The plug on the Kinect for XBox is not USB, it is a proprietary connector. It won't plug into your computer unless you hack together your own receptacle for it.
That's not video from a drone, that's video from a manned helicopter. They had a lot more to go on than just these images, you just don't get to see everything they had in one little youtube video. Not entirely relevant, and certainly not grounds to call the GP "douchebag" over.
However, he translated 500Mbps (megaBITS per second) to megabytes per second. 500Mbps is actually closer to 62.5MB/s -- still a lot compared to residential bandwidth in the US, but not half a terabyte every second.
I couldn't tell you why OP didn't copy/paste, he's only a few words off from the original anyway.
Yes, that's why GP is modded "Interesting" -- he wasn't being sarcastic. I'm not much of an R myself, but if I had to pick one, Huntsman is one of the two I'd consider right now. (Ron Paul is the other, but I agree with half what he says and the other half makes me wonder if he's remotely sane, so I'm not so sure)
By the way, we have had people ace the puzzle questions but make us think "WTF?" when we asked them about various development principals. One, we ended up hiring as an admin rather than a developer, and they have been getting all kinds of praise in that role. So, you can see how problem solving skills and development skills do not imply each other, but both are useful and should be sought!
Great response! Puzzle interviews are not a pass/fail test, they are an opportunity for the candidate to show their ability, when faced with a problem, to organize the given information, look at the potential scenarios, and choose the best path. Even if a candidate does not come to the correct answer, I'm willing to keep considering them if I think their approach is good.
Also, like the parent said, these puzzle questions should not be your sole hiring criteria -- just like any hiring criteria, they are only one factor. If you are hiring a coder, you should probably get them to at least write some pseudo-code for you to show that they can think through an algorithm, or that they understand various principals. You should get them to draw out a model diagram for you -- to prove that they understand how models work, and also to show that they can present what they think to you in a reasonable way.
Tampons aren't left in the intrauterine environment for a decade at a time, they are changed several times per day during the one week per month they are even used. Not to mention, they aren't placed in an intrauterine (inside uterus) environment, they are placed in the vaginal canal. That is a terrible analogy to use then call someone else an idiot.
Either something about how it's working because we found this, or something about how it's not working because we found this. It doesn't seem to matter which, somehow the evidence supports my opinion!
You missed one:
6. They tell you something's wrong, but they mumble it with their accent into a speakerphone. You think they said "we can have it done by Tuesday" when they really said "we can't have it done by Tuesday"
Also I wanted to comment on #2. In my experience it is not that they couldn't solve the problem, it's that they are so concerned you won't like the solution, that they'd rather just wait for you to prescribe your own solution.
I just thought I'd point out that the profit they are making is by definition the money they make on top of recouping what they use to "pay their employees, keep their servers up and running and the lights on."
That said, you're right, it really shouldn't be surprising to anyone that Ticketmaster is trying to make $$ by charging you more for the convenience. Sometimes you pay almost as much for the privilege of using Ticketmaster as you do for the damned show itself!
Not to mention, that when you get a handful of people who have to live with/near each other, they will naturally set up some form of government of their own. These even happens in tiny sample sets. Ever watch "Survivor" before? Even on there you can see that like-minded groups will band together to organize as much as possible. Government is natural. Everything has a governing structure -- The Tea Party, the Occupy protestors, the boy scouts, every company who employs more than 2-3 people (and even some of those), neighborhood associations, gangs, even PACs that lobby for smaller government...
I hope it's different where you work, but where I work, the management is lucky if they are truly 100% management. But in reality, the managers of technical teams also have to play the role of project manager, technical lead, and sometimes architect. Yes, it sucks, and I wish it weren't that way, but trying to change that is like pulling teeth.
So even if Mr. Manager has good intentions, he really is prevented by other duties from doing his job to the fullest extent. It sucks, but I wouldn't feel right calling that person gutless for it and pretending they are a less than useful person.
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The 4gb model, with kinect, was on sale for $199 at several stores on black friday. Walmart was one of the most prominent.
The plug on the Kinect for XBox is not USB, it is a proprietary connector. It won't plug into your computer unless you hack together your own receptacle for it.
So if I drive to work in Michigan, order a product from Amazon (based in seattle) and have it shipped to my home in Indiana, who gets the sales tax?
Kind of sounds like a franchise, doesn't it?
So should Indiana charge me an additional sales tax if I drive 1 mile across the border to the local grocery store in Michigan?
