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  • Re: Another Simple Brain Teaser

    From Tyrone@21:1/5 to Joel on Mon Jan 8 05:25:53 2024
    On Jan 7, 2024 at 9:13:09 PM EST, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

    Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:

    Mathematics has nothing to do with programming.


    Tell that to my college, my highest math in high school was part of
    the advanced algebra/trig class, which is basically where I began in
    college, five credits that semester, five more for precalculus in my
    second semester, and *then* the first math that even *counted* toward
    my computer science major, calculus 1 in summer school. I completed
    calc 2 in my third semester, before dropping out to pursue my drug
    career.

    So your college was clueless. You took a bunch of useless math classes and did not become a programmer.

    Shocking.

    Of course, the fact that you are a drugged out zombie did not help.

    Meanwhile, I did not even go to college and have been programming professionally for 35 years.

    When you apply for even a junior programming job, no one is going to want to see you solve a calculus problem. Programming is about understanding logic.
    The langauge does not even matter at this point. "Here is a problem you need
    to solve. Show us in any language you want to use - or even pseudocode - how you would solve it".

    Trust me, your knowledge of algebra/trig will not come up.

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Mon Jan 8 09:30:16 2024
    On 1/8/2024 12:25 AM, Tyrone wrote:

    When you apply for even a junior programming job, no one is going to want to see you solve a calculus problem. Programming is about understanding logic. The langauge does not even matter at this point. "Here is a problem you need to solve. Show us in any language you want to use - or even pseudocode - how you would solve it".

    Trust me, your knowledge of algebra/trig will not come up.


    Basic algebra is often utilized in "general or business or database" programming, but linear algebra and calculus and trig almost never.

    I was asked at work once to build a system to determine 'distance pairs'
    of franchises, based on their lat-long coordinates. I had to find trig calculations on the Internet to determine the mileage between them. But
    that was once in 30 years of application development / programming.

    Also, I'm dying to know: with a nym like 'Tyrone', are you a negroid?
    We haven't had many self-identified blacks here on cola - maybe 2 or 3
    in 20 years. They were cc (good guy) and Big Steel (lamer with a
    homicidal father - no kidding).

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to Lester Thorpe on Mon Jan 8 14:42:01 2024
    On Jan 8, 2024 at 4:01:14 AM EST, "Lester Thorpe" <lt@gnu.rocks> wrote:

    On Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:56:54 +0000, Tyrone wrote:



    That's right, still 15%.


    Fail.

    Correct answer is 41%.

    Absurd. The act of seeing something happen does not change the probability of it happening. We are not talking quantum mechanics here.

    What if five 100% reliable people claim they saw a yellow cab? A blue cab
    still has a 15% chance.

    What if you get into an accident at noon on main street and hundreds of people saw it. Does that increase the odds of you having an accident at noon on Main Street? Of course not.

    Millions of people saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Oswald on live TV in 1963. Did that change the probability of Jack Ruby killing Oswald? Of course not.

    Given that you clearly know nothing about programming or probability, maybe your next alleged "programming challenge" should match your skill set. Try to code up "Hello World".

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Larry Pietraskiewicz on Mon Jan 8 10:00:23 2024
    On 1/8/2024 4:01 AM, Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:

    On Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:56:54 +0000, Tyrone wrote:


    Mathematics has nothing to do with programming.


    Certainly not for the kind of bullshit "programming" that
    you may be involved with.

    But I am referring to REAL PROGRAMMING.


    No such thing.

    But we would LOVE to see some of your "REAL PROGRAMMING".




    That's right, still 15%.


    Fail.

    Correct answer is 41%.


    Incorrect.

    The correct answer to your question is 15%.

    The correct answer to a question other than the one you asked might be
    41%, but that question would need to be formulated by someone else.

    For someone that claims they're "NEVER wrong about anything", you sure
    are wrong a lot.

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Joel on Mon Jan 8 09:21:13 2024
    On 1/7/2024 9:13 PM, Joel wrote:


    I completed calc 2 in my third semester, before dropping out to pursue my drug
    career.


    You made that decision, or mental illness made it for you?

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