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Will nose picking hurt my chances!?
Here I thought they would bring up something new and useful but no... same old same old. I've been aware and constantly working on these things since I was in my late teens. I believe eye contact and a firm handshake along with a self confident posture will win over most people as long as you don't come off as pushy and conflict seeking.
Now I haven't had so many different jobs nor seeked that many but all my interviews have ended with me getting a job. Also I don't apply for many positions, just those that I want and think I would be a good fit for.
With the correct posture you can smile and be yourself and show interest in a position without coming off as a salesman just kissing ***.
Also do consider your appearance when going on an interview. Dress good enough to impress yet look natural. If you overdress you will just look stiff. If you are male and apply for a developer position a goatee won't hurt either.
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One could take this as indication how badly broken the interview process is.
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Interesting, and reminds me of a hire I was part of when I was at Adobe.
The candidate seemed absolutely first-class to me; impeccable track record, articulate, poised, thoughtful. Replied to some difficult technical "gotcha" questions with obvious deep understanding of what the "real" issues were.
In the group discussion of this candidate, several people expressed doubt they were a "true geek" precisely because of their apparently not being nervous, their poise, etc.
The person was not hired; but, imho, the real reason was that the manager of the group felt threatened by the person, saw them as potential future competition.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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The company I work for were looking for a contractor, and dismissed one candidate because they felt he may be too skilled.
In a full time position that may make sense, for a 3 month contract, get the best person so they can be productive asap. The guy understood the all apsects of the architecture, the guy they hired left a load of fecal matter in the code base some of which still hasn't been located and excised.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Since I'd (hopefully) have to work for a company for several years if not decades I'm simply myself. Cordiality, firmness and education, but most of all honesty. Why should I make my first impression lying to the people who should hire me? In the best situation I'll be hired and will find myself good in that environment - in the worst I'll be hired for what I am not, which renders the day passed in that company progressively more difficult.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Damn, better stop doing those video interviews in my underpants then.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yeah. Save that for the live ones.
TTFN - Kent
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Linux is everywhere these days. It runs our phones, the web servers that underpin everything from Facebook to Google, even our cars. You know what this means?!
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Still not as important as OpenVMS.
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Operating system TO THE GODS! 
TTFN - Kent
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It runs your brain?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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You missed an i in there somewhere!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ruin works too!  
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Linux is everywhere these days. It runs our phones, the web servers that underpin everything
Yes!
Kent Sharkey wrote: from Facebook to Google
Ohhhhh.... 
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Writing is an important communication tool that none of us can ignore. Write gooder!
Just a thought: practice by writing an article for CP (unless you have already)
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that none of us can ignore.
I can.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: practice by writing an article for CP
Sad but this has lost quite a few relevance the last time. You just have to see what gets approved 
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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Support documentation on Microsoft’s own website has sparked speculation that perhaps the company might be developing a desktop version of Windows 10 for ARM-based chips. Didn't they try that already?
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The bit which made me balk was:
"which might hint that Microsoft could release a version of Windows 10 that might be able to run on x86 chips made by companies like Intel. This is all speculation at this point in time."
Windows, running on x86, whoda thunk it.
In fact, Windows 10 already does run on ARM processors. Windows Phone 10.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A month ago we proposed new licensing terms to cover code posted at Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. Making it easier to detect Stack Overflow Driven Development
CP could go to the "Need codez plz" license
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Kent Sharkey wrote: CP could go to the "Need codez plz" license
Isn't that was CPOL is? 
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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Employees in Europe might want to think carefully about using the internet to send private messages during office hours after Europe’s top rights court ruled on Tuesday that companies could monitor workers’ online communications. I kind of always assumed they were
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NSA by any other name stinks just the same...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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You are in their office using their computer, their server, their comms and they are paying you, and you think they don't have the right to monitor the content! Are people really that naive.
And yet we all know HR will trawl your social media if they want to!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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We run them because we are afraid. We are afraid because we are uncertain what the system will do. Are you sure it does what you think it does?
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