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Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
12:25 AM
@MichaelT notorious interview question?
 
user55340
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Q: Is it appropriate for interviewers to ask candidates for their Stack Exchange user name?

kmoteWould you consider it appropriate if you were asked for your Stack Exchange username in a software job interview (or as a pre-interview screening question)? To me, it seems like a very reasonable request, and one that would be extremely informative -- I'm sure I could learn more about a candida...

interview
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
Ah right
That question is a rather bit of a crock in my book, but it shed light on something else: Aside from github, and nonsense management, mentioning stack exchange is another sure fire light-a-fire trigger
 
Ampt
Ampt
12:40 AM
@MichaelT Went and got fish and chips. solid choice
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
1:32 AM
@Ampt Chicago style thin crust pizza for me. Doused with giardiniera and tobasco.
giardiniera, perfects any sandwich and awesome on pizza. Or really most anywhere if you love good spicy food
 
 
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Kim Jong Woo
Kim Jong Woo
6:13 AM
hello
 
 
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thorsten müller
thorsten müller
8:17 AM
Spamming user, could a mod have a look please:
another one:
 
gnat
gnat
8:56 AM
@MichaelT "Open letter to students..." has good chances, too (I hope:)
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Q: Open letter to students with homework problems

MichaelTIt is September once again (today is the 7316th day of September), and once again students are asking their homework problems on Stack Overflow and Programmers.SE. We start seeing questions like: A car dealer has 10 salespersons. Each salesperson keeps track of the number of cars sold each m...

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user41796
1:29 PM
@KimJongWoo - hello. The Whiteboard can go quiet for hours at a time - you're welcome to drop a question or comment in. As folk roll through they'll take a look and reply if they have something meaningful to say.
 
user41796
@MichaelT - sorry if I sniped an answer from you regarding the profiler. But I ended up turning it into a pretty decent answer.
 
user41796
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A: How to find bottlenecks in an application?

GlenH7There are two paths to follow. Blindly follow hunches. Get an application profiler. Let's look at the pros & cons. Blindly follow hunches This is: Low capital cost (hunches are free) Exceptionally easy to instrument (there isn't any instrumentation) Relies heavily upon your programming...

 
user55340
3:18 PM
@GlenH7 No problem at all. Its a good answer.
 
RhysW
RhysW
4:53 PM
bangs head repeatedly on keyboard
Come on Visual Studio, play nice already!
 
 
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
6:13 PM
Ars Technica » Stack Exchange: Is it poor programming practice to pass parameters as objects?
posted on September 21, 2013 by Stack Exchange

Are you making code more maintainable? Or just covering up poorly defined methods?

 
 
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user55340
7:14 PM
After stumbling on a sock puppet rep inflation scheme on SO (I flagged a strange edit where the owner approved it and someone else rejected it) and seeing that both parties are now suspended for 1 year... I came up with this query on Data.SE - data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/… --- @WorldEngineer, while its mostly an issue on SO (no one cares about P.SE rep) - would this be useful for other mods?
 
user55340
7:32 PM
(Better link than the one before - data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/138568/… )
 
gnat
gnat
10:21 PM
how comes that this spam is still here? (my spam flag has been dismissed as helpful but post stays)...
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A: how to convince other we should move to hadoop?

user102822this information is very useful and also good for hadoop learners .biginfosys also provides hadoop online training

 

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