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Just bought a red one in Small. I'm a girl, BTW. Great work. Thanks !

Obviously, they're brilliant. But they're handsome too. They pretty much hit the genetic jackpot.

I hopped on your website, sir (madam ?) and no doubt, you are a rockstar. I'm talking about typical jobs -- typical embedded vs. typical desktop vs. typical web. Yours does not see…

No doubt, your embedded world presents incredibly difficult problems -- arguably much trickier ones than most web jobs out there. Keep in mind, as the OP and author, I'm comparing …

You have a point. Sure, embedded problems can be very tricky and difficult -- much more so than web stuff. But most embedded folks don't solve problems of THAT complexity in their …

Thanks for getting me to see another point of view. Your argument makes sense !

You read my mind. Most are ugly as hell ! That's exactly what I said on my blog, and Desktop GUI developers get away with it.

OMG, blink1729, you read my mind. I couldn't have said it better ! Someone from salesforce.com (who I met via HN) told me that software folks are interviewed similarly to Scenario …

OK, if we're talking about games, maybe not. I'm talking about your average Desktop GUI out there which can be made to work across different OS's using a GUI Toolkit such as Qt.

Yes, this would be very challenging. Making games cross-platform is not the typical GUI app out there, and is not the sort of app I was thinking about on my blogpost.

Embedded is very challenging. But the tools don't change much through the years. With the web, stuff keeps a changin'- like minute by minute.

I am not a stupid copy/paste programmer who doesn't know what the fuck she's doing. Trust me on that. As my blogpost said, I thoroughly understand the concepts. But if you read my …

I don't know what to say guys. I'm not incompetent but if you want to assume that I am, then I cannot stop you from drawing those conclusions. Let me say this : it's not a matter o…

Of course it's doable. Like I said on my website, I need to get off my ass and start coding up linked lists, binary search trees and sorts "til I fucking throw up all over Manhatta…

Great advice, all. The HTTP protocol skill is something I didn't even consider.

Well, I guess you'd never hire me then. Which is OK. I can't be anything but honest. Sorry. It's who I am.

Yup. I've "built a website" with Ruby On Rails but frankly wasn't too impressed with myself afterward. It was a worthwhile exercise because it got me to understand the basics of we…

I never said linked lists were hard. I said that it's not necessary to know how to reverse a linked list from memory -- from scratch. I can look it up and get to it right away.

Great posting. Helped me a lot. Basically means that preparing for interviews is HARD WORK. Get to it !

In this particular case, you are right. And I fixed it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

sorry to offend you.

The 4 colleagues I mention in my writeup had both -- IQ + EQ. They were kind, humble, and patient people. But you're right, that combo is rare.