Most people cannot lie well ? This is true, but its the one person who does lie well who will cost you the recruitment fee, destabilise your team, wreck your deadlines and force you to fire them with all of the mess that goes with that. Always cross check verifiable facts: honest people really don't mind, only liars make a fuss.
Look. Your list of questions can be a mile long, if you don't know how to ask them, you loose. Too many interviewers in my experience have their own baggage or are prima-donnas who want clones or just plain d-o-n-t l-i-s-t-e-n.
If the candidate is a close fit, expect to do some training - remember training, it used to be really popular. If the candidate is covering up weaknesses wilfully and they have the knack of evading and/or sounding plausible then again, no amount of questioning is going to help.
Set them a test, either on paper or writing live code (using the target environment), ideally in a closed room. Give everyone the same amount of time, always add five minutes and sit behind em to add a bit of pressure, have a standard markings scheme and use it. When they are alone in the test keep an eye out, if they reach for the mobile throw them straight out the door and call in the person they called for interview instead.
In short, forget about standard questions.
Does no one else see how big this is ? Life from nothing, without the chain of other life back to the primordial soup. This is a monumental achievement.
If you want your 'favourite' bands to keep going, don't steal their work. Pay for it. I suspect that many of the readers here earn good livings from software engineering and therefore from copyright laws, at source. Stealing someone elses intellectual property is just plain stealing. There is no excuse, no rationalle, it's not a game, it's a criminal activity.
Even if you don't like giving money to the industry, send the band some money. Sheesh.
Anyway, wouldn't a better plan be to copy CDs of bands that you *don't* like and games from companies who suck and give those away, so ending their pitiful careers.
I don't think that you should worry about finding 'too many' bugs in your testing. If you find them the customers will not, and that is good.
Here are a few of my core beliefs about testing.
* You can never find the last bug in your system. There have been many studies about this. It is impossible to prove that your system is bug free. Don't argue, it's true. Impossible. What you must do is decide what level of testing to perform based on the cost of that testing against the cost of your customers finding bugs.
* You must categorise the bugs that you find and record discovery & clean up rates over time. This allows you to see whether you are improving or not and what trends are emerging. Joel Spolsky's site has good stuff on defect tracking.
* The best testing is balanced and I strongly believe in a three-cornered tension. Separate analysis, development and test teams allow the refinement of each of those processes. Analysts and testers in conjunction will identify bugs and also trends and faults in the development process. Developers and testers in conjunction find faults in the analysis and analysis process. Developers and Analysts in conjunction, over time, refine the test process.
* Insert defects that you know about at various stages in your process to measure the effectiveness of the test process. This works well for reviews and pretty well for code as long as you tell your boss.
* Finally and most importantly, post pompously to discussion groups at all times.
How exactly will you use land created by glacier retreat ? Most of it is (dohh) in the mountains and inaccessible (dohh), it will be covered in rocks and have a meltwater river running (dohh) down the middle and (dohh) the smell of rotting mammoth will be (dohh) offensive (dohh, dohh) (dohh)
The British Computer Society has a similar set of ethical standards/code of practice. Sure it says that if you refuse to do a peice of work and you are overruled in writing your a$$ is covered (!?) but it also gives some information on what is ethical and what isn't. I have cited the code of conduct to refuse to do work and - after waving my chartered professional status under my boss's nose he backed off. I would like to think that 'official' professional status (a royal charter in the UK) and the code of conduct would be enough to save me/back me up in court, but would I wwnt to be the one to test it ?
Make people who buy gun & survival stuff pay for wars, tax sugar & fat content in snacks to pay for food for starving people in the third world, tax political thrillers to fund the Enron investigation, best of all tax stupidity, typos and people who are in jobs beyond their capability to fund Bush's 2004 campaign.
Useful for simple tasks ? This is fundamentally true statement but it is also useful for extremely complex and sophisticated tasks like - ahhh - helping make a £40M company a £500M company in 12 months. A pro can make it sing and make the exes small too. Sheesh. Simple tasks ! I wave my wad at you and taunt you again and again.
So how long before we get a sealed unit DVD player. Sound viable to me. Build in a 100 disk storage carousel, a loading system which doesn't expose the disk to air - it only has to open the wrapping on the disk - and away you go.
