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Date: Fri,  6 Aug 2004 11:16:09 -0700
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
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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