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I was interviewed by Fog Creek

109 points by janvdberg 12y ago

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- GarethX 12y ago
  He doesn't mean a recruitment interview but one about him for the Fog Creek blog.
  - freyr 12y ago
    Again, why 'I'? If the poster actually wanted to avoid that ambiguity, a better title would be "I was interviewed by the Fog Creek blog," or "Peteris Krumins' interview on the Fog Creek blog" My first impression of the title was that somebody interviewed for a job at Fog Creek, but the process was so impersonal that he or she had to put "I" in quotes.
    - genericuser 12y ago
      Presumably because the person who posted the link to the blog post was not the person who wrote the blog post, and did not want to be getting Ask Hacker News style questions directed at him in response.
      - janvdberg 12y ago
        Yes, this. I would like to change it but the edit button is disabled (?)
    - grey-area 12y ago
      I thought perhaps they interviewed for a job over the internet, but got their dog to do it.
  - sakri 12y ago
    Thanks for pointing that out, reading it, I nearly hyperventilated thinking : "if a guy of that caliber has to do interviews, I've no chance". Phew.
    - kokey 12y ago
      My thoughts were more along the lines of how does he get to rattle on with this level of detail about his history and style to an interviewer.
adwhit 12y ago
I'm always amazed when I hear a developer state that they use Windows by choice. Frankly it makes me look down upon them - no matter how successful they are (and this fellow is clearly very successful). I have to use Windows at work every day, and every day it will make me howl in frustration. How do people cope without a decent terminal?
- AndrewDucker 12y ago
  By not doing much work in a terminal? I use a CLI for about 10% of my work, and that's all PowerShell, which works very well for what I want it to. But the vast majority of my work is inside either text editors or IDEs.
- dovel 12y ago
  Used to think this before I used VS for web dev using ASP.NET... it's a good idea to not judge people for the OS they use.
- ceejayoz 12y ago
  > How do people cope without a decent terminal? I'm not a big Windows user, but PowerShell came out in 2006 and has made a lot of big strides since.
  - emodendroket 12y ago
    PowerShell came out missing a lot of obvious commands it's gradually been filling in but the core concept is pretty good. It's easy to write a bunch of scripts and feel like it's just normal to waste a lot of time munging text but PowerShell kind of frees you from that.
  - outworlder 12y ago
    Do you use Powershell ISE then? Powershell is a shell, not a terminal. The terminal still sucks and ISE is a poor substitute.
    - juliangregorian 12y ago
henrik_w 12y ago
+1 for the book "The New Turing Omnibus". Not very well known (it seems to me), but it has lots of interesting stuff. Perfect for little exploratory programming projects.
Kiro 12y ago
Why 'I'?
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- bjacobel 12y ago
  The submitter wasn't interviewed by Fog Creek, but the author of the post was. When reproducing their headline the submitter quoted "I" because they didn't do the thing the title said.
  - DangerousPie 12y ago
    Shouldn't the whole headline be quoted then? This makes it sound very weird, almost like Fog Creek claimed they interviewed him, but actually interviewed someone else.
    - janvdberg 12y ago
      Yes, I should have done that. But right now I can't edit the title anymore (?). So if a mod reads this please go ahead and change it.
  - underwater 12y ago
    That's a weird convention. Typically I assume that submitter is not the author. If disambiguation is necessary then quoting the entire sentence is clearer.
    - falsestprophet 12y ago
      It's not a convention at all. It's just unnecessarily confusing (and irritating). Hopefully the mods change the title.
  - vilhelm_s 12y ago
    I feel this is a problem with not letting submitters choose descriptive titles. "Peteris Krumins interviewed by Fog Creek" would be more informative...
JustSomeNobody 12y ago
+1 "Pen and paper are programmer’s best friends."
- dhagz 12y ago
  Pen and paper and dry-erase boards.
- Fomite 12y ago
  +1 as well. I was once asked for computational science what program I used as a lab notebook. People looked surprised when I said I used an actual lab notebook.
raldi 12y ago
Mods, this was a terrible title edit. It makes it look like the submitter was the interviewee.
- dang 12y ago
  I'm not sure which edit you mean at this point, but the current title seems ok, since it's the author speaking, and most of the time the submitter isn't the author.
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rayiner 12y ago
That Joel Splosky is patrician dude: https://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#5285319644770315698 https://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#5285....
weaksauce 12y ago
I am really surprised the vim plugin for visual studio is not on his shortlist. It makes vs nice to work in for those of us who can't stand modeless editors.

