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Saturday Aug 22, 2009
You Should Start With This IT-Interview Question
What does the number 42 mean for you?
The funniest answer I got so far was: "I heard about that already"
You can directly google for 42 and will get the correct answer. Interesting: if you search for "Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything", you will get an interesting reaction from google (a small calculator).
Posted at 09:48AM Aug 22, 2009 by Adam Bien in Fun | Comments[5] | Views/Hits: 527
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google has also a very interesting way of teaching you what "recursion" means ;)
Posted by michael bien on August 22, 2009 at 02:22 PM CEST #
"42 (forty-two) is the natural number following 41 and preceding 43"
- Simplest I found, from the wikipedia.
Posted by mark benz on August 22, 2009 at 07:01 PM CEST #
@Mark,
with that answer you should pass every interview. Clear and concise :-),
regards,
adam
Posted by Adam Bien on August 22, 2009 at 07:44 PM CEST #
As far as I remember in TIFF specification there is "a well chosen arbitrary number" right after the byte that describes the endian.
Posted by Laszlo Kishalmi on August 23, 2009 at 09:52 PM CEST #
One question I like to ask when doing a job interview is if the interviewee knows vi.
Funniest (and maybe best) answer so far: "I know how to quit"
Posted by René Gielen on August 26, 2009 at 10:28 AM CEST #