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As the salt, Peter, the ancient mariner would say: "Fertile ground for a question, but, is not any gua(to)no the answer."
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NO3
“Thinking is the hardest work there is …”
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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I can't see footnotes 1 & 2, never mind footnote 3!
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Your ACID tongue will be the BASE of your downfall.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Can't tell... But yeah, in rainy days, so hydrates 
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Wow, spooky case of paradolia
- looks like a partially obscured face just a tad right of the center (mouth, nostrils, part of the left eye) - face of God?
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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I am conducting a round of interviews this week, looking for a mid-level C# developer. I'm down-selecting some tech questions which are aimed at trying to filter out the "Yeah, I did a C# project a couple years ago" crowd from the "C# has been in my blood for at least a year or two" folks.
But selecting appropriate questions is always a challenge. (Just because something is obvious to me, doesn't mean every developer has encountered it. Every project is different and people get exposed to different things. I definitely want to avoid "language trivia.") So here is my first cut of questions. For those of you who are .NET devs, would you agree that somebody with a couple years of solid experience should be able to talk intelligently about most of these topics? (Not all of these are C#-specific.)
- How do you inherit a class, and why might you want to?
- What is the purpose of interfaces, and how are they helpful?
- Why would you ever want to make a method private or protected?
- When might you use a static class or method?
- Can you explain what a lambda is, and why you might use one. (Or, alternatively, LINQ?)
- Why might you use a property instead of a regular variable? (How are they different?)
- Are you familiar with any "Design Patterns"? Can you name one or two that you have used?
- Have you heard of the concept of "tight" or "loose coupling", and how does it effect code design?
- Have you used a Unit Testing framework? If so, how did it (or unit testing in general) benefit your code, if at all?
[Note: we have decided not to make the candidates write or debug actual code in the interview, with the possible exception of FizzBuzz. But that is a topic for another thread.]
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kdmote wrote: I definitely want to avoid "language trivia."
Well ... 1, 2, 3, and 4 are pretty much "language trivia" 
If I was you, I'd have a look for those "interview questions and answers" sheets some "developers" seem so fond of. Ask the questions on that and reject anyone who gives the answer on the sheet...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 1, 2, 3, and 4 are pretty much "language trivia"
Really? I particularly liked those questions. What I liked about them was that, for the most part, there isn't really any right or wrong answers, per se, but I would be surprised if somebody had been doing development work for a year or two and hadn't encountered them in some form. I don't care about the exact syntax; I'm just interested to hear if they can discuss the concepts thoughtfully.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Ask them, wether they prefer strongly typed or stringly typed code.
Edit: That typo was good 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I prefer stryngly tiped code myself.
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I prefer smugly triped.
This space for rent
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How about boldly striped?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Afraid it's boldly gone where no code has gone before.
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Since NextGen it's 'to baldly go where...' 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I prefer stringently-typed variables, myself.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's commendable, as long as you don't stringently stringly type.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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To weed out the truly weak, you could ask them how long they've been developing in "C hashtag"
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In about the year 2000, after coding C++ for a few years, I saw C#. I pronounced it "see pound". I still don't know why it is "see sharp".
Alternatively, I think "see plus plus plus plus" makes more sense - it's almost a pound symbol.
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Of course, it's just a fancy D-flat.
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Pualee wrote: I still don't know why it is "see sharp".
Because in musical notation "#" indicates a "sharp" note: it's called an "accidental" that raises the pitch of a note by a semitone. Sharp (music) - Wikipedia[^]
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Oh, I know music, just thinking about the progression of the language:
A, B, C, C++
Of course there is D but nobody cared.
C++ implied there was something more than C (the ++ operator for instance). By why switch to music for C#? We know the C part came to attract C and C++ developers, but why on earth "sharp"?
When using the # character in coding, it was always pound, not sharp (now folks fancy it a hash tag).
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