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Re:Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad inter... by zimpenfish on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:50AM (#22832051)
> They send you the project prompt in an email right at the beginning of your time interval

Whoops, your home internet has gone down. Or Gmail has decided it's not having any mail from their domain. Or your mail provider think they're spam. Or your mail client doesn't pick up the email for half an hour. There's a whole raft of problems coming from "email delivery is reliable enough to be a timer."

Re:Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad inter... by Eldt on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:42AM (#22832436)
So then you resolve those issues and go on the attempt #2.