A_Person

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by A_Person 8y ago
Apparently you don't read replies to your posts. So I'll email this as well as posting it here for the record. I have automatic copyright to all the posts that I've made to this forum. I now request you to delete all those po
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by A_Person 8y ago
Obviously we have different ideas about what constitutes intelligent argument. Please delete my account. If you need a formal request to that effect, say here how to submit that.
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by A_Person 8y ago
You said the brits were risking their lives. I said they weren't, at least to the extent that you believed - and explained why in exhaustive detail. But you disagree, based on qualifications and experience that could roughly be describ
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by A_Person 8y ago
Try to follow along. You: the two Brits were risking their lives. Me: Not really, they'd have been following standard cave diving safety protocols. You (effectively): Well, a Navy Seal just died, so that proves that it's dangerous
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by A_Person 8y ago
Given that I'm sitting at home watching TV - and they're all busting their asses off in the cave - it's hard to discuss this without being disrespectful to them - which I certainly don't want to be. But anyway... Looking
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by A_Person 8y ago
I don't know that cave at all, but from various descriptions, it sounds like they may have had to crawl through several restrictions to get where they are. So it's not a matter of walking through vertically to get in, then just be
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by A_Person 8y ago
You can't be serious. Taking 13 people, with an absolute maximum of Open Water level training (if that), back out through hundreds (or thousands?) of meters of low or zero visibility diving, including (apparently) tight restrictions, w
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by A_Person 8y ago
That's really not so. Cave diving has well established protocols for safe navigation, gas reserves, entanglement management, and so on. There's no way they'd have gone significantly outside those protocols. Those brits are hi
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by A_Person 8y ago
> claustrophobia can express itself in different ways Too right. I'm a reasonably experienced cave diver, and regularly dive in a system of 11km of intersecting fully-underwater tunnels, with the single entry/exit being a small
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by A_Person 8y ago
I did know that, but I'm not sure how that applies. In your scenario, the tank ruptures, there's virtually no water expansion, so nothing happens. In my scenario, the tank ruptures, the internal gas content instantly expands by (s
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by A_Person 8y ago
But only by 3% - so I still won't set up my chillout lounge right next to the tank fill station! :-)
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by A_Person 8y ago
I'm no scientist and you may well be right. But I'm skeptical of your statement that "much" of the blast would be directed upwards. If you look at the pictures of tank explosions, they often show the entire room flattene
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by A_Person 8y ago
It's always surprised me how many people do not know that water is incompressible! For example, when someone is filling a scuba tank, it's common to put the tank in a large, often metal-sided container of water. When asked why, th
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by A_Person 8y ago
The other day I dropped in on a local scuba store that I've patronised as a customer and/or instructor for nearly 30 years. They've changed hands recently, and had a few new folk behind the counter. I waited for over 5 minute
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by A_Person 8y ago
> Wow, congrats on insulting people I posted a detailed exposition of my own approach to interviewing. I expected nothing more than some intelligent comments thereon. In response, someone says I'm "prejudiced", and why wou
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by A_Person 8y ago
Quite possibly. I've worked mainly in languages where undefined functions kill the compile, and division by zero is a runtime error. Perhaps JavaScript just facilitates sloppy coding practices? Many other languages don't. Perhaps
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by A_Person 8y ago
> In your first snippet, would you expect a candidate to tell you that `f` might be undefined? No. Because I'd expect the candidate to focus on subtle issues, and not waste time on bleeding obvious ones! Of course f() might be undef
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by A_Person 8y ago
> it's hard to engage meaningfully There we agree!
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by A_Person 8y ago
> I don't think about whiteboard code the way I think about production code. Isn't that the whole point of an interviewer writing code on the whiteboard? To see how the applicant would view that code if hired to work in the of
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by A_Person 8y ago
I'm truly bemused by your response. First, if you truly believe that the code I showed is "a snippet of code completely made up or taken out of context and then anonymized by renaming variables", I can only say that I don&#x2
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by A_Person 8y ago
My long-time financial advisor has a fantastic saying: "I like to buy low, and sell high!" It's amazing how tempting it is to do the opposite. Wow, thing X has tripled, let's get into that. No!
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by A_Person 8y ago
Huh? (1) It's exactly the kind of code that you'll commonly see in a working line of business application. (2) The entire point of my comment is that I dislike hot tricks of the day as interview questions. What "hot trick o
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by A_Person 8y ago
Wow! That sounds like a fail to me :-)
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by A_Person 8y ago
It just amazes me that employers ask complicated CS-type questions for ordinary programming jobs. I've been out of the game for 20 years, and only did a few interviews anyway (as the interviewer), so what would I know! But FWIW, here&#
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by A_Person 8y ago
I just had the exact opposite experience! I was discussing scams with my regular painter. He said he got one recently, and showed it to me on his phone. It was an SMS that said, "Dear <FORENAME>, we have been trying to contact yo
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by A_Person 8y ago
Thanks :-)
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by A_Person 8y ago
I just don't see enough cost benefit from rewriting hundreds of thousands of lines of working code at this time. I can't see IE going away, any time soon, due to corporate tie-in. Hopefully VBScript ditto. If it all falls over dow
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by A_Person 8y ago
I remember when 4GLs were the hot new thing. Let's get into those! Oops, nope, forget that, now it's Data Dictionaries, let's get into those instead! Rinse & repeat ...
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by A_Person 8y ago
Further to my other reply, I've just checked the intertubes, and found that Codd's paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" was published in 1970, and Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considere
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by A_Person 8y ago
Ok. Oracle had/has a presumeably similar thing (PL/SQL). I misread his comment to mean, postgres SQL.

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