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Challenge author here. There is nothing Go specific to the challenge itself. I really want to encourage everyone to try solving the problem. If you don't like,

Challenge author here. There is nothing Go specific to the challenge itself. I really want to encourage everyone to try solving the problem. If you don't like, know or care to learn Go, try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm or whatever language you want to play with. While only Go submissions will be evaluated and rewarded, I would personally be glad to look at solutions written in other languages.

rxaxm 12y ago
does splice use go?
- mattetti 12y ago
  Yes Splice uses Go for everything backend related (web APIs, file parsers/decoders, audio processing) AngularJS for the frontend, ObjC & C#, C & C++ for native desktop/mobile apps. We are always looking for talented backend engineers to join our exceptional team.
  - rxaxm 12y ago
    http://jobs.splice.com/ http://jobs.splice.com/ has nothing listed for backend where should i reach out?
    - mattetti 12y ago
      We don't actively advertise this position, maybe we should. You or other candidates should feel free to contact me at matt/at/splice.com and dont forget to attach your challenge solution.
okbake 12y ago
The submission instructions mention including your full name, country of residence, and twitter handle. I don't have a twitter handle, will my submission still count? Do you accept anonymous submissions?
- IndianGuru 12y ago
  No issue. You can include your full name and country of residence. We are accepting anonymous submissions but then these participants are not eligible for the prizes.
zak_mc_kracken 12y ago
> try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm Java is strangely absent from that list :)
- mattetti 12y ago
  Java is totally fine, just not a language I expect the fancy HN crowd to pick for a programming challenge (Note that I also didn't mention Python, C# and plenty other good languages).
  - dalke 12y ago
    Glad to read you think I'm a plain Python programmer. Fancy code is hard to read and maintain. ;)
nindalf 12y ago
Have a couple of clarifications about the problem. Who should I contact about that?
- IndianGuru 12y ago
  You can join the golang-challenge channel on slack which is a room for people who are going to participate in the Go Challenge - http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv
mvanotti 12y ago
Thank you for this challenge :) It was easy to solve, but I'm struggling trying to get the design right, also trying to be more robust with the parsing (there are fields that can be interpreted as uint64, int64, int32, uint32, etc). Most of the hex editors available for linux are broken, ghex for example, the "grab these 4 bytes and interpret them as float32" functionallity doesn't work at all. I don't know what people who work doing this kind of things use.
- IndianGuru 12y ago
  You can join the golang-challenge channel on slack which is a room for people who are going to participate in the Go Challenge - http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv

rxaxm 12y ago

does splice use go?

mattetti 12y ago
Yes Splice uses Go for everything backend related (web APIs, file parsers/decoders, audio processing) AngularJS for the frontend, ObjC & C#, C & C++ for native desktop/mobile apps. We are always looking for talented backend engineers to join our exceptional team.
- rxaxm 12y ago
  http://jobs.splice.com/ http://jobs.splice.com/ has nothing listed for backend where should i reach out?
  - mattetti 12y ago
    We don't actively advertise this position, maybe we should. You or other candidates should feel free to contact me at matt/at/splice.com and dont forget to attach your challenge solution.

okbake 12y ago

The submission instructions mention including your full name, country of residence, and twitter handle. I don't have a twitter handle, will my submission still count? Do you accept anonymous submissions?

IndianGuru 12y ago
No issue. You can include your full name and country of residence. We are accepting anonymous submissions but then these participants are not eligible for the prizes.

zak_mc_kracken 12y ago

> try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm Java is strangely absent from that list :)

mattetti 12y ago
Java is totally fine, just not a language I expect the fancy HN crowd to pick for a programming challenge (Note that I also didn't mention Python, C# and plenty other good languages).
- dalke 12y ago
  Glad to read you think I'm a plain Python programmer. Fancy code is hard to read and maintain. ;)

nindalf 12y ago

Have a couple of clarifications about the problem. Who should I contact about that?

IndianGuru 12y ago
You can join the golang-challenge channel on slack which is a room for people who are going to participate in the Go Challenge - http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv

mvanotti 12y ago

Thank you for this challenge :) It was easy to solve, but I'm struggling trying to get the design right, also trying to be more robust with the parsing (there are fields that can be interpreted as uint64, int64, int32, uint32, etc). Most of the hex editors available for linux are broken, ghex for example, the "grab these 4 bytes and interpret them as float32" functionallity doesn't work at all. I don't know what people who work doing this kind of things use.

IndianGuru 12y ago
You can join the golang-challenge channel on slack which is a room for people who are going to participate in the Go Challenge - http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv