User: shoban

Re:Passion is critical

On: Interviewing Experienced IT People?

I would consider the following things:

Passion
Flexibility
Hard working
Ability to work with / in a team
Intelligence / aptitude

In that particular order. From my experience, I have seen people good in most parameters, but lacking on flexibility and keen on working on 'a' particular technology or domain and unwilling to take up or perform less on any other area.

A person may be intelligent, but if he / she is not willing to put the time, heart and soul to get the results, it is not going to work.

Joke?

On: Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

My eye sight must be getting bad... I misread this as:

Joke Tries to Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby

Re:vim 7.0 anyone?

On: Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker?

Not to start a flame war, XEmacs and possibly Emacs provides a lisp function

isepll-comments-and-strings

. Though not complete, it restricts itself to spell check your strings definitions and comments.

Re:Without the caller's knowlege? OMG!

On: Microsoft's Acoustic Caller ID Patent

Something that is popular prank over here:

Them: Hello, this is
Me: [beep] Subscriber cannot be reached at the moment. Please try after some-time.[hang]
Them: Oops!

But don't try this seriously. The ambient noise will be a give-away.

Re:Suggested title

On: Google Fixes IE Bug

Google desktop works around IE bug