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Post #145,046

by ben_tilly

3/9/04 4:32:23 PM

Sure...

If you could go back and redo some of your past projects from scratch, what fundamental technical decisions would you make differently, and why?

The answer itself should be fascinating.

This is a close cousin to asking someone to think of a recent technical problem that required debugging, and then to ask how they tracked it down. Shows a lot about how someone thinks.

Cheers,
Ben

"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]

I'm about to interview a Net God - (broomberg) - (71) - March 9, 2004, 03:53:46 PM EST

No questions. - (Yendor) - (22) - March 9, 2004, 04:04:04 PM EST

I wish - (broomberg) - (21) - March 9, 2004, 04:12:52 PM EST

Uh, what's so great? - (deSitter) - (20) - March 9, 2004, 04:17:59 PM EST

We'll find out - (broomberg) - (10) - March 9, 2004, 04:21:53 PM EST

Most of the stuff there is searchable content - (folkert) - (9) - March 9, 2004, 04:28:26 PM EST

I know (link added) - (broomberg) - March 9, 2004, 04:33:51 PM EST

Idiot - (deSitter) - (7) - March 9, 2004, 04:40:48 PM EST

TAKE THE PILLS. -NT - (pwhysall) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 04:42:56 PM EST

Re: TAKE THE PILLS. - (deSitter) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 04:46:41 PM EST

Re: TAKE THE PILLS. - (pwhysall) - March 9, 2004, 04:49:32 PM EST

Ross... take some time off... - (admin) - March 9, 2004, 04:44:23 PM EST

Also, you've never seen a DIGITAL support contract. - (pwhysall) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 04:45:23 PM EST

WTF do you know what I've seen? -NT - (deSitter) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 04:47:42 PM EST

Not a DIGITAL support contract, that's fer shure. -NT - (pwhysall) - March 9, 2004, 04:52:24 PM EST

Umm... Okay. - (folkert) - (8) - March 9, 2004, 04:26:54 PM EST

Not just on it - (broomberg) - (3) - March 9, 2004, 04:28:47 PM EST

Just nod... and ask: - (folkert) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 04:30:47 PM EST

Why don't you just go outside and jack off? - (deSitter) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 04:39:07 PM EST

Ross, Goodbye. - (folkert) - March 9, 2004, 06:01:04 PM EST

Re: Umm... Okay. - (deSitter) - (3) - March 9, 2004, 04:38:29 PM EST

Time to STFU and take the lithium, Ross. -NT - (pwhysall) - March 9, 2004, 04:40:39 PM EST

WOW, I never thought the day I'd say this - (folkert) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 06:02:56 PM EST

Pshaw. -NT - (Ashton) - March 9, 2004, 11:34:34 PM EST

Short question - (pwhysall) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 04:31:48 PM EST

:-) -NT - (admin) - March 9, 2004, 04:48:15 PM EST

Sure... - (ben_tilly) - March 9, 2004, 04:32:23 PM EST

I would ask how the hell the following phrase got - (Arkadiy) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 04:55:02 PM EST

Re: I would ask how the hell the following phrase got - (deSitter) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 05:00:37 PM EST

Arse... - (folkert) - March 9, 2004, 06:04:45 PM EST

Done - (broomberg) - (27) - March 9, 2004, 05:56:09 PM EST

Out of curiosity, what skills lacking - (ChrisR) - (6) - March 9, 2004, 06:26:22 PM EST

Perl and SQL - (broomberg) - (5) - March 9, 2004, 07:05:13 PM EST

All this for THAT?? - (deSitter) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 07:14:47 PM EST

What did you SAY?! - (folkert) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 07:40:45 PM EST

Quit feeding him, Greg. -NT - (admin) - March 9, 2004, 07:41:16 PM EST

That'd do it - (ChrisR) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 09:36:23 PM EST

The sample program was "interesting" - (broomberg) - March 9, 2004, 10:08:11 PM EST

What, he lacks 7 years of C# expertise?!? (me.duckForCover) -NT - (bbronson) - March 9, 2004, 06:27:03 PM EST

late model linux n clustering? -NT - (boxley) - (6) - March 9, 2004, 06:59:12 PM EST

WTF is that supposed to imply? - (deSitter) - (5) - March 9, 2004, 07:03:37 PM EST

You are so clueless now... - (folkert) - (4) - March 9, 2004, 07:43:34 PM EST

No wonder he won't return - fookerism -NT - (deSitter) - (3) - March 9, 2004, 07:45:34 PM EST

Danny-boy - (folkert) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 07:57:24 PM EST

ENOUGH ALREADY. - (admin) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 08:04:32 PM EST

Wouldna mattered anyway. He would just kept going. -NT - (folkert) - March 9, 2004, 08:09:10 PM EST

Ooh! He knew UNIX! - (deSitter) - (11) - March 9, 2004, 07:01:54 PM EST

Give it a rest. -NT - (admin) - March 9, 2004, 07:37:57 PM EST

Yeah, another brilliant frothing, I am sure. - (folkert) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 07:41:38 PM EST

Greg, you know better... -NT - (Another Scott) - March 9, 2004, 08:08:54 PM EST

Greg, YOU give it a rest (new thread) - (ben_tilly) - March 9, 2004, 08:20:36 PM EST

well actually I wish the developers around here knew unix - (boxley) - (6) - March 9, 2004, 10:18:22 PM EST

Well I know it - (deSitter) - (5) - March 9, 2004, 11:01:39 PM EST

Have you checked WUSTL recently? - (Another Scott) - (3) - March 9, 2004, 11:16:24 PM EST

Already applied - (deSitter) - (2) - March 9, 2004, 11:33:34 PM EST

Good! Keep at it. Luck! -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - March 9, 2004, 11:37:21 PM EST

would be a dream job - (deSitter) - March 10, 2004, 12:16:11 AM EST

they wont even let me work remote except for off hours - (boxley) - March 10, 2004, 08:48:34 AM EST

Another day, another Vulture Capitalism script - (Ashton) - (9) - March 10, 2004, 12:52:45 AM EST

Try again. - (FuManChu) - (5) - March 10, 2004, 01:22:19 AM EST

Melville understood - (deSitter) - (4) - March 10, 2004, 01:31:56 AM EST

Bzuh? - (FuManChu) - (2) - March 10, 2004, 12:39:45 PM EST

nope, we're idealists in the strict sense :) -NT - (deSitter) - March 10, 2004, 12:43:16 PM EST

Cosmic significance? Why not.. - (Ashton) - March 10, 2004, 05:41:19 PM EST

Koyaanisqaatsi, literally "life out-of-balance"Indians Smart -NT - (Ashton) - March 10, 2004, 05:48:31 PM EST

I assume you've seen http://theyrule.net -NT - (drewk) - March 10, 2004, 01:40:09 AM EST

That's the main point. - (Nightowl) - (1) - March 10, 2004, 01:34:51 PM EST

Re: That's the main point. - (deSitter) - March 10, 2004, 01:39:31 PM EST

How many more jobs do you think you can handle at once? - (tuberculosis) - (2) - March 11, 2004, 11:44:39 AM EST

Re: How many more jobs do you think you can handle at once? - (deSitter) - (1) - March 11, 2004, 11:47:54 AM EST

Busy I guess - (tuberculosis) - March 11, 2004, 01:17:25 PM EST

Some very old computer experience.... - (gdaustin) - March 11, 2004, 11:00:43 PM EST

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