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bowen · May 2013

That solution for isEven is overly verbose even, but I leave it that way for the sake of clarity, you could just do something like:

return !(Number % 2);

Irond Will · May 2013

bowen wrote: »
kaleedity wrote: »

Antinumeric wrote: »

kaleedity wrote: »

I hadn't heard of fizzbuzz, but I'm glad I was actually capable of solving it quickly

I don't get to do much programming or even scripting nowadays

The thing is it is like the most basic test of ability.

Like getting an artist to draw a cube with perspective.

And so many people fail. I watched so many terrible interviews. We used to put the most spectacular failed tests up on a wall.

my brother's first boss fired people that didn't use his code

he had a 30-40 line function to determine whether or not a number was even or odd

it was hard to not get fired
bool isEven(int Number)
{
    return Number % 2 == 0;
}
Yeah, that'd be real hard, actually, I'd lose my mind within a week.

ftfy

Evil Multifarious · May 2013

Echo wrote: »

Fizzbuzz is a "classic" interview question (that nobody actually gets exposed to in real life). It goes like this:

Count from 1 to 100. If the number is divisible by 3, print "fizz" instead of the number. If divisible by 5, print "buzz" instead. If divisible by 3 and 5, print "fizzbuzz".

It's pretty much a "weed out the impostors" question.

I don't program, but the stumbling block for me would be whatever determines a number's divisibility

I guess you'd have to know how to make the program identify integers

shalmelo · May 2013

Organichu wrote: »

also being in the car of an awful driver is terrifying

jesus

that was a stressful trip to south philly

God, yes.

For the first few years after I moved to Seattle I didn't have a car. So when I was dating I would typically get a ride from the girl I was seeing. I broke off two promising relationships with women I liked because I was just too afraid to be a passenger when they were driving.

bowen · May 2013

Antinumeric wrote: »

When everyone eats shit, sometimes you have to eat shit to fit in.

The whole time I was learning PHP I was like this isn't a real language. It's so unprofessional

I am worried unprofessional in this regard might mean the mixing of HTML and PHP code to complete your web markup.

PHP is about as good as perl, asp, and c/c++ in this regards. You can write really nice code in php, actually!

Vanilla's source code is a testament to that.

Delmain · May 2013

Wizard is almost more about the damage than control in Neverwinter. None of the classes really control that much.

Cinders · May 2013

Shivahn wrote: »

Cinders wrote: »

Shivahn, what class will you be rolling in Neverwinter?

I've got a Control Wizard or whatever it's called.

She's been made but hasn't entered the world yet.

I am all about the debuffs and subtle things, so it seems perfect for me. I am not a super actiony person, I am a "do weird shit and stuff to them" person. Like most RPGs piss me off because poisoning your opponent and applying debuffs doesn't work on bosses.

So yeah, control wizard.

It's a fun playstyle.

It's why I loved the Mesmer in Guild Wars.

Shazkar Shadowstorm · May 2013

there's this food thing with a bunch of food stands

and it wasnt raining when i went there

and it started pouring while waiting for my food

so everything from my calves down is soaked

hm

bowen · May 2013

Irond Will wrote: »
bowen wrote: »
kaleedity wrote: »

Antinumeric wrote: »

kaleedity wrote: »

I hadn't heard of fizzbuzz, but I'm glad I was actually capable of solving it quickly

I don't get to do much programming or even scripting nowadays

The thing is it is like the most basic test of ability.

Like getting an artist to draw a cube with perspective.

And so many people fail. I watched so many terrible interviews. We used to put the most spectacular failed tests up on a wall.

my brother's first boss fired people that didn't use his code

he had a 30-40 line function to determine whether or not a number was even or odd

it was hard to not get fired
bool isEven(int Number)
{
    return Number % 2 == 0;
}
Yeah, that'd be real hard, actually, I'd lose my mind within a week.
ftfy

I BEAT YOU TO WHY I DID THAT

Cinders · May 2013

Can't decide between a cleric or the two handed warrior.

bowen · May 2013

I'll start writing all my future code as one line for loops, even when for loops are unnecessary.

Kagera · May 2013

bowen wrote: »
kaleedity wrote: »

Antinumeric wrote: »

kaleedity wrote: »

I hadn't heard of fizzbuzz, but I'm glad I was actually capable of solving it quickly

I don't get to do much programming or even scripting nowadays

The thing is it is like the most basic test of ability.

Like getting an artist to draw a cube with perspective.

And so many people fail. I watched so many terrible interviews. We used to put the most spectacular failed tests up on a wall.

my brother's first boss fired people that didn't use his code

he had a 30-40 line function to determine whether or not a number was even or odd

it was hard to not get fired
bool isEven(int Number)
{
    return Number % 2 == 0 ? true : false;
}
Yeah, that'd be real hard, actually, I'd lose my mind within a week.

How would you turn that into 30 or 40 lines? Was he coding in ones and Zeroes?

