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Re:Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers by rhizome on Thursday January 05, 2012 @02:42PM (#3430137)
Algorithms are one thing, but I don't know of a single business that is dependent on Pascal's Triangle. That is, is it realistic to use PT?
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Re:Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers by aplusbi on Thursday January 05, 2012 @03:02PM (#3430231)
You're focusing too much on the wrong thing. The point is being able to take a (simple) problem and convert it to code. The problem doesn't matter, the method does.
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