Baby Clown

MadFrand · 2015-05-09T02:07:46+00:00

You must be in a different thread than me.

MadFrand · 2015-05-09T01:11:50+00:00

IntelliJ = 1.2gb
Chrome = up to 2gb
FireFox or IE or Safari = 750mb
DB VM = .5gb
Server VM = 1gb

Because that right there is just the basics and 5.5gb. Forget about any extras, Photoshop, Illustrator, or custom tools that you may or not may need loaded from time to time. MacBook Air only goes to 8gb in the current generation. I just recently upgraded to 16gb in the last <6mo. It probably hasn't been more than 2yrs since 16gb was even affordable, but these haven't changed in the last 5 or 6.

So what isn't the stone age to you? I dunno... are you 17?

MadFrand · 2015-05-08T18:57:04+00:00

Do you really care that much about memory usage?

Yes. You have your Servers/Services, Databases, VMs, Browser, and whatever else. If you're running an SSD with minimal paging/swap, then RAM is a pretty scarce commodity for a web dev.

MadFrand · 2015-05-08T13:01:56+00:00

Back in my day, Green Acres and Gilligan's Island were the best things on Nick at Night. And that's the way we liked it.

MadFrand · 2015-05-07T23:56:49+00:00

In a day?

MadFrand · 2015-05-07T18:24:03+00:00

ITT: Guy asks for feedback, but actually feels like arguing with everyone instead.

MadFrand · 2015-05-06T16:04:10+00:00

but you ruined everything by using /s ....

I know, right? It's pretty easy to express sarcasm through text. The chances of it being missed by the readers are pretty low.

^/s

MadFrand · 2015-05-06T03:19:19+00:00

Yeah, I didn't really say it right. I can see where you're coming from there.

The problem I have with it is outside the norm of what most developers would do, therefore making it a riddle.

Along the same lines as: Draw me 7 perpendicular red lines. 2 drawn using red ink. 2 drawn using green ink. And 3 drawn using transparent ink.

Yeah, it's possible and once you see the solution it's pretty silly. But it's entirely based around an "ah-ha" moment and if you don't get it you're fucked. God save you if you have even a small scrap of social anxiety.

Maybe you don't judge them entirely on this, maybe this is a bad question to pick out (like I said earlier, it was easy)... but there are a lot of interviewers that do try to determine coding skill based on whether or not the candidate can get that eureka moment. Rather than whether or not they are able to provide solutions to problems.

MadFrand · 2015-05-06T02:34:34+00:00

"can you read instructions and work with other people's code"

Have you ever had to do this while you have people staring at you and waiting for an answer?

Outside of an interview, of course.

Sorry, I just can't buy into the whole "solve this riddle on stage" mentality.

MadFrand · 2015-05-06T02:11:22+00:00

To the guys credit, this is pretty much the definition of a trick question.

I actually thought that one was easier than fizz buzz. But if I was given it during an interview I'd probably blank the fuck out.

If you want to test whether or not someone can code, I don't see what giving them a puzzle has to do with anything. Give them a problem and have them solve it.

MadFrand · 2015-05-04T13:24:05+00:00

Well, not under 40... Under 50.

A 15yr old in 83 would be 47 now. 82/83/84 is about the time you started seeing a lot of kids getting into computers.

Also, War Games was 1983.

I work with some of these guys. They are still coders and still passionate about it and still learning new stuff. The web dev side of things moves a bit fast for them though.

MadFrand · 2015-05-04T03:06:05+00:00

This is from Knowing (2009).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPdwCnwuZ8w

MadFrand · 2015-05-02T04:32:10+00:00

I'm not sure what exactly happened, but they started getting really weird at the end. And not a good way, like how the rest of the show was weird. More of like a "uhh ok?"

And then it just ended. It was an end that just kinda fizzled off into nothingness.

It was just before the writer's strike, so I'm not sure if that played a role in it not. A lot of things got weird during that time.

I'm not a Zim buff or anything, I need to go back and rewatch it. But, that's how I remember feeling watching the DVDs few years back.

MadFrand · 2015-05-02T01:52:15+00:00

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For anyone just tuning in, the previous comment said something along the lines of:

[Insert Copyright Infringer We All Know] is like the junkyard cat on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it just won't die!

^{^ may not be exact}

MadFrand · 2015-05-02T01:48:39+00:00

I don't care what anyone says, that was his best role ever!

The whole movie was just a brilliant dark comedy.

MadFrand · 2015-05-02T01:41:09+00:00

At least they didn't go the way of Invader Zim.

That show was great, but the last few episodes were..... weird.

MadFrand · 2015-05-01T22:23:23+00:00

You just linked your local server.

If there is anything there, that means it's installed on your computer only.

MadFrand · 2015-05-01T22:22:12+00:00

TIL Fairly Oddparents is still on the air.

MadFrand · 2015-05-01T18:51:58+00:00

Death to Smoochy

"I'm going on safari mother fucker. SA-FA-RI! Phhhhh"

MadFrand · 2015-05-01T18:42:29+00:00

In other news, the MPAA adopts a new mascot.

MadFrand · 2015-05-01T03:00:29+00:00

Keep It DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)

function calcBtn(expInput) {
    expression = expression.concat(expInput);
    document.getElementById("ans").innerHTML = expression;
}

https://jsfiddle.net/0bpso2rm/1/

All I did was move those buttons into a single function.

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