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Re:I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and writ... by ForHackernews on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:02AM (#21890838)
> learning to remember to complete a closed book exam is not a useful skill anymore.

Unless you need to pass a whiteboard job interview that depends on remembering some obscure algorithm. ;)

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Re:I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and writ... by capableweb on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:56AM (#21891315)
> Unless you need to pass a whiteboard job interview

No one _needs_ to pass those kind of interviews. There are plenty of jobs that doesn't require that at all. But if you want to, it is sure handy to be able to remember obscure algorithms.

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