Tales From Interviewer’s Desk

Part 1:

How to reverse a string in-place?

Take 1: (Fresh)

string reverse( string str )
{
    char ch = str [ 0 ];
    foreach( int i = 0 ; i < str.length ; ++i )
        Response.RedirectWrite( str [ str.length – i ] ) + ch.tostring( );
}

Take 2: (Big words, no knowledge)

string reverse( object obj )
{
    string str = TypeCaste.tostring( obj );
    stack< ch > s;
    for( int i = 0 ; i < length ; ++i )
        s.push( str.charat( i ) );
    for( i = 0 ; i < length ; ++i )
        str.insertat( 0 , s.pop( ) );
}

Take 3: (2.5  year experience in C#)

string reverse( object obj )
{
    if( typeof( obj ) == "string" )
    {
        for( int i = 0 ; i < obj.length ; ++I )
        {
            char ch = str [ i ];
            str [ i ] = str [ length – i ];
            str [ length – i ] = ch;
        }
    }
    return obj.tostring( );
}

Take 4: (Fresh)

string reverse( object obj )
{
    if( obj == "string" )
    {
        char ch = str [ 0 ];
        for( int i = 0 ; i < obj.length ; ++I )
            str [ i ] = str [ length – i ];
        str [ str.length ] = ch;
    }
}

Enough!

Facebook is becoming an information disclosure nightmare. People are too stupid to be handed a public social network for their own good. For example, this just crossed my ridiculously crafted homepage few minutes ago.

"Muhammad just added the birthdays of 15 friends to their MyCalendar.
Muhammad has requested to add the following birthdays to their MyCalendar:"

[more blah blah blah with actual dates]“

My comment:

Tanveer Badar at 14:31 on 05 April
[noun], you should know better. It is information disclosure, and about other people’s personal information you have no right to publish in public.
Please don’t add mine to this application.

What amuses me is that the guy is supposed to be specializing in networking, and security by implication (I think). I shudder to think whose data rests in the hands of such and likes.

Those who take time to read this blog might have noticed there is very little information about me here. You won’t find much about me online because I don’t want you to. But how are you supposed to prevent others leaking information about you online.