Links for 2009-06-11
- Home - Common Tag - Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets.
- Why “I’d just Google it” is not an acceptable interview answer « Software++ - I have often been lectured about, if not criticized for, my interview practices. In particular, I happen to have high expectations. We make very few offers and the ones we do make are generally for very smart, senior people. I was reading this blog post and there was a particular sentence that summed up my feelings on interviews, and specifically why we ask some of the tough questions that we do. The author said, "A job interview is a competition, not a pass-fail test." and that's very true. Sure, you might not be able to tell me the difference between a hash table and a binary tree in terms of runtime complexity but another candidate can and I'm going to prefer that candidate for the job.
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