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Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

countaleph.wordpress.com published 2013-10-21

I’ve always been pretty good at math. Not trigonometry, or arithmetic, or whatever people are usually thinking of when they’re like, “Oh, you must be smart! I hate math!” But, combinatorics and gra…

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