amazon asked me a similar question only in a different context having to do with stars and the center of the universe. I answered his question and also told him there were 2 answers and walked out of the interview. You're part of the reason why tech hiring is broken. You might as well ask him what 1+1 is.

so what's the answer? unless i'm mistaken, there's no way of doing it in sub-linear time if it's unsorted, unless your "trap" is to somehow store the max number you find when the file is loaded.

np I expected as much after reading the other questions you asked for other people. I ask similar questions when I interview people at work. I also believe as a moderator you should have thick skin since you can't please everyone and there will always be people hating on you.

a simple example would be assuming I don't understand the difference between a java abstract and interface class, and I googled it but most of them were textbook answers that were overly complicated or very vague. People on /r/programming would tell you to go to /r/learnprogramming or google and do a copy and paste of the textbook answer. And people on /r/learnprogramming either aren't sure themselves or copy and paste an answer from google. This isn't always the case since it's just an example but does happen a lot of times or are left unanswered.

I'm active but I try not to make a comment unless I have something to contribute or a question for something to keep the quality of comments high, I guess i can try to comment more? since my CCP is ~75 right now so im not that far off. Regarding the fairness question I guess I don't really have an opinion since rules are rules and I'm just trying to contribute to the community since I have so much time from working from home and not everyone has the luxury to do so. But if I had to give an answer I'd say not fair, as I mentioned above I try to make my comments quality over quantity, so I don't think I should get penalized for it. I don't mind not modding(less work for me) if it means other candidates are more qualified and/or has just as much to offer the community, but if everyone thought like that then no one would volunteer to be a mod. Either that or you'd just get left with power hungry people volunteering.

Both are good to start with. Java might have a higher learning curve but will force you to learn the basics of Object Oriented Programming early on. Python you can get away with not learning about it for a while.

I'd recommend http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ if you decide to go the python route. Python would also be more useful than Java if you want to write some scripts for automation.

what you mentioned reminds me of stackoverflow going around closing threads that have great discussions going on

• US CST Time zone. Active 8am-9pm I work from home
• Jack of all trades master of none in terms of programming / sysadmin work. I have moderated IRC channels before, I've been told I'm good at putting personal bias' aside and allow opposing opinions that remain civil to be discussed.
• Few years of Java development but mostly a DevOps engineer on a C# .NET project now. By no means an expert at anything.
• I personally don't care enough for the rule change since I tend to just ignore those posts / comments anyways and I believe that's what the downvote button is for, but if that's what the community wants then I think its fine. It might also reduce all the massive amounts of those posts. You can always change the rules again later and just test it out for now so why not.
• I work from home and only really go out on weekends for a few hours at a time, mostly an introvert so I'll have plenty of time to mod the subverse. I'm here mostly cause I'm tired of /r/programmings sense of elitism and lack of respect for anyone who has differing opinions which kinda hinders any sort of discussion and information sharing from happening. There's learnprogramming for newbs but programming itself isn't very friendly to mid level people like me.

try contributing to an open source project that you're interested in. Or try to write your own kernel, it will give you a much deeper understanding of how a computer and your code works.

it enables you to control the mouse and keyboard from the UI standpoint via code. So think about anytime in video games and/or websites where you had to do a repetitive task or spam an auto refresh button. This would allow that i think.

there's really no equal alternative in terms of the GUI. thus why i suggested looking for version 1.5.2 of source tree, until atlassian fixes it. The closest second would be https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/ but it's missing some functionality that sourcetree has.

here is their official blog post about it https://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2015/02/25/were-just-getting-started-with-sourcetree/ basically they brought on someone else and are working on it. You can google source tree windows performance , bugs / freezing issues they are pretty prominent and easy to find. The general consensus is that either use something else or look for an installer for version 1.5.2 which was the last stable version for windows.

it's broken on windows and has been left broken since last year. To be fair the guy who created it left the project.

I'm a devops guy so my programming skills aren't beginner level but it's not advanced either. The programming sub at that other place, I felt wasn't very welcoming to people like me who wanted to ask intermediate level questions, and learnprogramming usually doesn't give me very good answers due to being targeted towards beginners. I also got a lot of vibe from the comments in there that a lot of people are elitists and very close minded towards doing things in different / new ways and looking at new programming languages and frameworks.

still using it on my 10 year old project struts 1.0. T_T kill meeeeee

I've been looking around thinking of switching jobs. And there actually very few ruby jobs out there. It's mostly .NET, Java and Python out there right now.