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We had the books on black men and black women in history by the same author. Each biography is only a page or two, but I found them interesting.

The point of fizz-buzz was to serve as a simple filter at the front end of the interview process. It should be simple, but a surprising number of job candidates were unable to do i…

I've always been afraid of pairing. I don't know how well others would appreciate my periods of daydreaming followed by periods of hyper-fixated focus.

When your team owns an application you have no background knowledge in, and it uses a technology that you haven't touched since you attended a training 18 months ago; I would assum…

I find it ironic that the article itself was edited after the initial posting, per the disclaimer at the bottom. If Netflix added such a disclaimer in the credits of the episode, w…

I would recommend looking at the company's culture. I've seen similar situations where the services team were treated as second-class citizens. What opportunities for advancement a…

To quote Charles Dickens -- "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty po…

To practice being in a relationship. To gain a better understanding of what you want in a relationship. It is one thing to have a bad significant other as a teenager, it is totally…

Many years ago I interviewed at a military contractor. Every time we walked through a work area someone went ahead and announced I was coming through to ensure nobody had something…

I am glad it works for you. Maybe (hopefully?) I have just had an abnormal experience.

In my experience, pair and mob programming are just yet another scenario where neuro-atypical people are punished for approaching their work differently.

I have long thought that pair programming and open offices were yet another way of punishing anyone who is neuro-atypical.

Des Moines offers residential tax abatement on new construction and home improvements from renovation, a deal very similar to what Apple is receiving.

I use a cycling poncho, fenders, and chain guard. I only ride about 3 miles, but even in the worst weather I only get wet from about mid-shin down, and even then only enough to be …

I take it you prefer CORBA?

Ouch! I feel the fool. Revised thoughts. It would only be 10 billion, which would equal two years of payouts for the entire pension.

Also, in 2008 and 2009 California did not fully pay pension contributions. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023048301045751722...

I'll just throw for the opposing side and point out that "Gov. Pete Wilson, took $1.6 billion from CalPERS accounts in 1991 to help close a state budget gap". A random internet cal…

That almost sounds exactly like the Java argument from the late 90s clean syntax standard libraries write once, run anyone

You could also just use better brake pads. Then add full fenders with a rain cape. I only get wet from about mid-shins and down.

I have done this and have done interviews I did most of the questioning as the interviewee. In my experience, this approach turns off a lot of people.

There is a lot of middle ground between the valley and rural Indiana. Depending on how you drove to get there, the northern route would take you through Salt Lake City, just north …

One question/concern I have always had -- Do you have multiple feature flags in place at once? How do you avoid the combinatoric increase in possible configurations? If you have fe…

I might be too late for this one, but: Daily exercise To-do list for EVERYTHING. If it isn't on the list I don't get it done. Time-boxing and frequent breaks. Work a single task fo…

Agile is something that others call you, not something you call yourself.