I liked Wellington when I was there (in late August). It was my favorite city by far. Auckland is just another big city. Nothing too special although the suburbs were nice.

And they're on a frickin' island!

I was asked how I would make a linked list with pointers in C# by a bank I was interviewing for. I was like, "I wouldn't. I would use a generic List or Dictionary or Hashtable." He then said, "Well, what if you absolutely needed to?" I said, "Well, then I would use the built-in LinkedList and Queue and Stack." "They have those in C#?" "Yes, yes they do." I knew then instantly that while they still wanted me, I didn't want to work for a guy stuck in the 1980s.

At my current job, the reviewer asked me how I would implement a Graphics Fill algorithm. I said, "I wouldn't. I would call the Windows API because that's already written and tested and would get done in hardware."

He was actually surprised that Fill is in hardware. Anyway, I still wrote the algorithm anyway, but I think he was really pleased with the answer because it showed how I thought about the problem.

Where? We're lucky to get 2-3 over a span of months...

It would be great if you could post this data.

Or the difference between ratio and ration.

Ooma Premium is SOOO worth it. I get more bad calls on my cell phone now, because the home phone only rings for real people.

Foreign languages are infinitely more useful in life than Trig and Calculus, which 99.9% of people will never use (I'm a software architect, and I've never used them). Why don't we put them in place of that instead. But until they stop teaching fake languages like Processing and Scratch instead of Java, Javascript, C# or something actually useful, who really cares? CS is dumbed down so much now as to be completely useless. My daughter dropped her AP CS class in high school not because it was too hard, but because it was too easy and wasn't teaching her anything useful!

If there really was a fire while he was calling, there would be telltale signs of smoke inhalation, which apparently weren't there.

I don't think I could convict somebody for letting a cat burn. I mean, he did the world a favor...

So, 9 women can make 9+ babies in a few days.

Who would choose Comcast if they actually had a choice?

I had a 286 with a 20...

This is so true. I got a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero just for kicks. I have spent 10 hours on it and still don't have my bluetooth chip working, and it's a very common chip. Why can't Raspbian come with hardware drivers for the 10 or so most common chips used with it?