The Most Challenging Interview Question
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From: nick on 8 May 2010 21:58 On May 8, 8:26 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 2010-05-07, nick wrote: > > > Argh! "Its" ... "its" ... "its." > > > It's a declension. Not possessive, not a contraction. Like "his" or > > "her," it needs no apostrophe. > > Until around the beginning of the 19th century, "it's" was > the usual form. In American English? Are you sure? Google news archive search seems to disagree. This link will probably break, sorry about that. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=its+OR+it's&as_user_ldate=1800&as_user_hdate=1825
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 8 May 2010 22:04 On 2010-05-09, nick wrote: > On May 8, 8:26?pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2010-05-07, nick wrote: >> >> > Argh! "Its" ... "its" ... "its." >> >> > It's a declension. Not possessive, not a contraction. Like "his" or >> > "her," it needs no apostrophe. >> >> ? ? Until around the beginning of the 19th century, "it's" was >> ? ? the usual form. > > In American English? Are you sure? Google news archive search seems to > disagree. According to the OED. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
From: David Mark on 8 May 2010 22:06 Garrett Smith wrote: > Garrett Smith wrote: >> David Mark wrote: >>> Garrett Smith wrote: >>>> Dmitry A. Soshnikov wrote: >>>>> On 08.05.2010 23:56, Garrett Smith wrote: >>>>>> David Mark wrote: >>>>>>> Garrett Smith wrote: >>>>> [...] > > >> >> Like it or not, these things are industry standard. jQuery and >> Mootools, in particular, seem to elicit a devotion that is part of the >> social. > > s/social/meme > Doesn't really matter. Fads come and go. If I had to interview for such a position, I could just point them to My Library. It does everything the others do and more (with considerably more style). The OO interface isn't that far off from the others (except that the metaphors actually make sense). What's to argue? Are the others somehow better because they required a million monkey effort spanning several years? Do support clients really want to be ignored (roughly) 25% of the time and misled most of the rest? If they really need proof, it's no further away than my SlickSpeed test, which clearly demonstrates the futility of those "major" projects (and CSS selector queries in general). Then there are the TaskSpeed results, which demonstrate that the others are not only scatter-shot, but often slow about it. And nobody sane could look at my Examples page and conclude that they'd be better off using a jQuery or Mootools mish-mash. I refuse to believe that everyone involved with this stuff is irretrievably dense.
From: David Mark on 8 May 2010 22:10 Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On 2010-05-09, nick wrote: >> On May 8, 8:26?pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 2010-05-07, nick wrote: >>> >>>> Argh! "Its" ... "its" ... "its." >>>> It's a declension. Not possessive, not a contraction. Like "his" or >>>> "her," it needs no apostrophe. >>> ? ? Until around the beginning of the 19th century, "it's" was >>> ? ? the usual form. >> In American English? Are you sure? Google news archive search seems to >> disagree. > > According to the OED. > > Regardless, it is best not to set the language back centuries. Whatever people once wrote like that are long dead.
From: David Mark on 8 May 2010 22:14
Garrett Smith wrote: [...] > > How about a forward loop using splice? > > function removeThrees(a) { > for(var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { > if(a[i] === 3) { > a.splice(i,1); > } > } > return a; > } > I just don't care to evaluate the length property each time through (or to splice one member at a time), even in an example. And though slightly longer, I consider mine to be easier to understand at a glance. YMMV. The strict comparison is a good idea in this case though. |