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Re:I should have loved biology by Koshkin on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:56PM (#32039230)
> it'll be fun

Not during an interview, though. The interviewer would see it as trolling (at best), and you would fail the interview. And for a good reason! Because as an engineer (and an intelligent person in general) you must be able to separate what is essential from the non-essential for the subject in question. For instance, the physics or the physiology of the process of pushing a key on a keyboard is probably not what the question was about, nor do those things in fact have much to do with typing, even (which you can do on a touchscreen or using the mouse).

Re:I should have loved biology by philsnow on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:52PM (#32041406)
This answer reminds me of the blog post of the guy asked to implement a linked list iirc during an interview, and he does it all in Haskell's type system.

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

Oh it was N queens, but the line I remembered was "Summon a linked list from the void."

Re:I should have loved biology by sritchie on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:01PM (#32040865)
That’s the joke!