Oct 26, 2006
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing - Essential Guide to Interviewing Candidates
Yet another Joel Spolsky guide to hiring - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing v3.
Amusing quote regarding a programmers ability to properly handle recursion & pointers:
I want my ER doctor to understand anatomy, even if all she has to do is put the computerized defibrillator nodes on my chest and push the big red button, and I want programmers to know programming down to the CPU level, even if Ruby on Rails does read your mind and build a complete Web 2.0 social collaborative networking site for you with three clicks of the mouse.
I think I fall into the unhireable quiche eater category when it comes to programming. I can barely get by in Pascal and I can tweak other peoples code but pointers and recursion are things that drove me nuts.
Joel writes some of the funniest articles on developers & development I've ever read.
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Procrastination: Political Compass
Try the Political Compass.
I come down kind of in the middle of Left/Libertarian. On the same side as Nelson Mandela & The Dalai Lama.
Nice to see I'm in good company :-)