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Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by Jorge1o1 on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:02PM (#30474923)
That’s exactly why it’s such a bad interview question, regardless of how “fundamental” it is to a website, changing the HTML <head> tags will never be within the new hire’s scope of work.

They will basically never ever in their entire career need to do this.

It’s like hiring a C++ developer by quizzing them on random gcc flags. These are things that make up 0.00001% of the total work produced by the dev.

Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by redonyo on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:45AM (#30475656)
Now I'm thinking its a good idea to quiz developers on the first 10 lines of some arbitrary Makefile