Would you use an inert gas in the carousel/player or would you evacuate it ? Sounds like the geek water conversation of the future 'I use a 100 capacity argon carousel' disdainful look 'really ? I use an evacuated player for higher laser read performance and self locking, low pressure helium storage cases'.
What would be better ? Vacuum ? Or do you need gas to cool the equipment ? Does the laser oxidise the new coating on the DVD ? What happens if you want to replay the part that you just saw ? If you need gas for cooling, which would be best ? Helium ? Argon ? Neon ? Nitrogen ? Xenon ? If you used vacuum could you drop the laser power ? Would it mean better focussing ? Higher data density ?
I absolutely agree. Heaney's celtic background in no way enhances his qualification as an authority on old English. They are very different cultures and languages, locked in mortal combat for hundreds of years. It is a popular misconception that LOTR has Celtic sources. It doesn't. Absolutely not. Not that I have anything against Celts, I am one.
Why look at Heaney's Beowulf ? He's an Irish poet. Tolkein was one of the finest philologists of the 20th century and an expert in old English. His translation of Beowulf was and still is definitive. Read Tolkein's version instead.
Software engineers love to categorise, they love logic and hate leaving things unexplained. "Hey, my kid is not logical, captain, therefore it must have a disease". I hate to say it, but some people love to have their kids become 'special', because it reflects on them too and gives them something to talk about. Also, children reflect the personalities of their parents. If their parents are mildly Aspergic (?) then the kids will reflect that behaviour. Third, this is California we are talking about right ? Over here in Cambridge (England) we have the biggest collection of geeks outside of Silicon Valley through our own hi-tech ghetto and the University and we don't show this kind of big rise. So, sorry, I don't buy it. It's just another example of geek bashing/bash me I'm a geek.
Pah !
Now I am returning to my editing my "Lost In Space Continuity Error" database. I have 2 million entries and I know them all by heart . . .
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Most people cannot lie well ? This is true, but its the one person who does lie well who will cost you the recruitment fee, destabilise your team, wreck your deadlines and force you to fire them with all of the mess that goes with that. Always cross check verifiable facts: honest people really don't mind, only liars make a fuss.
Look. Your list of questions can be a mile long, if you don't know how to ask them, you loose. Too many interviewers in my experience have their own baggage or are prima-donnas who want clones or just plain d-o-n-t l-i-s-t-e-n. If the candidate is a close fit, expect to do some training - remember training, it used to be really popular. If the candidate is covering up weaknesses wilfully and they have the knack of evading and/or sounding plausible then again, no amount of questioning is going to help. Set them a test, either on paper or writing live code (using the target environment), ideally in a closed room. Give everyone the same amount of time, always add five minutes and sit behind em to add a bit of pressure, have a standard markings scheme and use it. When they are alone in the test keep an eye out, if they reach for the mobile throw them straight out the door and call in the person they called for interview instead. In short, forget about standard questions.
Does no one else see how big this is ? Life from nothing, without the chain of other life back to the primordial soup. This is a monumental achievement.
If you want your 'favourite' bands to keep going, don't steal their work. Pay for it. I suspect that many of the readers here earn good livings from software engineering and therefore from copyright laws, at source. Stealing someone elses intellectual property is just plain stealing. There is no excuse, no rationalle, it's not a game, it's a criminal activity. Even if you don't like giving money to the industry, send the band some money. Sheesh. Anyway, wouldn't a better plan be to copy CDs of bands that you *don't* like and games from companies who suck and give those away, so ending their pitiful careers.
I don't think that you should worry about finding 'too many' bugs in your testing. If you find them the customers will not, and that is good. Here are a few of my core beliefs about testing. * You can never find the last bug in your system. There have been many studies about this. It is impossible to prove that your system is bug free. Don't argue, it's true. Impossible. What you must do is decide what level of testing to perform based on the cost of that testing against the cost of your customers finding bugs. * You must categorise the bugs that you find and record discovery & clean up rates over time. This allows you to see whether you are improving or not and what trends are emerging. Joel Spolsky's site has good stuff on defect tracking. * The best testing is balanced and I strongly believe in a three-cornered tension. Separate analysis, development and test teams allow the refinement of each of those processes. Analysts and testers in conjunction will identify bugs and also trends and faults in the development process. Developers and testers in conjunction find faults in the analysis and analysis process. Developers and Analysts in conjunction, over time, refine the test process. * Insert defects that you know about at various stages in your process to measure the effectiveness of the test process. This works well for reviews and pretty well for code as long as you tell your boss. * Finally and most importantly, post pompously to discussion groups at all times.
