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Infrastructure of Mono is not in any way comparable to proper c#. Also how come MonoDevelop's latest version doesn't work on Linux? On Windows it became Xamarian and it is ok ish, but I would not use it for a major project, refactoring tools are more or less non existant. On Linux they are stuck with the old version of MonoDevelop
This statement makes a lot of sense. I found it a bit suspicious that Anonymous Own3r twitted: "When i do some DDOS attack i like to let it down by many days, the attack for unlimited time, it can last one hour or one month" Which sounds like he actually has no control over what is happening and makes a statement that is impossible to disprove.
How come all the startups mentioned here are websites? I have nothing against them, but I would imagine that there are some startups out there that are less of a hit-or-miss and more about the product that has some engineering novelty to it.
Well to me it seems like a lot of questions in the real world are formed like this. I.e. if you are asked to find how many customers will buy a book of your website you make some reasonable assumptions like: The world will not come to an end tomorrow You don't ask a person what should be defined as a book or what should be defined as a buy etc. What I mean is that it is good to have the ability to research the common case. And imagine the question about balls was a real problem that your company faced, I don't think you would ask your colleagues all the questions that you pointed out.
I don't see the problem with these questions. If you are really good it will take you 5 minutes to answer that question. That is it. And lamenting about interviewer waisting your time is ridiculous, you waist much more time every day on the stuff that is less useful. The point of the question is to quickly check if you can think logically that is it.
This question still haunts me.