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As I pedaled to work today, I thought to myself, why hasn't anyone ever invented a bicycle with heated handlebar grips? These New England mornings can really make your knuckles suffer! Has anyone seen or heard of something like this?
"I thought I'd be a little geeky-romantic with my girlfriend and write a sweet note to her," Jonathan writes, "however, it seems Amazon.com did not really like the idea and suspected '
"When we interview people," cablecar wrote on the Sidebar, "we give them simple programming tasks to test their ability. The below code was an attempt to solve a problem I found on Project Euler. It's from a candidate for a senior development position with '10 years of PHP' experience.
There's code that fails (often an accidental checkin with something hacky that gets forgotten), and code that takes special time and attention to fail spectacularly, of which this is a shining example. Maintenance is done by quick fixes, and version history is maintained via commented-out lines. L
"Not only did the Hot Room house nearly half a million dollars worth of gear, but if any one of the core components – such as the core router or PBX – failed from overheating, it would be a business catastrophe. He asked Aaron, the network operations manager, for some more background."