Yeah I don't do any hiring .... if I did I wouldn't of hired the last 10 'programmers' they've hired. The FizzBuzz is very simple but it'll weed out all those people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing.

I just had to tell a client of mine again that in tandem to whatever other tests they want to give new hires they should give them a piece of paper and have them write some code to:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".

I don't and won't buy software with this kind of DRM on it.

What's the exchange rate from MS points to Schrute Bucks?

Of course! An intelligence agency ran by an intelligence agency, of course it's super cloak n dagger.

It's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

I think everyone's familiar of that phenomenon regarding the alarm that cried wolf due to all the car alarms. Rarely do people even turn their head when they hear a car alarm.

I think I'm gonna make a "Let's blame IT!" t-shirt cause it's pretty popular theme. Seems to me that the hardware for detecting the problems was there, but the software required "the right person to be looking at the right data at the right time" which sounds vaguely like "the software requires training". If the data output is coming at you like a Matrix display and it is way too complicated to train people to reliably do their job then you upgrade the software. You can't put blame on inanimate objects for things like this. If a tree falls on your house, you can blame the tree, the wind, your god - but you can't blame a machine for not being built right. Especially not when a human has already admitted to stepping "away from his safety monitor for a brief cigarette break, and that at this moment he missed the complex warning signs on screen."

So the software/hardware is at fault for not reminding the guy audibly to do his job instead of smoke a cigarette. Waste of taxpayer sweat.

the second they walk into a government building and demand them. Prior to that ... eat em.

I was just pondering that thought earlier tonight. If my state really wants to keep me safe on the road why enforce me to wear seatbelts and not enforce cars to not have blazingly loud factory stereos that distract the drivers. I really can't wait for an automated vehicle system.

The real reason is of course because with seatbelt enforcement, when in a violation in and of itself, allow cops to pull over anyone they feel like under the pretext of 'checking on their safety'. Same way Homeland Security will be doing door to door house checks for your security.

Yeah me and my son spent countless hours playing around and laughing over the crazy things we were able to do with scratch. Fun to learn programming and foster creativity.