Blue skies over the Cologne Cathedral.
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Always good to meet up and chat with Pocket_Man aka Thomas. We first
met roughly a year ago after he pinged me via Twitter while I was
visiting my folks in Northern Germany.
I definitely need a more "unified" approach - read bigger bags - soon-
ish oO
Today Andreas W. and his seven year old son Lukas dropped by in Munich. Andreas is an avid console collector living on the shores of lake Chiemsee, some 60 miles / 100 km south of Munich.
We first met at the Vintage Computer Festival a couple of years ago where he and a buddy of his had all kinds of old school gaming gear on display. Among their items were readily playable Vectrex (incl. the super-hard-to-get "3D" glasses), Nintendo Virtual Boy and a range of Atari consoles. Lukas proved to be a very knowledgeable SHT fan, too - apparently having watched and memorized *all* of season one ;)
Excerpt from Peter Seibel's interview with Douglas Crockford.
Seibel: When you're hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones?
Crockford: The approach I've taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate to bring in a piece of code he's really proud of and walk us through it. [...] I'm looking for quality of presentation [...] I want to see evidence that in fact he is the author of the thing that he's defending. I find that is much more effective than asking them to solve puzzles or trivia questions. I see all that kind of stuff as useless. But how effectively they can communicate, that's a skill that I'm hiring for.
- Peter Seibel. Coders at Work
HELP!
The photo was taken by @TheZeis earlier today.You can find Mark on Twitter as @mocfilms.
