Programming Interviews

So in my job search I've learned something important - I'm really really really bad at programming tests and interviews. Actually, I'm pretty decent at standard algorithms/data structures-related questions that come up on phone screens, but I'm awful when it comes down to ironing out the details and dealing with edge cases. Just now I horribly failed a take-home test and I feel like total shit right now.

I realize I need more practice, and I've heard from a lot of people that TopCoder's practice rooms are a great way to do it.

Here's the problem:

I find the problems, even the lower-point ones, to be WAY too fucking hard. Is there a similar place with problems that are easier, or at least less math-heavy?

>>29
What is this meaning anyways? I don't even think 'meaning' means anything. For humans it's just association between a huge tree/graph of self-referential concepts. For axiomatic systems, it's just true statements within them.
If you do meaningless things and be an autist, evolution will clean you and genes from population.

But you can verify an axiomatic system by running a theorem prover in a computational device, and you can observe the results if you wish.
Why should I? What would be the meaning of those actions?

That quote seems to only return results from your posts and some russian forum.
Please, learn to use search engines.
http://www.infinite-beyond.com/scripts/kaplan_theartoftheinfinitethepleasuresofmath.pdf

>I also meant it in the way that we wouldn't have evolved, we as physical systems wouldn't have existed, nor would have our brains have existed and thus neither the internal states and apparent computation that is going on would exist.
The factorial of 9999999999999999999999 is constant. There are no computation. The program can be expanded.