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Congratulations to you for having memorized many unnecessary-to-remember things then, I guess. I have a good memory for detail and have "spent a lot of time in the DOM" and most of the questions I skimmed I had no off-the-top-of-my-head answer for.

I could answer pretty much all of them in under a minute of Googling. Which tells me a) that I don't actually need to know the answers to them in real life, and therefore that the questions measure dumb ephemera; and b) that the questions are more a test of random chance ("oh yeah, I ran across that once" makes you more impressed by me?) than they are of developer skill.




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