Interesting Links for 19-06-2020

[andrewducker]

Warren Ellis Accused Of Sexual Coercion

(tags:WarrenEllis abuse OhForFucksSake comics )

UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple privacy-centric model

(tags:apple google pandemic apps uk privacy )

Trump Facebook Ad Openly Using a Nazi Symbol For "Political Prisoner"

(tags:republicans nazis Holocaust wtf OhForFucksSake USA viaSwampers )

NHS coronavirus app to be scrapped after only detecting 4% of contacts on iPhones

(tags:privacy apple Google pandemic apps )

Masked arsonist might've gotten away with it if she hadn't left Etsy review

(tags:police review Etsy wtf )

This kind of shit is why you can't trust it when people "Just want to ask a few questions"

(tags:OhForFucksSake communication fraud )

How are TV subtitles made? Are they done by a human or a machine? (I could not do this job)

(tags:technology BBC subtitles )

FizzBuzz: One Simple Computing Interview Question

You'd be astounded how many people fail this. People going for computer jobs who actually can't program.
(tags:interviews jobs computers )

Vegetarian? Jewish? Muslim? Government food parcels may not be much use to you

(tags:food pork UK government )

Social progress is at the heart of community politics

(tags:politics community )

UK health ministry has no records on Turkish PPE fiasco and won't say if files destroyed

(tags:UK pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

I'd love to see some of the examples of the bad FizzBuzz code!

I reckon a lot of people (me included!) would trip up in the order of checking for multiples. You have to check for multiples of 15 first, because otherwise the condition for multiples of 3 or 5 will pass!

[andrewducker]

Except that's not the final design he ends up with...

[jack]

I think if you understand that much you are probably fine. Even if you get the order wrong and have to fix it. I haven't done hiring, but I think the people who are getting this wrong are like, people who can follow the surface forms of being a programmer but just haven't done any actual programming, so struggle with even the level of "writing a loop and a conditional". Possibly being quite senior if they can tell other people what to do and not have to do it.

I googled for example of failure and it was interesting