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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by Retric on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:59AM (#12589605)
Any suggestions for dealing with this? I try and keep things as relaxed as possible to start with and make it clear that trivia and syntax is not what I am going after.

I would walk out of the room, but I am happy to walk someone though most of a problem they are not getting. The goal is going from an understood problem to actual code.

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by cwilkes on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:35AM (#12589860)
In addition to the obvious have the person walk you through what they are going to do try rewording it slightly. In this case ask for the max value.

Maybe they are nervous and focused too much on the minimum part of this that they lose sight of what they are trying to solve for. But be careful not to spoon feed it to them.

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