Lazy-man tools like colorization or IDEs are no excuse for ignoring good programming practices. After 20+ years of programming, VI/VIM is still the best "IDE" I've found personally, but without standards all those tools are just a way to be lazy.

And some developers are color blind, rendering that fancy editor coloring useless.

Absolutely yes!

I interviewed for a company famous for offering "Open Source Perl Telecommute Jobs" in Pittsburgh, PA.

First off, their interview process & questions - technically speaking - was ridiculous. For an advanced level perl "expert" position they asked questions suitable to a first year perl trainee. I mean, they asked questions so basic, I had forgotten the answers they were so simple. Stuff I had forgotten so long ago, I hadn't seen them since read Randal Schwartz's Learning Perl book.

All was good until they wanted to fly me to Pttsburgh for an "in person" interview, prior to a "2 week orientation period. Never mind that I had been telecommuting for 3 years already - all telecommute employees had to start out with 2 weeks on site to "learn the ropes" in their system.

I had to provide my birthdate for "TSA Requirements" to book the flight, which under any other circumstances is completely illegal for a job interview. I provided it as requested on a Thu afternoon. To this day, I have *never* heard back from anyone at the company. Period.

Now I had already passed 3 rounds of telephone & practical interviews. They only disappeared when I gave my birthdate, so they figured out my age. You figure it out.


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Anonymous Coward, if you are going to quote the Bible then why post anonymously? Don't have the courage of your convictions to post under your own name, then why bother posting it at all? If you want to fall back on Old Testament restrictions like Lev. 18:22, then let me ask you these questions: Do you shave your side burns? Does your wife/sister(s)/mother enter church without a head covering? Do you wear any clothing that is of mixed fabric (e.g., polyester/cotton mix?) Do you eat pork, shrimp, crab, lobster? Did you ever disobey your parents? If so, how did you survive to adulthood without being stoned to death? Are you married? If so, was your wife a virgin on your wedding night? If not, did you stone her? Does your wife separate herself each month during her "cycle" and perform proper cleansing rituals after? The list goes on - if you want to use OT rules, you have to follow ALL of them.

Linguists and scholars have proven conclusively that Paul was speaking of temple prostitutes, NOT homosexuals in general. Paul was also known to be a homophone in general that injected his own personal feelings into his "letters". Jesus Christ never said a word about gays, period, not a single utterance. Read the Bible for yourself and quit listening to people like Pat Robertson.

IANAL, but from what I have seen of this "Patent Reform" bill, there is no "reform" here. What it really gives us is more red tape, much higher fees that lock out small inventors, and more importantly, a lot more opportunities for lawyers to earn their outrageous fees in court with even more patent troll suits in Eastern Texas. In other words, Same Old Same Old. We still have a bunch of know-it-all lawyers politicians designing a bureaucratic system that solves nothing, ultimately for the purpose of generating revenue rather than protecting inventions. Small, independent inventors who create "the next big thing" in their garage are still screwed if they don't have millions of dollars behind them to protect their rights.

Whoever wrote the headline for this article here on Slashdot seriously needs to learn to READ. There is zero discussion about "the history of the videophone in Sci-Fi" on that article. There is mention of the fact that Star Trek used video phone technology since its inception in 1966 (loosely quoting the article). That's it. Clearly someone wanted their posting here on /. to be read, but to flat out lie to have your posting read by Sci-Fi Geeks? That's a new low! Shame on you!