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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by DonHopkins on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:09PM (#22713010)
I like to ask interviewees to imitate the sound a computer would make over an AM radio while executing different algorithms.

Nested for loops go brrrrrrrrrrrr, munching squares go bweep bweep bwweeeep bwweeeep bwweeeep bwweeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bweep bweep bweep bweep...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4oRHv-Svwc

Life goes shlup shlup shlup shlup shlup...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4

If they use any Don Martin sound effects, I hire them on the spot.

https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html

>CHK CHK CHA-GONK BRBBRBBRING! -- Man's Eyes Being Poked Like A Cash Registers' Keys And Jaw Popping Open Like A Till Drawer -- Mad #61, Mar 1961, Page 18 -- Kitzel's Department Store

Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by tartoran on Saturday March 28, 2020 @09:47PM (#22715707)
Thanks for sharing the DEC PDP videos. I find them fascinating and the sound gives them a new dimension
Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by lucio on Sunday March 29, 2020 @02:01AM (#22716786)
beautiful analog phosphorus naturally fading