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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bonus question: does that sentence make any sense at all?
Could you include some more "X"'s in it next time??  
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The team behind Guava, Dagger, Guice, Caliper and other projects on those projects in particular, or what their day-to-day jobs inside Google are really like, team or personal history, advice... you name it
The search for the weirdest and most useless question the team actually answered begins...now.
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The creator of the Android Visual Studio extension for C/C++ apps on how the extension came to be, why it does not support C#, and how it could help bridge the platform gap.
A collective *sigh* from all the C# coders.
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We believe Exceptionless can help the development community become more in-tune with their code by making those errors more transparent, trackable, and squashable. More importantly, we want to support developers building and shipping better code for their users. But of course your code never throws exceptions, does it?
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Quote: But of course your code never throws exceptions, does it?
Nope. I found the magical super-secret code that stops all exception throwing:
Catch {}
Works every time.
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He's a witch! Burn him! 
TTFN - Kent
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The new name had already been previewed, and the product is largely the same as its predecessor, SkyDrive. New features include auto uploads from Android, adaptive personal video streaming a la Netflix and better document collaboration tools that don’t require a Microsoft account. Doesn't look like the 100GB works if you already were signed up. Now taking bets on how long before they're sued on this name.
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One.com has been making threatnening noises[^]; but their lawyers don't appear to have pulled the trigger yet...
Canonical hasn't said anything public yet. (I assume this means they're waiting until they can open an office in East Texas before filing suit.) 
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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Zzzzz....
"How on earth does Microsoft continue to pour massive resources into building the same frigging synchronization platforms again and again? ... I'm so excited I might just die." -- Architecture astronauts take over, by Joel Spolsky[^]
This space intentionally left blank.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Architecture astronauts take over, by Joel Spolsky[^]
... also hard at work on the news item above this one.
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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He sure likes hyperbole: "incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian grandiloquence; the boastfulness; the complete lack of reality"
But a pretty funny and accurate read.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Here I gaze into my crystal ball and pen some thoughts on what I think the PC - or, more accurately the post-PC PC - of 2025 will look like. "If man is still alive, if woman can survive"
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By 2025 large companies, especially those that have just moved off of XP in the last couple of years) will finally begin migrating to Windows 8 on the same box that they've been using 2013.
What the author, and everyone else, fails to recognize is that the market has at least three tiers: the trendy gadget techno look people that just want to stream entertainment all day, the middle manager that wants to look powerful with his lighter than air, transparent iAir, and the last tier that's got two types of people: those that actually get work done and need fast input (meaning a real tactile keyboard) and a large display, and those that make all these gadgets and software, what affectionately was called "engineering" in 2013 and in 2025 is called "agileering", those of us who actually need those quantum super-cooled fiberoptic megacore GPU's and 50 square feet (er, meters) of display surface with optical and gesture tracking.
Now, doesn't that sound a lot more realistic, and in about 10% of the words that that article used?
(And hopefully a lot more entertaining!)
Marc
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Even if you’ve only had just one professional interview in your life, then you’ve probably still been asked some version of this question. Do you remember how you answered? Did you say that you work too hard? That you have perfectionist tendencies? Or that you’re too passionate? Be honest. Mental note: "I have a tendency to maim interviewers using that question", is not the right answer
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Surely the best response to this man on a high horse is "I don't suffer fools gladly!"
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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"I just never say what I should in interviews and kick myself later."
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Any thoughts on what a possible "correct" answer could be? For example, I'd say that I'm weak in databases.
Any other thoughts?
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Being honest is what counts.
If you really do procrastinate (like I do), it's probably better for them to know now and still choose to hire you than to find out later and fire you.
So, sure, if databases are your weak point, you could probably say that.
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It's ok to say that - as someone else has said, honesty is usually the better policy. However, don't forget to follow that up with something like "so I'm taking every opportunity I can to improve my knowledge and expertise with databases" (for example). It can lead nicely to further questions (just make sure you have some examples of how you're doing that!) and demonstrates that you're willing to improve yourself etc etc
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I'm honest. I'll mention procrastination - which is usually because I'm still mentally organizing what I need to do. That, and I tend to gold-plate my code.
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Great stuff! I'll try to remember it when I go for an interview.
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How about "I don't handle rejection well, and I'm curious about cannibalism"?
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"Small farm animals"
with an eye-twitch.
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Microsoft last week said that it had sold 200 million licenses of Windows 8 since the operating system launched more than 15 months ago. But how many copies are actually being used? Let's see. I have two, Ahmed has at least one...
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I have 3
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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