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Yeah, you're right. FizzBuzz does test a programmers mindset and it's pretty clear she didn't meet those expectations. I was focusing on a tiny aspect of it. The main point I was t…

Yeah, you're right about that. I was just trying to explain how you can work in an environment and make websites, but not necessarily grasp a full understanding of the language you…

Yeah, I guess I didn't quite make my point clear. All I meant was that it's easy to work inside frameworks without truely understanding the language. I wasn't "comparing" myself to…

Like I mentioned below, as a self taught web programmer, it was years before I came across a modulus in a real-world situation. I feel like it's understandable to not have a 100% g…

To be fair, I was a self taught programmer (albeit PHP) and I was on my second or third programming job before I came across a modulus in the wild. It's really simple basic program…

I do the same, and it's pretty common. I feel like the point of the post is that if that is what a company expects, they should outline it in the initial job description to prevent…

I don't disagree with you that the job expected programming in their candidate. Nor should she have rationalized away the two lines that mentioned Javascript in description. Howeve…

I don't think it's necessary for the post. I figured the comments would be a nice place for it if people were curious.

I could be wrong, but I believe the post that he's referring to as inspiration is this one: https://css-tricks.com/tales-of-a-non-unicorn-a-story-about-... A pretty interesting sto…

Quick tip/Easter egg. Wrapping the text in parenthesis allows you to do triplets.

From the wikipedia page for nation [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation ]: The word "nation" is sometimes used as synonym for: State (polity) or sovereign state: a government whic…

Well, if you have any additional questions or need a direction to start in, I'd be more than willing to help. From your basic description, the simplest way to be to just have strai…

The fortunate thing is that you have a fair amount of options when it comes to technologies for a web app. I personally have used php for years and have been working extensively wi…

The lead programmer at my last job encouraged us to use it as a way to make sure our conditionals & foreach loops (PHP programmer) weren't doing too much. If we had to use braces, …

It's a C-style language syntax option. If it's only a single line in after the if, the braces are optional. I've also seen it in C++ and PHP. Whether or not it's sloppy is up for d…