Winky · May 2013

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Echo wrote: »

Fizzbuzz is a "classic" interview question (that nobody actually gets exposed to in real life). It goes like this:

Count from 1 to 100. If the number is divisible by 3, print "fizz" instead of the number. If divisible by 5, print "buzz" instead. If divisible by 3 and 5, print "fizzbuzz".

It's pretty much a "weed out the impostors" question.

I don't program, but the stumbling block for me would be whatever determines a number's divisibility

I guess you'd have to know how to make the program identify integers

Luckily, in programming you have a type that is only possibly an integer.

Actually, how about a function that finds out if a double is even? I don't even know how % usually works with doubles.

Couscous · May 2013

Cinders wrote: »

Can't decide between a cleric or the two handed warrior.

Two handed warrior sucks.

Shivahn · May 2013

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Echo wrote: »

Fizzbuzz is a "classic" interview question (that nobody actually gets exposed to in real life). It goes like this:

Count from 1 to 100. If the number is divisible by 3, print "fizz" instead of the number. If divisible by 5, print "buzz" instead. If divisible by 3 and 5, print "fizzbuzz".

It's pretty much a "weed out the impostors" question.

I don't program, but the stumbling block for me would be whatever determines a number's divisibility

I guess you'd have to know how to make the program identify integers

Most languages let you take the modulus (remainder after division) in a simple instruction.

So it's easy to just go "if divisible by three, do this, if by five, do this" by seeing if the number modulo 3 or 5 is zero.

Shivahn · May 2013

Delmain wrote: »

Wizard is almost more about the damage than control in Neverwinter. None of the classes really control that much.

WELL WHATEVER I LOVE WIZARDS ANYWAY

syndalis · May 2013

And of course it's raining like crazy now that I am a mile from home and no umbrella and an iPhone on me.

Mother Nature can eat a bag of dicks.

Fak U @Shazkar Sahdowstorm

Irond Will · May 2013

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Echo wrote: »

Fizzbuzz is a "classic" interview question (that nobody actually gets exposed to in real life). It goes like this:

Count from 1 to 100. If the number is divisible by 3, print "fizz" instead of the number. If divisible by 5, print "buzz" instead. If divisible by 3 and 5, print "fizzbuzz".

It's pretty much a "weed out the impostors" question.

I don't program, but the stumbling block for me would be whatever determines a number's divisibility

I guess you'd have to know how to make the program identify integers

the easiest way is the modulo function, which essentially yeilds the remainder after integer division.

kaleedity · May 2013

the 30-40 line thing was mainly because it started out trying to do something else

but it eventually only determined whether or not something was even or odd

also the guy had no idea what mod was

Cinders · May 2013

Couscous wrote: »

Cinders wrote: »

Can't decide between a cleric or the two handed warrior.

Two handed warrior sucks.

Aw, I thought it was just the tanky warrior that was unfun.

Shivahn · May 2013

Cinders wrote: »

Shivahn wrote: »

Cinders wrote: »

Shivahn, what class will you be rolling in Neverwinter?

I've got a Control Wizard or whatever it's called.

She's been made but hasn't entered the world yet.

I am all about the debuffs and subtle things, so it seems perfect for me. I am not a super actiony person, I am a "do weird shit and stuff to them" person. Like most RPGs piss me off because poisoning your opponent and applying debuffs doesn't work on bosses.

So yeah, control wizard.

It's a fun playstyle.

It's why I loved the Mesmer in Guild Wars.

I played a Warlock in WoW and it was great for me.

Delmain · May 2013

Winky wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Echo wrote: »

Fizzbuzz is a "classic" interview question (that nobody actually gets exposed to in real life). It goes like this:

Count from 1 to 100. If the number is divisible by 3, print "fizz" instead of the number. If divisible by 5, print "buzz" instead. If divisible by 3 and 5, print "fizzbuzz".

It's pretty much a "weed out the impostors" question.

I don't program, but the stumbling block for me would be whatever determines a number's divisibility

I guess you'd have to know how to make the program identify integers

Luckily, in programming you have a type that is only possibly an integer.

Actually, how about a function that finds out if a double is even? I don't even know how % usually works with doubles.

double d = Math.pi;
int i = (int) d;

kaleedity · May 2013

gonna make the 2h warrior work fuck the haters

AManFromEarth · May 2013

bowen · May 2013

You could probably convert a modulus even/odd check into 40 lines of code if you were doing bit masking or assembly or something. Man that'd be hard as fuck to do on purpose though.

BeNarwhal · May 2013

New glasses have arrived!

Photoshoot later today, probably. :P

They got here suspiciously fast, though.

#TheFutureIsScary #GlassesAreFancyAndTakeMoreTimeThanThisISwear #MultipleHashtagsOnEveryPost

Delmain · May 2013

bowen wrote: »

You could probably convert a modulus even/odd check into 40 lines of code if you were doing bit masking or assembly or something. Man that'd be hard as fuck to do on purpose though.

Yeah, I don't know how you get to 40 lines, even in Assembly.

Thomamelas · May 2013

Delmain wrote: »

Wizard is almost more about the damage than control in Neverwinter. None of the classes really control that much.

