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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 ZoFreX on Friday October 14, 2016 @07:03AM (#12707289)
> I wasn't extremely supportive of the interviewee once he turned slightly sarcastic and rattled off hexadecimal bytes instead of just saying "SYN" and "ACK," though.

His response:

> in hexadecimal: 0x02, 0x12, 0x10 – literally "synchronize" and "acknowledge".

What do you think SYN and ACK stand for? Could it be "synchronize" and "acknowledge"? Moreover his point that knowing the bytes is more useful when you're looking at packet dumps is valid.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by Klockan on Friday October 14, 2016 @07:32AM (#12707404)
The messages contains a lot more than the flags though so those bytes aren't enough and he didn't mention SYN-ACK.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by daveio on Friday October 14, 2016 @08:01AM (#12707512)
They're bits. SYN can be represented as 0x02, ACK can be represented as 0x10. 0x02 BITWISE-OR 0x10, ie SYN BITWISE-OR ACK or 'SYN-ACK' colloquially, is 0x12.

"in hexadecimal: 0x02, 0x12, 0x10".

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by Klockan on Saturday October 15, 2016 @01:28AM (#12712861)
Those are just flags, the message contains much more than the flag. Therefore it is wrong to say that they just send the flags and that the flags are equivalent to SYN and ACK.
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