[facepalm]

Somehow I still don't buy that dhh would fail to implement Bubble Sort.

[dver23]

30 years in the business, just recently failed a screen coding test call because I blanked on find string pairs question. Just couldn't think for a minute. During the normal day, look it up, slap head and go on.

[sp332]

There are edge cases that are easy to forget about even if you have the general idea. This article is about binary search, not bubble sort, but it has a lot of the same problems. https://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/binary-search-redux-...

[jackmott]

this. maybe he would need to be reminded which sort it is, but he could do it. unless the white board interviewer expected perfect syntax in a particular language.

which, I agree that is usually always silly