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One question I always ask in interviews -- "Tell me about some code that you wrote that wasn't for work or school." As an example, I wrote "voting fraud" program to You need to show that you'll be a great employee because you love the job. If you're going for an IT position, you should be proud of your home network. If you're a coder, you should talk about the program/package that you wrote just for fun. Whatever you do, on your resume have examples of how you do it for the love of it -- Write about your MythTV, write about your web site, write about your spam filter implementation ....write about SOMETHING that shows you're in the field because you LOVE it, not because you're looking for a job.

Don't forget the hugely popular Sportsdot. Not that it makes much sense to run a sports site, and then try to lure slashdot readers over there.

pros for using email as login:

1. guaranteed unique, though you'd be a fool to not have check.
2. users forget it slightly less
3. you have to send verification/password anyway

1. What if a user has more than one email address?
2. Email addresses make reasonable unique keys, but slow indexes, especially since many are very similar
3. users may use disposable email addresses and suddenly you cannot contact them

After reading the article, I've just adjusted my registration page (on my work site, not on sportsdot, my perl ain't what it should be) to not give the "pick another account name" if a user tries to register and existing email address. Both success and failure now go to the "Your password has been mailed to ." I send either a success or "this account is already in use" message to the email address. I also stuck on a 3 registration attempts per day per email address whether success or failure to prevent me from inadvertantly spamming.

This reminds me that I need my daily fill of SportsDot.Org

As discussed elsewhere EA sports has an exclusive deal with the NFL and the NFLPA. I expect them to allow more reasonable hours for their developers, because they will be able to turn out an inferior product without competition. Gamewatch, when it comes to pass, is a charming idea, but unions are coming to the IT field. Regretably mean unscrupulous businessmen are taking advantage of nice developers with scruples. And most developers have listened to RMS at some point in time and have some of that altruism in them. Which means they need an organization to defend them. Union is the right thing to do. Can you imagine an organized strike of IT workers?

Heh, left a comment on their poll over there as AC. Wonder if the beer 'n' pretzel guys will have any idea what's going on...

(currently) at the bottom, comment #126

Anyway this is more a videogame monopoly story than a strict sports story...