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Re:'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience by RandomOpinion on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:49PM (#13132950)
You might be a bit out of date here. Textbooks are absurdly expensive these days relative to computers; Stewart's "Calculus" is $289[0], for example. That's about the right range for a new low end laptop or a used mid-range laptop.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/1285740629/

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Re:'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience by mikeevans on Thursday December 08, 2016 @02:51PM (#13133602)
Perhaps. But 1) you can rent that book for a fraction of the price (Amazon currently shows it for ~$60) and 2) just because students have to pay for expensive books doesn't mean they have extra money to spend on a second computer.
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