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Who do you call when the cluster is breaking down?
(If there are several correct answers, mark all of them).
Iker
Iker
Iker
Ghostbusters
You are in a desert walking along the sand and all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise crawling towards you. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can’t, not without your help. But you are not helping. Why?
Hang on a second, this question comes from a movie.
Do you make up these questions or they write them down for you?
What do you mean I am not helping?
What is a tortoise?
You are working on your code and, unexpectedly, you find a really big bug and you cannot keep working. What do you do?
Desperately hit the keyboard while you swear out loud
Cry in silence
Grab [ANXIETY_COPING_FOOD] and cry in silence
Call Iker
It’s December 2020 and you are happily working from home when, unexpectedly, you find an email from IT saying weird stuff about the VPN. This could mean you lose access to the cluster/workspace for a while. What do you do?
Grab any [ANXIETY_COPING_FOOD] left and cry in silence
Wait for Iker’s protocol to save you
Cry in silence
Desperately contact IT, this is a major incident
You find yourself programming, and you're really proud of your code because you're doing great, but suddenly an error appears and you have no idea what it means. You try to fix it by searching on google and stack overflow, but after a long search you can't find the solution. Finally you decide to contact Iker, how long will it take him to solve the problem?
(Mark all the correct answers)
He knows a magic command that solves it in a second.
He will do a quick search and solve it in a minute.
He will tell you that there is a much easier way of getting the same result much faster.
Which is Iker’s favourite food?
Agora’s cookies
Chocolate
Chuletón (ribeye)
Haribo gummies
Which is Iker’s favourite drink?
bbgcoffee
bbgwater
bbgbeer
bbgtea
Which is Iker’s favourite programming language?
Python
R
Perl
Julia
Which is the programming language that Iker hates the most?
SQL
R
Javascript
HTML
Which color is Iker’s favourite on a hat?
Blue
Green
Yellow
Red
What is Iker’s favourite interior design style?
Bohemian
Python decorators
Hollywood glam
Hamptons
You are about to publish a paper, but the accompanying code is a mess. You ask Iker for a code review, because this is the right thing to do.
What will be Iker’s most likely comment?
(Mark all the correct answers)
Why don't you do it SIMPLER?
More than half of your code does NOTHING in particular.
There is a tool in the lab that does the same, ONLY IT RUNS 100x FASTER.
Give me a couple of days and I will redo EVERYTHING.
You are at your first day in the BBGLab as a master student and your tutor tells you that you will have a meeting with someone called Iker that will explain you some important things. What is going to happen during that meeting?
(Mark all the correct answers).
You will feel overwhelmed with so many new words and commands such as cluster, interactive, screen, environment..
You will realize that Iker is a great person and knows so many things.
You will think that it is too much information to remember but he tells you that you can contact him if you forget anything.
You will realize that in the master you have learnt very little compared with the real world.
Iker usual suspects for the lack of space in the cluster:
Oriol
Inés
Oriol and Inés
All the BBGLab
What do you feel when Iker revise your code?
Grateful that any error might be revealed before publication
Afraid of the exposure of your bad programming practices
Ashamed that you have not properly documented your code
All the answers are correct
Where does Iker live?
In the world’s capital (Bilbao of course)
In the spiritual dimension inside the bbgcluster
Which of the following qualities are correct about Iker?
(Mark all the correct answers).
He is always available when you need any help.
Even if you have a silly question he explains it very well and says that there are no silly questions.
He is a very kind person.
He knows everything about programming and computers.
Which statement is true?
(Mark all the correct answers)
BBGLab wouldn’t be the same without Iker!
BBGLab wishes Iker all the best in his new adventure!
BBGLab BBGLab is gonna miss Iker a lot!
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