They asked how I would go about programming a palindrome detector.
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The most difficult question I received was a practical question about how to create a particular kind of email filter.
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They wanted to know the exact regular expression I would use to find names in a text. I generally work by trying things out, but they wanted me to write it on a whiteboard off the top of my head.
One problem that has come up has been the disambiguation of homophonous words in US English to UK English localization. For example, "cheque" and "check", the former meaning a 'bank check' and the later meaning 'to check up on'. How could you disambiguate between the two in American English to properly localize a text into UK English?
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