tomx

Given billions of rows of data across a few tables, how do you best make sense of it? My current method involves thinking up interesting questions and writing database queries. I then plug the resulting data into…

I find it's easy to forget many developers are effectively completely invisible online. I guess people just don't feel the need to broadcast information to everyone. So, out of interest: What percentage of your…

In this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670014 , the commenter described Google as having a 'certain monoculture'. Do developers within big companies (or I guess within units of big companies) have such a…

The UK government are introducing programming lessons into British schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16509298 Does anyone have any opinions on how this may affect the programming landscape of the UK in the…

I'm sent 100 resumes a month, then interview about ~10 people. Of those, about 50% can do FizzBuzz style questions. On paper, all of these ~10 people would be qualified to do the work, however (I think) some have become…