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Comment on Challenge – Camel and Bananas by CompetencyMatrixHater

CompetencyMatrixHater — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0000

I worked this out in my head – it’s fairly obvious. There are 3000 bananas. The bananas can’t be taken straight to the market as the camel can only carry 1000. There’s no point taking bananas direct to the market, as the camel will eat them all before it gets there. So the camel travels 1 km at a time. At first it’s trying to move 3000 bananas, which takes 3 trips, plus 2 return trips. This costs 5 bananas per km, and this stage lasts for 200km until there are only 2000 bananas left. Then the cost drops to 3 bananas per km – for the next 333.33… km. Then the camel may as well simply keep going at a cost of 1 banana per km, as it is carrying all the bananas. It has (1000-333.33 – 200) km to go, so it ends up with 333.33 + 200 km. Of course the problem overlooks the problem of getting the camel back to the farm.

Comment on Programmer Competency Matrix by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:10:00 +0000

Comment on Programmer Competency Matrix by New Year’s Report - Philip Bjorge

New Year’s Report - Philip Bjorge — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:12:02 +0000

[...] time to gauge my programming progress this year. I’ll be rating myself using Sijin Joseph’s programmer competency matrix. Next year, I’ll look back on this post and see how and where I’ve [...]

Comment on Programmer Competency Matrix by Umnov Denis

Umnov Denis — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:57:00 +0000

Thank you, very useful!

Comment on Programmer Competency Matrix – 32 attributes to evaluate programmers by Víctor M. Valenzuela

Víctor M. Valenzuela — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:31:00 +0000

This is the single most motivating thing I’ve seen in – well I can’t even remember how much. Thank you.

The only point I’d strongly disagree with is deep API usage knowledge. The whole point of APIs is to just take them as you go, when you need them, in a no-brainer way – hence all the authors’ efforts on naming, parameters, functionality description, local organization into packages… Browsing the source of the Java class library is much more worthy of one’s time than memorizing a bunch of method signatures.

Comment on Challenge – Camel and Bananas by CT Vargas

CT Vargas — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:25:00 +0000

Shouldn’t the answer be 0? The camel can only carry 1000 bananas at any given time, so you start with 1000. But it eats one banana per km, so after a single 1000km trip you won’t have any bananas left.

Comment on Challenge – Camel and Bananas by jeff sergeant

jeff sergeant — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:14:00 +0000

The answer is simple logic..

As it’s a camel, it can probably eat as many bananas before the trip and store up the energy. so even if it eats 2000 bananas before leaving, it will only just be able to take the remaining 1000 bananas to market and just get back again before it is out of energy…

and if the camel can’t save up energy from the bananas, then the answer is zero, because it needs more bananas than it can carry to have enough food to get there and back

Comment on Oracle to start charging for MySQL – Standard edition @ 2000 USD by tony baldwin

tony baldwin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Switch to Postrgres, I suppose. Darn.

Now, all that code that’s already out there as FOSS, it’s still out there as FOSS, right? How do they expect to make this work?
I mean, once code is GPL, it is protected against becoming proprietary.
Sure, they can charge for support, for media, etc. But they can’t really charge for code that’s already in the hands of the community, so to speak.
And anyone could fork from that code.
Or, as mentioned above, just switch to PostgreSQL, but it seems a lot more stuff is already running with MySQL (like all my webstuff).

Oh, but look http://www.mysql.com/products/community/
The “community edition” (ie GPL) is still free, and includes the InnoDB stuff, even.

Problem?

Comment on Challenge – Camel and Bananas by Abhay

Abhay — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:44:54 +0000

lots of assumptions need to be written down here…can u please do that? from my view, someone has to carry the remaining bananas and put 1 banana on Camel’s “BACK” for every kilometer…now going by conventional logic total number of banana’s that can be delivered is the number of bananas carrried by “someone”…

Comment on China is not the world’s biggest manufacturer by dongo

dongo — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:42:08 +0000

Reason for this article is that you’re an Indian and are jealous of Chinese popularity. Face it, Pakistan & China kicks India’s ass.