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Developers and managers share some of the silliest answers to technical interview questions that they’ve heard - or given "Visual Basic is a perfectly capable language for writing system-level tools"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Visual Basic is a perfectly capable language for writing system-level tools"
Yes, in the same way that a boat is a capable sea-level tool.
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Quote:
Me: How do you kill a zombie?
Candidate: With a chainsaw?
Seems like a perfectly sensible answer to me. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, he should have gotten the job. Unless they were looking for "headshot", but any solution good enough for Ash is good enough for me.
TTFN - Kent
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Don't forget the double-tap. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Twice now Apple has bypassed Snow Leopard when it patched newer editions I think I've heard this story somewhere else
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Wow, supporting an OS for a total of 4.5 years - that really sucks.
I guess Apple really don't give an elephant for their desktop users any more. And some MS users are still complaining about XP being retired after, what, 13 years.
"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 diverse set of real-world Java benchmarks shows Google is fastest, Azure is slowest, and Amazon is priciest I put my money on the altocumulus lenticularis
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As insecure as passwords generally are, they're not going away anytime soon. Every year you have more and more passwords to deal with, and every year they get easier and easier to break. You need a strategy. 1235 <- There, saved you the trouble of reading
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I can't read green text on black. Maybe that's a security feature.
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Yeah, that was mighty-dog horrid. I ended up using an extension to change the colour scheme just so I didn't go blind.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Or to write your passwords down on a piece of paper and secure that piece of paper.
Yeah, that's the strategy I use nowadays. If only I could decipher my hand-writing... That's a level of extra security I actually don't need.
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Generate a Guid.
Presto.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Don't laugh. I just checked into a hostel in Porvenir in Tierra Del Fuego, and the Wifi password was a GUID.
Still, here they change them - I've been in other places where the password is printed on posters and stuck on the wall. Obvious it hasn't been changed in ages.
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And write it on the bottom of your foot to keep it handy 
TTFN - Kent
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Q29udmVydCBhIHNlbnRlbmNlIHRvIGJhc2U2NA
(Convert a sentence to base64)
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Put down the jQuery, step away from the non-relational database: we have more important things to talk about. And you fancy-pants CSS kids can get off my lawn!
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is still awesome; it allows me to have an "empty" TABLE cell with a border, like it's supposed to. 
But by no means am I a Web Developer  ; I do real work.
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Great fun to read that. He could add another such funny article on website security of the 1990ies...
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disable cgi and create a pure static website using notepad that has no executable code (unless you count the animated gif with the construction worker on the home page  ).
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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Dan Neely wrote: unless you count the animated gif with the construction worker on the home page
Hmmmm,
Actually the GIF image format was owned by CompuServe was protected by copyright until 2003. So back in the old days using GIF images on your website could result in a letter from CompuServe demanding that you pay a license fee. Luckily the IESG/IETF came to the rescue and pushed for the development of the PNG format. Unfortunately... it took many years for all of the browsers to add support for PNG images.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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 Their shakedown campaign worked almost as well as the RIAA/MPAA's campaigns against file sharing did.
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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And the header of that animated gif that you got from some Russian website has a virus payload that will infect everyone who uses Internet Explorer 5...
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Microsoft is reportedly interested in some kind of partnership with France-based Orange that will involve the latter company's Dailymotion streaming video site. That's the word from Orange CEO Stéphane Richard, who revealed today that talks between the two companies are underway. It looks like you're searching for cat videos, would you like help with that?
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As a lot of the comments on Neowin say, I'd really appreciate Youtube getting some competition so they'd improve on the mess that they have now.
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