EPTThe Big Programming Thread - Page 496
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Thread Rules 1. This is not a "do my homework for me" thread. If you have specific questions, ask, but don't post an assignment or homework problem and expect an exact solution. 2. No recruiting for your cockamamie projects (you won't replace facebook with 3 dudes you found on the internet and $20) 3. If you can't articulate why a language is bad, don't start slinging shit about it. Just remember that nothing is worse than making CSS IE6 compatible. 4. Use [code] tags to format code blocks. | ||
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nunez
Norway4003 Posts
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berated-
United States1134 Posts
On June 30 2014 18:29 Beany wrote: Hey guys, i'm new in this thread. Please forgive me if i'm posting this in the wrong thread or if i'm too offtopic. I'm taking care of an e-commerce website, using Magento. Yesterday i've created a new Storeview for a second language (first being Dutch, second being English). I've translated all the products and categories. But i couldn't discover how to translate the homepage. Since it's a regular page at the CMS > pages section, i did not know how i could create a good translation magento will use when changing storeview on the frontend. I've checked up on several google results, but none really talk about how to create a correct homepage translation. Do any of you know how this works? Thanks for taking the time reading this  http://go.magento.com/support/kb/entry/name/translating-store-content/ Does that page not help? | ||
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berated-
United States1134 Posts
On July 01 2014 20:24 Manit0u wrote: I'm in a bit of a pickle with Twitter Bootstrap... I have:
More or less. This is just for example purposes as nothing else has any bearing on my problem. The problem: - panels have varied-height content and I need them all to have the same height (panels, not content, but panels automatically resize to fit content instead of fill available container) - all columns are of the same size, panels won't resize to fill column no matter what I try (height: 100%, min-height: 100%, min-height: fill-available, etc. etc.) Any ideas? google CSS Equal Height columns, there are a couple things you can try that depend on if your site is fluid and what your browser support is. If your site isn't fluid then faux columns works really well, if its, keep googling. http://www.minimit.com/articles/solutions-tutorials/bootstrap-3-responsive-columns-of-same-height That guy seems to have a boostrap option, if you have browsers that can all support display: table, and display: table-cell, and don't get the creeps while using it, then that could be an option. | ||
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phar
United States1080 Posts
On June 30 2014 18:24 darkness wrote: I still don't understand why interviewers do that. I don't think it helps them find the best candidate for the actual job. It's the least bad option. That's basically what it comes down to. | ||
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phar
United States1080 Posts
You want your interview process to be relatively uniform, so you have an even way to judge candidates. So you're typically looking for a single process, not a bunch of different methods. You need something that will work for people who are 0) Unemployed with lots of free time, or: 1) Currently employed 2) Do not have a lot of free time to do side projects 3) Cannot legally share code that they're currently working on 4) Cannot legally discuss the finer details of code they're currently working on 5) Cannot spend a lot of time on the evaluation (1+ days for interviews is already pushing it) You can't ask candidates to work on take-home projects, because you lose out on the juicy pool of people who are already working at other companies. You can't ask candidates to provide lengthy detail about their current work, because of #3 & #4. You can't ask candidates to take too much time off for evaluation, because it's the US, and 3 weeks of vacation for an entire year is somehow considered generous. So you're basically left with interviews, and a limited scope of what you can get from looking at their past work. (It's hard to judge if their past work is actually all theirs, vs collaborative with other people). Then it's a process of getting interview questions to be more tailored towards the actual work, which is a long, hard process. At the very least, most US companies are not doing the bullshit brain teaser questions. But algorithms, data structures, etc are the simplest way to get someone to show you their coding skills in a 40 minute timeframe. It's basically the best you can do in a really small amount of time. It's getting better than it used to be, and some of the good interview structures will have both algorithms/data structures questions, but also more open ended design questions that more closely mirror solving software problems. But again, 40-60 minutes, there's a limit to how much detail you can go into. Because interviews don't work that well, and there's a large pool of candidates in #0 (e.g. soon-to-be graduates), companies have a separate track for #0. That's called an internship. It gives both the company and candidate an extended period of time (3+ months) to evaluate each other. | ||
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phar
United States1080 Posts
For instance there are some smaller places that will do evaluation periods, or have extended take-home-project-type interviews. | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
If you guys are interviewers, do you have any special preferences towards LaTeX resumes? I think that people who think that having a LaTeX resume makes their resume better are stupid, but I've seen a lot of anecdotal evidence otherwise. Thoughts? | ||
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epilogue
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And for Knuth's sake, do not ever submit resumes in .doc* format. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17800 Posts
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
I'm talking about quotes like this My resume was written in LaTeX. In particular, this is the template I used. One of my interviewers basically said “blah blah, I can tell that you go above and beyond because, I mean, this resume is written in LaTeX, which is awesome.” on some kid's blog, and I'm completely lost by it (the blogger suggests that this was a reason he got an interview). I'm not asking for advice about making your resume or anything, I just feel like I'm missing something when I read the quote... | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
The only thing that matters is the level of intelligence and personality. A genius who doesn't know shit about programming is much more valuable in the long term than the average coder with a big track record. | ||
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Beany
Netherlands396 Posts
On July 02 2014 07:57 berated- wrote: http://go.magento.com/support/kb/entry/name/translating-store-content/ Does that page not help? Nah it doesn't. I'm running Magento 1.8. There is a "home"-page in the CMS > pages section that's used as the homepage. But there isn't a storeview section/input for the English language. | ||
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MichaelEU
Netherlands816 Posts
I know there are some LaTeX elitists in the world who would give you a small advantage and I guess any advantage is helpful. | ||
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RoyGBiv_13
United States1275 Posts
One candidate in particular had a LaTeX resume, and that was one of the points to talk about. We ended up hiring him. I don't think the LaTeX'ness of the resume made us hire him, but it did add information density to a one page document. If you don't normally use LaTeX, though, I wouldn't hold it against you. On side projects, the later in your career and life you are, the more they mean. If a 40-year old dev can still make time to fidget with gizmos and gadgets, it's a strong indicator that they like what they do. A 20-something fresh out of college without any side projects or previous experience may have no strong indicator they actually like software development, so it's riskier to invest in them only to find out they'd rather be a history teacher. | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
On another note, David Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails has recently written an article that claims that Test-Driven Development is dead: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html What do you think about Unit Testing and TDD in general? | ||
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Nesserev
Belgium2760 Posts
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
If you don't do it for every small function you write, what's the point of doing it in the first place? Are there any scientific studies that compare the gained productivity from doing unit tests vs. doing system tests only? | ||
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artynko
Slovakia86 Posts
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Nesserev
Belgium2760 Posts
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