Hey Yea Forums. I'm a programmer and mathematician looking for a little bit of help from fellow programmers who use Stack Overflow. Last week I had a programming interview and was given a challenge. During that interview, I was told that reading base was not a useful skill at the company and the interviewer told me what I wanted to do wasn't possible and that the only solution was recursion.
That being said, I appear to be the only person who solved this problem mathematically using base. I really believe my answer is the best solution to the problem and that if the interviewer had a brain like mine, maybe he would have supported my idea.
So I'm here to make a trade. If I can get 100 upvotes on my answer, I'll post a bot coded in PHP that will allow you to automatically scrape images from Yea Forums based on keywords. It took me only a couple hours to make but works beautifully and may be of use to anyone who loves collecting images from Yea Forums. The bot is a 14.6KB PHP file that can be executed on any operating system and because you're receiving source code, you can verify that it is safe.
Here is a link to my answer. If you're a programmer going for an interview, this may be the kind of question you're asked to solve. Thank you for your support.
I can't be the only person on here that has any reputation as a programmer... Come on!
Parker Ross
>14.6KB PHP file >real programmers?
Bitch, please. Scripting languages have their place, but you're not impressing anyone who actually knows stuff.
Gavin Cook
Bitch, please. I'd like to see you make anything. Nobody is going to trust your shit on here if its binary. My work is about math, not the language itself.
Asher Ramirez
What's "reading base"? Like, you can read numbers in any base? Let the computers handle the math
Brother, I'm the one giving the interviews. Language choice is a big piece of the puzzle. For instance, you're offering a PHP script. Why? Because that's probably what you just learned to code. But how many people on this site have PHP installed to run it? If you really wanted your script to be useful to other people, you would have chosen a language that other people will be likely to run. Like Java. But you're immature, you've never written anything real, so you've never spent any time thinking about the user end of the equation.
Connor Peterson
Like being able to understand binary and different kinds of numbers. Like understanding the difference between big and little endian, and being able to make and read numbers of different dimensions. Like in my Stack Overflow answer.
Hudson Moore
Actually, I've been a programmer for over 25 years and know a multitude of different languages. I have non-blocking game servers that are coded entirely in PHP which are probably better than anything you could do using any other language. The concept of numbers doesn't change between languages.
Cameron Torres
dude, you're just throwing out buzzwords. you're not impressing anybody.
Tyler Long
Thanks for the easy post bump.
Cooper Diaz
As a general matter, there can't be such a thing as a computable problem that's only solvable with recursion. All recursion actually does is maintain a stack and some branch points for you; if you're prepared to do that yourself, you can rewrite any algorithm iteratively. In this case, you don't even need that, because the length of a phone number is fixed--all you really need is a loop that's nested to the maximum length of a phone number. That said, you're not very good at explaining things, and I'm too tired to wade through a janky algorithm with incomprehensible documentation. If I were evaluating this, I'd especially look down on that: if you're programming on a team, it's better to write and document something that makes sense to others, than to come up with """clever""" mathematics that may or may not be valid, and which I'll never verify myself because I don't have time for that shit.
Jacob Martinez
Im failing to see what exactly is it supposed to do We dont have letters in our phone numbers so that might be it
