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When introduced to a potential coworker -
“Which of the Internets do you make?”

When asked what his/her preferred language is -
“Um, English, otherwise I would have to use an online translator.”

When told about the software used at the company -
“Linux? Is that some kind of duck?”

When asked whether a scripting or compiled language is best for the Internet -
“Compiled, definitely. There’s always that really exciting time when it’s that one in ten moment and the code actually compiles with just a bunch of warnings.”

When asked about best coding practices -
“I like to avoid whitespace and comments. There’s only so much space on the Internet, you know?”

When asked about his/her preferred editor -
“I don’t know what Vim is, but I don’t use ‘emacs.’ I’m not one of those Apple fanboys.”

When asked what has been the most important, recent change to the Internet -
“MySpace, for sure. It is getting a lot of people interested in quality web design.”

When asked about the difference between PHP4 and PHP5 -
“They finally made is_executable() available for Windows; it was about time!”

When asked about his/her knowledge of Python -
“It’s been around more than fifteen years and it still isn’t really used by anyone important, so it’s probably not very good.”

When asked, “What will you bring to the company?” -
“Well, if I can telecommute, I don’t plan on bringing anything!”