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I worked for a company that maintained a staff of "certified" ghost developers in India (they didn't do any work for us, they were simply paid to be on the company's roster), just so the company could retain it's "Certified Partner" status.
It's bogus, and crts don't mean sh|t.
If you interview with me, bring a laptop with some code you actually wrote (applicable to the position being sought), and be prepared to explain/discuss it in detail.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: If you interview with me, bring a laptop with some code you actually wrote (applicable to the position being sought), and be prepared to explain/discuss it in detail.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yeah, that's a good way to do interviews. I tend not to do that though, because a lot of people have confidentiality agreements that prevent them from sharing code.
I've interviewed enough people to be able to tell the people who BS and the ones who really get it....
I've also found even that education is not a good tell of how good a developer they are. In fact, the best one I ever worked with, he didn't have a college degree at all, only a HS diploma. But, he had tons of experience, and just "got it". And once he was in, he was everything I thought he was a developer.
On the flipside, I worked with another guy that had a MSCS, and was the biggest idiot ever (I didn't hire him, he was already there when I started). I could see from just talking to him that he didn't get it. As an example, he thought he should use C macros instead of functions, because they were "cool". Nevermind the fact that they were buggy as hell, and got chucked as soon as he left.
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And macros can't be debugged (in the debugger).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 6-Jan-15 11:47am.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: And macros can't be debugged (in the debugger).
Ah, the kids today... 
Anyway, it's pretty easy to debug macros in Visual Studio - just switch to the Assembly view and you'll see the expanded C/C++ lines of code along with the machine code instructions.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I still think certs are pointless, though.
I'd agree. You deserve congratulations for the score though!
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Congrats John!
It's a game but once you get through it you won't have to worry about it again.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Couldn't agree more. Once I got a voucher for an MS HTML5 cert. I tried it out to see if these questions do proof anything. I think I got them all right, but some questions were really dubious and basically none of the questions went deep into the matter. Therefore I concluded that looking for certs on the CV of an applicant is pointless.
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Well done! I was still curious regarding a previous post on this topic...was Capitalization and spacing part of the test?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Apparently not. I tried to replicate the case and space that was being used in each question. I had three questions that required typing/modifying a query.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I saw that months ago. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The all-wheel burn out at the beginning of the video is very cool.
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I heard they engineered their own all-wheel drive system from scratch...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Another staggering indictment of the "Heart of Darkness" in Amerikkan Corporate Occupied MallBurgerLand mechano-erotic culture of auto-weaponized depersonalization.
Just as the feverish Kurtz said, on the boat: "The Horror, The Horror !"
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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I was reading this: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2864772/cloud-storage/are-pc-hard-drives-destined-to-die-at-the-hand-of-the-cloud-maybe-analysts-say.html[^]
nice article but as I was reading I was like dude this is not what people is learning, after the boom of everything in a Cloud people has learning that it's not good and they are learning to really use the Cloud Storing as it must be (please notice I'm not talking about Cloud Services, It's just storage)...
My as an old user of PC, as a person that lives in a place that is not 100% 24/7 online with insane amount of Bandwidth, have always know the importance of working Offline...
So, would I use Cloud Storage? yes, but not as the main and unique storage, that is kind of stupid for me, I use it as the Centralized Backup, I can backup everything but I will always use the local files (PC, Cell, Tablet, Console...) I don't want to:
- Lost usability due lost of connection or services temporally down
- Bandwidth, everybody in the cloud just to see a video, that is a waste of bandwidth.
- ISP issued due bandwidth or maximum quota dependency, the stupid mobile service providers in my Country wants to sell 25MB plans but they will add a quota of a maximum of 6GB monthly download, if you goes over the 6GB then your internet speed goes to 128Kb
In simple words having those Backups services are awesome, I'm sure I will not lost those important files anymore.
(Still don't understand how people buy cellphones with just 16Gb and no external SD card slot!!!!!)
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Back in the day, Analysts were saying "The PC is dead! Long live the Network Computer!" which was much the same thing when you look at it.
It didn't happen then, either...
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Ohhh I remember that.. the Smart Terminals!!! just a Monitor and a keyboard!!!!
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Member 4673202 wrote:
(Still don't understand how people buy cellphones with just 16Gb and no external SD card slot!!!!!)
Because the primary function is as a phone, but an all-inclusive-handheld computing device.
I have some apps and music, but it is primarily a phone.
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Yep. I have two apps: a WiFi signal analyser and a Cast-to-Chromecast app (so I can use the phone as a remote instead of my tablet)
On my tablet I have apps, music, books, video, ...
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Funny because all my friends that are buying this kind of phones are Music and Movie fanatics... and lets not talk about Recording 4K videos.... they are like OHHH look what I can do with this camera.. and hahahaha dude you don't have storage!!! what will you do?
Well I forgot to put that on my previous post, that it was for people that doesn't use the mobile phone, wait, the Smart phone just to do call and send text... I also have a Note 2 with 2 32Gb memories, one full of music and stuff, lets call it the daily use one, and one with movies for long trips (useful when there are kids in the car). so this is the case were I don't know how people can buy phones without external memory. (nexus nexus and Google drive!!! I know that is the plan!!!!)
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Let them boot their desktop from the cloud without internet 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Police pulled over a man riding a space hopper through a Dundee underpass in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Entries for the "Drunken Exploit of the Year" award are now closed.
veni bibi saltavi
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They were named that because if you inflated them to a sufficient pressure, and dropped them from a sufficient height, you could bounce into space.
With any luck.
Hateful things: they were harder work than walking... 
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