It really depends on what you are trying to do with Facebook. The newish Graph API is an absolute DREAM compared to the cobbled together mess that was the old API. Nearly everything you could ever care to pull from/post to Facebook is available via a fairly well thought out RESTful-ish interface. The only thing you need to pass into them is an access token which you can get with another simple call to the Graph API. The Graph API also has a push notification service so you can subscribe to events and Facebook will ping you when there are changes. I cannot believe I just posted something defending Facebook, but their API is FAR from the worst API out there.

I spent about a year doing some work for the Seattle school district but quit shortly after I found out there were multiple teachers in the district that they had to hire "translators" for because the teacher could not effectively communicate.

This is why Slashdot needs a "Like" or "+1" button.

Washington state is downright hostile to small business. The DOR is evil and will treat you like a mega corporation even if you only have a single employee. I have had several corporations and LLCs registered in Washington (and stupidly just set up a new one here) but next time I will pay for an empty office space in Las Vegas and do it that way.

I had the same thing happen with my son when he was maybe 3. I began screaming at the agents and came VERY close to being arrested. I actually crossed back through the screener and grabbed my son since he had thrown himself on the floor and threw a fit. You don't fuck with a parent when their child is in distress. :-)

People who had learned on their own. Since the bulk of what I did at the time was not exactly rocket science it didn't matter if the candidate had a deep compsci background. What was important was having been around the block a few times.

Agreed that the guy is an idiot but only because he publicly admitted what he did. All people in hiring positions have preferences. I used to have a thing against CompSci grads... all based on a unfortunate stream of incompetents that came to me. I got over it, but it took a few years and a couple of rockstars that were CompSci grads.

What I look for is breadth and depth of knowledge. If a candidate has the vast majority of their experience with a singular platform that may set off red flags for me. But I also understand that people have to work for a living and just because they use a platform at work that I don't care for doesn't necessarily mean I won't hire them. The type of work they have done IS very important though. In my business someone who has written custom CRMs for large corporate clients probably doesn't have the skillset I need, whereas someone who doesn't even blink when I say that we use Scala/Lift, with some Python glue and a ton of bash scripts IS someone I would want to talk to.

You should change it to hunter2. Just don't use ******* as that is my password.

Where possible my "deadlines" are actually milestones based on how long I think it would take ME to perform the task. I keep my skills pretty up to date and 9 times out of 10 am a contributing member of the team so I know the code pretty well. I wouldn't fire someone for missing a deadline... I would consider it if they missed it without giving a heads up or some explanation.