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• Bug Psychology

  Fixing bugs is hard. For the purposes of this posting, I’m talking about those really “crisp” bugs -- those flaws which are entirely due to a failure on the developer’s part to correctly implement some mechanistic calculation or ensure some postcondition Read More... Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 6:48 AM by Eric Lippert | 28 Comments Filed under: VBScript, Scripting, Rants, Interviewing

• Writing Code On Whiteboards Is Hard

  Work has been crazy lately and I haven't had much time to work on SimpleScript. It's a lot of work starting from scratch! Right now I'm writing a templatized hash table for the binders and other lookup tables. I haven't written templatized C++ for a loooong Read More... Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:28 PM by Eric Lippert | 87 Comments Filed under: Rants, Code Quality, Interviewing

• Laugh While You Can, Monkey Boy!

  Joel has been talking about resumes and the hiring process lately, a subject which fascinates me. Something he said today really struck home: The number one best way to get someone to look at your resume closely: come across as a human being, not a list Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:49 AM by Eric Lippert | 5 Comments Filed under: Rants, Interviewing

• Six out of ten ain't bad

  Occasionally I interview C++ developers. I'm always interested in how people rate themselves, so I'll occasionally ask a candidate, "On a scale from one to ten, how do you rate your C++ skills?" Read More... Posted Monday, December 01, 2003 9:58 PM by Eric Lippert | 16 Comments Filed under: Rants, Interviewing