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The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I think I am the weirdo/eccentric here.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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I think we all our somebody's weirdos, I mean look what we do for a living 
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Jimmy Savile wrote: 1.) MW. I think I have mentioned him before, he stares at his screen-saver for two hour periods(no exaggeration) he also disappears for longer periods, nobody anywhere on site sees him during these periods and nobody knows where he goes. We suspect he returns to the Mother Ship.
Check a bathroom stall. People nap there.
At my old job, the weirdest person we had was "Momma's Boy" He talked about 2 volume levels higher than appropriate. He would go to the bathroom all the time, frequently, with a fantasy novel. He would sit in the stall and presumably read the novel. When he would leave the bathroom he would never wash his hands.
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wizardzz wrote: Check a bathroom stall. People nap there.
Done that and found nothing. Unless he goes to a stall elsewhere on the site as it's quite a big location.
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I call those the super secret bathrooms. My college had a basement bathroom that NOBODY knew existed.
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wizardzz wrote: he would never wash his hands
Probably the novel was clean.
BDF
I often make very large prints from unexposed film, and every one of them turns out to be a picture of myself as I once dreamed I would be.
-- BillWoodruff
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I like to think that he really hated the book.
(so he used it as TP... get it?)
modified 1-Feb-13 15:19pm.
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wizardzz wrote: When he would leave the bathroom he would never wash his hands.
That's why Mrs. Wife and I never go out anywhere without a bottle of alcohol hand gel. The thought of touching any door handle that someone has deposited either their shite or the contents of the nostrils on sickens me. There's a car park we use and we sometimes time our passage through the doors when somone else has opened them or we quickly jam a foot in before it closes and use our hooves to open it. I hate crowded Tube trains for the same reason as the sudden start and braking requires you to hold on to a handrail.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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_beauw_ wrote: I worked with a guy who sat on a Barney the Dinosaur floatie
I think that wins.
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My b-i-l in Adelaide is a pathologist and he had a problem with piles a few years back. He went to see a specialist in that kind of treatment and while he was in the waiting room another doctor he knew saw him and made some off-the-cuff remark about his piles. As my b-i-l said, he could only have known that if he'd seen his case file. His reaction was that he wanted to punch him in the face. He reported him to the local medical regulation chapter and the doctor concerned was hauled before a committee and given a formal warning. The two of them never spoke again to each other after that.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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...and got rejected in 20 minutes.
The interview was for an MS specialist.
The interviewer said he was an MS "senior" specialist.
He then asked me about something called Tibco.
I told him I had never heard of it.
He asked me if I knew anything about third parties for managing product catalogs.
I said no.
He said he had asked enough.
End of story.
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Ah, sounds like he was a senior BS specialist.
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He asked me how I would make a web site secure.
I said, for one thing, I could use Silverlight since there is minimal scripting involved, thus reducing chances of scripting attacks.
He ignored my answer. So yes he was a BA.
Of course, I could have said I use httpUrlEncode, but I don't think it would have made a difference.
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There is a huge topic and most companies have specialist for it. But you could have mentioned about best practices that we follow as a developer.
..Go Green..
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I agree. The way he answered that, the other person would have thought he was trying to get out of answering it to hide the fact that it's not a strong area. Sometimes it's all about perception.
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Gotta say your answer was very weak.
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Yeah perhaps. I think I was not ready for that question.
I did say I could disable scripting.
I might have got to cookies but somehow I missed it.
Frankly though, I just could not recollect httpUrlEncode at that time.
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Abhinav S wrote: I did say I could disable scripting.
I might have got to cookies but somehow
I missed it.
But those were wrong answers. These are all things the client would do or could do, not something the web-dev would do on the server side code.
Abhinav S wrote:
Frankly though, I just could not recollect httpUrlEncode at
that time.
That's probably just one of several different approaches people usually take. So overall you cannot blame the guy for not picking you, since you did not meet his expected skill set (which seems to be that for a senior web developer with a fairly good knowledge of web security).
So the bigger question is why they called you for an interview for a skillset that's different from the ones you possess. This was perhaps due to a communication issue.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: a fairly good knowledge of web security).
That would make sense.
What had Tibco got to do with it?
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I don't know what Tibco is but they may be doing 3rd party contract work for Tibco (perhaps a web-based project).
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Tibco is an EAI solution.
A module of Tibco provides an event based cloud computing solution for business intelligence - which is probably what he wanted to ask about.
The best I could do was read about Tibco once I was out of the interview room.
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If nothing else, didn't they at least offer you something to drink? Something to at least make the journey worthwhile?
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Naah - I paid for the travel.
;sigh:
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Abhinav S wrote: Tibco.
The supermarket ? Had to google it to know what it was.
Abhinav S wrote: third parties for managing product catalogs
Never say no. I usually answer this by telling:
"- Yeah, I have been using the Gullib Library for years, V5.4 from 2011 being the last one, but as it is THE standard every big company is using, we do not need to talk about it further more, it must be used here as well, ain't it so ?"
Abhinav S wrote: The interview was for an MS specialist.
Have you asked if you had the same understanding of MS ? The acronym might mean something else in his world...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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