The EU has remedies that protect the majority, the US that protect the minority. Broken almost 2 year old phone? Your better of in the EU where the 2 year BTW is a MINIMUM. For a washing machine, you can expect free repairs for the entire economic life of the device if it is reasonable to expect that it should last longer. Cars for instance have far long warranties mandated by law because a car is expected to last at least 10 years.
In the US you are better off because you can sue if you sustain serious harm... of course, in the US you ALSO pay for your doctor needing to pay for massive malpractice insurance.
It would certainly help if for instance the Dutch system allowed multi-miljoen dollar judgements, we are having a current case with a horror doctor where it has become clear that the institution supposed to regulate doctors failed completely and might even have outright conspired with the person that if he just left Holland and went to Germany to continue to subject patients to unethical treatment, they wouldn't try to stop him. A few millions awarded by the courts might... oh wait... that isn't how it works is it. The US is NOT a place nobody makes mistakes or is corrupt, instead all the lawsuits do is force doctors to cover every case, do every test regardless of cost because if they don't they are sued out of business. It is the SUE happy culture of the US that is the major reason its healthcare costs are so high.
The real world is sadly to complex to say Y is better then X. Both the EU and the US got their massive downsides on this subject and in reality all you can do is hope IT doesn't happen to YOU or anyone you care about.
The complete and total failure of SWTOR will continue to be ignored by an industry that is stuck on the PC, hates PC gamers but can't optimize their games to run on decade old hardware. MMORPG's of old were MASSIVE games designed to make games from the Elder Scroll series seem claustrophobic. And, if you want to be nasty, just as empty and pointless. Star Wars Galaxies had HUGE planets with some sparse content strewn around (it actually had quest chains (outside the themeparks) but most were very obscure and rarely done, talked to lots of players that didn't even know about them).
Recently MMO's have changed such as that every meter of terrain will have been trodden on by everyone else on your server. In older games, you might actually find spots nobody had ever visited. of course that was partly because it had far fewer gamers but still. MMORPG's have tried to appeal to the Xbox crowd and failed to satisfy either their old core audience OR the new xbox kiddies.
SWTOR is a prime example of this and BIG piece of proof of this is that they did NOT include same gender romance options from the start. Everyone who talks about how costly or hard it is to fit it afterwards forgets that it would have cost NOTHING more to add it right form the start. Voice artists and writers are payed by the line so instead of a same-gender neutral line, they would have been payed for a same-gender flirt line. Neither is this complex writing this is flirting with QUEST GIVERS, NOT party members/companions.
The game instead gave an extremely bland experience, in gaming and story, geared towards young kids in the hope of not upsetting anyone and getting massive sales. It failed. In trying to appease everyone, it managed to please nobody. Oh the game has heavy loads on its servers, both of them. Mostly free players finishing their personal stories while all the time Bioware keeps tweaking the F2P exprience to try to squeeze the last dollars out of the game. Only 1 quickbar, 2 quickbars, now 4 quickbars. 2 playable characters, all existing characters playable (max 2 creatable over all servers) and now only 6 out of 8 per server playeble/creatable for preferred status players. GIVE IT UP ALREADY!
The game was simply for 6 years of development piss poor in every way.
Primitive graphic engine with animation that makes The Secret World look fluid and totally out of date compared to Guild Wars 2.
Low rez character textures even on PC's that could easily handle more, Lord of the Rings Online looked better, a game half a decade older.
Bioware always re-used content but for SWTOR they went into overdrive EVERYTHING was re-used just with different palletes, once slightly curved cave pattern was present several times one each planet.
Combat classes mirrored or recycled across sites making them play to much alike, useful for PvP (but that is boring anyway) boring in PvE.
Simplistic moral story, no real going good/bad option, as a saintly Sith my story ended pretty much the same as a Sith so nasty Vader would puke.
While each of the 8 classes has their personal story, most quests are shared across a faction, so if you want to pay all 8 classes and see their personal stories you have to wade through the same faction story line 4 times. And the faction story line is BAD. Really bad. So fucking bad it beggars believe.
In SWTOR you are a hero, liberation/occupying a planet. Except NOTHING CHANGES. Ever. This is something most MMORPG's have to deal with, that the army you defeated as you hand in your quest is still standing there respawning often in sight. SWTOR however does it worse then most, the place is incredibly crowded AND you are supposed to be Jedi. At one point when you would make Vader your whipping boy, you are fighting union workers. COME ON!
Lotro already went nuts with high level bunnies kicking your ass when you have defeated Nazgul and Elder Dragons as a full elf (read the book, a full elf is NOT a whimpy sickly character but can take on SEVERAL nazgu
The flirt options apply ONLY to quest givers NOT to your companions, your companions are STILL restricted to hetero only relationships, the handful that even are romancable.
Quest givers are typically only encountered once or twice so the "flirt" option is just an extra choice like taking a "joking, serious, brutal" response most of which don't matter really because it is an MMORPG so you take the quest anyway. This is NOT the romance options as some remember them with your party members developing relationships.
And the game supported an if(male) then flirt else talk construct already ALL they had to do is right at the start is flirt(gender) and instead of writing a neutral same gender line, write a flirt same gender line. That doesn't take a lot of coding. They purposely left it out because they feared the reaction of Americans and probably the French.
Now the game is out of the headlines, adding it can't ruin the game (commercially) anymore then the game was already ruined. Note that initially they never gave a deadline for adding it.
The quest giver flirt is NOT deep well written dialogue, this isn't about exploring gender relationships in a galaxy far far away, it is the lightest most boorish flirting that in the real world will just be met with derision.
And again supporting gender specific chat is TRIVIAL, they already did it for races and professions. The flirt options are so rare anyway, it would barely have added to the work load for the voice artists. And as said, the writers instead of writing a same sex flirt line had to write a same sex neutral line, so where is the difference?
I get the feeling a lot of people think this device will be easily available at will for people who really make the choice to binge eat, then purge as the romans did. This is PROBABLY in real life meant for patients who have tried everything else and it just don't work. And we can moan "just stop eating" usually done by people on their tenth cup of coffee standing outside in freezing rain for the joy of smoking.
Stomach bands sound simple but people die from them, no I don't know how, just know that it isn't a safe luxury operation done by doctors just because you asked.
I would be highly surprised if on a NHS like system doctors are just going to put holes in peoples stomach designed to stay OPEN for the hell of it. Well at least I would be surprised if you couldn't bring such a doctor up before a tribunal. First do no harm is rather hard to claim when a person has a hole in their stomach.
This probably isn't intended as a vanity item but a last ditch option for people for who other methods don't work. I can't imagine ANYONE is going to do is for vanity/fashion reasons however.
Say for a instance a supermodel choosing this over bulemia, how is she going to explain the tube sticking out during a bikini shoot? Hell, wearing anything tight. Anyone doing this out of vanity reasons, is going to be talked out of it by their doctor. Holes in your body are NOT fun, just ask anyone with a colonspy (?) bag (lower down, for taking the shit out of you).
Vomiting is REALLY bad for you. The acid in your stomach ruins your throat, your teeth and the heaving itself is also not that good for you I have heard (bad for teeth/soft tissue is medical fact, the heaving is hearsay). Also, if acid goes down the wrong way, you damage your lungs.
This spares the throat and teeth.
