designed software
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03-13-2015 , 03:11 AM
would horrifically designed websites count?

safe for work, I think...
http://heaven.internetarchaeology.or...en.html#bottom

I doubt that posting a thread on a programming section of a poker forum isn't going to have much impact on the end-user's decision.
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03-13-2015 , 03:42 AM
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Originally Posted by blackize5
Yeah I mean it seems like the challenges could be fun and interesting, but I find it difficult to believe that these tests will reveal much in the way of desirable skills.

My exposure to things outside of web and mobile development is pretty minimal, but it seems the skills they're testing don't really transfer too well beyond the security industry.

Your ability to hack some locking mechanism written in assembly doesn't tell me if you can write a scalable rails application or write a maintainable ios app.
So true. One of the things I learned from contributing to open source is that I don't know anything when it comes to writing maintainable code. I simply don't get exposed to that at school since all of our projects are small.

That's not to say the little challenges like hackerrank are bad. They just won't tell the whole story about the applicant. But that doesn't mean anyone shouldn't do them, they are fun and challenging!
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03-13-2015 , 11:05 AM
From what I've seen, anyone clever can usually get something to work – but getting really good at writing maintainable code only comes with experience.
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03-13-2015 , 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by kazana
Well. It's got a grid with numbers in it.
Close enough, I suppose.
Sudoku is a bunch of 3 x 3 grids where each cell has a unique number from 1 to 9. This problem is an n*n grid where each cell has a unique number from 1 to n*n.
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03-13-2015 , 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Sudoku is a bunch of 3 x 3 grids where each cell has a unique number from 1 to 9.
That's still a much easier problem than actual Sudoku, because you have to make sure that no numbers are repeated in any row or column in the combined grid as well.
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03-13-2015 , 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Grue
Cool! What was your coding experience before? Are you looking for a job now?
Not much experience before the bootcamp, just some HTML/CSS when I use to do design work. I'm just going to work freelance for now. To commit myself full-time it would either have to be a great fit or my own startup. I really enjoyed the freedom of poker and it's hard to let that go.

I think the path I am taking is ideal for poker players looking for the next career.. a coding bootcamp is a quick way of being work-ready in an industry that will just keep growing.
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