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Note that extracting the text from the PDFs for purposes of even doing something as transitory text-to-speech processing on it would probably be viewed by the people that wrote this license as attempting to "reverse engineer" the book and attract a flock of threatening letter...
It was clear that he had never been drilled in recognizing certain algorithmic patterns, and thus his optimizations employed many language speed up tricks to make C++ faster, but largely ignored using a simple but better algorithm to improve the speed. I rewrote it to use the better algorithm (compute string replacements for levels 2, 4, 8, etc., when needed, rather than 1-N) and eliminate the repeated string copy (by rewriting front to back, then back to front, in a single buffer), and beat his "optimized" version.
Why wasn't this function already in your development library?
That's the real issue that I have with college education. The exact methods used to teach critical understanding and analysis are the same ones that actually cause problems in the long run. The reaction that says "Hey, I can write a routine to do this simple task efficiently in three hours!" is the one that makes it impossible to think to spend 20 minutes digging in the shop develoment standards books and finding the routine that's already being used elsewhere and copying that. In the place I work, no one ever writes a sorting routine. There's a "sort array" function already written, and for anything bigger, the anwser is "throw a new index over your file and let the OS maintain it".
Certainly, someone had to write those bits in the first place, but that effort was made by someone inproving her little corner of the universe and then sharing the benefit of the work. Encouraging everyone to tweak everything ends up fostering even more of the problems the poster had with the applicant: encouraging people to dive in, rework functional things, and likely gain nothing from the time spent.
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Ameritech (for all its faults) offers a service ver much like this, including allowances for authorized callers to break through and ring the phone when away from their caller-ID-listed phone lines. Search for "Privacy Manager" on their website.
Certainly Escape Velocity can be non-zero-sum, although it looks like it varies depending on how you play the game...
Note that extracting the text from the PDFs for purposes of even doing something as transitory text-to-speech processing on it would probably be viewed by the people that wrote this license as attempting to "reverse engineer" the book and attract a flock of threatening letter...
It was clear that he had never been drilled in recognizing certain algorithmic patterns, and thus his optimizations employed many language speed up tricks to make C++ faster, but largely ignored using a simple but better algorithm to improve the speed. I rewrote it to use the better algorithm (compute string replacements for levels 2, 4, 8, etc., when needed, rather than 1-N) and eliminate the repeated string copy (by rewriting front to back, then back to front, in a single buffer), and beat his "optimized" version.
Why wasn't this function already in your development library?
That's the real issue that I have with college education. The exact methods used to teach critical understanding and analysis are the same ones that actually cause problems in the long run. The reaction that says "Hey, I can write a routine to do this simple task efficiently in three hours!" is the one that makes it impossible to think to spend 20 minutes digging in the shop develoment standards books and finding the routine that's already being used elsewhere and copying that. In the place I work, no one ever writes a sorting routine. There's a "sort array" function already written, and for anything bigger, the anwser is "throw a new index over your file and let the OS maintain it".
Certainly, someone had to write those bits in the first place, but that effort was made by someone inproving her little corner of the universe and then sharing the benefit of the work. Encouraging everyone to tweak everything ends up fostering even more of the problems the poster had with the applicant: encouraging people to dive in, rework functional things, and likely gain nothing from the time spent.