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Programming Megathread
/dev/sr0:
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Apparently it chooses you if you've been googling lots of programming-related stuff.
These challenges it's giving me are actually really hard. I've only completed 3 of them since getting invited.
Once you complete 3, it gives you a link to invite someone else.
SubDaWoofer:
lmao ive googled a stuffton of python stuff but my amount of history for BLF has drowned it out lmao
Metario:
need some help with Python
I'm working on a.. thing that decompiles a file format. After reading/XORing the text to make it normal, memory usage spikes to 95% and my PC hangs.
I've tried outputting it as an array, directly into a cache, everything but in the end it just hangs my PC. should I output the decrypted strings into a file and read from it procedurally?
Metario:
note these files I'm dealing with are 600kb or so large
--- Quote from: /dev/sr0 on January 13, 2017, 08:23:31 PM ---Yoooo did any of you guys get invited to google foobar?
EDIT: Okay I'm gonna describe what happened because this stuff is insane
I was just googling some stuff related to python when the page just starts to open. Like, in 3d.
Some words say something along the lines of "You speak our language. Want to play a game?" so of course I said yes.
and then it drops me into a terminal. There's some linux commands like ls, cat, less, etc. nothing too interesting.
Except for a file saying "type request to request a new challenge"
So I do it, and a folder appears with a programming puzzle in it, and a timer comes up with 24 hours on it.
Apparently I have to do a bunch of tasks within time limits in either python or java.
This stuff's cool.
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Google foobar is their internal recruiting program
Foxscotch:
--- Quote from: Metario on January 15, 2017, 01:05:06 PM ---need some help with Python
I'm working on a.. thing that decompiles a file format. After reading/XORing the text to make it normal, memory usage spikes to 95% and my PC hangs.
I've tried outputting it as an array, directly into a cache, everything but in the end it just hangs my PC. should I output the decrypted strings into a file and read from it procedurally?
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--- Quote from: Metario on January 15, 2017, 01:06:17 PM ---note these files I'm dealing with are 600kb or so large
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unless you're reading an absurd number of these files all at once, you should be fine
post the code