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I take it there weren't other members of the interview team that assessed your problem solving skills?
In some of the interview teams I've been on, we split up what we questioned a candidate about to get better coverage in the available time. If all the technical people quizzed you about theoretical knowledge, then yes, that would be a bad sign  .
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Well, if you ask me a Software Architect is someone that will deal with a high level of abstraction so understanding the principles and theory behind the code it's a must, although a pure theory interview it's not very productive.
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There was a time when they used to ask:
1) What appeals to you more? Having a clean desk or looking at a pretty girl?
2) How much do you drink per week?
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They used "industrial psychologists" and not HR / IT interviewer types.
(Got the job).
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There is nothing wrong with you. You felt that the questions did not correspond to your way of thinking and your way of looking at the job and of approaching the situations at hand. Thus, you had to reject the job. Most interview questions have long been *extremely* inadequate at judging prospective employers, something that Microsoft and Google have now began to realize and change. I wish that everyone was like you. You disagree with something and you stand up to it with courage and state your opinion. No, there is nothing wrong with you. What you have is integrity. There is nothing wrong with that.
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...but...what happens if you give modern kids old technology?
Kids react to...the Walkman[^]
Make me feel old. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Nauseatingly *ahem* confident children.
Though it is a worry the older ones don't seem to know how to use headphones.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Nauseatingly *ahem* confident children.
Seems fake and for punishment I'd make them set clock on a VCR.
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Mladen Janković wrote: set clock on a VCR.
That's easy - get them to set up a series record on a VCR from the days before VideoPlus+... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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This was the most useless feature of VCR  Either the show didn't start on time or tape was too short and you end up without start/end and a lot of commercials in between 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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At least it set the right channel - which I got wrong a couple of times... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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And make sure what you've got in is a blank tape set at the correct time; not the movie you were watching the night before...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And that you had rewound it... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Actually I recorded over part of the 2nd movie we'd put on the tape. (And it wasn't my parents tape to begin with either.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Level2: Record something on magnetophon and play it.
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Why don't they know how to use headphones? Are they all puny sodcasters?
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And here´s a pencil. What do you think people in the eighties did with it ?
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Depends. Were they constipated mathematicians? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I would wait until there was a test and the entire classroom in total silence. Then get up and proceed to sharpen the pencil for about 2 minutes or until there was merely a stub with an eraser.. If it was a quality pencil it would also be needle sharp. In which I would begin to write and break the tip.. And repeat. Or I'd just throw them to the ceiling and see if they stick to the ceiling tiles..
Pencils also make good arrows when combined with paper clips and rubber bands.. Ahhh the 80s. In a time where texting was actually passing notes when the teacher wasn't looking and getting tagged at recess only meant you were a slow runner and not that every other kid on the playground was a bully.
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You are as old as the woman you feel.
Unfortunately she won't let me trade her in on two 25 year olds... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The age I don't mind, it's the bloody snoring. 
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Please! She's doing that as we speak... She has had a hard day.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I had the same thing as I typed last night.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...but...what happens if you give modern kids old technology?
Looks about the same as giving older folks new technology.
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She who decides, AKA Mrs Wife, has decided that we're going to Hungary for vacation this year.
My limited knowledge about Hungary comes from a neighbour at my student home with an unpronounceable name but called Greg. I have a feeling that this knowledge is not representable anymore.
So any recommendations for what to do when you have two small children of the ages two and three and a half?
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