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If you ask an F1 engineer to fix a bicycle with a crescent wrench, do you think he is going to be lost without his $250K set of tools? I don't think so. The bl
by lr 18y ago
If you ask an F1 engineer to fix a bicycle with a crescent wrench, do you think he is going to be lost without his $250K set of tools? I don't think so.
The blogger is not talking about major pieces of code, he's talking about fundamentals. So, yes, the programmer should be able to do it on paper. And I bet if you ask a Lucas Arts 3D artist to draw on paper a basic shape, he/she will blow you away with what they produce.
- Zak 18y agoIn addition to this, I suspect the interviewer would not object to minor errors in syntax, function names and the like if the code was fundamentally sane. The sort of problems he said he asked to have solved were trivial.