Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
Smylers wrote: Seems a little harsh to reject people for that. Some people forget an interview goes two ways - they "measure" you and vice versa. I remember having an interview in the south of france for a MPP provider and after a lot of "trick" questions and technical/business glitz I asked... "Given market conditions, what do you consider is your competitive advantage?" I never did get an answer and ended up paying my own travel costs :-( Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... When I worked at Cray we had a Y-MP (M90) available for dev work. Just after one of the big customers had used spare cycles to calc the biggest prime number yet calc'ed - BTD and a couple of sysadmins then left the M90 running overnight (a six hour block) to generate the next TWO numbers! I had a copy of the printouts (132 column fanfold in a box) for a good few years. I also remember anotehr co-worked at Cray having the phone system tweaked so that he could dial out on a vast range of unused numbers. This was when captial radio would only accept competition caller whose number ended in certain digits. Having a 4 digit MSN block was seriously handy for that compo! Jacqui
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, James Laver wrote: > By that logic you could well be turned down for jobs for knowing other > programming languages that they don't use. Or about literature or a near > infinite[1] list of other things > > --James > [1] I'm fully aware of the meaning of that, which is perhaps another > reason I wouldn't be hired by Victoria or Smylers. Agreed, and I probably wouldn't want to work at a place that rejects people for that reason anyway. -- Eden Cardim Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Code Monkeyhttp://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://edenc.vox.com/http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Smylers wrote: > > Seems a little harsh to reject people for that. > > Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ > digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... By that logic you could well be turned down for jobs for knowing other programming languages that they don't use. Or about literature or a near infinite[1] list of other things --James [1] I'm fully aware of the meaning of that, which is perhaps another reason I wouldn't be hired by Victoria or Smylers.
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 16 April 2010 14:44, David Cantrell wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:06:43PM +0100, Victoria Conlan wrote: > >> I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask >> that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. > > Those three being 2, 2 and 7? :-) No, just 3 ;) -- Jasper
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:06:43PM +0100, Victoria Conlan wrote: > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask > that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. Those three being 2, 2 and 7? :-) -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig " In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. " --Blair P. Houghton
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On 16 April 2010 13:20, Victoria Conlan wrote: > > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask >>> that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than >>> 3. >>> >> I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was >> thinking the same thing :) >> > > Thank you, you made me feel a lot better about myself. :-D > > > For reference: >> http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#comic >> > As it is Friday, and hence pie day (The Coal Hole, The Strand): http://www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/ Cheers, Peter http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was thinking the same thing :) Thank you, you made me feel a lot better about myself. :-D For reference: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#comic I giggled way more at that than I should have!
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
> Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ > digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... One 3D CAD system I worked on did have a math library with a #define PI... which I fixed to have better precision.[1] Mike [1] Yes, I know pi to 26 DP. Why do you ask?
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
Victoria Conlan writes: > > At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, > > would I do better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps > > 10? > > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever > ask that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know > more than 3. Well you can get the first 9 digits just by wishing: "How I wish I could recollect pi easily today" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology Seems a little harsh to reject people for that. Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_ digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ... Smylers -- Watch 'Only Connect' series 3 (some questions by me) on iPlayer until Monday evening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskhg
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
On Apr 16, 2010, at 13:06 , Victoria Conlan wrote: >> At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, would I >> do better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps 10? > > I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask > that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was thinking the same thing :) For reference: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#comic -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, would I do better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps 10? I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3. Fortunaetly I don't do interviews very often. :-)
Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?
How this thread sooo went off topic! LF. Like most places there are good / bad practices, awful / good code, etc. It is definitely a development influenced company. The HQ is in the middle of nowhere which some might find socially restrictive. If I were forced to pick a single bad point it would be that there are too many employees with "architect" in their job title*. * some many argue that >0 is too many On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Pinky Weaselly wrote: > > Sorry for anon email, but I don't want to announce to my employer that I've > been approached by lovefilm about a job. > > The recruiter started with "if I said 'lovefilm', would you say 'no'?" > > Alarm bells are ringing. Can anyone say if they're a good employer, from a > Perl perspective? You can email me privately if you like. > > Pinky > > _ > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ > We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us > now > -- U # MC4L 2010:: Holla @ Ur Bowy # Find yourself: http://www.flickr.com/photos/66781...@n00/
