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By MillMan (Thu Jul 25, 2013 at 05:42:59 PM EST) (all tags)

meh.

This year has consisted of mediocre choices and mediocre luck.

I had an interview for a massage job about a month ago which I didn't get. The job had some red flags but it would have been fine for a first job. Massage jobs are quick to get and leave unlike tech jobs.

Last week I had an interview for a tech job that I botched pretty well. Bad enough that it's kind of funny - I screwed up the CS equivalent of those "tell me how a bubble sort algorithm works" kinds of interview questions used to weed out dumb people. There's still a tiny chance I will get it but it's entirely likely they will find someone who interviewed better and who is as qualified. In fairness it was my first interview in 7 (!) years and I've been off work for a year. It didn't even occur to me that I might have forgotten how to answer those basic weeder questions.

Other than that life leaves me scratching my head in confusion.

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But by Driusan (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 08:02:31 AM EST

Were you on time for the interview?

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: yep by MillMan (2.00 / 0) #5 Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 02:47:04 PM EST

I'm never late to anything.
"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman
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Implementing a sort? by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #2 Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 08:22:54 AM EST

Is there any language where you couldn't call some variant of "list.sort()" or "sort(list)"?

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: Hrm by gazbo (2.00 / 0) #3 Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 09:48:57 AM EST

Well ignoring the missing-the-point-ness, I recently (a few years back) programmed an embedded system whose built in sort function turned out to be implemented using bubble sort. Unoptimised bubble sort(*). Combined with the shitty CPU and interpreter, this added about 3 seconds onto startup time as I asked it sort ~100 items.
So yeah, I had to implement my own sort method, on a modern system, for my real job. How depressing.
* I inferred the sort algorithm by counting how many times the comparator callback was called. It was always exactly n(n-1)/2.
I recommend always assuming 7th normal form where items in a text column are not allowed to rhyme.

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: dunno by MillMan (4.00 / 1) #4 Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 02:42:35 PM EST

I think I had to implement it way back in my fortran class and maybe scheme too.
"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman
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: hardware design by garlic (2.00 / 0) #6 Mon Jul 29, 2013 at 12:01:44 PM EST

doing embedded hardware design, I had to sort a small list of hardware generated false targets based on when they needed to be sent to the antenna for jamming. It was a small list, and I had a lot of time, so I just did cocktail shaker sort (a bubble sort optimization)

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