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Are you rich or are you poor for looking at a cheap hardware solution? Better get back to those non-capitalist non-marketing non-weasel (rascals, maybe?), expensive programmers, who will switch the flag that lets you use all your hardware.
Nah, forget it! you're right! Just get the "Awesomer than awesome" edition.
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SL -
Playing catch-up on CP posts today ... this was a great read, I shared it with my co-workers.
Thanks for sharing the linkage.
D.
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Wow, I just found out how they created this version. They used VS 2010's Sentient DSL's. It's really easy:
Awesome OS
{
Theme = "The best of all the rest",
Architecure = "Pan-Dynamic",
User = true
}
Hit F5 and your done!
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That's the way man! 
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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I just don't understand...
Why is it that I score really low on a development assement test on the basic concepts and I max out on advanced concepts? I have been professionaly developing for 16 years and as a hobby for 28.
Is: (byte)a = b >> 8; really a basic concept? I didn't even use it befor writing intermediate graphics apps?
I´m just a developerr
And I love like my work
I don´t mind the money at all
I see lots of new faces
And lots of bad cases of
Folks with bad taste.
But I need four screens around me
To hold on to my life,
To keep me from going dot *
And a computer Budda
To watch me at night
To keep me from slipping away
I can highlight your bad code
I can laugh at your jokes
I can watch you fall down on your knees
I can terminate your apps
I can gas up my car
I can pack up and mail in the key
But I need four screens around me
To hold on to my life
To keep me from going away
Now the banter fills the air
In the board rooms during my review
And i´m thinking ´bout
Where i´d rather be
But I burned all my bridges
I sank all ships and
I´m stranded at the edge of the shell prompt
But I need eight gig's and 2 cpu's
To hold on to my life
To keep me from going away
And a computer Budda
To watch me at night
To keep me from slipping away
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I suppose it used to be basic, but now I would consider it more advanced.
I expect threads used to be advanced and now they're becoming more basic.
You still have to know it all.
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Yeah I see your point. But if the language is OO, why not put empisis on the OO concepts? Most of these tests are putting things like polymorphism and interfaces in intermediate to advance concepts.
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Oh, well, Object Oriented Programming is definitely an advanced topic. 'Tis a pity that beginners now have to learn it before they learn the basics.
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setting aside the poetry, this:
(byte)a = b >> 8;
would just piss me off. Oh, I know, they want you to know about precedence. Moving on to real code, there should be an answer that says, "d) add parens to avoid ambiguous results"
If I was the lead on a project, code like this would result in a discussion.
Charlie Gilley
You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
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Haha! 
The code was ambigious (I have seen things like this on BrainBench, esp. the core Java and C#).
The poety is a rendition of Trish Yerwood's 'Bartender Blues'.
Guess I just go with the absolute of 'Let the compiler sort it out'.
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 I'll have to go look that song up.
Letting the compiler sort things out is the EXACT thing that will keep you up at
nights. If you have to think real hard what the logic will do, you need to
re-write the logic.
but, I think you agree with me on that part.
Charlie Gilley
You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
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Yes, Yes, I use Enstien's absolute:
'Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler...'
I have no trouble writting 200 lines of code with no compiler errors, but maby need to hadle some exceptions here and there.
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TheArchitectualizer wrote: 'Let the compiler sort it out
1.
IMO that is a bad attitude. First of all, the compiler can only do so much. It does not understand algorithms, does not know your application domain, etc. All it knows is the grammar and syntax of a language.
I would always try and write correct code, paying attention at all levels
(design, algorithm selection, implementation, syntax, chosing proper identifier names, etc). And then I hope most of my occasional mistakes get detected by the compiler. Anyway, every message a compiler throws at me makes me very cautious: how is it possible it was not accepted, is there a larger mistake behind the scenes? As opposed to: I guess the compiler is right, lets get rid of the error messages ASAP.
2.
Tests you take will test whatever the test designer considered important enough to include (or was able to include), and not what you consider important to your daily needs. I know a large fraction of C# quite well, yet I could easily fail a general C# test, as I don't care much for the latest language additions, never looked into say LINQ, still am strugging with the details of anonymous delegates, etc. If the test or interview is meant to judge your fitness for a particular job, there should be ample room for:
(1) showing your professionalism, as in working meticulously, designing well, coding defensively, etc;
and (2) showing your skills in finding out things, using MSDN, Google, CP articles, your own experiments, etc.
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TheArchitectualizer wrote: f 'Let the compiler sort it out'.
So you've discovered a compiler with working intention prediction?
There is no excuse for writing ambiguous code. Maintainers should be permitted to poke the original author of crap like this with sharp sticks. In a month you wont remember what it was that you really meant. What happens when the vendor decides the compiler implementation was non-standard/wrong and changes how this compiles in a new version?
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I read study the language specification first all the way down to the op code and JIT. I don't write code the specification doesn't impliment.
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Just to prove the point I took the free C# BB test.
Test: C#
Date: 05-Jul-2009
Score: 2.56
Weights: 100% C#
Elapsed time: 27 min 40 sec
C#
Score: 2.56
Percentile: Scored higher than 27% of previous examinees
Demonstrates a solid understanding of core concepts within this topic. Appears capable of working on most projects in this area with moderate assistance. May require some initial assistance with advanced concepts, however.
Strong Areas Value and Reference Types
Weak Areas Grammar
Developing Data Consumers and Services
Methods
Properties, Indexers, and Fields
I failed! Min passing 2.76.
Here are some of the tings I'm talking about:
if (a > b)
c = 'a';
else {
if (b == d)
c = 'e';
else
c = 'b';
}
a) c = (b = d) ? 'e' : ((a > b) ? 'a' : 'b');
b) c = (b == d) ? 'e' : (a > b) ? 'a' : 'b';
c) c = (a > b) ? 'a' : (b = d) ? 'e' : 'b';
d) c = (a > b) ? 'a' : (b == d) ? 'e' : 'b';
e) c = (a > b) ? 'a' : ((b = d) ? 'e' : 'b');
...and...
public void A() {
byte a, b, c;
a = 255;
b = 122;
c = (byte)(a & b);
}
...and...
'Which one of the following compilers' flag turns on run-time integer range checking? '
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I took a C# evaluation test at Robert Half a while back, there were several questions where the answer they were looking for was incorrect.
Such as one like "Which using directives are required to do such-and-such", the correct answer is "none of the above". You never need to use any using directives (I don't).
There was also at least one question that made no sense at all.
One of the problems is likely that such tests are not produced by pedants, but they really should be. Or maybe the taker should be able to select the level of pedantry?
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LOL!
They haven't fixed that yet? I told them about that Five years ago. Out of 20 questions I found Seven which were absolutly wrong.
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Other than the ability to briefly explain an "incorrect" answer, I had no opportunity to discuss the problems with the test with the recruiter.
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yeah, right, like that would have made a difference
most i know would be like talking to a rock-
i said most! not all - i do know a handful of decent ones
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Haha!
My college optics professor told us one day: 'I can teach optics to a rock...' He is a master at realy dry humor. It's not logical, stack overflow!
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I had an interview once where the guy have me a snippet of C to explain and was told I gave the wrong answer.
It turns out he didn't know how a for loop works in C! 
Oh, one thing he ask was if I would be able to comment someone else's code... 
I'm guessing they dug a tunnel and escaped.
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While I was hanging out at getafreelancer.com these gigs "Create a automatic test for subject such and such" frequently turned up...
Lowest bider was _always_ selected -- which maybe could explain the (sub)quality of these tests...
Cheers /Jonas
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