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  1. Re:My thoughts and reply on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    Man, by definition, good developer is not team player. If you are good developer, you would be able to show the bugs of your co-workers, which translated means.....(here is my quiz).

  2. Re:You're asking the wrong question. on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    Seconded. After .....many years of development and support, i started to value more the supportable code, not the "ingenious" one.

  3. Re:My thoughts and reply on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 0

    And the salary was what, 24k/y? Man, unless you give me at least 200k, i would never consider your company for....anything.

  4. Re:My thoughts and reply on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 0

    Oh, i see, you want your employee to be always at the edge, always in "PANIC" state. There is actually a good reason for such a management, but i doubt any sane developer would ever be willing to work for you.

  5. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    I do agree with you, but let me clarify it, is this a job interview or game of thrones? Are you trying to hide what you are actually looking for (just developer, who want to stay on the same position for 10 years, or developer who want to grow), instead of simply saying: I NEED DEVELOPER, WHO WANTS TO BECOME TEAM LEADER IN 5 YEARS. Who are you trying to cheat??? Is it good idea to start such a "relation" with fraud!!! Btw, there is a saying that if you don't know what you want, you are not going to get it.

  6. Re:linked lists still common on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    From time to time, but only in the context of something else, and only as a way to manage some non-critical algorithm (fast and dirty so to say). Actually, i have not seen even one well done "linked-list" algorithm, and in most cases they are so poorly implemented and designed (i had a similar job interview experience like you), that i would not even bother applying for the given job position, even if they pay me for it..oh, wait, never mind.

  7. Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Again, what you imply is that they somehow manage to hire the best and the most intelligent developers, but i wonder why i have not heard of any bright and intelligent project done by google? Oh, you say it does not matter, what matters is that they are the most bright and intelligent...never mind, don't bother solving this puzzle.

  8. Re:My thoughts and reply on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 0

    Man, or Girl, let me enlighten you, when anyone is facing something unfamiliar, he/she PANICS. I repeat, EVERYONE. In order to grasp what i am talking about, you need to read a few thousand lines of text about psychoanalyze, physics, maths, philosophy, history, social engineering........oh, wait, forget it, don't do it, it is sooo boring, just keep giving short, 5min puzzles.

  9. Re:Didn't Microsoft give up on those? on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 2

    You have to ask whether google actually has any competent developer at all....

  10. Re:Bring puzzles as an applicant on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    That's very good idea, and every time i had to ask stupid puzzles i actually had the enormous desire to give them my own puzzles, and if they don't give the correct answer.....then what!!!!

  11. Re:It's important to understand on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    There is better and faster way to cut down the number of applications. Just split it in two piles, then take one and throw it your favorite recycle bin. Simple, yes? Now you have to pay me for my "big", "bright" idea. PROFIT.

  12. Re:It's important to understand on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 2

    The "next" big ideas??? NO. You failed the test. For google to look for the next big ideas, they first have to actually have some big ideas, which has not yet happened, and is not going to happen soon. I realize that most of the kids believe that making a good program requires only one big bright idea, in the time span of 5min, but the reality is that the "big" idea happens when you finished the project, when you are able to grasp all the cons and pros of your decisions, when you are actually able not only to make it work, and to make it fast, but actually "make it right". KISS bro, and keep watching "hacker" movies.

  13. Re:He is lucky on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    Here is how: http://www.businessinsider.com/language-of-ndaa-legal-to-imprison-americans-2012-1
    Section 1021 of the NDAA allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain, without due process, any person engaged in "hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners ... without trial until the end of hostilities."
    Section 1022 expressly states that the military will imprison anyone who is a member of al-Qaeda or "an associated force" that acts like al-Qaeda; and anyone who planned or carried out an attack, or attempted attack, against the U.S.
    Section 1022 continues that detaining American citizens is not required. "UNITED STATES CITIZENS — The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States."
    The bottom line is the government can imprison anyone suspected of or even associated with terrorism. This power is open to wide interpretation and could certainly be abused.

  14. He is lucky on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Under the new NDAA bill, he would simply "disappear" without due process. God bless democratic Bahrain.

  15. Re:two suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    Seconded. Another advice, don't spend more than $1000 for everything. And don't forget to include a tri-pod, even if it is the dwarf size. For night pictures, or panorama pictures you need your camera to stay fixed somehow.

  16. Re:2nd Amendment? on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 1

    Actually, some time ago, not so long ago, everybody has the "right" to have machine-guns. Actually no one questioned it, it was so implicitly "right", that there was no need to put it on letter. BUT, do you know how the government managed to take the machine-guns off your nasty hands? Have you heard of the word "terrorist"? Do you know it comes from "terroriste"? Oh, that was the "reason", and the means were by taxing every "machine-gun-owner", genius, right?

  17. Re:It is, in my country on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 1

    So you are actually free to repay the 14 trillion dollars debt that the USA government manage to accumulate? And you call this "freedom"?

  18. Re:What's the value of a right you cannot execute? on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 1

    Actually, you dont even realize that you are right. Don't you know that right now, the government has the right to operate a drone right in front of your window, and to watch you what you are doing, and to listen to what you are saying, simply because this situation is unique, and no one had the imagination of such a technology leap. Was it possible to predict it? NO. Should we adapt and update the law, or just accept it? Should we use the same laws 1000 years later, and die like the dinos, or just what, evolve?

  19. Re:What's the value of a right you cannot execute? on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 1

    some hundreds of thousands of years the human beings were not even able to speak, so are you saying that we should have freedom of speech if only some thousands of years later we would not even use speech, but what, mind waves maybe!!!!
    Just for the sake of argument, it is not the internet that should be protected, but the right to have free, uncensored internet, and the right to have access to it.

  20. Re:Well that's funny, cos my country just on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 2

    Just like what, the right to bear gun? But oh, wait, you have to have a license......aahhhhrgggg, here my logic falls apart. Right and license, i have right, but only if i have a license, and pay my taxes too....wait a second...

  21. Freedom to speak? on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 1

    What about freedom to open your mouth? To Speak? To SAY something? Or even to NOT say anything at all? Is this a human right?
    Short answer: YES.
    Freedom is nothing, if you are unable to express it, as this medium "internet" still does it.

  22. Re:One with without merit, one with merit on UK Executive 'Forced Out of Job' For Posting CV Online · · Score: 1

    Actually, it there is no explicit fine print in his contract, stating that all the twitter followers should stay in the company, then there is simply no case.

  23. Re:Why does Iran deny having a nuclear programme? on EU Moves To Ban Iran Crude Oil · · Score: 1

    If you imply that there is no connection between a country being a democracy, and being a free country, then what is the point of using such a useless term as "democracy"?

  24. Re:Why does Iran deny having a nuclear programme? on EU Moves To Ban Iran Crude Oil · · Score: 1

    After the new NDAA bill, i beg to differ that USA is still a democracy. I say nothing about being stable.....

  25. Re:Quality on Nginx Overtakes Microsoft As No. 2 Web Server · · Score: 2

    you have the source code, so what is the problem!!!