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Re:The Worst Programming Interview Question by thisone on Friday June 27, 2014 @10:47AM (#7954148)
moving goal posts, is "I asked you for x, you provided me with x, but I really wanted y, so now I'm going to tell you you're wrong"

You want someone to answer a programming question within a particular set of boundaries, you set those boundaries.

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Re:The Worst Programming Interview Question by dllthomas on Friday June 27, 2014 @12:03PM (#7954631)
I don't think it has to be "wrong". If I were asking this question, and I was provided with "store them in a hash", I would say something along the lines of "that's a correct solution" and then add additional constraints.

"How you adapt in the face of additional constraints" is very much relevant to programming.

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