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They don't ask that (or at least, this i 5% of questions)

if you'd googled 'google interview questions' you get a better match

These are a better match even if it looks similar http://www.techinterviews.com/google-interview-questions

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html

Shameless plug, it's my site: Linux Interview Questions

THe questions were forwarded by recruiters and companies, pretty much all of them in the US, except the first one, who was located in India.

Not exactly a skills test, but on TechInterviews.com I collected a bunch of questions from recruiters and those who interviewed at tech companies. Since the site was up, there were a bunch of questions coming from people just sharing their job interview experience, but recently a lot of that is coming from India. I noticed that "fresher" type of questions used by some large-scale employers in India are pretty rudimentary, so I am not sure whether the applicant is expected to be a college graduate or just a high school diploma holder. So pick and choose, basically, should be a good way to refresh skills, if not self-test.

Mainly dealt with the blogging engines here, since most of the sites are content-driven without the need for many additional modules.

MovableType - fast to setup, easy to deploy, live community with hacks and what not around it, but since the move to the paid distro in 3.0 the activity died off a little bit. Never upgraded to the paid version, couldn't justify the license money with WordPress having so many similar features. It's a Perl+MySQL or Perl+flat file set up, so theoretically nothing more than cgi-bin is required.

Which brings us to WordPress - extensible, lively community, very easy to install and setup. The engine itself is a bit immature at this point for some advanced stuff, but if you know PHP, you'll find your way around it. Has a link manager and mass edit for comments (very useful for spam treatment), extensible as far as design, not too modular though.

pMachine - easy to set up, easy to use, but not too flexible. Coded in PHP and uses MySQL, many tweaks available, but limited functionality for the free version. The authors have since moved on to a different project, Expression Engine, and the community is a bit abandoned.

The above links are going to my sites which run the said engines, not the engines themselves, a simple google search would take you to download pages for the engines.

Interesting site. I don't know what is scarier, the fact that so many of the posted answers are wrong, or the fact that so many of the posted questions are. At least I don't have to worry about my programming job too much then. :)

Not to mention this howler

Explain the read, write, and execute permissions on a UNIX directory. Read allows you to see and list the directory contents. Write allows you to create, edit and delete files and subdirectories in the directory. Execute gives you the previous read/write permissions plus allows you to change into the directory and execute programs or shells from the directory.

Perhaps the interview question would be "correct this description of how the read, write, and execute permissions on a UNIX directory work"...

Search for Perl in the search box, there are some questions marked Java Web programming interview questions that are actually Perl.

For Sale: Lycos.com

Posted by
timothy
in The Mysterious Future!

from the make-an-offer dept.

prostoalex writes "Terra Lycos is planning to sell Lycos.com. The price, quoted by News.com.com.com, is in the $200 mln range, while the original acquisition amounted to $12.5 bln. Lycos is currently re-inventing itself as a portal for the new generation with the link to Playboy affiliate placed right on the front page (click on "Adults 18+ only")."

I am a paying Safari subscriber (minimal yearly plan) and have found it useful and worth the price. In some of the cases the book search feature worked well for me - couple of projects at work that required specific implementations of something I have never done before. A quick Safari search retrieved the results, I subscribed to the book and had the necessary code in front of me. Granted, the same could probably be done with Google, only would take more time to find, and at that time I was charging per hour, so would've been my loss.

Another thing is that I can explore the subjects foreign to me before. Safari has a variety of business titles on project management and what not, as well as good Cisco and Microsoft certification selection. I am thinking of getting a couple of MCSD exams under my belt, just because I know the books are out there, and my bookshelf is not filled in for the month.

I can't tell you when was the last time I bought a computer book. Unless it's some specific title I desperately need, for basically any topic I know I can always find an O'Reilly/Addison-Wesley equivalent on Safari.

As for reading off the screen, I think people are over-exaggerating the discomfort level. In Firefox with zoom selection and font sizes you can get decent page. When I get into reading stuff, I read on Safari from work, from home desktop and from my laptop while working out. I think it's the best money I ever spent on computer books.

There are very few people in this world who would maliciously copy the Web site for the purpose of mirroring it out of their own pocket. More often than not, it's the pageviews and ad rotation that they're after.

Proliferation of Google Ads, and similar offerings from FindWhat and MarketBanker allowed a bunch of content-driven Web sites to exist and make money at the same time. At one of the sites I run the click-through ratio on Google Ads (the site's only means of survival) are at about 0.1-0.2% and thus more traffic and more content means more targetted visitors, more pageviews, and with 0.1-0.2% ratio being (you hope) constant, more money.

So hit them where it hurts. If they earn money through Google, Findwhat or MarketBanker, contact the ad engines. Most of the time it's abuse of the service agreement and abuse of their advertising system. They send the paychecks, and if they tell the guy to shape up or have the account suspended, actions will be taken.

Contact their ISP or hoster, regardless of the country. Unless both the hoster and site copier are the same people, you can find reasonable understanding there, with hoster giving then the warning to the copier about possible implications.

Contact his advertisers. If you see lots of Amazon referral links, contact Amazon Associates support with the problem description. I never heard Amazon actually doing something about it, but the pressure from several points on the copier might enhance your chances of him giving up.

Or maybe it just *feels* like ten years..

Well, I've been at my current job 8 years, exclusively VB. Before that, it was a bit over a year doing mostly VB (along with a proprietary DOS-based language), and for a bit under a year before that I was hacking around in between C on the VAX. So maybe +/-10 years would have been more accurate?

But then, this is Slashdot, not a job interview. On an application, of course, I'd put 15 years VB experience and 5 years using Windows 2000. Since that's what they'd require. :)