[10:46] Good morning wrst, Unit193, cyberanger, twayneprice. Happy Friday. [10:46] happy friday tenc [13:04] morning tenc [13:05] ^^ morning, happy Friday. [13:05] http://toys.usvsth3m.com/binary/ [13:08] tenc: I made it through the first level. :) [13:08] Nice! [13:10] Level 10 got me pretty quick, though. :) [13:10] There are only 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't. :) [13:11] Yeah the whole time I felt like I was playing Russian roulette. Not quite enough time to feel super confident about my answers. [13:11] Classic. ^^ [13:12] Yea I was trying to go by "feel" instead of actually trying to do the math. [13:15] Woo hoo! Level 100! [13:22] Grats! And right? Kind of like Neo in the matrix. :D [13:25] I thought I saw a woman in a red dress. :) [13:31] They made another one for JavaScript that was fun too http://toys.usvsth3m.com/javascript-under-pressure/ [14:03] "At Comcast, we recognize that our customers use the Internet for different reasons and have unique data needs. As a reminder, starting October 1, 2013, Comcast will trial a new monthly data plan in this area, which will increase the amount of data included in your XFINITY Internet Service to 300 Gigabytes (GB) and provide more choice and flexibility." [14:04] Blergh. [14:11] tenc: 28 minutes 15 seconds for all 5 levels. :) It says I CAN javascript under pressure. :) [14:12] tenc: Did you have a data cap before? [14:14] No, they tried to introduce one last year but there was so much resistance they scrapped it but now I guess they're bringing it back. [14:16] So you are being INCREASED from unlimited to 300GB? :) [14:17] And nice work on the js! I spent an embarrassing amount of time on #5. Had to reach back to college. [14:17] Yeah, EXACTLY, I care about as much for Comcast as I do for Verizon and they both talk like that. [14:17] Like I don't understand anything. [14:19] #5 definitely was a tricky one. And the one with arrays mixed in with the string messed with me too. [14:21] Like someone else said: if you're writing functions that have an input domain like that you probably have other problems to address. ;) [14:22] Exactly! :) [14:24] The other thing I thought was interesting in this thread I was reading about it is how many people came up with non-recursive solutions for #5. [14:26] Mostly just because I didn't even consider trying something linear. The problem just screams recursion to me. [14:28] Yea, I not sure how I would do it without recursion unless you just hard coded x number of levels. [14:33] The other other thing that surprised me was how many people went straight to regex as soon as strings got involved. [14:37] "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems." Jamie Zawinski [14:37] :) [14:39] Love that quote. :D [14:41] I try to use regex as little as possible. And I ALWAYS have to to look it up on google. :) [14:44] Yep! [14:47] tenc: Are you a programmer? What do you normally use? [14:49] twayneprice: Yeah, you? What do you mean? Language-wise? [14:51] I'm officially the Network Admin but I was a programmer in a previous life. Yea, language-wise. [14:56] Our shop uses IBM/Informix in the back, ColdFusion on the web and a mix of Delphi, C# and Java everywhere else. [14:58] I've been on every end of that but right now most of my work is web-side. [15:00] I know a lot of NAs that started out as programmers. In fact I'm not sure I know any NAs that started out that way, come to think of it. :) [15:17] Interesting. I used to use Clarion (similar to Delphi). I've dabbled in Java, python, C#, VB, Javascript === cyberanger1 is now known as cyberanger