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Re:17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine by LVB on Friday July 20, 2012 @12:49AM (#4269461)
The kid blew it by saying "Markov chains"! I'm sure they hit the silent alarm pretty quickly after that.
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Re:17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine by asto on Friday July 20, 2012 @01:08AM (#4269499)
Blew it? What's the point of interviewing a smart kid if you want him to be dumb during the interview?
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Re:17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine by LVB on Friday July 20, 2012 @01:20AM (#4269537)
Intended to be sarcasm...

I actually think the kid did a great job and the interviewer was pretty useless.

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Re:17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine by batista on Friday July 20, 2012 @01:14AM (#4269515)
No, they want him to be smart enough to tailor his response to the audience.

Feynman was a smart guy, by all measures, but he knew how to speak at the appropriate level for his audience.

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