Yostivanich

“Maybe it’s fool­ish to begin inter­view­ing a pro­gram­mer with­out look­ing at their code first. At Ver­tigo, we require a code sam­ple before we even pro­ceed to the phone inter­view stage. And our on-site inter­view includes a small cod­ing exer­cise. Noth­ing dif­fi­cult, mind you, just a basic exer­cise to go through the motions of build­ing a small appli­ca­tion in an hour or so. Although there have been one or two notable flame-outs, for the most part, this strat­egy has worked well for us. It lets us focus on actual soft­ware engi­neer­ing in the inter­view with­out resort­ing to tedious puz­zle ques­tions.” That has to be one of the sad­dest things ever.

“Dreamweaver: Don’t look so fuck­ing pleased with your­self Dreamweaver”

“IN a move that raised ques­tions about how far news­pa­pers would go to please adver­tis­ers, The Los Ange­les Times ran a front-page ad on Thurs­day that resem­bled a news col­umn.” It’s a pretty good chunk of the front page too.

“WHEN the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion sent let­ters to 14 major phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies late last month, the warn­ing was strong. The com­pa­nies’ search adver­tise­ments — the short text ads that run beside Google results — had to start includ­ing risk infor­ma­tion about each drug or else be rewrit­ten or removed.” I can see the point of want­ing to pro­vide the infor­ma­tion up front as soon as pos­si­ble, but on the first click to the site hav­ing the infor­ma­tion right there seems a fair comprise.

DHCP info is col­lected which is kept for 3 days unless some­thing sus­pi­cious in which case 30 days. How­ever there isn’t an offi­cial pol­icy. It’s not a hor­ri­ble pol­icy, but there needs to be an actual state­ment of what is going on.

“US Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s deci­sion not to pros­e­cute CIA agents who used tor­ture tac­tics is a vio­la­tion of inter­na­tional law, a UN expert says.”

“This is not to say we should fill the world with noise on every mun­dane aspect of our exis­tence. But who decides what is mun­dane? Who decides what is inter­est­ing? Everything’s inter­est­ing to some­one, even if that some­one is only you and a few other peo­ple in the world.” Totally.

Were you on twit­ter before Oprah?

“Perry called his sup­port­ers patri­ots. Later, answer­ing news reporters’ ques­tions, Perry sug­gested Tex­ans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no rea­son why Texas should do that.” Way to pander.

Trick peo­ple into updat­ing IE6 to some­thing far better.

Ban Comic Sans.

“Wash­ing­ton has con­firmed it will boy­cott a UN forum on racism in Geneva next week because of dif­fer­ences over Israel and the right to free speech. The state depart­ment said the pro­posed text of the conference’s guid­ing doc­u­ment remained unac­cept­able despite hav­ing been amended sig­nif­i­cantly. The US and Israel quit a sim­i­lar forum in Dur­ban in 2001 when its draft doc­u­ment likened Zion­ism to racism.”