http://facebook.com/puzzles
October 20th, 2009I had a preliminary interview with a woman at Facebook yesterday. We scheduled another interview for Thursday, which will have more technical kinds of questions. I asked her what i should be doing in the interum,and she suggested that I check out http://facebook.com/puzzles. The page had brushed past my radar in the past, but I didn’t give it a serious look until now. The page has a bunch of programming puzzles for anyone to do. Even the submission email address is a puzzle.
Submissions should be sent via email to the address: {0xFACEB00C>>2 in decimal}@facebook.com
Since one can easily find the email with a quick Google search, I thought I’d show how to find it. The puzzle page is Unix-centric, so for this task I logged into an Ubuntu virtual machine that lives on my home network.
In ViM, here’s the simple program:
