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Post #109,128 by Simon_Jester 7/10/03 10:25:10 PM Reply	Also depends on the College Had one instructor (back when I was going to UCF) who graduated from University of Texas (at Austin)...he knew those State Machines (he was good at them). He didn't know what the hell PKZIP was (or why one would use it to turn in code that was larger than 1.44 M on a floppy). (BTW: if the kid is claiming 5 years experience ... in particular C++ experience...ask him why the hell he didn't use the STL?)
Post #109,190 by Arkadiy 7/11/03 8:46:32 AM Reply	He did not use STL because of the way I posed the question Before you're allowed to use STL, you have to understand what's under the hood. -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Post #109,194 by Simon_Jester 7/11/03 9:00:22 AM Reply	ah - now I understand You're looking at his thinking and problem-solving abilities. (And I agree, if you should understand what STL is doing underneath the hood before you use it.)

Another "removeSpaces" from a job candidate - (Arkadiy) - (59) - July 10, 2003, 04:27:13 PM EDT

Bleurrrgh. -NT - (admin) - July 10, 2003, 04:37:24 PM EDT

You have a *great* need for a coder! :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - July 10, 2003, 05:00:52 PM EDT

LPRD sez: Able to chew and walk gum at the same time. :) -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 10, 2003, 05:45:42 PM EDT

Help me - (broomberg) - (30) - July 10, 2003, 05:54:48 PM EDT

You pass. - (Arkadiy) - (29) - July 10, 2003, 06:32:09 PM EDT

Depends. - (admin) - (15) - July 10, 2003, 06:40:06 PM EDT

Agreed. - (Yendor) - (9) - July 10, 2003, 06:46:39 PM EDT

Not buying it... - (gdaustin) - (8) - July 11, 2003, 12:37:46 AM EDT

And I'm not buying yours... - (Yendor) - (7) - July 11, 2003, 12:59:35 AM EDT

I'm saying that a Computer Science or MIS Grad Student - (gdaustin) - (6) - July 11, 2003, 08:28:00 AM EDT

This is not a friggin' function! - (Arkadiy) - (5) - July 11, 2003, 08:45:08 AM EDT

Yep, the guy doesn't understand null terminated strings. - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - July 13, 2003, 02:14:06 PM EDT

Is that like - (Ashton) - (3) - July 13, 2003, 08:51:38 PM EDT

Nope, that's null-terminated chain. -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 13, 2003, 08:54:16 PM EDT

Nope - (ben_tilly) - July 13, 2003, 08:58:22 PM EDT

Oh, is THAT how you reverse-engineer Microsoft code? - (FuManChu) - July 13, 2003, 09:23:22 PM EDT

Next time I see someone like that, - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 10, 2003, 07:19:17 PM EDT

Next time you see someone like that - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 12:45:05 PM EDT

Also depends on the College - (Simon_Jester) - (2) - July 10, 2003, 10:25:10 PM EDT

He did not use STL because of the way I posed the question - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 08:46:32 AM EDT

ah - now I understand - (Simon_Jester) - July 11, 2003, 09:00:22 AM EDT

Phew - (broomberg) - (12) - July 10, 2003, 06:52:56 PM EDT

This may be too harsh - (Arkadiy) - (5) - July 10, 2003, 07:22:08 PM EDT

Exactly - (deSitter) - (3) - July 10, 2003, 08:59:35 PM EDT

This is not "pressure programming" - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 08:41:33 AM EDT

Yes, precisely - (deSitter) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 09:27:10 AM EDT

That particular algorithm has been really successful - (Arkadiy) - July 11, 2003, 09:57:31 AM EDT

They did not do this to juniors - (broomberg) - July 11, 2003, 07:49:40 PM EDT

Re: Phew - (deSitter) - July 10, 2003, 08:53:22 PM EDT

Insertion Sort - (gdaustin) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:00:29 AM EDT

Merge Sort is better - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 03:51:27 AM EDT

What a waste of time - (tuberculosis) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 03:37:19 AM EDT

I think qsort is a bad example. - (static) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 10:25:16 AM EDT

I'm trying hard to recall - (FuManChu) - July 11, 2003, 10:42:47 AM EDT

Re: Another "removeSpaces" from a job candidate - (orion) - July 10, 2003, 08:34:49 PM EDT

okies yankout spaces - (boxley) - (20) - July 10, 2003, 11:14:52 PM EDT

Re: okies yankout spaces - (gdaustin) - (19) - July 11, 2003, 12:02:20 AM EDT

In Visual BASIC 6.0 and above - (orion) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:06:01 AM EDT

Nope -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 11, 2003, 08:47:25 AM EDT

s/ //g -NT - (ben_tilly) - (6) - July 11, 2003, 12:40:36 AM EDT

(string findTokens: ' ') inject: '' into: [:a :b | a,b] -NT - (tuberculosis) - (3) - July 11, 2003, 03:43:24 AM EDT

beautiful :) -NT - (deSitter) - July 11, 2003, 09:30:00 AM EDT

Doh! Better: string select: [:ea | ea ~= $ ] - (tuberculosis) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:27:20 PM EDT

Or maybe (string copyWithout: $ ) - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 07:08:42 PM EDT

Right before he left, he tried to rally in Perl - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 08:50:08 AM EDT

He might have been better at C++ -NT - (ben_tilly) - July 11, 2003, 11:44:47 AM EDT

Perl - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 11, 2003, 07:00:51 AM EDT

Perl redux - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 11:29:51 AM EDT

sed 's/ //g' filename.txt > filename2.txt - (drewk) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:02:24 PM EDT

key difference, though. - (Steve Lowe) - July 11, 2003, 12:18:59 PM EDT

Java - (gdaustin) - (5) - July 11, 2003, 11:40:45 AM EDT

Wow, that's a lot of typing :-P -NT - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 12:32:06 PM EDT

n^^2 for the worst case - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 01:14:15 PM EDT

Yes you can -NT - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 01:16:12 PM EDT

You're looking for "best algorithm" - (gdaustin) - July 11, 2003, 02:13:16 PM EDT

Re: Java - off the top of my head... - (Simon_Jester) - July 11, 2003, 02:32:22 PM EDT

Fun with code... - (gdaustin) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 12:07:14 AM EDT

I can tell you what will happen - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 10:28:04 AM EDT

Will have to wait for Monday... - (gdaustin) - July 11, 2003, 11:06:03 AM EDT

This too shall pass.
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