Jim

Co director of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Core Facility at Marshall University. Java programmer. Instructor at Learning Tree International.

[Jim @jim_]

@LisaBloom @MicrobiomDigest It’s only very recently (the last 15 years, since DC vs Heller) that the 2nd amendment has been interpreted to mean “anyone has the right to own a gun”. Misplaced commas in the 2nd amendment didn’t help, but the real culprit is the NRA: a lobbying group for gun manufacturers

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@scrumtuous Well, both of these things may be true, of course.

But I would rather work with problem solvers with creativity and vision, than with pedants. I understand attention to detail is important in most, if not all, careers, but over-emphasizing it can be detrimental.

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@scrumtuous So this kind of question is deliberately selecting the kind of employee who is likely to be pedantic and unhelpful. It's why I would never work for one of these companies, and it's why I advise my students (the good ones) to stay away from them.

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@scrumtuous Put this in a work context. "Red X" is not an unreasonable shorthand here. Imagine a new hire emails a 2-yr employee with this screenshot and this q. "There is no red x" is condescending, pedantic, and completely unhelpful. "Unreachable code" is not incorrect, and it's helpful.

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@scrumtuous I'd like to know how well people with red-green colorblindness (~4% of the population) perform on this question. I have a ton of other issues with it, but I'd imagine this is almost impossible for someone who can't readily identify red.

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@deniswirtz @mikelove @Stanford @Yale @Cambridge_Uni @JohnsHopkins @UMich @UCLA @Cornell @Penn @BU_Tweets @TuftsUniversity Presumably the units for funding are $ (not $M) and for the normalization $/M people. I’m pretty sure California is not getting $5.4 quadrillion in funding or $139M per person.

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@deniswirtz @mikelove @Stanford @Yale @Cambridge_Uni @JohnsHopkins @UMich @UCLA @Cornell @Penn @BU_Tweets @TuftsUniversity Can you post the rest of the states? Or give a link so we can find them?

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@scrumtuous There is no red x.

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@scrumtuous If the correct answer is "It's not a red x", then that has already been posted in the thread, long ago. And to be honest, any interviewer that thought that was a sensible question is interviewing for a company I wouldn't want to work for.

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@scrumtuous You can keep repeating that all you like, but the screenshot makes it clear that it is the correct answer. At this point, you are simply trolling.

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@scrumtuous The "red X" represents a compilation error. In Java, at least, the compilation error is an unreachable statement. You can keep telling people they're wrong, but that is at least a correct and valid answer.

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I always try to tip so the total is a nice round number, and the bill for my takeout today came to $32.23 and honestly this may be the happiest I have ever been.

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@sqwawk @MLMC37211431 🤣

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@sqwawk @MLMC37211431 Basically repeatedly subtract out the largest multiple of the divisor times a power of ten until there's nothing left. I'd argue that algorithm is more intuitive than the pen-and-paper long division we were taught.

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@sqwawk @MLMC37211431 Another way of thinking of it: 7*100 <= 992 < 7*200, so you "remove" the 7*100, leaving 292. Then 7*40 <= 292 < 7*50, so you remove the 7*40, leaving 12. Finally 7*1 <= 12 < 7*2, so you remove the 7*1, leaving 5. So 992=7*100+7*40+7*1+5=7*141+5.

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@sqwawk @MLMC37211431 If you were dividing by 6, it would be 992=1*600+392. 392=6*60+32. 32=5*6+2. So 992/6=165r2

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@MommaMocy A reunion with Jamil!

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@LeahMWillingham That’s only a 43.3% reduction

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@nathaliejacoby1 @HuntingtonMayor Yes