riddles

If somebody loves riddles it only means that he loves to think and he possibly can solve really hard problems, where all others would give up...

The main thing that questions like this reveal is whether or not the interviewee enjoys frivolous puzzles and riddles.

Because science, originally, isn't about solving riddles: it is about describing and interpreting perceived reality.

I think one has to distinguish between real riddles and the nonsense-questions like a bike for the blind...

In other words, these riddles can be used to encourage creativity when used right.

The MS style riddles could be very useful in an interview, if used correctly.

On the other hand I work on mathematical riddles for fun so maybe I'm the core target for those.

If you want a sensible discussion, please feel free to actually try and elaborate rather than present riddles and try to play tricks.

Good tests are not made by geniuses in armchairs thinking up riddles.

Asking people to solve riddles is of course silly, and everyone I know at Microsoft stopped doing that fifteen years ago.

I put them into 0x40 assembly riddles, each one should teach you about one thing.

He is speaking is riddles, like pseudo academics love to.

">>> Riddles are no fun if they have to be solved under pressure." I agree.

The destination operand is an XMM register." (Intel(r) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual); 0x40 assembly riddles "xchg rax,rax" is a collection of assembly gems and riddles I found over many years of reversing and writing assembly code.

Riddles are no fun if they have to be solved under pressure.