[arthur6667]

I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but I think those are some pretty excellent interview questions.

The first one, it's exactly about the thing I find a lot of developers lack in: a fundamental understanding about computers and processing. I've had 'experienced' developers write algorithms where every intermediate value was written to a cache/disk only to pull it out on the next line. I feel asking some more fundamental questions can help weed ppl out.

Same with being able to look at a stack trace and see where it went wrong, how quickly are you able to hone in on a specific target. Crucial skill imo, and I've had sooooo many people at my desk -- 'it's not working' -- that did not even read the f'ing error message.

[gilbetron]

I was being sarcastic with the question responses - the point being, for any question you ask in an interview, there is a significant population of candidates that will think it is a terrible question.