[10:46] <tenc> Good morning wrst, Unit193, cyberanger, twayneprice. Happy Friday.
[10:46] <wrst> happy friday tenc
[13:04] <twayneprice> morning tenc
[13:05] <tenc> ^^ morning, happy Friday.
[13:05] <tenc> http://toys.usvsth3m.com/binary/
[13:08] <twayneprice> tenc: I made it through the first level.  :)
[13:08] <tenc> Nice! <g>
[13:10] <twayneprice> Level 10 got me pretty quick, though.  :)
[13:10] <twayneprice> There are only 10 kinds of people.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.  :)
[13:11] <tenc> 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] <tenc> Classic. ^^
[13:12] <twayneprice> Yea I was trying to go by "feel" instead of actually trying to do the math.
[13:15] <twayneprice> Woo hoo!  Level 100!
[13:22] <tenc> Grats! And right? Kind of like Neo in the matrix. :D
[13:25] <twayneprice> I thought I saw a woman in a red dress.  :)
[13:31] <tenc> They made another one for JavaScript that was fun too http://toys.usvsth3m.com/javascript-under-pressure/
[14:03] <tenc> "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] <tenc> Blergh.
[14:11] <twayneprice> tenc: 28 minutes 15 seconds for all 5 levels.  :)  It says I CAN javascript under pressure.  :)
[14:12] <twayneprice> tenc: Did you have a data cap before?
[14:14] <tenc> 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] <twayneprice> So you are being INCREASED from unlimited to 300GB?  :)
[14:17] <tenc> And nice work on the js! I spent an embarrassing amount of time on #5. Had to reach back to college.
[14:17] <tenc> Yeah, EXACTLY, I care about as much for Comcast as I do for Verizon and they both talk like that.
[14:17] <tenc> Like I don't understand anything.
[14:19] <twayneprice> #5 definitely was a tricky one.  And the one with arrays mixed in with the string messed with me too.
[14:21] <tenc> 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] <twayneprice> Exactly!  :)
[14:24] <tenc> 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] <tenc> Mostly just because I didn't even consider trying something linear. The problem just screams recursion to me.
[14:28] <twayneprice> Yea, I not sure how I would do it without recursion unless you just hard coded x number of levels.
[14:33] <tenc> The other other thing that surprised me was how many people went straight to regex as soon as strings got involved.
[14:37] <twayneprice> "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems."  Jamie Zawinski
[14:37] <twayneprice> :)
[14:39] <tenc> Love that quote. :D
[14:41] <twayneprice> I try to use regex as little as possible.  And I ALWAYS have to to look it up on google.  :)
[14:44] <tenc> Yep! <g>
[14:47] <twayneprice> tenc: Are you a programmer?  What do you normally use?
[14:49] <tenc> twayneprice: Yeah, you? What do you mean? Language-wise?
[14:51] <twayneprice> I'm officially the Network Admin but I was a programmer in a previous life.  Yea, language-wise.
[14:56] <tenc> Our shop uses IBM/Informix in the back, ColdFusion on the web and a mix of Delphi, C# and Java everywhere else.
[14:58] <tenc> I've been on every end of that but right now most of my work is web-side.
[15:00] <tenc> 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] <twayneprice> Interesting.    I used to use Clarion (similar to Delphi).  I've dabbled in Java, python, C#, VB, Javascript