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My questions are just there to get people talking about what they have done. Sometimes you ask about malloc and people haven't used it. I think they serve as a
by TACIXAT 10y ago
My questions are just there to get people talking about what they have done. Sometimes you ask about malloc and people haven't used it. I think they serve as a pretty decent initial screen. You choose some basic things that people need to know, then some more advanced things that someone who uses a language regularly would know, and ask until you have an idea of where their knowledge ends.
- fapjacks 10y agoThe problem is that if you picture what you're doing as firing into the darkness to probe something, you can't be sure if the handful of shots you take actually indicate you've reached "the end" of what you're trying to measure, or just some arbitrary boundary. And that boundary may not actually even exist at the point you measured it, depending on some huge number of factors unrelated to the actual job (for example how much sleep they got last night, or if they haven't eaten this morning and are hungry, etc).