POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : You know... : Re: You know... Server Time
5 Sep 2024 13:14:32 EDT (-0400)
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From: Warp
Date: 27 Aug 2009 12:58:30
Message: <4a96bb36@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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.

  If I ever have to come up with job interview questions, I'll keep in mind
that principle. It sounds very sensible to me.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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