109 points by janvdberg 12y ago

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GarethX 12y ago
He doesn't mean a recruitment interview but one about him for the Fog Creek blog.
- freyr 12y ago
  Again, why 'I'? If the poster actually wanted to avoid that ambiguity, a better title would be "I was interviewed by the Fog Creek blog," or "Peteris Krumins' interview on the Fog Creek blog" My first impression of the title was that somebody interviewed for a job at Fog Creek, but the process was so impersonal that he or she had to put "I" in quotes.
  - genericuser 12y ago
    Presumably because the person who posted the link to the blog post was not the person who wrote the blog post, and did not want to be getting Ask Hacker News style questions directed at him in response.
    - janvdberg 12y ago
      Yes, this. I would like to change it but the edit button is disabled (?)
  - grey-area 12y ago
    I thought perhaps they interviewed for a job over the internet, but got their dog to do it.
- sakri 12y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out, reading it, I nearly hyperventilated thinking : "if a guy of that caliber has to do interviews, I've no chance". Phew.
  - kokey 12y ago
    My thoughts were more along the lines of how does he get to rattle on with this level of detail about his history and style to an interviewer.

adwhit 12y ago

I'm always amazed when I hear a developer state that they use Windows by choice. Frankly it makes me look down upon them - no matter how successful they are (and this fellow is clearly very successful). I have to use Windows at work every day, and every day it will make me howl in frustration. How do people cope without a decent terminal?

AndrewDucker 12y ago
By not doing much work in a terminal? I use a CLI for about 10% of my work, and that's all PowerShell, which works very well for what I want it to. But the vast majority of my work is inside either text editors or IDEs.
dovel 12y ago
Used to think this before I used VS for web dev using ASP.NET... it's a good idea to not judge people for the OS they use.
ceejayoz 12y ago
> How do people cope without a decent terminal? I'm not a big Windows user, but PowerShell came out in 2006 and has made a lot of big strides since.
- emodendroket 12y ago
  PowerShell came out missing a lot of obvious commands it's gradually been filling in but the core concept is pretty good. It's easy to write a bunch of scripts and feel like it's just normal to waste a lot of time munging text but PowerShell kind of frees you from that.
- outworlder 12y ago
  Do you use Powershell ISE then? Powershell is a shell, not a terminal. The terminal still sucks and ISE is a poor substitute.
  - juliangregorian 12y ago

henrik_w 12y ago

+1 for the book "The New Turing Omnibus". Not very well known (it seems to me), but it has lots of interesting stuff. Perfect for little exploratory programming projects.

Kiro 12y ago

Why 'I'?

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bjacobel 12y ago
The submitter wasn't interviewed by Fog Creek, but the author of the post was. When reproducing their headline the submitter quoted "I" because they didn't do the thing the title said.
- DangerousPie 12y ago
  Shouldn't the whole headline be quoted then? This makes it sound very weird, almost like Fog Creek claimed they interviewed him, but actually interviewed someone else.
  - janvdberg 12y ago
    Yes, I should have done that. But right now I can't edit the title anymore (?). So if a mod reads this please go ahead and change it.
- underwater 12y ago
  That's a weird convention. Typically I assume that submitter is not the author. If disambiguation is necessary then quoting the entire sentence is clearer.
  - falsestprophet 12y ago
    It's not a convention at all. It's just unnecessarily confusing (and irritating). Hopefully the mods change the title.
- vilhelm_s 12y ago
  I feel this is a problem with not letting submitters choose descriptive titles. "Peteris Krumins interviewed by Fog Creek" would be more informative...

JustSomeNobody 12y ago

+1 "Pen and paper are programmer’s best friends."

dhagz 12y ago
Pen and paper and dry-erase boards.
Fomite 12y ago
+1 as well. I was once asked for computational science what program I used as a lab notebook. People looked surprised when I said I used an actual lab notebook.

raldi 12y ago

Mods, this was a terrible title edit. It makes it look like the submitter was the interviewee.

dang 12y ago
I'm not sure which edit you mean at this point, but the current title seems ok, since it's the author speaking, and most of the time the submitter isn't the author.
- deleted 12y ago
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rayiner 12y ago

That Joel Splosky is patrician dude: https://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#5285319644770315698 https://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#5285....

weaksauce 12y ago

I am really surprised the vim plugin for visual studio is not on his shortlist. It makes vs nice to work in for those of us who can't stand modeless editors.