And I am saying that just because they can do fizzbuzz and answer your language based questions all day like an expert doesn't make them a great programmer either. This guy liked to over complicate everything. Fizzbuzz is pretty hard to make overly complicated, and it's not a good indicator of someone who can write simple and easy to maintain code. There are people who may not be able to do FizzBuzz when put on the spot that can knock it out perfectly in a couple of minutes when they feel like thy are in control (like at their desk). Lets face it, a lot of engineering types don't do well in social situations and asking someone to do a test like this on the spot tests their social skills and confidence more than their programming ability. If the person is going to be a Field Engineer then that might be valid criteria, but that doesn't mean its valid for all programming jobs.

As I said originally, yes there was code trivia. But yes there was a timed coding portion of the test as well. And no, that test was not my choice. I am not a big fan of riddles and tests in interviews. I personally know a good developer who is terrible when put on the spot like that. You sit him at his desk, where he feels comfortable and in control and he does great. If he's put on the spot, he is a total mess. Does that mean that he isn't worth having around? No. Is it something he's working on improving? Yes. But he makes solid contributions and hopefully some day he will be able to handle that kind of stress.

Shoot I've been in the industry for a while and I'll be your beyotch and run to taco bell and pick your lunch up as long as I am getting paid my normal wage for it. There are certainly tasks that are more cost efficient to have a more junior employee to do, but I won't tell you no. Now if you asked me to do something illegal or unethical, I can see myself to the door!

Yep. I've done lots of programmer hiring and I can tell you that one of the worst employees I ever dealt with got a near perfect on a C test, finishing 45 questions in about 6 minutes. Some of the questions required coding. The guy was a terrible programmer, but he really knew the language. I think he missed 1 question and that was because the person who wrote the test had accidentally introduced a typo that made the "correct" answer wrong.

And what if the person was minding their own business having a mental breakdown inside of the privacy of their own home? What then? They weren't in public until the police dragged them outside. I'm not trying to argue one way or another here, just merely pointing out that the person may not have been in public by choice.

Because I've worked in a facility like this before. Not Los Alamos, but with classified data.

See? She violated security protocol by bringing her phone into the vault. It says so right there in your own quote. So as I said there should be 0 iPhones around there. Whether people actually follow the rules is up to the site security officer, but the rules clearly state no cell phones.

See: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1612912,00.html

Probably 0. Hopefully 0. These facilities have lockers where you are supposed to leave all phones, cameras, and anything else that could be used to steal data. You're not supposed to be able to get in without emptying your pockets. You're even supposed to leave your car keys, etc, in the locker.

Ok that makes perfect sense, then. That would not scare me at all. If you did 3 years of 1 year (not including the internship) then that might be concerning. I've never worked on anything so simple that there isn't a bit of a ramp up to understand the new employer's processes and projects. Depending on the person, it could be 1-3 months before they make a positive contribution. After about 6 months you kind of get a feel for who is definitely not worth having around (though sometimes much more quickly). That is about when the under performers start looking for a new job. I can see that isn't the case with you at all. I wouldn't worry too much about titles. They vary radically between companies. I'd be more concerned with the experience and responsibilities you can list on your resume, as they are the truer indicator of what you have been doing.

Most of the projects I have hired people for have had a schedule that is more than a year long. Sure there are deliveries more frequently than that, but I might know that I need to make 5 deliveries over the course of 3 years. When I see someone who has jumped jobs that often then I am very wary of that person. It could be as you say, that they are looking for a good fit. It could be that they move on after it is discovered just how incompetent they are. I've seen both. ANd it could be as another person described, that one of those three jobs was an internship, the other was held for several years, and the person just started a new job last week. I was curious to find out if something like that was the case. I have friends who can't seem to sit still for more than a year who are in their 30's. I just think its a bad habit to develop.

Third job in less than 3 years? Wow. Why the high turnover rate? That would scare me more than a resume with a PH.D on it.

Whether you can install the latest and greatest drivers from NVidia, or have to download from your OEM depends on the OEM. They usually tweak some settings (PCI Device ID) specifically so that the default NVidia drivers will not install. They do this for support purposes. You can modify the INF for the Nvidia drivers and force them to install, but it can be a pain to get them working right sometimes. For instance, when Vista came out, I bought a new laptop. Dell restricted the drivers so I couldn't use the Windows XP drivers for my video card. I had to find this solution to be able to run XP on the device.

Part of the reason the driver is so big is because they now package all cards into one driver. Well, at least all of their GeForce cards. You literally have generations worth of drivers in one file. Sure they added the PhysX and the HD AUdio driver, 3D crud, and a few other things. However, I think most of that size comes from different driver files. I don't think all of them get installed.

Sorry I had replied to myself after that post and indicated that I had left out that she was still in the black section. And I agree that she was a remarkable person for doing what she did. I wasn't actually thinking of her specifically when I made my original comment, however.

OK but who has standing to sue if the county does nothing but comply? Maybe a permit holder, but again nothing has changed when the county stands up to the state like this. I just don't see how the county refusing to do this prevents a legal challenge from occurring.

You mean this Perez? The one who was elected twice, first in '74 and then again in '89? The last successful military coup in Venezuela was in 1958, so I am not sure how that makes any of the Perezs a product of a coup. Unless you consider every president of Venezuela after 1858 to be a product of a coup. Now Marcos Perez was appointed president after the 1948 coup and before the 1958 coup, so maybe you could consider him to have benefited from a coup, but that is as close as it gets.

No, but in general this law is a good idea. Someone doesn't like the way things are run and tries to change them by force. Not by a populist movement, but by taking control of the military, and then failing. So what do you do? Let them run for president and then turn the office into a position they can hold forever? It does not make sense. I can't say that I have talked to 50% of the Venezuelan population, but I have never met someone who liked Chavez during the time I was there. Everyone thought that his 2nd, 3rd and 4th re-elections were rigged. Whether they were or not, I can't say. But if Chavez really wanted to do things right the first time, he should have ran for president the first time instead of using the military. Obviously there wasn't anything preventing him from becoming president, since he did finally run and win.