You gotta switch to the "Street Fighter" version control system

• Desktop
• Desktop II
• Desktop II: Champion Edition
• Desktop II Turbo: Hyper
• Super Desktop II
• Super Desktop II Turbo
• Hyper Desktop II: Anniversary Edn
• Super Desktop II Turbo HD Remix
• Ultra Desktop II: The Final Folders

Resumes and educational background are important, but experience can typically be verified pretty quickly.

I think something like this applies in every industry - it's important to know what the "White Balance Test" is for yours. (4/4)

I've used similar shortcuts in the software dev space

There's a broad spectrum of "software developers" out there - plenty of self-taught devs will outshine many folks with a CS degree

The best candidates may not know a specific tool/framework/solution, but they'll have the basics down cold (3/4)

To vet a candidate, he hands them a camera & asks them to white balance it.

To anyone in the biz, this is second nature - find the settings, perform the process.

Meanwhile, amateurs struggle or ask, "do what now?"

It's not hard, but if you have to Google it, you probably aren't a good fit. (2/4)

- the occasional herpetology enthusiast recommending ball pythons as starter pets
- the rare Monty Python gif
- one guy with a gym mirror selfie who still calls biceps "pythons"

PVP games before balance patches existed

There is an entire industry built around the balance-patch-to-tier-list-youtube-video pipeline that couldn't exist in the cartridge-or-disk-local-multiplayer-only era

Relevant xkcd:

xkcd.com/1179/

Results:

- Excel mixes up minutes and months due to formatting, show up on the wrong date; disqualified

- Unix shows up 70 years after Excel; disqualified

- ISO 8601 has to fight itself, but nobody watches it because they didn't designate a timezone; declared winner by default

Undercard:
The guy who started using ISO format without hyphens vs the guy who started using ISO format with a space instead of a "T"

There's definitely a rabbit hole on each of those 3-

SQL -> Views, subqueries, indexing, stored procedures...

Python -> jupyter, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, sklearn, win32com...

Excel -> Tables, pivot tables, data connections...

Every tool's an iceberg, and it's worth it to dig deep on the basics

Your bird box is just fledgling

Just make sure your cat boxes all stay indoors until its flight panels come in

Couple of seasons ago, I was monitoring a nesting box and saw some Black Capped Chickadees fledge! Built with a Pi Zero and PiCam

Thinking of giving it another go this Spring!

www.youtube.com/live/BCSlqEj...