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I really doubt that it's possible to be a top exploit developer and yet be unable to implement BFS/DFS in under fifteen minutes. Some things really are just the

I really doubt that it's possible to be a top exploit developer and yet be unable to implement BFS/DFS in under fifteen minutes. Some things really are just the absolute basics. If it never goes further, then that's a problem, but there are enough people out there who can't write ten lines of code that you have to weed them out. My cousin's employer has started using Javascript Under Pressure [1] as the first round of technical interviews - it lightens the mood, and fully half of the people applying for a front-end development position at his company can't finish the first one, which is literally to write a function that returns the argument multiplied by two. [1]http://games.usvsth3m.com/javascript-under-pressure/ http://games.usvsth3m.com/javascript-under-pressure/

drblast 13y ago
Ok, that JavaScript under Pressure is a lot of fun and it would make a great ice-breaker.
fineline 13y ago
Relaxing with a few beers at home, this was fun. "12 minutes, 19 seconds for all 5 levels. Well done!" Don't care that I'll be blasted for being a slow old man. Come on, you know you want to! Stallman, babbage, lovelace and torvalds await.
sireat 13y ago
That was great fun for non webdev Javascript coder, and I was about 3 mins in and finishing 4th problem. However, getting one of the tests wrong in 4th problem because of two chinese UTF-8 symbol having more length than "tiny" kind of irked me and reminded me why I do not do webdev. I suppose this is actually a good kind of test, because real webdevs would actually have learned not to use s.length but use something else. What is it though? This seems like a Javascript fail more than anything else.
- danielweber 13y ago
  I just did that and I'm pretty sure I used "s.length()" and I didn't even notice any Chinese characters.
  - sireat 13y ago
    I had to check typeof (apparently those two chinese characters are not a string) to fix this, again this is actually useful, but was not expected given the ease of first 3 problems.
jtheory 13y ago
Please put a warning if you link to a site that auto-plays audio. Gah, that made me jump.

drblast 13y ago

Ok, that JavaScript under Pressure is a lot of fun and it would make a great ice-breaker.

fineline 13y ago

Relaxing with a few beers at home, this was fun. "12 minutes, 19 seconds for all 5 levels. Well done!" Don't care that I'll be blasted for being a slow old man. Come on, you know you want to! Stallman, babbage, lovelace and torvalds await.

sireat 13y ago

That was great fun for non webdev Javascript coder, and I was about 3 mins in and finishing 4th problem. However, getting one of the tests wrong in 4th problem because of two chinese UTF-8 symbol having more length than "tiny" kind of irked me and reminded me why I do not do webdev. I suppose this is actually a good kind of test, because real webdevs would actually have learned not to use s.length but use something else. What is it though? This seems like a Javascript fail more than anything else.

danielweber 13y ago
I just did that and I'm pretty sure I used "s.length()" and I didn't even notice any Chinese characters.
- sireat 13y ago
  I had to check typeof (apparently those two chinese characters are not a string) to fix this, again this is actually useful, but was not expected given the ease of first 3 problems.

jtheory 13y ago

Please put a warning if you link to a site that auto-plays audio. Gah, that made me jump.