First Go challenge – binary decoding

Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by mattetti on Saturday February 28, 2015 @07:12PM (#9125542)

Challenge author here. There is nothing Go specific to the challenge itself. I really want to encourage everyone to try solving the problem. If you don't like, know or care to learn Go, try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm or whatever language you want to play with.

While only Go submissions will be evaluated and rewarded, I would personally be glad to look at solutions written in other languages.

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by mvanotti on Sunday March 01, 2015 @02:42PM (#9128545)

Thank you for this challenge :)

It was easy to solve, but I'm struggling trying to get the design right, also trying to be more robust with the parsing (there are fields that can be interpreted as uint64, int64, int32, uint32, etc).

Most of the hex editors available for linux are broken, ghex for example, the "grab these 4 bytes and interpret them as float32" functionallity doesn't work at all. I don't know what people who work doing this kind of things use.

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by IndianGuru on Sunday March 01, 2015 @06:08PM (#9129324)

You can join the golang-challenge channel on slack which is a room for people who are going to participate in the Go Challenge - http://t.co/n6EesY9Mmv

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by nindalf on Sunday March 01, 2015 @06:14AM (#9126713)

Have a couple of clarifications about the problem. Who should I contact about that?

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by okbake on Saturday February 28, 2015 @10:02PM (#9125885)

The submission instructions mention including your full name, country of residence, and twitter handle. I don't have a twitter handle, will my submission still count? Do you accept anonymous submissions?

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by IndianGuru on Saturday February 28, 2015 @10:05PM (#9125892)

No issue. You can include your full name and country of residence. We are accepting anonymous submissions but then these participants are not eligible for the prizes.

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by zak_mc_kracken on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:04AM (#9126096)

> try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm

Java is strangely absent from that list :)

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by mattetti on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:14AM (#9126116)

Java is totally fine, just not a language I expect the fancy HN crowd to pick for a programming challenge (Note that I also didn't mention Python, C# and plenty other good languages).

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by dalke on Sunday March 01, 2015 @05:05AM (#9126583)

Glad to read you think I'm a plain Python programmer. Fancy code is hard to read and maintain. ;)

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by rxaxm on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:42PM (#9125709)

does splice use go?

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by mattetti on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:52PM (#9125735)

Yes Splice uses Go for everything backend related (web APIs, file parsers/decoders, audio processing) AngularJS for the frontend, ObjC & C#, C & C++ for native desktop/mobile apps.

We are always looking for talented backend engineers to join our exceptional team.

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by rxaxm on Saturday February 28, 2015 @09:13PM (#9125775)

http://jobs.splice.com/ has nothing listed for backend

where should i reach out?

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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by mattetti on Saturday February 28, 2015 @09:21PM (#9125793)

We don't actively advertise this position, maybe we should. You or other candidates should feel free to contact me at matt/at/splice.com and dont forget to attach your challenge solution.

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