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DHH anti-whiteboard movement

by panitaxx on 2/27/17, 12:32 AM with 9 comments

• by et-al on 2/27/17, 1:09 AM

  Glad dhh is starting some pushback.

  Just as a minor aside, for anyone interviewing out there, don't fret about syntax that much. If you forget, tell your interviewer "i forgot the exact syntax, but let's assume it takes in x,y,z".

  The key thing I'm look for is an understanding of what a function does and how you're going leverage that to solve the larger problem at hand. I'd hope other interviewers are the same way.

• by eschutte2 on 2/27/17, 2:47 AM

  Algo/puzzle/riddle is not the same as whiteboard. I'm all for getting rid of the former, but I have no problem getting up and writing on a whiteboard as long as it's used for its correct purpose, viz. as a tool for talking through a problem together.

  I once had an interviewer give me a somewhat interesting puzzle to work through on the whiteboard, but then he got all stammery and flustered when I asked a few simple follow-up questions about it. I think there are people out there who just can't handle humans and have to use the whiteboard as a shield.

• by meowface on 2/27/17, 3:04 AM

  What's with the artifacty JPG? Is this Twitter's idea of curated content?

• by aisofteng on 2/27/17, 5:21 AM

  A good number of these confessions are downright embarrassing.