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Given a interaction where hovering a link displays a tooltip of dynamic information (e.g.- Ajax), write the basic functions to perform the lookup (yes, jQuery is allowed) and explain how you'd cache the results so an HTTP request wasn't made if the tooltip already existed.
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Web Developer

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Nov 5, 2014

Given a interaction where hovering a link displays a tooltip of dynamic information (e.g.- Ajax), write the basic functions to perform the lookup (yes, jQuery is allowed) and explain how you'd cache the results so an HTTP request wasn't made if the tooltip already existed.

Asked me to write a throttle function in javascript. Well, essentially...he wanted me to write a function that would call another function, but not if it had been called within a certain set time, which is essentially what a throttle function is. I completely flailed, but it's a useful function to have...probably why they put it in the underscore library which is what I based this answer on.
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Front End Web Developer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Aug 15, 2014

Asked me to write a throttle function in javascript. Well, essentially...he wanted me to write a function that would call another function, but not if it had been called within a certain set time, which is essentially what a throttle function is. I completely flailed, but it's a useful function to have...probably why they put it in the underscore library which is what I based this answer on.

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