>>>>>>Bruce Eckel: I ask candidates to create an object model of a chicken. This eliminates any problems with uncertainties about the problem domain, because everyone knows what a chicken is. I think it also jars people away from the technical details of a computer. It tests to see if they are capable of thinking about the big picture
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>>>>>>From http://www.artima.com/wbc/interprogP.html
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>>>>>I don't like chicken. Can I make an object model of a steer? <bg>
>>>>>What if the candidate is a vegitarian and has no knowledge about a chicken.
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>>>>Like one of my colleagues, who is a great programmer, BTW.
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>>>My best friend's wife is a vegitarian. I find it very interesting, but I could never become one.
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>>One of the programmers here was a vegitarian for about a year and 1/2. All the sudden one day he showed up in the lunch room eating a burger.
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>Why be vegetarian at all? I remember seeing that our brains could only have grown as big as they are because of adding meat to the diet.
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>http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/gorilla.html

Interesting article. I have heard (or read) somewhere that our digestive system is (was) not engineered to digest meat (but I don't have a fancy link to support that <s>)