Pfft. My Guardian Fighter is all about control. I want mobs to die and they do.

bloodyroarxx · May 2013

Sons of Anarchy is so good

desc · May 2013

kaleedity wrote: »

gonna make the 2h warrior work fuck the haters

Everyone says it sucks but I never die and the game is easy so who knows.

I haven't really played my rogue more than 10 or 15 minutes because I wanted to save it to level up with cool friends / alts.

japan · May 2013

I, too, got caught in the rain.

Fucking monsoon.

Shivahn · May 2013

Kagera wrote: »
bowen wrote: »
kaleedity wrote: »

Antinumeric wrote: »

kaleedity wrote: »

I hadn't heard of fizzbuzz, but I'm glad I was actually capable of solving it quickly

I don't get to do much programming or even scripting nowadays

The thing is it is like the most basic test of ability.

Like getting an artist to draw a cube with perspective.

And so many people fail. I watched so many terrible interviews. We used to put the most spectacular failed tests up on a wall.

my brother's first boss fired people that didn't use his code

he had a 30-40 line function to determine whether or not a number was even or odd

it was hard to not get fired
bool isEven(int Number)
{
    return Number % 2 == 0 ? true : false;
}
Yeah, that'd be real hard, actually, I'd lose my mind within a week.
How would you turn that into 30 or 40 lines? Was he coding in ones and Zeroes?

The most basic basic language could still do it in less than ten.

Like literal machine code would probably be ten to twenty bytes?

I've never coded in assembly so I could be totally wrong but I think there's a division instruction which leaves a remainder somewhere, so at worst you'd need to move the variable to somewhere, do the division, move the remainder, compare to zero, then have a jump if greater than instruction for odd and the even code can follow that.

Or whatever.

I should learn some assembly.

Delmain · May 2013

Yeah, pretty much all the classes are pretty fun.

Don't roll rogue if you just want to be the highest damage because rogue does like 0 AoE and that's what all the dungeons are about.

Organichu · May 2013

kaleedity wrote: »

Antinumeric wrote: »

kaleedity wrote: »

I hadn't heard of fizzbuzz, but I'm glad I was actually capable of solving it quickly

I don't get to do much programming or even scripting nowadays

The thing is it is like the most basic test of ability.

Like getting an artist to draw a cube with perspective.

And so many people fail. I watched so many terrible interviews. We used to put the most spectacular failed tests up on a wall.

my brother's first boss fired people that didn't use his code

he had a 30-40 line function to determine whether or not a number was even or odd

it was hard to not get fired

i'm imagining this

import java.util.*;

public class EvenOrOdd 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Please enter a positive integer: ");
    int valueEntered = input.nextInt();
    System.out.println("Your number is " + determineEvenness(valueEntered));
    }
    public static String determineEvenness(int number)
    {
    String evenness = "";    
    if (number == 1)
    {
        evenness = "odd";
    }
    else if (number == 2)
    {
        evenness = "even";
    }
    else if (number == 3)
    {
        evenness = "odd";
    }
    else if (number == 4)
    {
        evenness = "even";
    }
    else if (number == 5)
    {
        evenness = "odd";
    }
    else if (number == 6)
    {
        evenness = "even";
    }
    else if (number == 7)
    {
        evenness = "odd";
    }
    else if (number == 8)
    {
        evenness = "even";
    }
    else if (number == 9)
    {
        evenness = "odd";
    }
    ...
    return evenness;
    }
}

desc · May 2013

AManFromEarth wrote: »

I ...

Cinders · May 2013

Shivahn wrote: »

Cinders wrote: »

Shivahn wrote: »

Cinders wrote: »

Shivahn, what class will you be rolling in Neverwinter?

I've got a Control Wizard or whatever it's called.

She's been made but hasn't entered the world yet.

I am all about the debuffs and subtle things, so it seems perfect for me. I am not a super actiony person, I am a "do weird shit and stuff to them" person. Like most RPGs piss me off because poisoning your opponent and applying debuffs doesn't work on bosses.

So yeah, control wizard.

It's a fun playstyle.

It's why I loved the Mesmer in Guild Wars.

I played a Warlock in WoW and it was great for me.

Yeah, I had a lot of fun playing Warlock too. Just running around dotting everything was very satisfying.

Plus I loved the little fellhunter.

Mazzyx · May 2013

Shivahn wrote: »

Delmain wrote: »

Wizard is almost more about the damage than control in Neverwinter. None of the classes really control that much.

WELL WHATEVER I LOVE WIZARDS ANYWAY

Nah it is about control just not on bosses since they are immune. But controlling adds is huge. I run a force push, force choke, an ice stun and a shield I can use to repel with. Lots of control.

Ravenhpltc24 · May 2013

My beautiful Sennheiser headphones that have been through so much are making a weird popping sound when nothing is playing. Don't crack out on me now, we're so close to the graduation payout...

japan · May 2013

Also this "Most Haunted" faux documentary has the weirdest disclaimer.

"This programme is for entertainment purposes only".

I suppose that's about as vague as it is possible to make "you know this isn't real, right?"

bowen · May 2013

Fucking java.

:rotate:

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