I still can't think this is a good idea. Just the change of leakage alone is worrying, your stomach contents are designed to stay in your stomach. Not slosh around in your stomach cavity if a leak develops. I also would think having to replace all the acids in your stomach would put a strain on your system. I have vomited purely from pain (not sickness) and it leaves you feeling miserable for a long time afterwards, I think your need to have your stomach contents stay inside of you, and vomiting them up is not good for you.
But for anyone for who it isn't a choice between vomiting and a hole in your stomach, I suppose this might be better.
His case was only due to go to trial in a few weeks and the party he had "wronged" was on his side! As said, I could understand suicide if you he had been found guilty or heard his sentence of spend his first night in jail. But in the middle of the pre-trial?
And were was his support? If he was so worried about the trial why weren't there people with him?
What I am trying to say is that the letter is NOT a gigantic event that pushes a sane person over the edge, so either it was something else OR he had been slowly loosing it over time under the pressure of the trial.
If it was another major event, what was it. And if he had been slowly loosing it under the pressure of the upcoming trial, WHICH IS PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE, why didn't he get more support from his family and supposed friends?
I think we will find a case of a young man continually pushed throughout his life to excel, to live up to a standard few of us could meet, to fight everyones fight who collapsed under the pressure. But blaming only the single straw that broke the camels back is wrong, blame applies to all who loaded the camel. As has been pointed out by others, including legal experts, the "chiding" email is barely that. Was it the final straw? Then who had overloaded this guy that it was the final one? And what was their agenda?
It is simple, I do NOT know what it is like to be him. But I do know that sometimes when a person needs support, people instead push them on and on until they break. It is the job of the law to push, it may not be right but this was NOT a kid not knowing that what he would do would lead to trouble. Did people around him support him or push him? Just because someone is really smart doesn't mean they need a shoulder to lean on instead of people looking up admiringly asking what trick you are going to do next.
Most suicides happen because those that blame others the hardest did themselves not do enough. It is human nature. Sadly the flame that burns brightest often burns shortest, especially if others are blowing on it to make it burn even faster. More people then the prosecuter have to look themselves in the mirror. Especially Lessig, the guy has a history of fighting his wars over other peoples backs and backs break. And that is not right.
35 years was the maximum he could be sentenced to, that doesn't mean he was going to get it.
That case also started 2 years ago and the case hadn't undergone any startling twists that explain a suicide. Yes, after arrest I can understand, after a search I can understand, after being found guilty I can understand, after sentencing I can understand, in jail I can understand.
But in the investigation period when the lawyers are duking it out over admissible evidence? Either it had to be a slow deterioration in his mental state, which his family should have noted OR something else happened. That linked letter from the prosecutor is to trivial to kill yourself over unless you been slowly going over the edge in any case.
The guy went against the law as a form of protest, he knew that what he was doing was illegal and wanted that to change. And his treatment was legal letters. SCARY! A while ago, I called a scumbag to account himself for claiming the womens right to vote was achieved without violence by linking to just one of the countless incidents of women being arrested and tortured in jail. And these women endured. This guy offed himself over an email?
Then either he was always a unstable person OR he is a crybaby who wanted to look cool by protesting and then pissed himself when "The man" came down on him OR something else is going on entirely.
I think he had a cause, I think he could have expected that it would land him court and I don't think a person like that panics over a letter in a legal case that is/was far from concluded. That kind of person does NOT kill himself over a letter from a prosecutor. Read the letter, it is a trivial non-issue in the run up to a court case, it isn't a smoking gun, it isn't saying "we got you and you are going to federal pound in the ass jail sonny boy". It is almost saying "your lawyer got a good point but obviously I am not going to say it like that but you won this round". Chiding? Hardly.
Now I don't know him at all, don't know his personality (the real one, not the media one) but I think something more is going on. Either the pressure on him was far greater then we know, he was killed or his he had other mental issues already.
It is NOT the job of the prosecutor to weigh every communication on a silver platter to see if it might push someone over the edge. It is the job of family and the person himself to recognize mental issues and seek help. Something is missing here, normal people even under stress of an investigation do NOT off themselves over the linked letter. I would examine if there are other causes for an unstable mental condition that could have been triggered by anything, something as "trivial" as taking the Christmas decorations down.
We like when something tragic happens, to blame someone. It can be something as stupid as a cat not wanting to be petted that day that pushes people over the edge. That his family is so quickly ready to put the blame on others is to me a red flag. How hard did his family push him to succeed? Most boys at 14 worry about girls (how icky they are and how you can stop them thinking you are icky) this guy was designing RSS. Many a wonder kid has far from a happy youth. Who pushed this guy the hardest? The prosecutor or his family and friends who wanted him to achieve time and time again? Far more kids commit suicide because of pushy parents who are never satisfied then over long running legal cases that so far have NOT gone against him (as far as I know I freely admit, please feel free to put me right and show links to articles were it was becoming clear that he was going to loose this case). How hard was Lessig pushing yet again for someone ELSE to fight HIS fight for him with Lessig not being the one facing jail?
I think this case is going to stir up a real nasty mess with pushy parents and people expecting Swartz to fight everyone elses battle but him alone the one facing jail.
WATCH TV Commercials, it is how the designer envisions their products to be used. Take cars. Have you seen a single car ad where the advertised car is in a traffic jam? No? Then that car SUCKS at it. Isn't shown in a crowded city with LOADS of other cars, cyclists and pedestrians leaping out of the way for the advertised car? Then it SUCKS at city driving. Doesn't talk about safety or road handling (as in sticking to the road as opposed to speeding) then said car will kill you.
Now look at Intel and even MS commercials for how they see their new products being used. Windows 8 is ALL about media CONSUMPTION, Intel is all about meetings, light choices, consumption, trivial work flows. That is how they envision their computers being used, not for just sitting down for 8 hours and getting some boring but necessary work done.
http://oldcomputers.net/oldads/old-computer-ads.html shows you how old ads pointed at the business applications of a PC, what it could do for your business. Look at modern PC ads... where is the productivity?
Well, it is there... if you world is like the world of "Friends" where a dozen white people spend about 5 second a day at work yet can afford spacious apartments in the heart of Manhattan, then the Intel/Windows ads reflect your work flow. Nice for you. The rest of us sit behind a computer screen, hopefully a big one and enter data all day long. Doesn't matter if that is actual data, code or image designs, we have to do a LOT of it to pay our bills. And then holding your hands up in the air HURTS. Not inconvenient, not different, not going against muscle memory, actually fucking bloody HURT.
Try it right now, READ JUST this story, holding your arms in front of you. If you manage it for longer then 5 minutes, you qualify for the navy seals. And that is not entirely a joke, part of military training is pain exercises like holding your arms up for a long time, they tend to add weights because it looks though but just holding your arms stretched for long enough hurts.
The reason Windows/Intel want you to work this way is because their marketeers LOVE the idea that using a computer is about making a few choices "that picture, that point on the presentation" and the rest is thinking sitting around work. It is NOT, Star Trek STILL isn't real, using a computer for most of us is barely different from sitting at an assembly line putting components in place. Just think about it, just typing this post is just sitting and hitting keys in the right order. Where do I need to touch the screen? What part of this work flow is improved by having a touch screen? Having to raise my hand to hit the preview button?
