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Comment Re:No he doesn't... (Score 1) 496

I'd have thought so.

For one, a brain teaser I can answer after about 1 second isn't really a brain teaser. Since I'm definitely not smarter than anyone who already passed through the rest of the SpaceX interview process, this would be too easy.

Second, brain teasers are stupid, I agree with Musk there. I can only imagine maybe I'm overcome by anxiety talking to Elon Musk himself, not just the CEO of a company I would like to work for, but a billionaire genius. So maybe thanks to interview anxiety I am unable to come up with the obvious answer that moment - would that make me a worse software engineer? I'm interviewing for an engineering position, not a PR gig.

Comment Re:NetBeans?? (Score 1) 205

I agree completely. I have been able to adapt to any wonky project structure with Eclipse, been using it for years.

Secondly, you are right that no-one cares about NetBeans - it's IDEA vs Eclipse and that's that. I never got into IDEA but I concede it's a fine IDE, on par with Eclipse, and with some advantages over Eclipse and some drawbacks. The main reason I am not switching is that it doesn't have that one killer feature over Eclipse, so I stick with what's free.

Third, the post above has to be taken with a grain of salt because they guy likes text editors. I know these people are out there, but if you use any of the new IDEs - Eclipse / IDEA / NetBeans - and you don't realize that these make Java development about at least 50% faster over a text editor then you can't judge any IDE. The amount of automatization when generating code in the IDE is simply staggering and there is no way anyone who has ever used these features can go back to text editors and say they are just as good.

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