How exactly will you use land created by glacier retreat ? Most of it is (dohh) in the mountains and inaccessible (dohh), it will be covered in rocks and have a meltwater river running (dohh) down the middle and (dohh) the smell of rotting mammoth will be (dohh) offensive (dohh, dohh) (dohh)
Most of the ice in the Antarctic is 3000m (thats 12,000 feet) above sea level.
The British Computer Society has a similar set of ethical standards/code of practice. Sure it says that if you refuse to do a peice of work and you are overruled in writing your a$$ is covered (!?) but it also gives some information on what is ethical and what isn't. I have cited the code of conduct to refuse to do work and - after waving my chartered professional status under my boss's nose he backed off. I would like to think that 'official' professional status (a royal charter in the UK) and the code of conduct would be enough to save me/back me up in court, but would I wwnt to be the one to test it ?
Make people who buy gun & survival stuff pay for wars, tax sugar & fat content in snacks to pay for food for starving people in the third world, tax political thrillers to fund the Enron investigation, best of all tax stupidity, typos and people who are in jobs beyond their capability to fund Bush's 2004 campaign.
Useful for simple tasks ? This is fundamentally true statement but it is also useful for extremely complex and sophisticated tasks like - ahhh - helping make a £40M company a £500M company in 12 months. A pro can make it sing and make the exes small too. Sheesh. Simple tasks ! I wave my wad at you and taunt you again and again.
So how long before we get a sealed unit DVD player. Sound viable to me. Build in a 100 disk storage carousel, a loading system which doesn't expose the disk to air - it only has to open the wrapping on the disk - and away you go. Would you use an inert gas in the carousel/player or would you evacuate it ? Sounds like the geek water conversation of the future 'I use a 100 capacity argon carousel' disdainful look 'really ? I use an evacuated player for higher laser read performance and self locking, low pressure helium storage cases'. What would be better ? Vacuum ? Or do you need gas to cool the equipment ? Does the laser oxidise the new coating on the DVD ? What happens if you want to replay the part that you just saw ? If you need gas for cooling, which would be best ? Helium ? Argon ? Neon ? Nitrogen ? Xenon ? If you used vacuum could you drop the laser power ? Would it mean better focussing ? Higher data density ?
What proportion compared to the general population ?
Please. Tolkein did not 'discover Finnish'. Finland is a large country in Northern Europe with lots of inhabitants who have a prior claim.
I absolutely agree. Heaney's celtic background in no way enhances his qualification as an authority on old English. They are very different cultures and languages, locked in mortal combat for hundreds of years. It is a popular misconception that LOTR has Celtic sources. It doesn't. Absolutely not. Not that I have anything against Celts, I am one.
Why look at Heaney's Beowulf ? He's an Irish poet. Tolkein was one of the finest philologists of the 20th century and an expert in old English. His translation of Beowulf was and still is definitive. Read Tolkein's version instead.
Software engineers love to categorise, they love logic and hate leaving things unexplained. "Hey, my kid is not logical, captain, therefore it must have a disease". I hate to say it, but some people love to have their kids become 'special', because it reflects on them too and gives them something to talk about. Also, children reflect the personalities of their parents. If their parents are mildly Aspergic (?) then the kids will reflect that behaviour. Third, this is California we are talking about right ? Over here in Cambridge (England) we have the biggest collection of geeks outside of Silicon Valley through our own hi-tech ghetto and the University and we don't show this kind of big rise. So, sorry, I don't buy it. It's just another example of geek bashing/bash me I'm a geek. Pah ! Now I am returning to my editing my "Lost In Space Continuity Error" database. I have 2 million entries and I know them all by heart . . .