Vegetarians Anonymous? "Hello, my name is Ben, and I'm a vegetarian"

Here's a link to the original blog from the YouTube engineering team with a few more details: http://youtube-eng.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html[^]

Requiem For A Dream?

This is a great idea, I always try and get this sort of thing organised so that as many people from the team can meet the person. Everyone is going to have to work with them on a daily basis, and going down to the pub for some lunch is a great opportunity to meet in a more friendly environment. One of my old bosses used to do this to crowdsource[^] a decision whether the candidate would fit in with the team. Unfortunately the current management misunderstood my request last time a new manager was hired, and invited everyone to meet them at the pub after they had already been hired, before any of us had even met them.

This reminded me of my favourite bacon comic: Instant Bacon![^] :)

Ah, and I thought the research published in the Daily Mash had proven this for certain: If you're using Internet Explorer, this is called a 'website'[^]

Thanks for the response. The question regarding choosing technologies should hopefully give me an idea whether they know anything about technology or are completely hopeless. Good question.

Thanks for the response. It would be very useful to find out where they sit on the micro-management scale, in fact, it should be part of the CV submission process. I'd feel guilty forevermore if I failed to spot a micro-manager that eventually got hired by the company (and probably the wrath of the rest of the team for helping to hire said mirco-manager).

You're coming to England for the interview? Didn't think you could make it. Also, you're too overqualified :) We still need to be able wind our managers up by trying to convince them that our new project should be done using a language they've never heard of.

"Why is the sky blue?" does have some potential get some interesting answers and could act as a filter for jargon spouters...as soon as they hear the words "blue" and "sky" in the same sentence, they'll start spoting a load of buzzword nonsense, and immediately go on my black-list.

My company is in the process of hiring a new technical project manager. The first stage of the interviews have already been conducted; I have been invited to the second interviews for a few candidates to try and assess their technical competance. I have already googled for some appropriate questions, so I'm just wondering if anyone here has a good question to ask, or has been asked a good question for asessing technical knowledge. Obviously, the role is for a manager, so I'm not asking for programming tasks. Something more like an open ended question in which the candidate can go into technical details and expose their technical knoledge (or lack therof). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ben.

I've tried the app launchers from that list, but still my app launcher of choice is SlickRun[^]; it's small, fast and does everything I need it to do (from a launcher).

I have exactly the same symptoms as you in FF 4.0 and Chrome; I'm guessing it has nothing to do with the browser.

Ben.

Ahhhh! Fantastic! That's exactly what I was looking for! Feel a bit embarrassed for asking...it seems so obvious now. Thank you :)

Ben.

Ah, that's a great idea...that would reduce the number of actions required at least :)

Ben.

Sounds, erm...interesting. I did get to try these recently: Bacon Gumballs[^] ... they weren't too bad actually, but I don't think I'll make a habit of it.

Ben.

The blogs I read and the people I follow on twitter often post links to interesting books, or other things that can be found amazon. However, I live in the UK and the majority of links I find are to Amazon.com, which means I have to open a new tab, load up Amazon.co.uk, and search for the title of the iteresting item before I can do something useful, like add it to my wishlist... Far too many actions for my liking. OK, so this is a minor annoyance really, but it happenes to me regularly enough that I finally decided to google it. The only problem being that as soon as you type 'amazon' into a search engine, all of your other search parameters end up just digging up obscure DVD and book titles. I'm sure I managed to find a way to make this less annoying before, but I've forgotton what I used to do.

Ben.