If you screen setup is right, the preview button is JUST under eye-height because the line you are typing on should be at eye height so you don't have to bend your head down. That means you have to lift you hand 20 centimeters on my setup. That is NOT convenient.
If you are thinking of buying a touchscreen, take your existing PC/laptop and just pretend but NOT for 5 minutes, for a month, day in day out, every working hour.
If you then still think it is a good idea, go ahead.
Want more proof? The Wii. Sold massively, then failed on selling games because hard core gamers do NOT want to swing their hands around for hours at end. It WORKS for casual use. Is your PC use casual? No? Then get a Wii Gamepad Pro and leave the touchscreens to the TV world were you can earn a living without ever going to work.
This has gone on LONG before. Do you think it is new for imports to replace local production? It has been going on for literally centuries, no for thousands of years.
2000-3000 years ago people already were massive traders with goods from the north of Europe and the middle east ending up in Switzerland.
The US itself was once nothing more then a little upstart colony but with the changing tech (freezing) it changed British farming forever. Same with the prison colony Australia. Nowadays, south american steak is considered to be of high quality... it was once considered crap but cheap. Same with US corn-fed beef, if you were posh you bought local, only the poor did increase their intake of meat by buying frozen imports. And then it changed.
Dig for Britain during WW2 had at its roots the British belief they could outsource ALL their food production to its colonies. Then shit happened and Britain had to go back to sustenance farming to feed itself. It really is little different from the US being dependant on Chinese products, military, tech and keeping the people happy with cheap stuff. The US is a sold out Walmart away from revolution. And before China, the cheap stuff came from Korea and before that from Japan. And Britian NEEDED, was totally depended on US food and even industry, the country that invented modern agri-culture and the industrial revolution.
We sometimes like to think that we in our times life in an age of global travel but while Magellan famously did NOT travel around the world, his crew did. Ordinary people totally forgotten by history. How many times have you traveled around the world?
REMEMBER where the printing press, CAME from. FROM China. A Chinese import, centuries ago. It was a case of parallel invention, the tech was literally exported from China and imported into Europe. And around it trade in countless goods took place. You may think you are being a bit hip eating foreign foods but Curry has been a staple part of british diet for a LONG time when the locals barely moved beyond their village but were eating food from across the world, mutton from Australia, rice from China. Whenever an ancient ship is found its cargo turns out to be industrial scale goods trafficked between nations long before we tend to think a global economy could have existed.
People have always traded and it has long been clear that even before the romans, in western Europes, goods travelled throughout all of Europe and as trade increased, societies came to depend on the trade. And if trade was really good, a local producer could easily see itself being replaced. England is really one of the core examples of this, its agri-culture had to adapt to massive changes and its industry sadly never did. It is a lesson the world would do well to study and do it for more then "latest asian tiger to produce cheap knockoffs". The US itself was once a knockoff place. Hell, the west itself was to Japan and China centuries ago, sources of cheap goods.
Morons like Lumpy just don't get and never will. Samsung made crappy stuff and then they got better. Sony used to make crappy stuff and then they got better AND then they went wallstreet and went crap and all their engineers went to Samsung with a big paycheck and layoff package. And Americans made crappy stuff nobody wanted except cheap grain and meat and then they got better and destroyed British industry.
You start producing crap and cheap clones while learning from doing the assembly of others and then you take over. It happened a LOT of times already and every single time it happens a braindead moron like Lumpy says "I don't want cheap crappy (Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Americas) knockoff's not in my lifetime." And then the world changes and Lumpy is put in a retirement home were his family prays for his dead.
Those who have no braincells never learn from history and are doomed to repeat the same lines while totally oblivious to the real world around them. I know it is not as snappy as the original saying but it is more accurate. Some people never ever learn anything at all ever.
Right now in Pakistan there is a big protest demanding that the local government step aside and let the ARMY take over in civilian matters. The PEOPLE demand the ARMY remove the civilian government.
Fact: Bad dictator Fact: If you are the wrong person, any of the above three can see you dead.
There are soon 7 billion people on this planet and statistically speaking, you don't know ANY SINGLE ONE PERSON of them. Go ahead, proof me wrong, what percentage of the world population do you know? Or have ever seen? Cared about? 0.0000000001%? Sure? It seems a lot.
But we all got to live together, share the same resources and hopefully refrain from eating each other just because we fancy a snack. Cannibalism is still not dead even in areas covered in drive-through's.
If we wanted real democracy, what you would need is to vote on issues, referendums and NOT politicians. In fact remove them, keep the civil servants and get them to execute the results of the referendums. The US is actually pretty advanced with this and you can see the results, two US states are now the most liberal places on the earth with regards to pot regulation.
Of course, the US is also among the most backward places with referendums against gay marriage passing.
People just don't want other people to have anything that they do not have or want. The problem always is people, get rid of them and the rest will just sort itself out.
The crank has a BEND in it BUT for physics it is a perfectly straight crank, a direct line from the pedal join and the center of the gear. It therefor does NOT change the position of the pedal in the circle of movement despite how it might appear. 0 degrees and 180 degrees is STILL the pedal being at the top OR bottom regardless of how the metal of the crank zigzags.
Somewhere else it is suggested that the extra material creates a flywheel effect. In theory, this is true but since ANY crank has weight ANY crank will be in object in motion that stays in motion until an opposite force stops it (the friction of the rest of the bike). And if the extra weight is what does the trick, why make it out of aluminum (the currently selling model) and the new one out of carbon? Make it out of cast iron, inlayed with lead.
Perpetual motion machines usually have some kind of charming "but it should work because it looks cute" aspect but physics ain't cute or charming, it just is. But people who believe in beards in the sky, karma, justice outside a court system, democracy are always looking for the fantasy to beat reality.
THe whole "dead" points while cycling by the way only happens in extreme cases where you are standing on the pedals and encountering a lot of resistance. In normal daily cycling the sheer weight of your leg, the motion will just continue smoothly on.
This crank solves an issue that isn't there and doesn't solve it either.
Oh and if you fit it on your bike, you just lowered the ride height of your bicycle, enjoy scraping them across the ground in corners.
Shouting is a form of protest, how do you feel about a megaphone?
How would you feel about Opera's automatic page refresh option?
Hitting the key with some kind of mechanism for easy repetition?
If you believe a healthy society should have a way for people to demonstrate, to protest, you got to accept that this can only be done if they can be an inconvenience to someone. If all protests had to be done in some remote field where nobody is bothered by it, protests would be meaningless.
One of the best ways to create a repressive society is to get the plebs to suppress themselves. The company store is an oldie but goodie, get the workers to buy on credit all they want, then when they want to protest... that is just fine, just collect their due payments as per agreement. The houses for votes scandals was based on this, house owners are tied to their mortgage and so less likely to protest because they might miss a payment, neither can they move freely to a different area to chase jobs. Car ownership? The same, you need that car and it needs paying whether you are working or not. So you better make sure no strikes close the gates and keep those Saudi's happy by letting them run their sandy North-Korea with zero hassle so the petrol keeps coming. Just see how on occasion the Saudi's lower the oil price JUST before they are going to execute a child just to remind the west what the deal is. You get the petrol, we get to do whatever we want.
