fasiha

Well, that was unexpected. In the following, I’m trying to follow Jon Evans’ advice from “The Terrible Technical Interview”.

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To: recruitment@EmployerABC.com
From: Ahmed Fasih
Subject: Re: Programming Test Invitation

Hi there! Thanks for offering to let me take a HackerRank test for ABC, I appreciate the vote of confidence.

systemed

(Dijkstra and plain A* are generally not included here as there are thousands of 
implementations, though I've made an exception for rare Ruby and Crystal versions,
and for Thor, Mapzen's enhanced A*. )

A*                                      Ruby    https://github.com/georgian-se/shortest-path
A*                                      Crystal https://github.com/petoem/a-star.cr
A* (bidirectional with shortcuts)       C++     https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla
NBA*                                    JS      https://github.com/anvaka/ngraph.path
NBA*                                    Java    https://github.com/coderodde/GraphSearchPal
NBA*                                    Java    https://github.com/coderodde/FunkyPathfinding

kristopolous

// Usage:
//   Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread 
//   then use as follows:
//
//   query(term | [term, term, ...], term | [term, term, ...], ...)
// 
// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
//
// Term is of the format:
//    ((-)text/RegExp)  ( '-' means negation )

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs