Comments on: Obama is 'Google-like'

Barack Obama wows the Google crowd with tech plans, humor, and geeky answer to interview question.

[WillSimpson62]

He Didn't Even Answer the Question (Smart Politics, though)

He didn't answer the question, just gave an example of a wrong
question.

Scary that he could be President...

[timwaitsfornoman]

Well, yeah...

What do you expect from a Democrat. They can always spot the incorrect answer (invasion of Iraq was a mistake), but they don't have any right answers.

[AndrewRich]

What is it then?

So what is the right answer?

Just in case I ever get that interview, ya know.

[uhhuhsure]

could hilary have answered it?

it's scary that you think his answering the question would be a reason to elect him president. Could any of the candidates have answered. I think he's on point for the important issues.

[Trerro]

Actually, that's a good answer to a trick interview question.

If there was a perfect sort algorithm, there would be no need for companies like Google to constantly come up with better ways of doing basic comp sci tasks.

If you're applying for a job at Google, sure it's great if you know whatever the currently fastest known sort is (though that's likely to both change quickly and in some cases, depend on exactly what you're sorting.) What's far more important is to know not to rely on a very simple method that doesn't work well on huge data sets (and yes, the bubble sort would be a great example of that.) So his answer is essentially "I know what doesn't work, and I'm going to try to figure out - or create - what does." I would think that's exactly the kind of answer they'd want to hear.

[logan1337]

I'm actually pretty impressed that he knew that. Obama is not a computer scientist. Do you really think McCain, who has admitted he's actually computer illiterate, would even know what the term bubblesort means?

[William Crow]

Mr Straw Dog

The straw dog set up to make Hillary look "really tough" when she
finally beats him at the polls.

[flickrz]

not voting for u

not voting for you anymore....

[j_a_s_p_e_r]

Why was my original comment removed? It was not offensive. Here is what I posted

"The wrong answer would have been anything but the O(n log(n)) (quick, bucket, hash, etc) sorting algorithms. The wrong answer could have been "by hand". Why be correct by defining something by what it is not. Is Obama the right guy because he is not Hillary? Geez, talk about going Schmidt going gaga stupid over Obama "