I think they're worth the money in general, although really good ones can get stupid expensive. I went to a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 Pros in '09 or so, and now I can't see going back to lower quality ones ever. I'm currently using the HD380 Pros, but to be honest, they don't always sound warm enough. I tried on a…

Hmmmm, maybe it's just that I never eat russets then.

Yeah, I don't peel potatoes for any of those things, although I can say I've never made Latkes. One of my favorite potato salads uses grilled potato wedges, which I never peel. It turns out spectacular!

I reject this rigidity.

Fascinating. Put me down on the "never peel" side, with the exception of a few very tough exteriors like on Kohlrabi.

I don't even peel them for that anymore.

Just curious, what applications are you guys peeling potatoes for? I can't think of the last time I peeled them. I leave the skin on for basically everything.

I would happily fail this "test" and dodge a serious bullet. Throw away your own damn trash. What am I interviewing for, custodial staff!?

If you're interested in it for mobile development, check out Xamarin. I think you would still need a Mac to actually deploy your app to the App Store, but you could at least play around with building apps for iOS devices on your Windows machine.

I can't imagine refusing. I mean, if you can use Google, you ought to be able to solve just about any problem they put in front of you. It never ceases to amaze me how many candidates fail these simple tests.

Multiple accounts are centralized is probably the biggest one. Cached messages offline are another. Take a look at the features of airmail and pick any number that aren't available in web clients.

As an Alfred user, I can say unless it has A LOT more features than shown, I won't be ditching Alfred anytime soon.

Yeah, but that's okay. Imagine what would happen to developer productivity if we suddenly couldn't use Google anymore, lol.

Wow, I totally missed this earlier in the week. This sucks - I use Springpad for different things than I use Pocket or Evernote for. :(

I think so. I'm not familiar enough with Ruby to know if this would run, but it looks right except for maybe the connection string. At least you got to the writing of the data to a file, which I've yet to have a single person do.

I have the opposite problem. I automatically say no to almost everything. When asked, I usually really don't want to do whatever it is, but if I'm forced to I usually end up enjoying the activity.

Exactly, trusted connection just uses Windows Auth.

I'm not joking, seriously, when I say that yesterday I literally told an interviewee to go to ConnectionStrings.com and use the "Trusted Connection" connection string for SQL server. She seemed confused about the fact that the database had no username or password needed, so I was trying to get her over that hump and…

Do you have any ps1 scripts you wrote to administer servers you have yourself? Any code you wrote for previous gigs that you could make generic? I'm not an admin, but as a developer I have included code samples with my resume before. Maybe you could do something like that.

You're closer than some folks have gotten. Why are you concatenating those individual parts of the connection string instead of putting it all in one string? I take it you found a C# example that was multi-line? I've gotten code like this from people who have been professional C# devs for YEARS! You don't even do C#…