It is the UN trying to say freedom of speech can't mean saying stuff that upsets someone. No my dear Nazi, it means EXACTLY that, you do NOT need freedom of speech to say things that don't upset anyone. I can go to north-korea and Saudi Arabia and say "kittens are cute" and most likely nothing will happen to me. It is saying in the American South that gay marriage should be a basic right that you need freedom of speech protection. And MORE then just from the state (see top gear episode, the ONLY time the team was attacked by the locals) because that is a shameless US cop out.
Protesters are a hassle, so is a free society. It has always been clear that the easiest society to live in would be that of a benevolent dictator such as the fictional Patrician of Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld series. Pity such a person is so fucking rare as to be non-existent.
See how often fascism is excused by making the trains run on time. Sure, OTHER people might disappear for saying the wrong thing but my train is on time so that is allright then.
Freedom is messy, a hassle and inconvenient when others exercise theirs. Deal with it.
But your are an idiot, I am the one ASKING the question, not solving it.
Oh, you want to hire only liars or people who don't recognize a highly common test. Well that is your choice I am sure, doubt you ever will be in a position were you will get to make it however. Explains why you left out the important part of the newline in your posting of the case.
Take the above discussed fizzbuzz (threefive) test, it is a simple short test to see how well a person reads a simple problem and LOTS get it wrong. But it is trivial for an experienced developer who actually understand programming and takes the time to read.
I am a web developer (LAMP stack) and I have been given my fair share of tests... including the most useless, sorting algorithms. I know what a bubble sort is and NEVER had to use it. I have had to sort stuff but basically either it was so standard that default PHP functions already covered it OR a simple search found a finished tested proven library to do the job for me... so why test me on it?
Useless tests are useless. The sorting test ISN'T just not used in practice, it doesn't TEST any practical skill, such as reading, doing ONLY what is required and gives no insight how a person works in a team in a complex application.
The same problem with companies that ask for a bit of example code. USELESS. How long did the person spend on it? How much did they polish it? Who WROTE it? Most web applications are nightmares of spaghetti code. Good for you you wrote a single page script that did a simple sorting... here is a single script 5000 lines long, no documentation, no comments yet it is core to the business and it isn't working anymore and were are losing money. THAT is a real world problem. How do you fit that in a test any developer not actually insane is willing to do?
I have been given tests that would take a weekend to complete. Without pay? No way!
And slowly, over the years I have learned that the companies that asks for this kind of useless testing are not places to work at.
At most a simple test to check you actually understand some basics but for the rest, look at what they did before and then, try to judge if you can work with them as a person.
You can test a bricklayer by asking him to build a small brick wall and see if he does it well. you canNOT test a bricklayers ability to showing up each day on time OR see that there are problems with the building process and raise the alarm before it is to late. Development is really often NOT about punching in code but in managing the entire project and keep it on track. If YOU can come up with a test for that, you will a rich man. I can find a hundred coders right now easily, but good team leads? And I wouldn't employ a single on of those coders WITHOUT a good team lead to keep them on track.
I trade you ten coding wonders for ONE guy who understands the concept of deadline.
Others have pointed it out but the third if goes wrong. Anyway, it is far easier to use a boolean to check if the value has already been printed, yes, it not as compact but it far simpler and more correct.
The above code would show to me, you can't yet code, you read the book but did not fully understand it.
Just say i = 3, what happens then? mod(3,5) is true, so print i. fizz3 THAT WAS NOT what was required.
You would get a chance for not forgetting the requirement for new line AND for putting it on its own because each value has to be on its own line regardless of its value.
The question, PRINT on NEW LINE from 1 - 100 each NUMBER but if the number is a multitude of 3 print fizz, multitude of 5 print buzz, and if both a multitude of 3 AND 5, print fizzbuzz.
EXPECTED OUTPUT:
1
2
fizz
4
buzz
...
14
fizzbuzz
16
You are missing the new lines in your CODE
You also magically came up with a non-existing requirement for modulo 15.
And didn't see that by doing
if mod(i,3) == 0 then print 'fizz';
if mod(i,5) == 0 then print 'buzz';
You would get fizzbuzz for 15 (oh you also reversed the fizz and the buzz).
Sloppy reading and sloppy understanding on how if and if/else work.
I know that one, in a slightly different variant. Instead of fizzbuzz, write the numbers out.
for($x = 1; $x <= 100; $x++) {
$found = false;
if(!($x % 3)) {
echo "three";// or fizz
$found = true;
}
if(!($x % 5)) {
echo "five";// or buzz
$found = true;
}
if(!$found) { echo $x; }
echo PHP_EOL;
}
THE TRICK is in READING the case CLEARLY.
You COULD solve it in MANY different ways, how well you can READ what is being asked and do it in a minimal but correct way is the trick.
SOME people get the answer right but the code wrong ONE mistake is for instance is to use an if/else construct with a 3rd if statement checking if $x is a multiple of 3 AND 5. BUT in the above code with just 2 ifs (no else) THAT is being handled as well, test it, if $x = 15, the first if triggers printing "fizz", then the second if triggers, printing "buzz", the printing of the number does not happen because $found has been set to true, and a new line is ALWAYS added.
How you solve it (and there may be better methods, this is my level of understanding) shows how well you REALLY understand the posed problem and how well you understand coding NOT in knowing how to solve a complexe problem but in using the basic programming structures any language will support to do what is asked AND NOTHING MORE.
The LAST is important ESPECIALLY in web development, I have had to tell coders far better then me to CUT IT OUT and STOP trying to expand a project beyond its scope because producing award winning code doesn't matter if it is not on time and budget. Build what the client asked, not your interpretation of what you think they might really really want if only they could see the magnificence of your vision!
SIMPLE tests like this can work... It should take no more then 5 minutes. ANYTHING longer, POINTLESS. For web development at least. Why? Web coding is simple, all the complex stuff has been done by smarter people, probably decades ago. Most of efficient web development is coupling systems and libraries together to create what the CUSTOMER ASKED FOR, not what you want to develop because you think it looks cool.
When it comes down to it, what I want to see is how someone approaches a problem, a bug. Debug skills. And NOT, can you spot the error in this code but "a customer called: FIX THIS". What do you do?
Nowadays, I don't even bother with companies that want to see a code example of have a test that takes more then a couple of minutes. They are focusing on the wrong thing. I seen to many places that have brilliant code punchers but there projects falter because all they do is create code, not finish projects. There is a difference between a coder and a developer. It is the difference between 50k and 150k.
Look, if you stick a probe into a piece of meat, and it then wanders out of the closed oven, your meat is to rare! Either kill it more or don't leave it outside the fridge for so long.
Or in this case, follow the ideology of the "Professor" in question. We like to think people who think themselves smart are above having agenda's. But are they?
I wonder how this guy DOES views Elop. Or indeed Nobuyuki Idei, the man who killed Sony. A managers manager, a man who had the shareholder firmly in mind. Who followed the tree factors that determined this list... AND ruined the company with it.
This "professor" dislikes the "hoodie" mentality, dislikes companies thinking their engineers are important when they should be worried about this quarters stock performance. So... it isn't that much of a leap to conclude this professor is of the Wallstreet business school, you know, the guys who gave us this wonderful robuust economy.
Are the mentioned CEO's bad leaders for their company OR did they just upset Wallstreet to much? ALWAYS question the source of a message, it tells you a lot about the message and how you should treat it. This list? Make up your own mind.
