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Re:Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview by shortly on Saturday May 02, 2015 @08:52PM (#9479266)
that he did not take this approach makes me think the candidate is inexperienced, and probably coming to clojure from an imperative mindset.
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Re:Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview by tonyarkles on Saturday May 02, 2015 @09:21PM (#9479348)
Yeah, that's exactly what I look for in problems like that. How does this person approach the problem? How do they decompose the problem?

For that specific problem, I'd probably be satisfied if they wrote a function that took a number like 341 and returned [3, 4, 1], and then mumbled something about a set or a hash (or a list even) for storing the already seen numbers.

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