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| bio | website | petdance.com |
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| location | McHenry, IL | |
| age | 45 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
| seen | May 10 at 14:02 | |
| stats | profile views | 119 |
I've been a programmer for over two decades. I work in Perl and a big pile of legacy PHP.
My book Land the Tech Job You Love is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf.
My Perl news blog is Perlbuzz.
My blog about tech life, including job hunting, is petdance.com.
AIM: petdance
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How would you react on yet another “Why are manholes round?”-style interview question? added 238 characters in body |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Editor |
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Oct 8 |
answered | How would you react on yet another “Why are manholes round?”-style interview question? |
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Oct 8 |
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How to respond when you are asked for an estimate? You can always say "I'll get back to you." If someone says "Well, I need an answer," say "If I give you an answer now, it will be a lie. I do not have enough information right now. It would be a disservice to us both for me to make something up on the spot." |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 8 |
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Effectiveness of “what is your greatest strength/weakness” interview questions What you're actually asking then is "How can I convince my colleagues of something that I can't actually put into words myself." |
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Oct 8 |
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Effectiveness of “what is your greatest strength/weakness” interview questions The sarcastic "Uh," is never helpful. |
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Oct 8 |
answered | How to Subtly Tell a Professor About our Poor Programming Assignments? |
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Oct 8 |
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Why '42' is the preferred number when indicating something random? Why in the world is this a :-(, @Nathan Taylor? Surely you're not suggesting that all programmers subscribe to some single monoculture. |
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Oct 8 |
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How should older programmers respond when interviewed "Let me show you. I just happen to have brought a sheet of cardboard..." |
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Oct 8 |
answered | Effectiveness of “what is your greatest strength/weakness” interview questions |
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Oct 8 |
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What happens at [platform] user groups? Why not go hit a user group outside your normal area of expertise? For instance, Googling on Saskatoon "user group" turns up a VMware user group. Even if you don't use VMware, you'll still learn something and meet other people. |
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Oct 8 |
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What happens at [platform] user groups? Thanks very much. I'm glad you dig it. Reviews on Amazon are more than welcome! :-) |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Oct 8 |
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What happens at [platform] user groups? Where do you live? If you're anywhere near any reasonably sized city, chances are there's some sort of user group meeting you could go to. |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Oct 8 |
answered | What happens at [platform] user groups? |
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Oct 8 |
answered | How to sell a high SO reputation at an interview |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
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Oct 8 |
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What to say when you don’t know the answer to an interview question? Be sure to add "... and here's an example from my past where I had to do exactly that." |
