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Re:Rewriting the Technical Interview by dbalatero on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:34AM (#40265614)
Or to put it another way, why should* someone know how to do anything that's never ever come up before in their life?

* "should" as in someone else externally judging someone

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Re:Rewriting the Technical Interview by davidgay on Sunday May 05, 2024 @12:50PM (#40266240)
Of course, some of those people then do get asked to build a language, and the result is awful and ignores the last 60 years of knowledge on how to actually do that ... (yes, I have seen this)
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