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Because 100 dollars is a fortune! I mean, it would get you a whole hour of my time! I will EAT TONIGHT!
The smart developer doesn't restrict himself to one platform, especially in a market that already has seen major shifts.
The EU has remedies that protect the majority, the US that protect the minority. Broken almost 2 year old phone? Your better of in the EU where the 2 year BTW is a MINIMUM. For a washing machine, you can expect free repairs for the entire economic life of the device if it is reasonable to expect that it should last longer. Cars for instance have far long warranties mandated by law because a car is expected to last at least 10 years.
In the US you are better off because you can sue if you sustain serious harm... of course, in the US you ALSO pay for your doctor needing to pay for massive malpractice insurance.
It would certainly help if for instance the Dutch system allowed multi-miljoen dollar judgements, we are having a current case with a horror doctor where it has become clear that the institution supposed to regulate doctors failed completely and might even have outright conspired with the person that if he just left Holland and went to Germany to continue to subject patients to unethical treatment, they wouldn't try to stop him. A few millions awarded by the courts might... oh wait... that isn't how it works is it. The US is NOT a place nobody makes mistakes or is corrupt, instead all the lawsuits do is force doctors to cover every case, do every test regardless of cost because if they don't they are sued out of business. It is the SUE happy culture of the US that is the major reason its healthcare costs are so high.
The real world is sadly to complex to say Y is better then X. Both the EU and the US got their massive downsides on this subject and in reality all you can do is hope IT doesn't happen to YOU or anyone you care about.
Columbine shooting was 15 years ago. But I don't suppose you heard of them, they barely made the news.
Want to try again?
The complete and total failure of SWTOR will continue to be ignored by an industry that is stuck on the PC, hates PC gamers but can't optimize their games to run on decade old hardware. MMORPG's of old were MASSIVE games designed to make games from the Elder Scroll series seem claustrophobic. And, if you want to be nasty, just as empty and pointless. Star Wars Galaxies had HUGE planets with some sparse content strewn around (it actually had quest chains (outside the themeparks) but most were very obscure and rarely done, talked to lots of players that didn't even know about them).
Recently MMO's have changed such as that every meter of terrain will have been trodden on by everyone else on your server. In older games, you might actually find spots nobody had ever visited. of course that was partly because it had far fewer gamers but still. MMORPG's have tried to appeal to the Xbox crowd and failed to satisfy either their old core audience OR the new xbox kiddies.
SWTOR is a prime example of this and BIG piece of proof of this is that they did NOT include same gender romance options from the start. Everyone who talks about how costly or hard it is to fit it afterwards forgets that it would have cost NOTHING more to add it right form the start. Voice artists and writers are payed by the line so instead of a same-gender neutral line, they would have been payed for a same-gender flirt line. Neither is this complex writing this is flirting with QUEST GIVERS, NOT party members/companions.
The game instead gave an extremely bland experience, in gaming and story, geared towards young kids in the hope of not upsetting anyone and getting massive sales. It failed. In trying to appease everyone, it managed to please nobody. Oh the game has heavy loads on its servers, both of them. Mostly free players finishing their personal stories while all the time Bioware keeps tweaking the F2P exprience to try to squeeze the last dollars out of the game. Only 1 quickbar, 2 quickbars, now 4 quickbars. 2 playable characters, all existing characters playable (max 2 creatable over all servers) and now only 6 out of 8 per server playeble/creatable for preferred status players. GIVE IT UP ALREADY!
The game was simply for 6 years of development piss poor in every way.
In SWTOR you are a hero, liberation/occupying a planet. Except NOTHING CHANGES. Ever. This is something most MMORPG's have to deal with, that the army you defeated as you hand in your quest is still standing there respawning often in sight. SWTOR however does it worse then most, the place is incredibly crowded AND you are supposed to be Jedi. At one point when you would make Vader your whipping boy, you are fighting union workers. COME ON!
Lotro already went nuts with high level bunnies kicking your ass when you have defeated Nazgul and Elder Dragons as a full elf (read the book, a full elf is NOT a whimpy sickly character but can take on SEVERAL nazgu
The flirt options apply ONLY to quest givers NOT to your companions, your companions are STILL restricted to hetero only relationships, the handful that even are romancable.
Quest givers are typically only encountered once or twice so the "flirt" option is just an extra choice like taking a "joking, serious, brutal" response most of which don't matter really because it is an MMORPG so you take the quest anyway. This is NOT the romance options as some remember them with your party members developing relationships.
And the game supported an if(male) then flirt else talk construct already ALL they had to do is right at the start is flirt(gender) and instead of writing a neutral same gender line, write a flirt same gender line. That doesn't take a lot of coding. They purposely left it out because they feared the reaction of Americans and probably the French.
Now the game is out of the headlines, adding it can't ruin the game (commercially) anymore then the game was already ruined. Note that initially they never gave a deadline for adding it.
The quest giver flirt is NOT deep well written dialogue, this isn't about exploring gender relationships in a galaxy far far away, it is the lightest most boorish flirting that in the real world will just be met with derision.
And again supporting gender specific chat is TRIVIAL, they already did it for races and professions. The flirt options are so rare anyway, it would barely have added to the work load for the voice artists. And as said, the writers instead of writing a same sex flirt line had to write a same sex neutral line, so where is the difference?
I get the feeling a lot of people think this device will be easily available at will for people who really make the choice to binge eat, then purge as the romans did. This is PROBABLY in real life meant for patients who have tried everything else and it just don't work. And we can moan "just stop eating" usually done by people on their tenth cup of coffee standing outside in freezing rain for the joy of smoking.
Stomach bands sound simple but people die from them, no I don't know how, just know that it isn't a safe luxury operation done by doctors just because you asked.
I would be highly surprised if on a NHS like system doctors are just going to put holes in peoples stomach designed to stay OPEN for the hell of it. Well at least I would be surprised if you couldn't bring such a doctor up before a tribunal. First do no harm is rather hard to claim when a person has a hole in their stomach.
This probably isn't intended as a vanity item but a last ditch option for people for who other methods don't work. I can't imagine ANYONE is going to do is for vanity/fashion reasons however.
Say for a instance a supermodel choosing this over bulemia, how is she going to explain the tube sticking out during a bikini shoot? Hell, wearing anything tight. Anyone doing this out of vanity reasons, is going to be talked out of it by their doctor. Holes in your body are NOT fun, just ask anyone with a colonspy (?) bag (lower down, for taking the shit out of you).
Vomiting is REALLY bad for you. The acid in your stomach ruins your throat, your teeth and the heaving itself is also not that good for you I have heard (bad for teeth/soft tissue is medical fact, the heaving is hearsay). Also, if acid goes down the wrong way, you damage your lungs.
This spares the throat and teeth.
I still can't think this is a good idea. Just the change of leakage alone is worrying, your stomach contents are designed to stay in your stomach. Not slosh around in your stomach cavity if a leak develops. I also would think having to replace all the acids in your stomach would put a strain on your system. I have vomited purely from pain (not sickness) and it leaves you feeling miserable for a long time afterwards, I think your need to have your stomach contents stay inside of you, and vomiting them up is not good for you.
But for anyone for who it isn't a choice between vomiting and a hole in your stomach, I suppose this might be better.
