"The US coastline is X miles long at a resolution of Y centimeters". There. FTFY.

I'll tell you who cares: anyone who wants 1 billion customers, that's who. Still not tech, though.

> Fashion retailer The Iconic is no longer running quality assurance as a separate function within its software development process,
You'll be sooorrrrreeee.

number of possible positions as reported by Demis Hassabis.

Actually, the idea of a so-called "O'Niell Cylinder" was put forward in 1973 by Arthur C. Clarke in a book titled Rendezvous with Rama.

It is really easy to solve this problem. Hire more tech workers.

It is a strange thing that not one of the presidential candidates has even mentioned the H1B visa program.

I canceled my Chase card when I got a letter from them telling me that they were going to charge me a fee because I was not using my card enough.

Grandy maintains that 'many OHA members are developing proprietary user experiences, which they are not contributing back into Android — as is standard for open source projects — for fear of losing competitive advantage in the marketplace.'

Whether or not developments are contributed back to the project depends on the license. The BSD style licenses, for instance, have no such requirement.

I can see it now: "Microsoft Hall of Justice"

Well, I have a few suggestions. Try these in order:

        (1) You could require that all of your candidates take a carefully
        crafted programming test. The higher the mark that they get on
        the test, the better programmer they are. Duh.

        (2) You could ask them to bring a 5000 line sample of their code.
        Just a glance should tell you whether or not thay are a super
        star. After all, if their coding style looks like yours, they
        must be good, right?

        (3) You could get into a "design session" with them. Ask them
        something like:

                Q: how would you design a house?

        Then let them talk and draw pictures for a few minutes. Pretend
        to be paying attention, nod in agreement a few times, ask a few
        clarifying questions --you get the idea. It doesn't really matter
        what the candidate says here, because when they are all done, you
        say something like:

                "Oh, well that's pretty good, but I want a design that is
                optimized for a family of giraffes" **

        What you are looking for here is how they respond to the kind of
        unexpected changes that happen in the real world.

At this point, if the candidate takes a swing at you then you have
found the right one.

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** some jackass actually suggested this on his website.

Won't be there as UID 138013... I remembered the password to my legacy (almost 10 year old) account, and will be there as UID 1943. Cheers! Oh, I am willing to drive up to three people from the Mira Mesa area with good or better /. karma. (I will not be consuming alcohol). Send email (to slashdot user 1943)with your /. UID or user name, real name, and preferably a recent photo. I shall ACK with a keyword to the email address registered with your /. account which you should have ready when we meet.