Ask HN: What are your favorite programming questions
we are running a coding contest on our website. What is the cleverest programming related question you have ever come across?
try {
return true;
} finally {
return false;
}
The result is consistent in Java, JavaScript and
Python. I wrote this snippet on a whiteboard here
at Google. For the next couple of weeks engineers
passing by would abruptly stop, transfixed by the
paradox. Nerd sniping. I now use it during hiring
interviews, if the candidate suffers a similar
breakdown, I know we've got a keeper.