His case was only due to go to trial in a few weeks and the party he had "wronged" was on his side! As said, I could understand suicide if you he had been found guilty or heard his sentence of spend his first night in jail. But in the middle of the pre-trial?
And were was his support? If he was so worried about the trial why weren't there people with him?
What I am trying to say is that the letter is NOT a gigantic event that pushes a sane person over the edge, so either it was something else OR he had been slowly loosing it over time under the pressure of the trial.
If it was another major event, what was it. And if he had been slowly loosing it under the pressure of the upcoming trial, WHICH IS PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE, why didn't he get more support from his family and supposed friends?
I think we will find a case of a young man continually pushed throughout his life to excel, to live up to a standard few of us could meet, to fight everyones fight who collapsed under the pressure. But blaming only the single straw that broke the camels back is wrong, blame applies to all who loaded the camel. As has been pointed out by others, including legal experts, the "chiding" email is barely that. Was it the final straw? Then who had overloaded this guy that it was the final one? And what was their agenda?
It is simple, I do NOT know what it is like to be him. But I do know that sometimes when a person needs support, people instead push them on and on until they break. It is the job of the law to push, it may not be right but this was NOT a kid not knowing that what he would do would lead to trouble. Did people around him support him or push him? Just because someone is really smart doesn't mean they need a shoulder to lean on instead of people looking up admiringly asking what trick you are going to do next.
Most suicides happen because those that blame others the hardest did themselves not do enough. It is human nature. Sadly the flame that burns brightest often burns shortest, especially if others are blowing on it to make it burn even faster. More people then the prosecuter have to look themselves in the mirror. Especially Lessig, the guy has a history of fighting his wars over other peoples backs and backs break. And that is not right.
35 years was the maximum he could be sentenced to, that doesn't mean he was going to get it.
That case also started 2 years ago and the case hadn't undergone any startling twists that explain a suicide. Yes, after arrest I can understand, after a search I can understand, after being found guilty I can understand, after sentencing I can understand, in jail I can understand.
But in the investigation period when the lawyers are duking it out over admissible evidence? Either it had to be a slow deterioration in his mental state, which his family should have noted OR something else happened. That linked letter from the prosecutor is to trivial to kill yourself over unless you been slowly going over the edge in any case.
The guy went against the law as a form of protest, he knew that what he was doing was illegal and wanted that to change. And his treatment was legal letters. SCARY! A while ago, I called a scumbag to account himself for claiming the womens right to vote was achieved without violence by linking to just one of the countless incidents of women being arrested and tortured in jail. And these women endured. This guy offed himself over an email?
Then either he was always a unstable person OR he is a crybaby who wanted to look cool by protesting and then pissed himself when "The man" came down on him OR something else is going on entirely.
I think he had a cause, I think he could have expected that it would land him court and I don't think a person like that panics over a letter in a legal case that is/was far from concluded. That kind of person does NOT kill himself over a letter from a prosecutor. Read the letter, it is a trivial non-issue in the run up to a court case, it isn't a smoking gun, it isn't saying "we got you and you are going to federal pound in the ass jail sonny boy". It is almost saying "your lawyer got a good point but obviously I am not going to say it like that but you won this round". Chiding? Hardly.
Now I don't know him at all, don't know his personality (the real one, not the media one) but I think something more is going on. Either the pressure on him was far greater then we know, he was killed or his he had other mental issues already.
It is NOT the job of the prosecutor to weigh every communication on a silver platter to see if it might push someone over the edge. It is the job of family and the person himself to recognize mental issues and seek help. Something is missing here, normal people even under stress of an investigation do NOT off themselves over the linked letter. I would examine if there are other causes for an unstable mental condition that could have been triggered by anything, something as "trivial" as taking the Christmas decorations down.
We like when something tragic happens, to blame someone. It can be something as stupid as a cat not wanting to be petted that day that pushes people over the edge. That his family is so quickly ready to put the blame on others is to me a red flag. How hard did his family push him to succeed? Most boys at 14 worry about girls (how icky they are and how you can stop them thinking you are icky) this guy was designing RSS. Many a wonder kid has far from a happy youth. Who pushed this guy the hardest? The prosecutor or his family and friends who wanted him to achieve time and time again? Far more kids commit suicide because of pushy parents who are never satisfied then over long running legal cases that so far have NOT gone against him (as far as I know I freely admit, please feel free to put me right and show links to articles were it was becoming clear that he was going to loose this case). How hard was Lessig pushing yet again for someone ELSE to fight HIS fight for him with Lessig not being the one facing jail?
I think this case is going to stir up a real nasty mess with pushy parents and people expecting Swartz to fight everyone elses battle but him alone the one facing jail.
WATCH TV Commercials, it is how the designer envisions their products to be used. Take cars. Have you seen a single car ad where the advertised car is in a traffic jam? No? Then that car SUCKS at it. Isn't shown in a crowded city with LOADS of other cars, cyclists and pedestrians leaping out of the way for the advertised car? Then it SUCKS at city driving. Doesn't talk about safety or road handling (as in sticking to the road as opposed to speeding) then said car will kill you.
Now look at Intel and even MS commercials for how they see their new products being used. Windows 8 is ALL about media CONSUMPTION, Intel is all about meetings, light choices, consumption, trivial work flows. That is how they envision their computers being used, not for just sitting down for 8 hours and getting some boring but necessary work done.
http://oldcomputers.net/oldads/old-computer-ads.html shows you how old ads pointed at the business applications of a PC, what it could do for your business. Look at modern PC ads... where is the productivity?
Well, it is there... if you world is like the world of "Friends" where a dozen white people spend about 5 second a day at work yet can afford spacious apartments in the heart of Manhattan, then the Intel/Windows ads reflect your work flow. Nice for you. The rest of us sit behind a computer screen, hopefully a big one and enter data all day long. Doesn't matter if that is actual data, code or image designs, we have to do a LOT of it to pay our bills. And then holding your hands up in the air HURTS. Not inconvenient, not different, not going against muscle memory, actually fucking bloody HURT.
Try it right now, READ JUST this story, holding your arms in front of you. If you manage it for longer then 5 minutes, you qualify for the navy seals. And that is not entirely a joke, part of military training is pain exercises like holding your arms up for a long time, they tend to add weights because it looks though but just holding your arms stretched for long enough hurts.
The reason Windows/Intel want you to work this way is because their marketeers LOVE the idea that using a computer is about making a few choices "that picture, that point on the presentation" and the rest is thinking sitting around work. It is NOT, Star Trek STILL isn't real, using a computer for most of us is barely different from sitting at an assembly line putting components in place. Just think about it, just typing this post is just sitting and hitting keys in the right order. Where do I need to touch the screen? What part of this work flow is improved by having a touch screen? Having to raise my hand to hit the preview button?
If you screen setup is right, the preview button is JUST under eye-height because the line you are typing on should be at eye height so you don't have to bend your head down. That means you have to lift you hand 20 centimeters on my setup. That is NOT convenient.
If you are thinking of buying a touchscreen, take your existing PC/laptop and just pretend but NOT for 5 minutes, for a month, day in day out, every working hour.
If you then still think it is a good idea, go ahead.
