I see you like to party with Bernie.

I’m pretty sure it’s Fat Albert.

Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It’s a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.

Sound of Linguine

Well I think there’s a lot of financial irregularities to investigate.

regulation of investment products and cryptocurrency

…and AI, right? RIGHT!!!

How is what you’re saying in your first paragraph any different to what I said?

God forbid they could support the Jewish, and oppose football hooligans (and genocide).

Part of taking on a government role is that you publically back all government positions. Your personal positions are for behind closed doors only. She’s now secretary of state for culture, and so argues the government position.

Why the government have picked this hill to die on… I have no idea.

How about letting her sleep?

I think you’re seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.

Agree with everything you said, but if you’re going to ask me about anything, then the thing I do 40 hours a week every week should be a safe subject. If I’m interviewing a chef, I’ll probably ask them about working in a kitchen. I may even ask them to demonstrate something.

I think it’s a reasonable expectation.

The key thing is to be as relaxed as you can be. Interviewing is a skill you learn, so go for a few interviews that you’re not as interested in. Try not to go for your dream job first, because you’ll be stressed to hell. Get a couple under your belt first if you can.

Interviews aren’t an exam. They’re a conversation.

This is a good point. Being interviewed is a learnt skill. You get better at it by doing more of them. I always advise people to start a job search by going on a couple of interviews that you’re not that interested in.

I don’t prepare, because it’s testing a task that I do pretty much everyday. If I can’t do it on-demand I don’t see how I can call myself a programmer. That said, I do have some strategies.

Often the interviewer isn’t looking for people able to recite detail in the documentation. They are looking at the quality of the code you’ll produce. So I concentrate on explaining my approach to the problem, rather than the code.

• How am I going to structure it?
• Where are my concerns?
• What choices am I making about performance?

…and so on. If it’s on a whiteboard I’ll often write in pseudo-code that looks something like a language, but I’ll state that I’m not trying to write perfect, compiler ready code.

I let them guide me to the level of detail they are looking for.

If it turns out they want to score points on me for missing a bracket, or getting the order of arguments wrong, then I take that as a negative against the company. Interviews go both ways, and you’re looking for people you can work with too. So if they’re going to nitpick in an interview they’re probably going to be horrible to work with day-to-day.

You asked the equivalent of “What’s a limey bastard?” at a British pub. It’s quite funny, but basically everything you kicked off answers your question.

Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?

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Amazon (for example) sold a lot of chinese products in the EU. I my head, they should have not been able to offer those products for sale without making sure they passed local safety regulations.

Maybe the problem was that the product wasn’t inside the EU until after it was purchased, even if the retailer was.

Was the problem ever the regulations? Or was it the enforcement of the existing regulations?

Well tariffs are import tax. Imports are driven by consumption and consumption doesn’t go up in response to heavy new taxes.