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Re:Foobar on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @04:25PM (#8592278)
I've done a few exercises in the site. While recruitment seems most likely, I haven't seen anything that explicitly mentions applying to work at Google or anything like that. There are coding challenges and a gamified leveling system based on how many coding challenges you complete within the time limit, but no mention of applications.
Re:Foobar on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:54PM (#8592093)
If I remember, I was blanking on the exact Python lambda syntax, so I Google'd "python lambda". I bet it had something to do with other searches I'd done in that session as well though, and I don't remember what they are.
Re:Foobar on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:16PM (#8591894)
<- Author of that thread. The site is an interactive shell with progressively harder (but fun) coding challenges to complete. It's made to look like a *nix shell and has the basic commands built-in.

Also, there are a lot of rabbits.

Re:Foo.Bar with Google? on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:01PM (#8591820)
I was searching stuff on Python lambdas.

No, not Google :) Just been lurking on HN for a while and never had anything interesting to add before.

Foo.Bar with Google?

I was Googling some Python topic when my search results page suddenly split in the middle with some text saying something to the effect of "You speak our language, would you like to take a test?", linking to http://www.google.com/foobar/ .I followed it and was led to a pseudo-shell, where I then found some coding problems. I can return to the page to continue working on them.I've searched...

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