Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job

Re:Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job by ivanist on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:20AM (#5749049)

Little bit of nitpicking: If x = y = 1, then value = 0. I wonder why he didn't just choose value to be 100y/x.

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Re:Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job by thedufer on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @03:22PM (#5753136)

I suspect the log is in there to give you points for experience in interviewing. I would argue that `log(x+1)` would make more sense, to avoid that 0 issue.

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