Don't watches go in and out of style like everything else? I imagine there are circles that would shun you if you were walking around with your rolex from 3 years ago.

I don't know much about high end watches. I'll be honest, i can't tell a tag heurer from a breitling, To me, it looks like watch fashion has never changed so maybe a rolex never goes out of style.

I do remember a time, though, when everyone wore a swatch. up to 10 on each arm. fashion is a fickle thing and doesn't always drive people to make the sane choices.

Just wait until selfie drones are all the rage! i'm guessing within 2 years.

I picked up objective-c when ios became big. it's fine and all, but what i find myself doing is writing as much as i can in c++ and then just calling into it from objective-c where i need to. xcode will happily compile the two languages (technically i'm using objective-c++). really, even in apple's apis objective-c only gets you so far. sooner or later you will find yourself calling into c apis. heck even some of their examples only feature a rough skeleton of objective-c working with a big c library.

my advice: learn enough objective c to make an NSView and handle some events, and send that stuff right into you c++ api asap.

i don't think it's going to be the martian day cycle that keeps the first people on Mars from getting to the bank or their favorite restaurant for lunch.

Are you just asking these candidates questions that are too specific?

My team asks candidates to solve some relatively simple problems. They don't have much to do with our software. It's just stuff like filtering strings for pairs of characters and some other stuff. It helps us to evaluate if someone can write code to solve a problem.

If they can, we will ask them more specific questions. Now, i'm a graphics programmer. I work with open gl and 3d stuff. I'll often ask, "Given a triangle with points A,B, and C, how would you find the normal?" I realize this community is going to contain lots of people who find that question laughably simplistic. it's not even a programming question (though neither is describing key pairs). I'm just looking for them to say "cross product". . nobody in 3 years has ever known.

the purpose of the question though isn't to shoot someone down. it's more like extra credit. I'm curious if they know anything about geometry, but we've hired plenty of guys who can't answer my questions. they have learned, and i was confident they could because they did well on the general questions.

Also, the days of naming your company after something are long gone. People just apply random stuff like Uber to their company. The next big startups are going to be named stuff like "Zoosit", and "Mixlebin".

oh gosh! mixlebin.com is still available. i better get it!

Show me a c program that can describe the beauty of yesterday's sunset to someone and i'll show you a printf wrapping some text.

EVERYTHING!? that's way too much moderation! you die.

When i make purchases with my credit card, i'm not worried about someone knowing it was me, Shadowrat, who made the purchase. When did people claim that you could anonymously buy anything with a credit card? Obviously that's stored in lots of places. I buy something online, the vendor needs to know where to ship it, my credit card company knows who to bill, amazon knows because they are passing the info on.

What i worry about is someone stealing my number. This Honestly, i don't even worry about that so much anymore since it's happened enough and i've come away completely unharmed, i'm just kind of numb to it.

So true. if 3 engines fail on a 2 engine plane, it pretty much destroys everything and resets the universe. a 4 engine plane is just the sane choice.

we use latin words to be unambiguous, but we come up with the latin names ourselves. the romans didn't name a rattlesnake crotalus atrox. They hadn't even determined the whole family genus species classification stuff.

Now, if we described stuff by it's percentages of fire earth air and water and spirit...

i get a statistic that in 2013, china produced approximately 1 coal plant a week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

unless we are talking about may 17, 2013. for that time period, china did apparently produce 1 coal plant a day.

i don't even know why i feel the need to argue this though. it has little to do with the topic. i just can't fight the urge to look up statistics. i think there's something wrong with me.

It's pure hubris to think that scientists in the future are going to go along with our stupid names for stuff.

what are the recruiters supposed to do? just start asking random women on the street if they want to work in IT? Even recruiters are limited to the pool of people that make it known they want those jobs.

I think you are making it too complicated. i thought it was because they heard agile was the best.