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Re:I will not do a tech interview by WalterSear on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @02:19PM (#6252307)
When I'm working, I'm looking stuff up all the time. And, everyone I've ever paired with has been looking stuff up on a constant basis.

It's not that I'm crap, it's that the tools I'm using are always changing. HTML -> CSS? Sure, I won't look that up. CSS -> SASS? Sure, I probably won't look that up. Ask me to use LESS, I'll be on much looser footing. And, what's coming next? Do I have to have the new ES6 specifications memorized? I don't, though I've used those 100 times already, in the past weeks.

Hell, I still look up git commands.

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Re:I will not do a tech interview by jaegerpicker on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @04:54PM (#6253255)
I never ever hold it against someone if they say they need to look something up. No one should nor can memorize all the things we developers need to remember.
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Re:I will not do a tech interview by michaelwww on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @11:15PM (#6254915)
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

― Albert Einstein

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Re:I will not do a tech interview by WalterSear on Thursday August 22, 2013 @01:25PM (#6258520)
Which, today, almost means never memorize anything.
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Re:I will not do a tech interview by michaelwww on Thursday August 22, 2013 @01:48PM (#6258697)
It'd be interesting why Einstein said this. I'm guessing because it takes time and effort to memorize something, not because he thought the brain had finite memory capacity.
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