Interesting stuff, from a FP perspective. But in practical terms, its best to avoid shops that use riddles as hiring filters, altogether. "So I see you have a

Interesting stuff, from a FP perspective. But in practical terms, its best to avoid shops that use riddles as hiring filters, altogether. "So I see you have an MS in applied math, which I suppose you didn't entirely fake your way through, and have written some widely-used packages for numerical integration of PDEs. That's nice. But you know, if you really wanted to impress us, you would have boned up on the art of using regexes to solve the maximum subsequence problem. On a whiteboard with squeaky, half-dried purple and orange markers, while we stare at you."