The surprising thing is actually that a significant number of people seems to be spending weekends in preparing for interviews[1]
1. example "recursion", "algorithm"
What programming languages are used most on weekends?
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Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#202TL;DR: On weeekends people either do homework if they are students or play with the languages they would like to work with, if they work in some SharePoint salt mine during the week.
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#203I surprised there was no mention in the blog post or the comments so far about the homework factor. It isn't just personal side projects that people are working on over the weekend. I am betting the relative percentage of CS students on the site is also much higher on the weekend. Tags like assembly, pointers, algorithm, recursion, class, and math are all rather vague. Those topics are all discussed at length in CS c…
You're right, github data would be much more accurate for weekend projects.
This.
Also, I'd have thought that with weekend projects you're more likely to find things out by experimentation and reading the documentation than by asking questions. With work or classroom projects, you have to work with a fixed spec, a prescribed technology, all sorts of Best Practices, and deadlines. Weekend projects give you much more freedom in all four respects.
So yes, GitHub would be much more accurate.
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#204The funnel shape of the scatter plot immediately reminded me of an article on the insensitivity to sample size pitfall [0], which points out that you'll expect entities with smaller sample sizes to show up more often in the extremes because of the higher variance. Looks like the tags with the biggest differences exemplify this pretty well. [0]- http://dataremixed.com/2015/01/avoiding-data-pitfalls-part-2...
I also saw that triangle shaped plot and had the same thought. I read a great paper about this recently [0] with some of the same examples as the link in the parent, but going a little further in depth. I originally got on this topic when reading Bayesian Methods for Hackers [1]. I am still hunting for a good method to correct/compensate for this when I am doing these types of comparisons in my own work. [0] - http:/…
When I was writing my thesis I wanted to correct for that as well, and weighted my data by the log of the sample size. This made intuitive sense to me, and both my advisors seemed to agree, though neither of us found compelling papers for this.
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used Haskell for a significant portion of my CS education, it's possible you aren't far from the mark.
I went to ut austin and after a long time using haskell for intro classes the administrators succumbed to temptation (and possibly pressure from dell/ibm for wage slaves) maybe ~10 years ago and started using java. It was kind of horrible because the professor for (at least one of the) intro classes reproduced cons, car and cdr from lisp and had us construct a bunch of data structures out of this monstrous java lisp…
> It was kind of horrible because the professor for (at least one of the) intro classes reproduced cons, car and cdr from lisp and had us construct a bunch of data structures out of this monstrous java lisp hybrid.
What a creative (if hardcore) way to circumvent a bureucratic requirement :)
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my opinion, XSLT is a disappointing implementation of a great idea: a DSL for structurally transforming a data format, encoded in the same data format. I guess S-expressions fit the bill if you want to use a Lisp, but I wouldn’t mind having something similar for JSON.
Realizing just how excruciating that sounds, I think am a notch or two closer to appreciating the merits of s-expressions.
I’m curious why it sounds painful to you. I didn’t mean to imply we should reimplement XSLT in JSON syntax, just that some JSON description of a stylesheet, to be applied to JSON data, could be useful.
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#207Not even a single Rust mention. Hmmm. Not sure if I'm a weekend-idiot or simply ahead of the crowd. Let's hope it's because of Rust developers both strongly disliking and never experiencing _stackoverflows_. ;+)
The Rust community has very active official forums that probably get more Rust questions than SO.
Alas, I don't think Rust's safety properties can guarantee you don't have stack overflows ;)
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"I don't know awk and sed and I'm honestly not very interested in learning them. But bash I definitely agree with." Awk/Sed are optimised for text/data processing.[0] While Bash might work, will the script work on all systems (and version)? [1] awk & predecessor sed are good for one liner programs and suitable for problems that need fast, reliable solutions. reference [0] Opening, closing files; reading, breaking and…
Then again, sed works differently on different platforms, and awk is not the same as gawk or nawk, both of which have many more features than standard awk. If you're used to the GNU implementation, you might be surprised to find your script doesn't work on a system without the gawk implementation. On Linux, I can use this sed command: sed -i ‘s/^”//’ example.txt That deletes any quotation marks that are at the beginn…
"Then again, sed works differently on different platforms"
Well that kills my idea why to use awk/sed. What would you use @freehunter?
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I have gripes about the OS X command line. I can't confidently use the scripts I do on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian. Like, get with the program, Apple. It infuriates me and I'm moving entirely off their platform as soon as my Mac kicks the bucket.
OS X is not Linux. It's a BSD-derivative, and doesn't use the GNU toolchain. It isn't that it's "not with the program." It's that it's not the operating system, or toolchain, you're familiar with. Install homebrew and GNU tools[1] if you want them. If you used an operating system that shipped with BusyBox, you'd be similarly frustrated. But operating systems are tradeoffs with pros/cons. Using a different set of tool…
"OS X is not Linux. It's a BSD-derivative, and doesn't use the GNU toolchain."
True, but I was thinking awk/sed was a good multi OS tool with minimal code effect.
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't tell, I know many developers today who are on the new shiny js thing, golang, elixir, scalar, rust train, but they never got really good in their first language be it Java, python, or php. They use linux or OSX. But they don't know awk/sed/bash, give em a very simple problem, they would write 1000 line of OOP, united test code when a few line of scripts would solve it. I know many programmers, who graduated w…
Interviewer: sort this file of 1,000 names. Here's a Linux laptop. Candidate 1: writes some Python code Candidate 2: writes some C++ Candidate 3: runs "sort names.txt"
Candidates ask no questions?