Just for posterity (I didn't know about this and had to look it up), the "Streamtech problem set" is a set of 100 programming problems from which one may select one to solve along with an application for employment, and their index page is here. Streamtech, in turn, is apparently based in the Netherlands and claims that they "specialize in the development of first-class web applications. Notably, we offer the BittAds online advertising application."
pmb, I really enjoyed reading some of these (and plan to use some of them to teach friends about comparative language features), how did conform stumble onto these? Are they widely known in the CS world? I'm an engineer and had never heard of them until now. Are they original, or do they descend from somewhere else (Knuth?)
They are sort of oral-tradition problems. I had done a problem remarkably similar to these in the ACM programming contest, and another one I had done in algorithms class.
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pmb, I really enjoyed reading some of these (and plan to use some of them to teach friends about comparative language features), how did conform stumble onto these? Are they widely known in the CS world? I'm an engineer and had never heard of them until now. Are they original, or do they descend from somewhere else (Knuth?)
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I found them when lindsay_kuper posted to LJ about applying for an internship at Streamtech.
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