Fred Dysart ftdysa

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Originally published: 23/12/2008
Revised date: 15/12/2013
Original post

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

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	client_max_body_size 20M;

	upstream influxdb {
	server server1:8086;
	server server2:8086;
	}
	upstream relay {
	server server1:9096;
	server server2:9096;



	# Create a new Token
	curl -u 'githubuser' -d '{"note":"Your Application"}' https://api.github.com/authorizations

	# It is: "ebab4dc37e654bb230a9c69ebcd5f38e9a81e210"
	#{
	# "created_at": "2013-01-04T18:00:28Z",
	# "app": {
	# "url": "http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#oauth-authorizations-api",

	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
	// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
	// ie === undefined
	// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
	// ie === 7; // IE7
	// Thus, to detect IE:
	// if (ie) {}

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

	<project name="project" default="build-parallel">
	<target name="build" depends="prepare,lint,phploc,pdepend,phpmd-ci,phpcs-ci,phpcpd,phpunit,behat,phpdox"/>
	<target name="build-parallel" depends="prepare,lint,tools-parallel,phpunit,behat,phpdox"/>
	<target name="tests" depends="prepare,phpunit,behat"/>

	<target name="tools-parallel" description="Run tools in parallel">
	<parallel threadCount="4">
	<sequential>

	<?php

	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\File;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\UploadedFile;

	/**
	* @Entity
	*/
	class Document
	{

	<?php
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	{
	public $func;
	public $acc;
	public $recursing;

	public function tail()
	{
	return call_user_func_array($this->func, func_get_args());

	<?php

	namespace Ibms\JobBundle\Twig;

	use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;
	use Ibms\JobBundle\Entity\Job;
	use Ibms\JobBundle\Entity\JobAppliance;
	use Ibms\UserBundle\Entity\Technician;
	use DateTime;
	use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;

	<?php

	namespace Ibms\Helper;

	use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Templating\GlobalVariables as BaseGlobalVariables;
	use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
	use DateTime;

	class GlobalVariables extends BaseGlobalVariables
	{