I got 81%, all my errors were from misidentifying big data services as Pokémon. If I had known that the set of Pokémon was limited to the 386 from first three generations, I probably would have gotten 100%.
...and if the quiz had included Pokémon from the full set of 898 in the last generation of games, I would have fared a lot worse.
Added some repos related to some private projects just to help you out. Gotta list ‘em all. (Poliwrath, sandslash, farfetchd... seriously how is farfetch’d not used!)
Farfetchd is another weird one... the Japanese name is kamonegi which is just a portmanteau of “duck” and “green onion”. Which is almost a literal description of the pokémon. Not sure where they were going with the translation though...
Hey thanks, not sure how you add those repos, currently I have to manually run a script to get and update the repos list. Now I'm actually working on automating it (with GitHub Actions).
I would be honored to be included in such an amazing compilation of repos. You can’t used the ‘ character in repository names on GitHub, only alphanumeric and -. I went with ‘farfetchd’ instead of ‘farfetch-d’ as it’s kinda like etcd, fluentd... not that I aim to be as awesome as those.
How would this be a good test in a technical interview? Even if you are hiring “Big Data” folks most of them wouldn’t and shouldn’t know half of these products and companies.
Not to mention that it doesn’t tell you if the person knows the products or if they are just a huge Pokémon fan...
If anyone uses this as candidate assessment tool I would expect anyone with any shred of dignity to walk out.
As for filtering recruiters I think it’s a very SV centric problem and also quite a privileged problem to have. It’s funny as long as you don’t actually need a job because your rent is due.
It maybe a problem but from my experience most people who take the piss out of recruitment at least here in the U.K. tend to be the ones who think they are top 0.1% talent but in reality are far from it.
True top talent has the luxury of usually not having to deal with recruiters in the first place and for the rest of us in the middle we know it sucks but it’s something most of us learn to deal with rather easily.
The best tech recruiters I worked with were also the ones who didn’t know anything and didn’t care, and it’s fine. I want a recruiter to be able to understand what kind of a role I want to have at a high level and what would the next challenge I want to take on, tech lead, people’s manager, building something from the ground up at a startup etc rather than try to pattern much my CV to some job posting.
The technobabble only detracts from the recruitment process I don’t care if they understand the difference between React and React Native or don’t.
I don't care if a recruiter knows the difference between React and React Native, but I do care that they know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
Yeah, but what confuses me about these two is that in the original Japanese the evolution is still Arbok but the base version is... Arbo. Huh? Makes you wonder what the original naming idea was.
The original name is written as "アーボ" - "Ābo" - reverse the character order and you get "ボア" - "Boa" (the horizontal line is known as the long vowel mark, so it can be omitted).
But then the Japanese for Arbok is "アーボック" according to [1], but reversing the character order doesn't quite result in cobra. Does this have a different hidden meaning, or are people supposed to insert the r sound and reverse it like it's in English?
Right, that's my point--Arbok seems to be a phoneticization of the reversed English word, but interpreting Arbo as Boa is reversing the phoneticized word i.e. the operations are applied in reverse. Maybe they were just playing fast and loose with the naming patterns XD
It’s possible - though maybe a stretch? - that the “ku” is supposed to allude to “-kun”, a Japanese suffix kind of akin to “Jr.” in English. Which would make this whole thing a pretty intricate and impressive multilingual pun.
something, kind of related... I saw in one of those snowden documents the CIA likes to name their programs after pokemon so it would be hard to search for. Like pikachu etc.
Unrelated, but I was only able to complete the Tiberian Sun missions a few years back thanks to a walk through guide archived on the CIA website, which they in turn got from the Osama bin Laden operation.
I think I first saw this when Hadoop had a lot of hype. For a short period of time I actually had 'big data' in my job title despite only working with small data. Anyone still in the big data space who knows if Hadoop is still widely used?
I love this when introducing 'Big Data' to students - helps get the point across that no-one can know every tool out there and it's OK if everything sounds like Pokémon at first :)
Pokemon Red came out in 1996. If you were 10 back then, you’re now 34-35. Plenty of senior engineers out there who played pokemon in their youth (and potentially kept playing after that)
I dont know. However, you can see from the following:-
Publishers: "Nintendo, Game Freak, The Pokémon Company",
American_Publisher: "Pokémon",
Japanese_Publisher: "Pocket Monster",
Chinese_Whisper: "big data".
Sources: memory, Wikipedia entry.
ROFL.