was having a fine nap when the lady-of-the-house 'called out', "what the hell did you buy!"

stumbling out to see what the fuss was...thinking "sure, its a large whiteboard but hardly anything to get excited about"...soon understood the concern.

it was in a box the size that could enclose a kegerator! EX: https://tinyurl.com/3bz34rtn thought "this has to be a mistake."

nope. it fit in the very bottom of the container w/nothing else to buffer its shipment.

after the disappointment of not being a kegerator, or a mis-fulfillment of a dozen profitable whiteboards, the kids used the box as a toy car.

She wields her whiteboard like a ninja!

Yeah, the whiteboard wasn't the most elegant way to convey that information, but it's quick and efficient, and it's still better than having one of the characters flat-out say that stuff even though they'd all know it already.

As for the second issue, as greatgooglymoogly mentioned, they're only able to shoot the creature because of the dumb luck of the frequency of the hearing aid weakening it and causing its armour to pop off. Deus ex machina, maybe, but the film spends enough time planting that seed that it doesn't feel too blatant.

I didn't really like the movie. Certain parts of it was well done, but there are some glaring issues that ruined my suspension of disbelief.

For example, early in the movie we got a shot of John's character's workshop, and there's this whiteboard with the most basic information about the monsters written on it in large bold letters. Your character has masterfully survived for over a year under constant threat from these monsters, and you have to write down that the creatures are blind? Who is this even for other than the audience? It's such a lazy way of conveying information and disrepectful of your viewer's intelligence.

Also, the ending was pretty ridiculous.

*spoiler warning*

The fact that these monsters are susceptible to small firearms (even if they have ARMOR as the whiteboard reminds us) makes the premise that they overran all the world's militaries in a few months pretty unbelievable.

Simple tests like this are meant to reveal how comfortable an applicant is at interpreting a problem and quickly translating it to code. It's analogous to how math tests in school required you to translate word problems to algebra. If someone struggles at this stage, they probably won't be a good coding hire. Or instead they might show some foresight into likely problems, gotchas, scalability, or testing.

I've been whiteboarded in a few interviews, and I've been hired based on a phone call. I don't know what the best method is, but I really hate the idea of "instant-fail" questions with a narrow "correct" answer. It's better to ask a few relatively easy, open-ended questions and see how comfortable the applicant is.

Ha! I often ask FizzBuzz in interviews if I have a hint that someone's blowing smoke. Often, they'll whiteboard a solution which is a giveaway that they've rehearsed this one (going straight to mod 15 instead of mucking around with 3 and 5 first), but that's no big deal. Where people usually utterly fail is when I ask them how they'd test it.

The vast majority of people end up saying that they'd run it and examine the output or something stupid; relatively few go straight to a unit test, and of those that do, even fewer immediately see that they have to refactor the simple solution to separate application from logic from presentation.

Karl Rove has whiteboards - plural - detailing her health situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqAiRRVLdHc

I've never understood what this gambit is supposed to pay off in. Do whackjobs believe that Democrats will think - 'well, Hillary might not be long for this world, so I'll vote Trump'? Any president is better than a corpse?

Or do they just want to bolster Trump-trooper spirits? Are they afraid the grass roots will lay down their arms if they don't have at least a remote hope of winning?

Bob - you speak for the whackjobs of the world; what do you say?

There are some places that do use the clear boards, but I agree they are pretty impractical IRL.
And why wouldn't an accountant just be using Excel (or similar), instead of writing columns of numbers on a board? Even if this savant character never makes a math error, it takes way longer just writing everything down rather than keying it in.
A physicist or mathematician solving very long equations makes sense to use whiteboard or chalkboard, but not an accountant.

Ah, yes. Another instance of the clear "whiteboard" movie trope.

They are a horrible idea and don't work in real life; but they do allow for the camera to capture the writing and the faces of the actors at the same time.

Hours? Just scribble over the permanent ink with a regular whiteboard marker and it comes off.

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Within a couple weeks, I expect the kids who made this video to be tracked down and lynched by a mob of rampaging janitors from around the world driven mad by hours of scrubbing permanent ink off whiteboards.

Their leader will be the quiet sort, no one ever would have expected to crack, except he worked at a school where the dean was a militant feminist and the kids didn't have the artistic chops to manage a cat so just put whiskers on a dick.

In the end, though, it all might have been worth it.

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He's lying in order to create "warm fuzzies."

This is what their real hiring process is like:

"You should also practice whiteboard space-management skills [or] your interviewer will not be impressed... it always irks me when people do this. Oh, and don't let the marker dry out while you're standing there waving it."