IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Also what is the deal with all Indians driving champaign or silver colored Corollas or Camry. They also all have a box of tissues in their back window.

Tenks_sl said:

Also what is the deal with all Indians driving champaign or silver colored Corollas or Camry. They also all have a box of tissues in their back window.

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Indians are more obsessed with the colour gold then Rappers.

They love silver as well. They even eat it. I had an indian contractor who brought in ... I guess maybe like a traditional Indian cookie and it had like a very thin silver paste ontop of it. Strangest thing I've ever had. Something about how they believe silver is good for the digestive tract.

Deathwing_sl said:

Kaju katli? Did you try it? Very bland.

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Yes I did and yeah it had pretty much no taste

Are the tissues in case you have to pull off and jerk off in a parking lot?

We have an Indian female working with us. She's very nice and intelligent. Only complaint I have is she doesn't use deodorant.

I just found a box of 100 galaxy control systems hid cards in the trash at the office, they're new but programmed to our old system. Are they worth anything?

Randomly, in the middle of tracking down a bug, I see references to a global constant named DOT. What is it? Take a guess.

It's: "."

Yes it's a period. Or a dot. The actual call to it is "<classname>.DOT". It would have taken less time to actually write out "." when necessary.

I think I found my first coding pet peeve.

I mean, seriously... what the fuck?

Someone please tell me this is best practice so I can at least understand why it was done.

I've recently been using Titan as a graph-based database and search engine (well, Elastic does that) and the API for Java is like a Scala backend or something so it isn't uncommon for method names to just be underscores. It is bizzare.

Like that is how you launch a MapReduce against an HDFS file

moontayle_sl said:

Randomly, in the middle of tracking down a bug, I see references to a global constant named DOT. What is it? Take a guess.

It's: "."

Yes it's a period. Or a dot. The actual call to it is "<classname>.DOT". It would have taken less time to actually write out "." when necessary.

I think I found my first coding pet peeve.

I mean, seriously... what the fuck?

Someone please tell me this is best practice so I can at least understand why it was done.

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So to be clear without the global macro the code would be "YourClass..()"? If that's the case, then the DOT makes it a lot more clear that you're calling a function. I don't do a lot of coding in Java, so I have no idea why you would have a call that looks like that in the first place.

Or it is someone going overboard with the "magic strings are evil" notion. Could have written "." instead. A bit odd to have that in your code though.

Tripamang_sl said:

So to be clear without the global macro the code would be "YourClass..()"? If that's the case, then the DOT makes it a lot more clear that you're calling a function. I don't do a lot of coding in Java, so I have no idea why you would have a call that looks like that in the first place.

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I cannot mentally fathom the existence of this constant. With Android programming if you need something to have Application level context, you basically create a class that extends Application and throw it in there (more to it than that, but that's the gist). Whoever put together this app decide that "." needed to be a global constant. So they can call Application.DOT when they need a fucking dot. Instead of, you know, just putting a dot. And it's actually used. It's not like this is a random troll constant or a method like "isagoat()".

Tuco_sl said:

Is the value a '.' or in other words, ascii value 46?

I don't know why you wouldn't just write '.' You may as well make:
at that point.

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Yes. That's the value. It's useless beyond imagination, and yet it exists.

moontayle_sl said:

Yes. That's the value. It's useless beyond imagination, and yet it exists.

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The coder is probably trying to avoid magic strings.