Anthony, who is a lot older than the other kids – probably 2nd grade – had the idea of a dinsaur house from playdough. A lot of kids joined him and they built this together.
The kitchen
The living room with couch and big-screen TV
Bedroom where they sleep and some are still in their eggs waiting to hatch
We had signed up for a class at the WSPA but it was canceled after just 2 sessions, so we were left struggling to rearrange our entire summer schedule or send Leilani to ballet classes. We opted for the rearranging. Leilani probably would have enjoyed ballet too but Sonja has issues… anyway, the hula was fun and Leilani got to talk about Hawaii and Stitch a lot.
The Hukilau
Max was the only boy and the youngest… the photos where he is not goofing off are cropped :-)
Before class
Leilani’s preschool teacher Liselle asked the kids to bring in their flags. We could not decide.
They were a family project… Sonja cut, Leilani glued – at the correct position but with bad tape… and Andy reglued.
… and while he was reglued Leilani took pics
The flags were hanging in the classroom
together with lots of “American” flags
No, the interview did not go well.
The first question was: You have an unsorted array of continuous integers and one is missing – find it. I suggested sorting, that would have worked but was not the solution he wanted, then I suggested a binary map, but that was not the most elegant solution either. With a little help something like o over n or so I determined the min, max, added them up and called a virtual function expectedSum and figured it out.
The next one was worse. Write a C++ function that gets an integer argument and outputs a string hex representation of that number. No functioncalls. Oh, and less than 10 lines. I understood the question. And I wish when I sit in meditation my mind could be as blank as it was when I should have answered. I sputtered masking and bitshifting and xor but did not write a single line.
It was over right then. The SQL question was a nested query, and I did not recover until the shell script questions.
What does the $ sign mean in a bash script … if it is undefined what happens… what does if [ $? -eq 0 ] mean… and a few more, I got these right. Took over an hour, and I am glad it is over…
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