throwaway5250

Apologies for my lack of originality.

It's difficult to get someone to understand something when it's in their interest not to.

Thanks for posting. Looks like hysteria to me, but I'm glad to know what happened.

Indeed, SQL is a declarative language. It'd be quite shocking if short circuiting were happening.

Generally I agree and aspire to this.

I do wonder, though, how I would keep track of the list of phrases I'm no longer allowed to say without being fired, shunned, or worse.

At least lately, it's become pretty obvious that WaPo and NYT are feeding us crap on a regular basis. If you go look at the source materials, you'll realize that their "neutral" summaries aren't close to neutral, or aren't factual at all. Many times you don't even have to go to the source--the articles/headlines themselves aren't even internally consistent. ("Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong...")

Maybe it was always this way, and I never noticed.

+1 for "exercide"

Personally, I cannot be productive in a noisy environment (sans headphones), and I most definitely cannot be productive pair programming. (Or, good god, mob programming.) Yes, I've tried it.

I've been on one or two interviews where this requirement was brought up. For the common good, I just excuse myself.

It seems possible that some people can actually produce good results via pair programming, but I'm not aware of any examples myself.

Glanced at that link, and not spotting any reason to regard this person as "trash" (if indeed there ever is one).

What are they saying here that is objectionable, and what is your rebuttal?

You can peel my zero-based arrays from my cold, dead hands.

Try getting rejected at the final executive approval (i.e., their magic eight-ball) after passing the in-person day and the hiring committee.

Once you've seen the inside of the hiring process, you'll never take this stuff personally again. It's utter garbage. At best, the process manages to select for a few traits that are probably useful, while de-selecting for others they didn't realize were crucial for ultimate success.

If you doubt this, ask yourself how one of the tightest hiring sieves in the world managed to produce Google+.

tldr: The half of the country that voted for the current President are all awful, stupid people, and they spend their time reading awful, stupid websites.