From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rc mystery
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:16:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806181609.GC3253@submarine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e13c62fbcfbcba19b21c97028a4efa6@plan9.ucalgary.ca>
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:03:25PM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> >> "shoot the guy who wrote that in the head, it's a mercy killing"
> >
> > I agree, maybe not in the head though. the example came from a
> > USENIX obfuscated C code contest.
>
> Microsoft likes to ask questions of that type (and trick questions) in
> their phone interviews (no, I don't know that from personal experience).
Nowdays the Google (labs?) sure gets the prize for asking this sort
of riddleish questions. I'm no sure whether I'd personally hire
somebody who can answer them, but they sure do bring me back to
the childhood and math club.
Thanks,
Roman.
P.S. But then, again, they have this giant billboard reading:
{first 10digit prime number in consecutive digits of e}.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-06 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-04 16:35 Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-04 16:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-08-04 17:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-08-04 17:18 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-04 17:42 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-05 8:22 ` C H Forsyth
2004-08-05 22:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-05 23:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-08-06 2:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 3:51 ` George Michaelson
2004-08-06 3:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 5:07 ` geoff
2004-08-06 5:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-08-06 7:27 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-07 6:04 ` dvd
2004-08-07 12:17 ` vdharani
2004-08-07 22:56 ` Taj Khattra
2004-08-08 0:05 ` Brantley Coile
2004-08-08 0:09 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-08 0:27 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-08-08 0:29 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 7:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 15:56 ` George Michaelson
2004-08-06 17:06 ` ron minnich
2004-08-06 17:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 17:55 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 18:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-08-06 18:16 ` Roman Shaposhnick [this message]
2004-08-06 18:17 ` George Michaelson
2004-08-06 18:45 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 18:49 ` George Michaelson
2004-08-06 19:01 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 19:52 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 20:08 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-08-06 20:15 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 18:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 18:37 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 18:49 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 18:55 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 20:01 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-08 0:29 ` Brantley Coile
2004-08-06 17:16 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 18:21 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 18:17 ` Chunky Kibbles
2004-08-06 18:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-06 18:54 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-06 19:06 ` Chunky Kibbles
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