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One can only think about what a stupid, "you will respect my authoritah" immigration officer would say to a long-winded correct answer on these topics.
http://www.recode.net/2017/2/28/14764064/nigerian-software-engineer-detained-by-us-customs
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I am OK with writing code on a piece of paper. What I am interested in is how they check if code is correct? If they are not testing it properly, I might as well get away writing a convoluted hello world.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Time for an article: "Customs and Immigration interview questions Part 1".
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I would rather want to turn the tables and ask a few questions about customs regulations, just to make sure that that guy is real and not some kind of imposter.
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 know. I would have asked for a properly abstracted configuration provider in UML. Lazy.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Step one: Learn JavaScript, if not already familiar.
Step two: When asked about anything complicated, say you don't know because you only use JavaScript.
Step three: ...
Step four: Welcome to the US!
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I've tried three times to install the full Enterprise package, and it just refuses to let me have Xamarin.
Not that I have any real need for Xamarin, but it's the principle of the thing.
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I just got an invite to VS launch event from MS. Let me know if you would like to send a message. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Nah. They'd want details and stuff, and heck if I remember.
And since I could find no similar complaints anywhere on the internet, it's probably just something funky on my machine.
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Do you own a machete, or shall we all chip in and buy you one?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I wouldn't go that far. I will just install vista on every computer I find.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Pre-existing install? They did say RC-Live was ok, but maybe other Xamarin installs causes issues.
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Honestly, I'd have to look. Was there any Xamarin stuff with VS2015?
If not, then this was a clean install of 2017. No RC or Preview or anything.
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It's not just you 
veni bibi saltavi
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You're not so special, from what I have been seeing, VS2017 hates everybody.
I must say though , it is quite an engineering feat to create a software package that can individualize the errors and poor implementation for each user who attempts to install and use VS2017. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Think of it as you being spared from Xamarin.
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Works on my machine.
Isn't technology grand. 
I'm loving that Xamarin for 2017 and Xamarin for 2015 don't share the folder they download an extra eleventy jillion GB of Android dependencies too so I have to have them bloating my HDD up twice.
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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HUMAN VS MACHINE
First of all - all credits goes to Sir Roger Penrose...
He's looking for humans that can see the solution for this chess puzzle to learn more about their brains and about brains at all...
The point is that machines will give up this game, while humans can see a draw for white...
Do you able to force a draw?
I tried to put here an ASCII chess board, but CP screwed it... so here a link to an image...
chess-puzzle.png (1,095.6 KB)
HINT: Notice that even black has a huge advantage in pieces the only ones can move are those 3 bishops at the middle-left. So this is a game of white king against 3 black bishops on a smaller board (there are places king can't go)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 19-Mar-17 8:06am.
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I know the king can make infinite diagonal moves and never be in check.
Should all three bishops leave the current diagonal, then the pawn at B6 could potentially move to take a promotion and threaten black king with mate.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nice one... And definitely not the easiest!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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True. But he can even allow check. If the king later is checked (e.g. on g1) he can never be mated.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That's interesting... Let black check the king to break the self-defensive formation of the 3 bishops and force draw or even go for a mate... I have to check it later...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"'Let' black check the king"?
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Yes. To break the defensive formation of the bishops...
Check this game[^] (the game actually happened and not fabricated)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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