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#ifndef ma_concurrent_queue_h
#define ma_concurrent_queue_h

// Based on code from http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/threading/implementing-a-thread-safe-queue-using-condition-variables.html
// Original version by Anthony Williams
// Modifications by Michael Anderson

#include "boost/thread.hpp"
#include <deque>

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/* Instructions on compilation and execution
 * =========================================
 *
 * Compile this program with pthreads:
 *
 *   g++ -Wall -lpthread -o graphdb-simulator graphdb-simulator.cpp
 *
 * Before you run this program, you need to create the following
 * directories:
 *

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#!/usr/bin/python

#gypify.py for GYP (http://code.google.com/p/gyp)
#Found @ http://code.google.com/p/gyp/issues/detail?id=82 (Oct 1, 2009)
#Download original @ http://gyp.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=1601673567448205219&name=gypify.py&token=qm9EhXN3mZxrS1pniUgsh5nG6Bs%3A1328804204976

#Attached is a script that converts a set of existing Chromium-dependent
#.sln and .vcproj files to .gyp.  It currently supports executable, shared
#library, static library and build event projects.  The output .gyp file is
#created by:

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A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

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The Challenge
-------------
Given the following riddle, write a regular expression describing all possible answers,
assuming you never make a move which simply undoes the last one you made.

The Riddle
----------
You are on your way somewhere, taking with you your cabbage, goat, and wolf, as always.
You come upon a river and are compelled to cross it, but you can only carry one of the
three animals at a time. None of whom can swim because this isn't THAT kind of riddle.

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spion@missperfect:~/Projects/testhash$ gcc -O3 test.c -o testc
spion@missperfect:~/Projects/testhash$ time ./testc
The 1000000
a 2000000
at 1000000
brown 1000000
dog 1000000
era 1000000
fox 1000000
jumped 1000000

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#
# Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Vinay Sajip. All rights reserved. Licensed under the new BSD license.
#
import ctypes
import logging
import os

class ColorizingStreamHandler(logging.StreamHandler):
    # color names to indices
    color_map = {

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M[16],X=16,W,k;main(){T(system("stty cbreak")
);puts(W&1?"WIN":"LOSE");}K[]={2,3,1};s(f,d,i
,j,l,P){for(i=4;i--;)for(j=k=l=0;k<4;)j<4?P=M
[w(d,i,j++)],W|=P>>11,l*P&&(f?M[w(d,i,k)]=l<<
(l==P):0,k++),l=l?P?l-P?P:0:l:P:(f?M[w(d,i,k)
]=l:0,++k,W|=2*!l,l=0);}w(d,i,j){return d?w(d
-1,j,3-i):4*i+j;}T(i){for(i=X+rand()%X;M[i%X]
*i;i--);i?M[i%X]=2<<rand()%2:0;for(W=i=0;i<4;
)s(0,i++);for(i=X,puts("\e[2J\e[H");i--;i%4||
puts(""))printf(M[i]?"%4d|":"    |",M[i]);W-2

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#!/bin/bash
function jsonval {
    temp=`echo $json | sed 's/\\\\\//\//g' | sed 's/[{}]//g' | awk -v k="text" '{n=split($0,a,","); for (i=1; i<=n; i++) print a[i]}' | sed 's/\"\:\"/\|/g' | sed 's/[\,]/ /g' | sed 's/\"//g' | grep -w $prop`
    echo ${temp##*|}
}

json=`curl -s -X GET http://twitter.com/users/show/$1.json`
prop='profile_image_url'
picurl=`jsonval`

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greek_alphabet = {
    u'\u0391': 'Alpha',
    u'\u0392': 'Beta',
    u'\u0393': 'Gamma',
    u'\u0394': 'Delta',
    u'\u0395': 'Epsilon',
    u'\u0396': 'Zeta',
    u'\u0397': 'Eta',
    u'\u0398': 'Theta',
    u'\u0399': 'Iota',