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Oh man, making a 7-segment display was my favorite question to ask frontend developers. Eventually turning it into a real clock if they were fast enough. Captures lots of basic CSS positioning, JS timers behavior and general ideas like breaking things into components etc

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I'm guessing when you say "ask frontend developers" you mean "at job interviews". But I like to think you mean something like "at cocktail parties" or other social situations.

I'm choosing to imagine a bomb-defusal movie scene, where the protagonist must correct the layout of the countdown timer to save the day.

I'm reminded of Chuck disabling a bomb by surfing to a malware-infested webpage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddtpyR6WIlY

Man where were you at when I was getting asked questions "to see if you've prepared for the interview" with leet code for damned UI frontend positions... I loved answering your type of questions and most companies would not do this for some reason.

I hate leetcode type questions. It's like "math Olympia" questions I had to deal with as a kid. Either you have seen the problem (or a variation of it) or there is no way of coming up with a solution under pressure.

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