[racket-users] Re: Git-Backed Racket Packages, git archive

2019-06-16 Thread Eric Eide
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt writes: > What do you need the hash for? Could you get the hash from the package > system, for example: > >> (require pkg/lib) >> (pkg-info-checksum (hash-ref (installed-pkg-table) "z3")) > "84059a4428454cc6edd57865befaedb1d29dedce" This trick does not work (in my tests so fa

Re: [racket-users] leetcode

2019-06-16 Thread Matthias Felleisen
We’re way way way off topic here, so I’ll > On Jun 16, 2019, at 3:01 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > Just to define my terms, I distinguish Leetcode-style "coding tests" from the > old MS-style "puzzles" that Google later adopted for a while I equated puzzles w/ undergraduate algorithm regur

Re: [racket-users] leetcode

2019-06-16 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthias Felleisen wrote on 6/16/19 12:30 PM: Of course, good companies know by now that these “puzzle” questions are bad at identifying good (as in above-average) sw devs. Only the average companies still use this method because they are way behind. You want people who think systematically an

Re: [racket-users] leetcode

2019-06-16 Thread Matthias Felleisen
> On Jun 16, 2019, at 3:38 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > Anyone have thoughts on whether there's anything Racket can/should do > involving Leetcode? > > If you're not familiar, Leetcode is a site with bunch of coding interview > problems that huge numbers of CS students and professionals wor

[racket-users] leetcode

2019-06-16 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Anyone have thoughts on whether there's anything Racket can/should do involving Leetcode? If you're not familiar, Leetcode is a site with bunch of coding interview problems that huge numbers of CS students and professionals work through.  For doing the problems on the site, there's several po