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"Zombie Bees… are honey bees that have been parasitized by the Zombie Fly Apocephalus borealis. Fly-parasitized honey bees become 'ZomBees' showing the 'zombie-like behavior' of leaving their hives at night on 'a flight of the living dead.'"

Oh, that's my very much unfinished wasm version from 2013. It wasn't meant to be a "vandalized" or dumbed down version; I just stopped working on it because Simon released a much more complete wasm version on his own site around the same time.

I've recently started working on an updated PWA port that works offline and on touch devices, mainly because the iOS app hasn't been updated in years. (If you hunt around you can probably locate the work in progress, but it's not ready for critics yet. I'll post a link when it is.)

Django would likely welcome a correction or clarification to the docs. (And "they" seem to appreciate help fixing problems.)

It of course depends on what you’re hiring for, what qualities you value, and the scale you’re working at. But:

> I want to assess how you think, not which tools you use

suggests you have a more nuanced approach and aren’t just aiming for large numbers of drones.

What worked well for me (in a couple of smaller companies/teams) was:

- Talk to the candidates about their experiences in a project-oriented course where they had to work in a team. (Most CS programs have at least one of these. Get the name of that course ahead of time and just ask about it.) You want to find out if they can work in a team, divide up work and achieve interim goals, finish a project, deal with conflicts, handle setbacks and learn from mistakes, etc.

- Similarly, find out the names of some of the harder elective courses, and ask about their experiences in these. This gets at what they find interesting, how they think, and can help filter out GPA gamers.

- Talk to them about their experiences in whatever jobs, internships, volunteer work, or extracurricular activities they engaged in while at school. It doesn’t have to be directly related to your field—-you’re screening for work ethic and initiative.

Admittedly it’s been a while, but we used this approach for both on-campus recruiting and remote phone screens, and got pretty good at hitting these topics in a 15-20 minute conversation. We’d have one or two people screen maybe 30-50 candidates each recruiting season, identify 5-10 for on-site interviews with a larger team, and end up hiring about half of those.

This sort of bespoke screening does take some work on your part, and can be tough to scale. But we found it consistently identified solid candidates and led to outstanding hires.

Yep. An ordinary round hole punch worked, but you could also get a purpose built punch that made a nice rectangular notch, had a guide to get the position just right, and had more leverage making it easier to punch through the thick jacket. "Dual sided" floppies (with two factory cut notches) cost enough extra that the tool paid for itself pretty quickly, IIRC.

Of course, the floppy manufacturers warned that the cheaper single sided floppies had only been tested on the front side, and might have defects on the back. But I don't remember that ever being a real problem.

How much do threads like this provide the training data to convince future generations that—despite all appearances to the contrary—strawberry is in fact spelled with only two R's?

I just researched "how many r's are in strawberry?" in a search engine, and based solely on the results it found, I would have to conclude there is substantial disagreement on whether the correct answer is two or three.

Yep, and mix in some BND and BNDX as you get older. Bogleheads ftw.

Uhmackshully, since it's registered, it's "Linux®". The ™ is for unregistered trademarks.

> when an embedded video loads for me, youtube still knows that it's me

If/when third party cookie blocking is fully deployed, this won't be true. Your browser won't send YouTube's session cookie to YouTube when it's loaded in an iframe on an unrelated site, so YouTube won't know you're a premium user.

Oh, that's worrisome. I'm trying to implement it in our embedded content soon, because some of our customers got caught up in Chrome's third party cookie blocking 1% trial that started a week or two ago.

Any specific problems you ran into that you could share?