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I'm #1!

djberg96 on 2002-03-12T21:09:50

According to the "BrainBench" (www.brainbench.com), I'm the #1 Perl Programmer in Minnesota. Bwa, ha, ha!!!! Wealth! Power! Women!

Oh, alright. It's a lame-o test that our company wanted us to take. I mean, there were *three* questions that involved "here" documents for crying out loud.

Anyway, my score was 4.71 (out of 5) for anyone who wants to take the "challenge".

In MN

autarch on 2002-03-12T22:14:55

Well, I haven't taken the test yet ;) (I live in MN)

Re:In MN

Wodin on 2002-03-12T22:32:21

Nor have I, though I would hardly expect to top someone who uses Perl for a living. Besides, it's too nice outside to take a test like this right now.

Re:In MN

autarch on 2002-03-12T22:37:10

And it costs money and I'm not feeling that gullible today ;)

djberg96, you "win" for sure.

Ah... Brainbench

pdcawley on 2002-03-12T23:08:45

For a while brainbench considered me to be the best perl programmer in the UK, which is of course arrant nonsense. I did it for a laugh back when it was free.

Occasionally I'd wind pimps (recruitment conslutants) up by giving them the url...

Brainbench, oh yes...

vek on 2002-03-12T23:32:47

...where else can you pay $50 out of your own pocket for a "qualification" that is completely meaningless :-)

Re:Brainbench, oh yes...

djberg96 on 2002-03-12T23:57:54

C'mon folks. I didn't pay for this. My company made some kinda deal. It's free to us employees.

Gimme a little credit. Jeeesh!

Re:Brainbench, oh yes...

vek on 2002-03-13T03:22:58

Gimme a little credit. Jeeesh!

Sorry mate, I didn't mean any offense. I was poking fun at Brainbench not at you. I gathered from your post that your company paid for it.

Brainbench

TorgoX on 2002-03-13T05:28:59

I dimly remember consulting for Brainbench on some of their tests, possibly including an edition of the one you took.

The whole process is a mess that ideally produces no test that's embarassingly inaccurate, but at the cost of almost never producing a really good test. But I had no particularly better process to suggest, so I refrained from unhelpfully saying "if you write a Perl test to this outline, it probably won't be bad, but it will never be good."