Create enough FUD around the technical interview and you'll always get people trying different things to improve their chances with these kinds of approaches.

Create enough FUD around the technical interview and you'll always get people trying different things to improve their chances with these kinds of approaches. I can't count how many people have assumed I'm good just because I can drop technical words intelligently into a conversation, so there's also going to be some lazy folks looking for vim/emacs usage and judging someone's abilities to be a bit higher because of that.