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Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by n8cpdx on Saturday February 26, 2022 @11:57AM (#30479312)
Could you not also Google the answer to fizzbuzz in 15-30 minutes?
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Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by plandis on Sunday February 27, 2022 @03:10PM (#30491998)
You could Google solutions very easily but I suspect if you can’t do fizzbuzz you couldn’t explain those solutions very well.

I see fizzbuzz as a basic test to see if one can synthesize basic programming concepts and implement something that works. Explaining the first few elements on an html5 document is more like asking if you have definitions memorized in my opinion.

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