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  • T tumbledDown2earth

    So I met this guy during an interview today who called himself a DOT-NET developer He kept on arguing that following code is called "boxing" string s = "3"; int i = (int)s; I mean, forget boxing .. this code doesnt even compile. I contemplated showing him on a quick online browser but did not have such resources in hand ... He had a bunch of such questions (all of them equally unjustifiable) ... after which I was thankfully rejected ... Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

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    Maybe it was a test to see how you would respond to a superior or colleague upon being given incorrect technical spec and/or guidance!! ;)

    tumbledDown2earth wrote:

    Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

    Well the really technically inept sociopathic ones usually get there by being persuasive. They are good at charming or bullying colleagues and superiors into accepting that they know what they are talking about.

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    • D devenv exe

      tumbledDown2earth wrote:

      But again .. if you say UnBoxing it would still be closer

      yes of course UnBoxing is closer to Boxing, except that we have to UnBoxing :)

      "Coming soon"

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      Is UnBoxing beating yourself up in a ring? Or competitive healthcare?

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      • T tumbledDown2earth

        So I met this guy during an interview today who called himself a DOT-NET developer He kept on arguing that following code is called "boxing" string s = "3"; int i = (int)s; I mean, forget boxing .. this code doesnt even compile. I contemplated showing him on a quick online browser but did not have such resources in hand ... He had a bunch of such questions (all of them equally unjustifiable) ... after which I was thankfully rejected ... Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

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        dan sh
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        That is boxing. Doesn't it make you feel punch the guy?

        "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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          Is UnBoxing beating yourself up in a ring? Or competitive healthcare?

          The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)

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          devenv exe
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          OriginalGriff wrote:

          Is UnBoxing beating yourself up in a ring? Or competitive healthcare?

          Yes :laugh:

          "Coming soon"

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            That is boxing. Doesn't it make you feel punch the guy?

            "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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            CPallini
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            :laugh:

            Veni, vidi, vici.

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            • T tumbledDown2earth

              So I met this guy during an interview today who called himself a DOT-NET developer He kept on arguing that following code is called "boxing" string s = "3"; int i = (int)s; I mean, forget boxing .. this code doesnt even compile. I contemplated showing him on a quick online browser but did not have such resources in hand ... He had a bunch of such questions (all of them equally unjustifiable) ... after which I was thankfully rejected ... Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

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              peterchen
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              tumbledDown2earth wrote:

              Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

              Because non-techies can't tell the good ones from the posers. That problem is not particular to CompTech, but seems to be especially prominent here.

              ORDER BY what user wants

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              • D dan sh

                That is boxing. Doesn't it make you feel punch the guy?

                "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                tumbledDown2earth
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                Yeah ... I wanted to start the real boxing (the sports one)

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                • T tumbledDown2earth

                  So I met this guy during an interview today who called himself a DOT-NET developer He kept on arguing that following code is called "boxing" string s = "3"; int i = (int)s; I mean, forget boxing .. this code doesnt even compile. I contemplated showing him on a quick online browser but did not have such resources in hand ... He had a bunch of such questions (all of them equally unjustifiable) ... after which I was thankfully rejected ... Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

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                  "Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky"... Does the C# compiler support a Ticky-tack directive? ;P

                  Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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                    "Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky"... Does the C# compiler support a Ticky-tack directive? ;P

                    Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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                    No, but there is an abstract TickyTacky class from which you can derive the Box objects. [edit]Typo: "Drive" for "Derive" - OriginalGriff[/edit]

                    The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)

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                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    • T tumbledDown2earth

                      So I met this guy during an interview today who called himself a DOT-NET developer He kept on arguing that following code is called "boxing" string s = "3"; int i = (int)s; I mean, forget boxing .. this code doesnt even compile. I contemplated showing him on a quick online browser but did not have such resources in hand ... He had a bunch of such questions (all of them equally unjustifiable) ... after which I was thankfully rejected ... Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

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                      BobJanova
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                      People like this get into that position because someone like that was in the position before, all the good developers WTFed their way out of the interview and turned down the job, so only more people like this came through the doors.

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                      • T tumbledDown2earth

                        So I met this guy during an interview today who called himself a DOT-NET developer He kept on arguing that following code is called "boxing" string s = "3"; int i = (int)s; I mean, forget boxing .. this code doesnt even compile. I contemplated showing him on a quick online browser but did not have such resources in hand ... He had a bunch of such questions (all of them equally unjustifiable) ... after which I was thankfully rejected ... Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

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                        Lost User
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                        I doubt many people write code where boxing or unboxing imposes enough of a performance hit where it is worthy of consideration.

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                        • T tumbledDown2earth

                          So I met this guy during an interview today who called himself a DOT-NET developer He kept on arguing that following code is called "boxing" string s = "3"; int i = (int)s; I mean, forget boxing .. this code doesnt even compile. I contemplated showing him on a quick online browser but did not have such resources in hand ... He had a bunch of such questions (all of them equally unjustifiable) ... after which I was thankfully rejected ... Gawd I just dont understand how such people get into mainstream interviewing in super large MNCs.

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                          :-O

                          Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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