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A comment on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test. Parent comment

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by ggambetta on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:01PM (#12702221)
Not sure how much you're kidding, but... that's true for a subtractive colour system, where you start with a white sheet of paper (i.e. reflects every wavelength) and subtract colours (filter out wavelengths) by painting over the paper with crayons. For an additive colour system, where you start with a black monitor screen, and you add wavelengths, the primaries are RGB.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by jcl on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:22PM (#12702421)
...and, strictly speaking, the subtractive colors that closest match the typical human eye are cyan, magenta, and yellow -- the "CMY" of CMYK printer inks. Using red, yellow, and blue as subtractive colors gets you a big enough gamut for elementary school color mixing, but it won't give you as big a range of colors as CMY.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by bastijn on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:00PM (#12703157)
These kind of comments is why I love this site. The guy was obviously 100% joking but the engineers in us are bound to reply nonetheless.

It reminds me of a classic Dilbert. https://goo.gl/images/7DhC9f

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by chrismorgan on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:51AM (#12707041)
… and we just add K because a separate black ink is cheaper and more precise.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by pfarnsworth on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:25PM (#12704170)
I'm sorry you're incorrect. This paper says Red, Yellow and Blue. Thanks for your time, we'll be in contact.
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