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I hope, certain times people may ask you to write strange things.
What is the most infeasible application/program you've ever been asked to write?
Started by LittleBoy on
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I was asked to contribute to that team, but refused on the grounds that I thought.
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Were you asked any logic riddles in job interviews?
Are you usually asking riddles in job interviews?
What are they, and what are the answers?
I was asked once how can you divide evenly 5 apples to 6 people without dividing any apple to 1/6 (or 1/12 or...
Started by Faruz on
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by 11 people.
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On the other hand, When I interviewed for my current job, my would be boss asked me of the puzzles asked by Microsoft that you could find by Googling or someone will paste the links you count all the words in the internet....
Good programmers.
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I'm stuck here, a client has asked for 320GB of space but I only have 2x 100GB disks and a 50GB disk.
Is there a way to give the client what they want?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Started by wildchild on
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I 'm stuck here,the client has asked for 320 TB of space but i have only 2 100 TB disk and a 50 TB.
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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I was asked to make a clone of this: http://www.bragster.com/ ok, not a clone per se, but a site with similar functionality on a lower budget! How low might one ask? Under 10K, probably under 5K.
My question: how do i explain to a non-tech savvy friend...
Started by mkoryak on
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I asked her, "sounds fun, but how exactly is this going to be competitive with all.
For example, if they're involved in construction, ask them whether it would be possible to create networking site.
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Some junior high school students asked me why do we need to have loop in a program, and they just won't accept that it is needed... i already told them if we need to find the average and standard deviation of 100 numbers, we can put the numbers in an ...
Started by Jian Lin on
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Ask this (at least, not accurately!)....
;)
Put the numbers on some cards.
Why don't you ask them how they would do it?
How about a more real-world example at the world around us, and we use loops a whole lot of the time.
Using recursion.
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I was asked to stay away from HashMap or any sort of Hashing.
The question went something like this -
Lets say you have PRODUCT IDs of up to 20 decimals, along with Product Descriptions. Without using Maps or any sort of hashing function, what's the best...
Started by maximus on
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The hashmaps work really well if the hashing function gives you a very uniform distribution... .
Searching these items in memory is very fast.
Does that still count as a Map?
Mostly because you can have many items loaded at once in memory .
A B-Tree in my opinion.
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A (non-technical) friend of mine has asked me how to make a website. I get this question all the time. After a few questions I found out that she has an idea that could turn into a commercial site. I described three options to her:
a) Get a book/enroll...
Started by Luke CK on
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On we all say "I do formulas and Stuff" when asked for what we do at work, as for most people, saying.
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There have been many questions related to what one should ask interviewees, what you should ask a company you're interviewing at, etc. I searched and I don't think this one is a duplicate. Also, community wiki from the start.
So here goes: What is the...
Started by Artem Russakovskii on
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If you're going to ask this sort of question, ask something where can get a feel for their thought processes....
'How do you find it without destroying the haystack or the needle'?
I was asked a question programmers may not.
Answer...
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I am doing some work on an inbound call demand capture system where each call could have one or more than one demands linked to it.
There is a CaptureHeader table with CallDate, CallReference and CaptureID and a CaptureDemand table with CaptureID and ...
Started by Ian Roke on
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It is essentially the same as previous submission, with an added condition on the JOIN; this condition essentially excludes any CaptureDemand... .
Now that the sample data made your requirement more explicit, I believe the following will generally server your needs .
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Tomorrow I am interviewing a person for the Job as Software developer. What questions should I ask him?
Should I ask him to write some sample code ?
Started by Charles Faiga on
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Ask her what role she had that things went wrong because....
Ask her to tell about previous projects she worked on.
By building up such a document you will:
have a permanent record of the questions you want to ask which on this topic.
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