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Pretty sure this is just the idea behind MVC.
Pencils have the disadvantage of putting out conductive graphite dust, which, in 0g, will float around for a very long time.
Optional functionality :P
> It's the lack of a universal API.

This sort of thing is exactly why the healthcare industry still uses faxes, even going electronic charts -> pdf -> fax -> pdf -> electronic charts in some cases.

Some IVR systems do this now, it gives you an estimated wait time, and calls you back when you get near the front of the queue.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016) on Thursday April 26, 2018 @01:26PM (#16933831)
I had a phone screen recently, and got asked some of the questions on this post. However, rather than that sigterm question, I got "What signal does the linux kill command emit by default?", (with the answer obviously being sigterm (I totally blanked out and got it wrong though :P)).

Anyway, I strongly suspect they're just misremembering that question.