[Apokio]

Well she is a teacher at a school district she really likes and that is where we both want our kids to go to school. I don't mind driving and working remotely is possible with this company, as I learned today after talking with the recruiter. I couldn't get a feel from the recruiter if I was what they are looking for but he told me right away he wasn't a technical guy and he would pass my information along.

[NeoTifa]

I couldn't have gotten more than a 5% on that stats midterm. I also failed my java midterm somehow. Wtf? 68%

[Dogstopper]

Neo, this resource should help you on your next test:
http://www.dreaminco...a-for-n00blets/

I hear it's a good one.

[NeoTifa]

It was a bunch of stupid obscure nitnoid shit that I don't care about and will never use again. For instance, very first question:

For a method formal parameter p, which parameter mode guarantees that #p cannot appear in the ensures clause for the method's contract?
a.) clears
b.) replaces
c.) restores
d.) updates

I guess I missed this lecture and picked a because it sounded good. Apparently either b or c was correct. Like wtf is #p?

[depricated]

The answer is don't think about it, Morty.

I dunno either. I've been enjoying C# lately. All I remember of java is public static void main(String[] args) and I probably misdeclared it

This post has been edited by depricated: 26 March 2014 - 05:48 PM

[Dogstopper]

That's a whole ton of vocab, basically, it's asking what word you use in a pre-condition comment such that it does not show up in the "enures", or postcondition. Such a terrible question. I have no idea what #p is, but whatever it is, it's the decider between b and c

[NeoTifa]

Pretty much all of the multiple choice questions were like that. Then I missed 6 points on a coding question because I didn't know that to use a certain method it had to be a tag or some shit. Wutevs.

[depricated]

haha I found an empty class earlier

it was like

using XYZ
using LMN

namespace blah
class Example inherits view(of blah) implements iblah.blah

'like 3 commented out properties and one function

end class
    

My boss and I both started laughing as soon as I pulled it up (he was helping me dig through a little explored cavern of the application). It's like 6 years old. I know it's good symmetry for it to exist, conforms to standards and all that, just amusing to find a completely empty class

[ybadragon]

Trying to think of a way to write a program that reads through a clients letters and counts how many of them were sent to Colorado. I have to read the post-processed letters, because some are filtered out as no-mails (a.k.a undeliverable) And The program not only has to know the layout of every letter this year, but every letter starting from January of 2010. There are ~14,000 files to read through. We can get upwards of 30,000 letters in 1 file. They all have to be Decrypted first. Doing the math yesterday using a seperate program to decrypt It's going to take 5 1/3 hours to decrypt, and my Decryption program uses multi-threading. The other program that could do this would multiply that time by ~68%. This is gonna suck.

TL;DR - This program is gonna suck and I don't want to do it.

[DarenR]

deciding on whether or not I will do work on my new work rig---

I don't want to mess it up with useless code after all

[depricated]

ybadragon, on 27 March 2014 - 06:20 AM, said:

Trying to think of a way to write a program that reads through a clients letters and counts how many of them were sent to Colorado. I have to read the post-processed letters, because some are filtered out as no-mails (a.k.a undeliverable) And The program not only has to know the layout of every letter this year, but every letter starting from January of 2010. There are ~14,000 files to read through. We can get upwards of 30,000 letters in 1 file. They all have to be Decrypted first. Doing the math yesterday using a seperate program to decrypt It's going to take 5 1/3 hours to decrypt, and my Decryption program uses multi-threading. The other program that could do this would multiply that time by ~68%. This is gonna suck.

TL;DR - This program is gonna suck and I don't want to do it.

So start decrypting now with your decryption program.

as far as reading through the letters, Regex should do the trick

[ybadragon]

Wall of text in spoiler explaining the situation.

Spoiler

I have started decrypting, however It's much more difficult than just reading line by line and counting the number of time "Colorado" shows up. The files contain mailers that go to all different places. Each file has multiple letter types which are seperated by a line called a JDE line. Each address on each letter type is in a different spot on the letter, and each spot is noted by a begin character denoted as a 1 on the beginning of the line. So I have to create a database that tells me where in each JSL (the file that has the instructions on the begins and which JDE's they go with) the Begins are for the address block on each JDE. then as I'm reading the file test the first character to see if it's a 1. If it increment a "begin count" if the begin count is equals the addresses begin count in the current JDE check if it is for colorado. Also have to check if the letter is 2 sided, if it is, only count Colorado every other time, because the address is on the back side in spanish as well.

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[depricated]

This sounds like exactly the kind of thing regex exists for. You've described an unevenly distributed string pattern.

This post has been edited by depricated: 27 March 2014 - 06:44 AM

[DarenR]

I have decided that I hate vs 2013 that I have at home