Want more proof? The Wii. Sold massively, then failed on selling games because hard core gamers do NOT want to swing their hands around for hours at end. It WORKS for casual use. Is your PC use casual? No? Then get a Wii Gamepad Pro and leave the touchscreens to the TV world were you can earn a living without ever going to work.
Samsung is still making cheap shit that no one wants
VS
I got a cheap modern samsung phone
No one wants it, he bought it.
This has gone on LONG before. Do you think it is new for imports to replace local production? It has been going on for literally centuries, no for thousands of years.
2000-3000 years ago people already were massive traders with goods from the north of Europe and the middle east ending up in Switzerland.
The US itself was once nothing more then a little upstart colony but with the changing tech (freezing) it changed British farming forever. Same with the prison colony Australia. Nowadays, south american steak is considered to be of high quality... it was once considered crap but cheap. Same with US corn-fed beef, if you were posh you bought local, only the poor did increase their intake of meat by buying frozen imports. And then it changed.
Dig for Britain during WW2 had at its roots the British belief they could outsource ALL their food production to its colonies. Then shit happened and Britain had to go back to sustenance farming to feed itself. It really is little different from the US being dependant on Chinese products, military, tech and keeping the people happy with cheap stuff. The US is a sold out Walmart away from revolution. And before China, the cheap stuff came from Korea and before that from Japan. And Britian NEEDED, was totally depended on US food and even industry, the country that invented modern agri-culture and the industrial revolution.
We sometimes like to think that we in our times life in an age of global travel but while Magellan famously did NOT travel around the world, his crew did. Ordinary people totally forgotten by history. How many times have you traveled around the world?
REMEMBER where the printing press, CAME from. FROM China. A Chinese import, centuries ago. It was a case of parallel invention, the tech was literally exported from China and imported into Europe. And around it trade in countless goods took place. You may think you are being a bit hip eating foreign foods but Curry has been a staple part of british diet for a LONG time when the locals barely moved beyond their village but were eating food from across the world, mutton from Australia, rice from China. Whenever an ancient ship is found its cargo turns out to be industrial scale goods trafficked between nations long before we tend to think a global economy could have existed.
People have always traded and it has long been clear that even before the romans, in western Europes, goods travelled throughout all of Europe and as trade increased, societies came to depend on the trade. And if trade was really good, a local producer could easily see itself being replaced. England is really one of the core examples of this, its agri-culture had to adapt to massive changes and its industry sadly never did. It is a lesson the world would do well to study and do it for more then "latest asian tiger to produce cheap knockoffs". The US itself was once a knockoff place. Hell, the west itself was to Japan and China centuries ago, sources of cheap goods.
Morons like Lumpy just don't get and never will. Samsung made crappy stuff and then they got better. Sony used to make crappy stuff and then they got better AND then they went wallstreet and went crap and all their engineers went to Samsung with a big paycheck and layoff package. And Americans made crappy stuff nobody wanted except cheap grain and meat and then they got better and destroyed British industry.
You start producing crap and cheap clones while learning from doing the assembly of others and then you take over. It happened a LOT of times already and every single time it happens a braindead moron like Lumpy says "I don't want cheap crappy (Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Americas) knockoff's not in my lifetime." And then the world changes and Lumpy is put in a retirement home were his family prays for his dead.
Those who have no braincells never learn from history and are doomed to repeat the same lines while totally oblivious to the real world around them. I know it is not as snappy as the original saying but it is more accurate. Some people never ever learn anything at all ever.
Right now in Pakistan there is a big protest demanding that the local government step aside and let the ARMY take over in civilian matters. The PEOPLE demand the ARMY remove the civilian government.
Fact: Bad dictator Fact: If you are the wrong person, any of the above three can see you dead.
There are soon 7 billion people on this planet and statistically speaking, you don't know ANY SINGLE ONE PERSON of them. Go ahead, proof me wrong, what percentage of the world population do you know? Or have ever seen? Cared about? 0.0000000001%? Sure? It seems a lot.
But we all got to live together, share the same resources and hopefully refrain from eating each other just because we fancy a snack. Cannibalism is still not dead even in areas covered in drive-through's.
If we wanted real democracy, what you would need is to vote on issues, referendums and NOT politicians. In fact remove them, keep the civil servants and get them to execute the results of the referendums. The US is actually pretty advanced with this and you can see the results, two US states are now the most liberal places on the earth with regards to pot regulation.
Of course, the US is also among the most backward places with referendums against gay marriage passing.
People just don't want other people to have anything that they do not have or want. The problem always is people, get rid of them and the rest will just sort itself out.
The crank has a BEND in it BUT for physics it is a perfectly straight crank, a direct line from the pedal join and the center of the gear. It therefor does NOT change the position of the pedal in the circle of movement despite how it might appear. 0 degrees and 180 degrees is STILL the pedal being at the top OR bottom regardless of how the metal of the crank zigzags.
Somewhere else it is suggested that the extra material creates a flywheel effect. In theory, this is true but since ANY crank has weight ANY crank will be in object in motion that stays in motion until an opposite force stops it (the friction of the rest of the bike). And if the extra weight is what does the trick, why make it out of aluminum (the currently selling model) and the new one out of carbon? Make it out of cast iron, inlayed with lead.
Perpetual motion machines usually have some kind of charming "but it should work because it looks cute" aspect but physics ain't cute or charming, it just is. But people who believe in beards in the sky, karma, justice outside a court system, democracy are always looking for the fantasy to beat reality.
THe whole "dead" points while cycling by the way only happens in extreme cases where you are standing on the pedals and encountering a lot of resistance. In normal daily cycling the sheer weight of your leg, the motion will just continue smoothly on.
This crank solves an issue that isn't there and doesn't solve it either.
Oh and if you fit it on your bike, you just lowered the ride height of your bicycle, enjoy scraping them across the ground in corners.
Shouting is a form of protest, how do you feel about a megaphone?
How would you feel about Opera's automatic page refresh option?
Hitting the key with some kind of mechanism for easy repetition?
If you believe a healthy society should have a way for people to demonstrate, to protest, you got to accept that this can only be done if they can be an inconvenience to someone. If all protests had to be done in some remote field where nobody is bothered by it, protests would be meaningless.
One of the best ways to create a repressive society is to get the plebs to suppress themselves. The company store is an oldie but goodie, get the workers to buy on credit all they want, then when they want to protest... that is just fine, just collect their due payments as per agreement. The houses for votes scandals was based on this, house owners are tied to their mortgage and so less likely to protest because they might miss a payment, neither can they move freely to a different area to chase jobs. Car ownership? The same, you need that car and it needs paying whether you are working or not. So you better make sure no strikes close the gates and keep those Saudi's happy by letting them run their sandy North-Korea with zero hassle so the petrol keeps coming. Just see how on occasion the Saudi's lower the oil price JUST before they are going to execute a child just to remind the west what the deal is. You get the petrol, we get to do whatever we want.
It is the UN trying to say freedom of speech can't mean saying stuff that upsets someone. No my dear Nazi, it means EXACTLY that, you do NOT need freedom of speech to say things that don't upset anyone. I can go to north-korea and Saudi Arabia and say "kittens are cute" and most likely nothing will happen to me. It is saying in the American South that gay marriage should be a basic right that you need freedom of speech protection. And MORE then just from the state (see top gear episode, the ONLY time the team was attacked by the locals) because that is a shameless US cop out.
