scott wrote:
> My favourite is the parametric equation we give and ask them to 
> calculate the area under the curve between two limits.

Heh. I don't even go that far. I just have a bunch of questions like "why do 
they call it raytracing" and "what's the difference between a deterministic 
and a non-deterministic state machine" and "what causes a SIG_SEGV" and 
"what's the difference between an inner join and an outer join" and "what's 
an advantage of UTF-8 over other encoding schemes" and "what does a 
translation look-aside buffer translate".

If you can't get at least a handful of such questions right from outside the 
field you're applying for, I know you're inexperienced, unschooled, or 
uninterested/incapable of expanding your responsibilities.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.

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