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The fundamental question you must ask, either as an interviewer or an interviewee, is "are you a jerk?".
If I'm an interviewee, and they ask me how many paramecia would fill the secretary's bladder, I know they're a jerk. I don't intend to work for jerks.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Just ask how they go about solving problems (get them to give an example) and the big one: what do you do when you really get stuck and the internet isn't giving you any help?
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Post "SND CODZZZ URGNTZZZ" in QA, generally...
No, I agree. How you solve a problem is much, much more important than your ability to find Google, CP, SO, et al. Being able to debug code is important because the thought processes that you develop doing that improve your code generally (IMO, anyway).
It amazes me that everybody in QA has access to possibly the most wonderful debugging tool on the planet in the shape of Visual Studio - but most of 'em can't even use it to find out which value is null. 
Thirty years ago, I'd have killed for VS!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: the most wonderful debugging tool on the planet in the shape of Visual Studio
Windbg. That truly IS an amazing debug tool.
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Saw "Windbag". 
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That is its nick name.
You can kernel debug, and then, if you like, switch to a specific process, and debug that.
Its got the ability to break, look at stack variables, and if they are not of interest, do a go. Thus you can break when a particular file gets opened.
It is a very very powerful tool.
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I know the feeling regarding VS. We used to be penalised anytime we used a debugger process. There was a case where four of us were pouring through a COBOL printout trying to debug a failing program. No joy, so to the debugger...
The program took a branch we didn't expect. The cause was a missing full stop which was masked by a blemish on the printer paper where the full stop should have been.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Emilio Largo wrote: I think this is very important
Only person I have ever seen that actually seemed to hire above average people was an HR person. That person didn't ask technical questions.
I have seen many developers fumble around many variations of 'technical' questions often with no idea of what an answer actually proved. And that is the best result. Sometimes it can even lead to confrontation type challenges as to what the 'right' answer.
Myself they never provide any useful information and only serve to make the interviewee more uncomfortable than they already are.
Given that history I am more concerned with whether the person can communicate is some reasonable fashion. Most can.
Most can be average programmers as well. Not surprising given that despite claims over the years by company executives at many companies, the developers were, on average, average.
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While you're interviewing the candidate, have someone else go to the parking lot and randomly pull a spark plug wire from his car. When he/she leaves, time how long it takes the candidate to think of opening the hood. Bonus points for discovering the wire is missing in less than 30 minutes.
Will Rogers never met me.
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This is actually a great idea. 
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Dumb
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Dumbwaiter there's a hair flying like Steve Nashville cats and chicks can get their kicks on Route 66 bottles of beer on the Wall Drugstore cowboys to Men at Workin' in a Coalmine eyes have seen the gloria vanderbiltmore the merry-go-round-the-clocktopushme-pullyou are the one in a million monkeychain gang of Four Horsemen of the Apocalipotherapy souped up Ford Mustang - the drink of Astronautical Bears, oh my, what a dumb
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Now where is that downvote button? 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Just heard this poem[^] by a mermaid in Pirates of the caribbean - On stranger tides. Not able to find the same one, but you may listen to it here[^] ... Same same, but not same. I wonder who wrote it.
My instincts say, never to go near a mermaid, ever. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I don't know who wrote the poem, but the name, Jolly Sailor Bold, sounds like a great name for a new nautically-themed font!! Nothing clownish or cartoonish, but a serviceable document font with a nautical, perhaps "tall ships", flair.
Any of you fontographers up to the challange?? 
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Down by the Walls of Wapping, where I met a sailor gay,
Which today has a totally different meaning. 
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Exactly, for a moment I had the same thought. But then I thought poem was better than giving it a laugh out loud for this!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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What with several months on a ship with no women on board, it probably means what it says!
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I think it's one of those songs that goes on anon anon anon anon!
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✈ █ █
3 letters characters
No clue - too easy!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
modified 11-Aug-15 7:36am.
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Nice try, but none of us are going to answer you know. You're stuck doing this till the end of time. 
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PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I'm just hoping those aren't the Twin Towers... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There are no Twin Towers since...ops...!
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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Maxxx wrote: 3 letters numbers
Maxxx wrote: No clue - too easy!
Are you sure?
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