That's not video from a drone, that's video from a manned helicopter. They had a lot more to go on than just these images, you just don't get to see everything they had in one little youtube video. Not entirely relevant, and certainly not grounds to call the GP "douchebag" over.
OP is incorrect, he paraphrased from here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/bandwidth.htm
However, he translated 500Mbps (megaBITS per second) to megabytes per second. 500Mbps is actually closer to 62.5MB/s -- still a lot compared to residential bandwidth in the US, but not half a terabyte every second.
I couldn't tell you why OP didn't copy/paste, he's only a few words off from the original anyway.
Yes, that's why GP is modded "Interesting" -- he wasn't being sarcastic. I'm not much of an R myself, but if I had to pick one, Huntsman is one of the two I'd consider right now. (Ron Paul is the other, but I agree with half what he says and the other half makes me wonder if he's remotely sane, so I'm not so sure)
Way to protest hyper-capitalization!
By the way, we have had people ace the puzzle questions but make us think "WTF?" when we asked them about various development principals. One, we ended up hiring as an admin rather than a developer, and they have been getting all kinds of praise in that role. So, you can see how problem solving skills and development skills do not imply each other, but both are useful and should be sought!
Great response! Puzzle interviews are not a pass/fail test, they are an opportunity for the candidate to show their ability, when faced with a problem, to organize the given information, look at the potential scenarios, and choose the best path. Even if a candidate does not come to the correct answer, I'm willing to keep considering them if I think their approach is good.
Also, like the parent said, these puzzle questions should not be your sole hiring criteria -- just like any hiring criteria, they are only one factor. If you are hiring a coder, you should probably get them to at least write some pseudo-code for you to show that they can think through an algorithm, or that they understand various principals. You should get them to draw out a model diagram for you -- to prove that they understand how models work, and also to show that they can present what they think to you in a reasonable way.
Porn. Duh.
Tampons aren't left in the intrauterine environment for a decade at a time, they are changed several times per day during the one week per month they are even used. Not to mention, they aren't placed in an intrauterine (inside uterus) environment, they are placed in the vaginal canal. That is a terrible analogy to use then call someone else an idiot.
Mod parent up please! If liberal & conservative are left and right, authoritarian and libertarian are up and down.
Oh what to go with... how about this:
Did he use a quick sort or a bubble sort? Maybe a merge sort?
Either something about how it's working because we found this, or something about how it's not working because we found this. It doesn't seem to matter which, somehow the evidence supports my opinion!
You missed one:
6. They tell you something's wrong, but they mumble it with their accent into a speakerphone. You think they said "we can have it done by Tuesday" when they really said "we can't have it done by Tuesday"
Also I wanted to comment on #2. In my experience it is not that they couldn't solve the problem, it's that they are so concerned you won't like the solution, that they'd rather just wait for you to prescribe your own solution.
I just thought I'd point out that the profit they are making is by definition the money they make on top of recouping what they use to "pay their employees, keep their servers up and running and the lights on."
That said, you're right, it really shouldn't be surprising to anyone that Ticketmaster is trying to make $$ by charging you more for the convenience. Sometimes you pay almost as much for the privilege of using Ticketmaster as you do for the damned show itself!
Not to mention, that when you get a handful of people who have to live with/near each other, they will naturally set up some form of government of their own. These even happens in tiny sample sets. Ever watch "Survivor" before? Even on there you can see that like-minded groups will band together to organize as much as possible. Government is natural. Everything has a governing structure -- The Tea Party, the Occupy protestors, the boy scouts, every company who employs more than 2-3 people (and even some of those), neighborhood associations, gangs, even PACs that lobby for smaller government...
There are hourly IT folks making more than $27.63/hr? I thought IT was predominantly salary/exempt because of this very issue...?
So... they were holding it wrong?
If you ever have the opportunity to work with anyone outside the US, you'll quickly learn that you have to ask how to spell everyone's name anyway.
I see what you did there... Clever...
*whoosh*
That's why he said "What if..." -- it's a hypothetical question.
I hope it's different where you work, but where I work, the management is lucky if they are truly 100% management. But in reality, the managers of technical teams also have to play the role of project manager, technical lead, and sometimes architect. Yes, it sucks, and I wish it weren't that way, but trying to change that is like pulling teeth.
So even if Mr. Manager has good intentions, he really is prevented by other duties from doing his job to the fullest extent. It sucks, but I wouldn't feel right calling that person gutless for it and pretending they are a less than useful person.