> “I’m an egomaniac who has spent vast amounts of time > Googling this nearly useless knowledge, but will ask > you to regurgitate it to me without the aid

> “I’m an egomaniac who has spent vast amounts of time > Googling this nearly useless knowledge, but will ask > you to regurgitate it to me without the aid of a search > engine, and then judge you on how much it makes you > sweat. He chose the example wrong. That list is really good — and the knowledge is far far away from being useless. Unless you want your "experienced" developer to spend hours trying to figure out, why layout is broken, just because he knows nothing about quirks mode and how doctype influences that. Or maybe you prefer your web app really slow, because your developer does not know about event bubbling and created and event handler for every single cell in your table, instead of having a single one? There are some questions over the top in the list, but most of it is pretty solid.