When the robots start committing suicide?

Hmm, well I've heard it put forth that the human mind is capable of tracking five plus or minus two relationships! So in theory, the aforementioned song should be feasible for most people to follow!

Don't forget to update wikipedia if you find one!

That argument holds up pretty well so long as you don't look at the behavior of quite a lot of people who claim to be Christians (going back as long as there have been Christians.) There's too much of a pattern of abuse and abusers not being expelled from the club for it to be a coincidence.

Of course everyone has their assholes. Except maybe Buddhism. I've never actually heard of a Buddhist asshole. That doesn't mean there aren't any, just that I can't be bothered to go looking for any on wikipedia.

You can't have polygamy because it makes the love songs too complicated. Now go forth and write a love song describing a polygamous relationship between two men and three women!

I can add one to things better in pretty much any other language. :-P

Pretty sure the secret courts were one of the gripes our founding fathers had with England. Of course, in England's eyes, our founding fathers were terrorists, so there you go.

I think you accidentally

He worked for the NSA. We know he's a spy :-P

Citrix very much reminds me of using a desktop computer to connect via dialup to a 300bps machine. I'm using my fast, good computer as a dumb terminal to a slow crappy computer. Except that typically the manufacturer of the 300bps machine knew their interface was slow and would at least try to design the applications to make that as unobtrusive as possible.

It really isn't that hard. You're looking for someone who takes pride in the quality of their work and ideally actually enjoys doing it. You may also be looking for someone who will work well on your team, or who can be fantastic as a lone gunman with relatively little micro-management. The brain teasers work pretty well because it's pretty easy to spot someone who will just give up without thinking about the problem. They also do a good job of finding the people who aren't really paying attention to you during the interview. If you're a bad interviewer, you think you're looking for someone who can answer the questions correctly and just look at that and not their entire thought process as they try to solve the problem. Do they break the problem down into solvable components? If they get off track, will they pay attention to the hints you give them to get them back on track? Do they try to bullshit their way through with a non-answer (In which case you should refer them to marketing or management.)

If you know what you're looking for, you don't even really need a brain teaser. The old design-a-trivial-function along with some basic questions about data structures or design patterns will weed out most of the really bad candidates. Ten seconds into "design a function on the whiteboard," I already know if it's going to go badly or not. If they're just crapping code onto the whiteboard, it's going badly. In ten seconds I've pulled back the veil of all the buzz words they used to get through HR to the interview and can see exactly how they're going to work under pressure. I'll take a high school dropout who actually takes the time to make sure he understands the question and shows me he can design a solution over a PhD who tries to BFI his way through.

Happy birthday! Your user will be celebrating in the atrium! I understand there is to be cake!

But Citrix will probably last longer than the pyramids. It's impossible to ever kill an application that shitty. The only way to make it worse would be to run Lotus Notes on it. "Yeah, our corporate E-Mail system is Lotus Notes, run over Citrix..." *runs screaming from the building.*

I'm pretty sure the government doesn't care about your purchase history of... an inflatable love goat and a 55 gallon drum of lube. Nice. Your file still says "Mostly Harmless."

Would you like a tasty serving of irony with your patented GM beans?