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In defense of the interviewer, if somebody told me they wrote an OS for the Raspberry Pi I would assume they wrote it mostly in C, not mostly in Bash.
by twblalock 9y ago
In defense of the interviewer, if somebody told me they wrote an OS for the Raspberry Pi I would assume they wrote it mostly in C, not mostly in Bash.
- aw3c2 9y ago> I made an distro for the Raspberry Pi called Crankshaft Someone who picks up that info and turns it into interview material should be well aware about the difference between making a distribution and writing an OS!
- PrimHelios 9y agoNot to mention that since the interviewer now has a name for said distro, they should have looked it up and found what language it was written in.
- jimmies 9y agoNo that's the problem. I said I did not write this to bash the interviewer and I really meant it. The idea here is that to achieve something quite useful like a distro ("made an OS") for the Raspberry Pi, the important part is to figure out a problem that needs solving and a tool to solve it. A person who made something cool might be actually quite dumb, and that's alright. A good answer is something that foremost solves a problem. A bad answer is a fancy technology that doesn't do it better. Here I sucked at my Go solution and I deserved to fail. But here it's just a lame fail because my initial solution worked and the rule changed to accommodate the fact that it was not the technology he expected.