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Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by jtchang on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:42PM (#18880592)
How does it indicate how well someone knows JS? That's the type of question you can easily Google.

Not to mention in general Javascript does some pretty not intuitive things with objects: https://archive.org/details/wat_destroyallsoftware

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Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by tracker1 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @03:44PM (#18898568)
Well, if someone googles it in a live interview, they're pretty much out. It's not the ONLY question I ask, but will guide where the rest of questions come from.

It's (knowledge of falsy values) been a very representative indicator of how well they know the language itself. It's not an indicator of understanding software as a whole, or a given UI framework or library.

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