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Is it because the supply of gold is, in theory, somewhat stable?

I've been switching my domains to namecheap, but this is for personal stuff, not business.

Ugh.

I'm guessing "CHUG!" is frowned upon.

I've been asked it maybe half of my interviews. If you're going for an interview, be ready for this one. I've had at least one interviewer be very persistent about it.

There should be an equivalent question for interviewees to ask - how about "what is your company's greatest weakness?" Or "what would be the worst part about working here?"

Didn't Grim Fandango use lua?

EDIT: link: http://www.grimfandango.net/?page=articles&pagenumber=2

Ouch.

The site is not only down, it's showing source code that includes the database username and password.

EDIT: up now

Also: I recall reading another book where the author wrote that he offered to work for free, and was turned down. And it was a huge blow to his ego.

Not every company wants to deal with unpaid interns.

Isn't it possible that the trauma of living through war actually lowers your IQ a bit? It's not a huge difference here, a few IQ points.

I'm still not sure how that's such a ginormous amount of money.

Yeah. Actually, a better analogy would be alcohol use, since drug use is illegal (and WoW playing isn't).

What if a company had a bad experience with an alcoholic employee, so they refused to hire anyone who drinks at all?

>I had to explain what "tag" was.

That's really scary. I can imagine the conversation. "It's a game that children play." "Chil...dren?"

I always ask "if I started this position today, what tasks would you assign me?" It's a really informative question.

Subversion, in my experience, is worth the effort of switching from cvs. It's a breeze to set up, and it's a lot cleaner than cvs.

I think people who never drink, may tend to do so for religious reasons. If someone has never had a drink, they could have a tendency for alcoholism that never has a chance to manifest itself. So maybe that justifies excluding teetotalers from the data?

Exactly.

I was so excited, too. "Does it have a mini nuclear reactor?"

I'm not a Java programmer, at least at the moment. But if what the author writes is accurate about Java keeping all sorts of cruft because Sun doesn't want to break backwards compatibility, then it's interesting to note that one of Java's alleged strengths when it came out was that it kept all the good parts of C and C++, without having to maintain backwards compatibility by keeping the ugly parts.

I read this as "Java is dead" in the sense that it isn't evolving any more in any useful way.

The Inquirer is a pretty crappy news site, with a really weird spin on everything.

There's significant gray area there, and plenty of room for confusion.

It's such an apples-vs-oranges comparison, and it's also largely a personal choice. I do play the card game over the online game, though, regularly.

People who've played lots of Magic say that the WoW card game is a better game than Magic, for what it's worth.

EDIT: Oh, I misread your question. Why? Well, it's sort of like the difference between driving a car and riding a bike. A bike isn't a crappy car, it's fundamentally different, with its own set of strengths.

Also, the collectible card game is NOT a simulation or re-creation of the online game. It's more like Magic set in the WoW universe.

It sounds like the problem isn't "getting enough traffic", it's getting people to stay, or to come back. Are you focusing on that?

I haven't tried Spoils. It's the World of Warcraft TCG. Very fun.

EDIT: It's been out a couple years now, and is going pretty strong. Check it out if you get a chance.

On a good Friday night, I go to the local comic shop and play a collectible card game. (One that's sort of like Magic: the Gathering, but different.)

I know, I know. Wild times, right? I enjoy it a lot, though. You get to use your brain, it's very competitive, and the social interaction is great.

I can't imagine things would be so bad that companies would be eager to layoff interns. You'd have to layoff like 10 interns to equal one reasonably experienced employee.

I think the right way to handle that crisis would be to support them in their decision, but make sure they aren't directly competing with Fog Creek. Maintain contact, and make a gentleman's agreement that they won't poach people from Fog Creek. Keeping things friendly would be far more beneficial in the long run.

A lot depends on how many people would be leaving, too. If it's 2 or 3 people, it's not a huge deal, but if it's half the company, and if they are going to be making bug-tracking software, I think they might have to try to take a harder line.

As he says in the article, programmers were having trouble working because the window treatments they had weren't effective.

>"It actually works pretty well, but I have to disguise my (North London) accent with a terrible folksy Texan tourist voice to get results. I can see this is going to be the source of much amusement and confusion."

I love it!

I don't want to get political here, but I would think Joe would want to get a license to be a plumber, or have his own business, or the means to buy one, before he started advertising.

Joe's a crummy example, in other words.

And who buys Sun boxes still, exactly? I mean I know there's a market, but isn't Linux (on Intel) eating their lunch?

It was great, the McCain campaign had set up a little voting station for Obama supporters. It only took a minute. They had me fill in a bubble sheet with the right pen, and I was out the door. Also, they said I should tell my friends if they miss their chance to vote, they can always come by November 5th.