Protesters are a hassle, so is a free society. It has always been clear that the easiest society to live in would be that of a benevolent dictator such as the fictional Patrician of Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld series. Pity such a person is so fucking rare as to be non-existent.
See how often fascism is excused by making the trains run on time. Sure, OTHER people might disappear for saying the wrong thing but my train is on time so that is allright then.
Freedom is messy, a hassle and inconvenient when others exercise theirs. Deal with it.
But your are an idiot, I am the one ASKING the question, not solving it.
Oh, you want to hire only liars or people who don't recognize a highly common test. Well that is your choice I am sure, doubt you ever will be in a position were you will get to make it however. Explains why you left out the important part of the newline in your posting of the case.
Take the above discussed fizzbuzz (threefive) test, it is a simple short test to see how well a person reads a simple problem and LOTS get it wrong. But it is trivial for an experienced developer who actually understand programming and takes the time to read.
I am a web developer (LAMP stack) and I have been given my fair share of tests... including the most useless, sorting algorithms. I know what a bubble sort is and NEVER had to use it. I have had to sort stuff but basically either it was so standard that default PHP functions already covered it OR a simple search found a finished tested proven library to do the job for me... so why test me on it?
Useless tests are useless. The sorting test ISN'T just not used in practice, it doesn't TEST any practical skill, such as reading, doing ONLY what is required and gives no insight how a person works in a team in a complex application.
The same problem with companies that ask for a bit of example code. USELESS. How long did the person spend on it? How much did they polish it? Who WROTE it? Most web applications are nightmares of spaghetti code. Good for you you wrote a single page script that did a simple sorting... here is a single script 5000 lines long, no documentation, no comments yet it is core to the business and it isn't working anymore and were are losing money. THAT is a real world problem. How do you fit that in a test any developer not actually insane is willing to do?
I have been given tests that would take a weekend to complete. Without pay? No way!
And slowly, over the years I have learned that the companies that asks for this kind of useless testing are not places to work at.
At most a simple test to check you actually understand some basics but for the rest, look at what they did before and then, try to judge if you can work with them as a person.
You can test a bricklayer by asking him to build a small brick wall and see if he does it well. you canNOT test a bricklayers ability to showing up each day on time OR see that there are problems with the building process and raise the alarm before it is to late. Development is really often NOT about punching in code but in managing the entire project and keep it on track. If YOU can come up with a test for that, you will a rich man. I can find a hundred coders right now easily, but good team leads? And I wouldn't employ a single on of those coders WITHOUT a good team lead to keep them on track.
I trade you ten coding wonders for ONE guy who understands the concept of deadline.
Others have pointed it out but the third if goes wrong. Anyway, it is far easier to use a boolean to check if the value has already been printed, yes, it not as compact but it far simpler and more correct.
The above code would show to me, you can't yet code, you read the book but did not fully understand it.
Just say i = 3, what happens then? mod(3,5) is true, so print i. fizz3 THAT WAS NOT what was required.
You would get a chance for not forgetting the requirement for new line AND for putting it on its own because each value has to be on its own line regardless of its value.
Sorry, failed. On multiple levels.
The question, PRINT on NEW LINE from 1 - 100 each NUMBER but if the number is a multitude of 3 print fizz, multitude of 5 print buzz, and if both a multitude of 3 AND 5, print fizzbuzz.
EXPECTED OUTPUT:
1
2
fizz
4
buzz
...
14
fizzbuzz
16
You are missing the new lines in your CODE
You also magically came up with a non-existing requirement for modulo 15.
And didn't see that by doing
if mod(i,3) == 0 then print 'fizz';
if mod(i,5) == 0 then print 'buzz';
You would get fizzbuzz for 15 (oh you also reversed the fizz and the buzz).
Sloppy reading and sloppy understanding on how if and if/else work.
I know that one, in a slightly different variant. Instead of fizzbuzz, write the numbers out.
for($x = 1; $x <= 100; $x++) {
$found = false;
if(!($x % 3)) {
echo "three"; // or fizz
$found = true;
}
if(!($x % 5)) {
echo "five"; // or buzz
$found = true;
}
if(!$found) { echo $x; }
echo PHP_EOL;
}
THE TRICK is in READING the case CLEARLY.
You COULD solve it in MANY different ways, how well you can READ what is being asked and do it in a minimal but correct way is the trick.
SOME people get the answer right but the code wrong ONE mistake is for instance is to use an if/else construct with a 3rd if statement checking if $x is a multiple of 3 AND 5. BUT in the above code with just 2 ifs (no else) THAT is being handled as well, test it, if $x = 15, the first if triggers printing "fizz", then the second if triggers, printing "buzz", the printing of the number does not happen because $found has been set to true, and a new line is ALWAYS added.
How you solve it (and there may be better methods, this is my level of understanding) shows how well you REALLY understand the posed problem and how well you understand coding NOT in knowing how to solve a complexe problem but in using the basic programming structures any language will support to do what is asked AND NOTHING MORE.
The LAST is important ESPECIALLY in web development, I have had to tell coders far better then me to CUT IT OUT and STOP trying to expand a project beyond its scope because producing award winning code doesn't matter if it is not on time and budget. Build what the client asked, not your interpretation of what you think they might really really want if only they could see the magnificence of your vision!
SIMPLE tests like this can work... It should take no more then 5 minutes. ANYTHING longer, POINTLESS. For web development at least. Why? Web coding is simple, all the complex stuff has been done by smarter people, probably decades ago. Most of efficient web development is coupling systems and libraries together to create what the CUSTOMER ASKED FOR, not what you want to develop because you think it looks cool.
When it comes down to it, what I want to see is how someone approaches a problem, a bug. Debug skills. And NOT, can you spot the error in this code but "a customer called: FIX THIS". What do you do?
Nowadays, I don't even bother with companies that want to see a code example of have a test that takes more then a couple of minutes. They are focusing on the wrong thing. I seen to many places that have brilliant code punchers but there projects falter because all they do is create code, not finish projects. There is a difference between a coder and a developer. It is the difference between 50k and 150k.
Sign you have been in Amsterdam to long:
Is the android-powered butt plug. No shit. It's got wifi and a web server so you can browse your ass and control the vibrations.
NOTHING in the above line triggers any red flags that someone is trying to be anything but serious/informative.
Mind so open, my brain has fallen out.
Look, if you stick a probe into a piece of meat, and it then wanders out of the closed oven, your meat is to rare! Either kill it more or don't leave it outside the fridge for so long.
Or in this case, follow the ideology of the "Professor" in question. We like to think people who think themselves smart are above having agenda's. But are they?
I wonder how this guy DOES views Elop. Or indeed Nobuyuki Idei, the man who killed Sony. A managers manager, a man who had the shareholder firmly in mind. Who followed the tree factors that determined this list... AND ruined the company with it.
This "professor" dislikes the "hoodie" mentality, dislikes companies thinking their engineers are important when they should be worried about this quarters stock performance. So... it isn't that much of a leap to conclude this professor is of the Wallstreet business school, you know, the guys who gave us this wonderful robuust economy.
Are the mentioned CEO's bad leaders for their company OR did they just upset Wallstreet to much? ALWAYS question the source of a message, it tells you a lot about the message and how you should treat it. This list? Make up your own mind.