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So the week after next I will be back in Mexico interviewing candidates to take over from my current minions. First time I've done interviews, let alone in a different Country with people who speak a different language, so any tips pointers would be much appreciated.
There are two vacancies and four candidates have made it through to the 2nd interview stage that I will be conducting. Interestingly two of those candidates are a Father and Son!
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Pom Pey wrote: Interestingly two of those candidates are a Father and Son!
Ooh, I know this one! Hire both, and put the son in charge of the father.
What? That's what they always do on TV shows. 
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But you'll think the father is doing all the work, but it's actually his super-smart son doing the work, but the son knows no-one would employ him given his age. So he has to hide in the cupboard when the boss comes around, with hilarious antics resulting.
I should have been an 80s sitcom writer.
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Who's playing the dumb blonde with the big... assets...??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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The boss' secretary? Barbara Windsor.
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Don't ask about any of the following:
Mexicans only drink tequila
they only eat tacos
they only listen to mariachi
all Latinos are Mexican
all Mexicans own Chippewas
all Mexicans wear sombreros
all Mexicans hop the border
all of Mexico is made of dirt
Mexicans ride on donkeys not cars
Google insists none of them are true.
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55378008 wrote: Mexicans only drink tequila
False. That was my father.
55378008 wrote: they only eat tacos
False. That was me.
55378008 wrote: they only listen to mariachi
False. That was my mother when driving. Nonstop.
55378008 wrote: all Latinos are Mexican
Probably true.
55378008 wrote: all Mexicans own Chippewas
True.
55378008 wrote: all Mexicans wear sombreros
True, never seen them wear anything else.
55378008 wrote: all Mexicans hop the border
Not only them.
55378008 wrote: all of Mexico is made of dirt
Very much the same dirt as in Texas.
55378008 wrote: Mexicans ride on donkeys not cars
False. Mexicans love their VWs.
See, I finished the test when can I begin posing as a Mexican?
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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CDP1802 wrote: when can I begin posing as a Mexican?
When Trump finished his wall and hands you the bill?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dealing with JS, fancy JS libraries, HTML and CSS for a while now. Horrible things. Someone please make windows forms "cool" again as being "cool" drives everything now.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I think this is more a question of "better" than being "cool".
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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that's why I thought that ASP.net was a good idea with clean "code behind", and I feel your pain as I experienced this myself, but luckily on a small web project
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Johnny J. wrote: and what happens: Microsoft develops a new version of AX in which they remove the Rich client and make the web client the only alternative.
As M$ had done any better in other staff lately 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Johnny J. wrote: but nowadays everything has to be web.
Not everything.  There's a lot of work going on in native mobile development.
/ravi
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You don't hate them. You just lack the "interest" to embrace them, or perhaps, you're just lazy to learn them? 
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Vincent, since I too hate web front end, you are being cruel .
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You must hate web more If you were to support IE6/Netscape
I must admit that I hate web development before, most especially when dealing with CSS, JavaScripts and cross-browser compatibility. But I have no choice but to learn and embrace them, I need to work for a living.
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Hey, maybe its when I did web development the most advanced tool I had was notepad?
Or if I was working on the backend, there was simply no way to actually debug server side scripts. They just gave you some mystical apache server error.
I am sure things have gotten better, and I appreciate the "I need to work for a living." I suppose if the rate were high enough, I could do front end web stuff again.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: I suppose if the rate were high enough, I could do front end web stuff again.
Make sense! 
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I hate them, too.
Thankfully, I haven't done any webby stuff for a few years but I always regarded HTML as something that has spent way too long in God's waiting room; CSS as a complete pain in the butt and Javascript as absolute filth.
WPF rocks!
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Oddly, I don't hate it. I don't really like it, but I feel the same way about WPF (why can't it just make things simple?) and WinForms (way too rigid, unless you accept creating your own controls, which is hell). HTML, CSS and JS all kind of suck, but so does everything else.
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harold aptroot wrote: WinForms (way too rigid, unless you accept creating your own controls, which is hell)
I loved creating my own controls.
I loved doing winforms.
I still remember the feeling I had when I (forcibly) switched from winforms to web-development about 4 years ago.
Complete disappointment.
Before then I thought the web was way way ahead of what it actually was (as it turned out).
I couldn't (and still can't) believe how much work and how difficult it is to create even simple things for the web.
Disclaimer: I still avoid as much front-end development as I possibly can so I'm not 'up' with all the latest and greatest stuff.
But from time to time I have to dive into JS and CSS and HTML and I still hate it.
Tom
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Windows forms had it's own set of issues and painful ones at that...
Good luck...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Cant the robot speak in Postscript to a printer? 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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