• Call me arrogant but if an interviewer asked me questions which were designed to trick me, or were utterly stupid in themselves, or that were designed to be unanswerable, I probably wouldn't hang around.

    There's enough work out there in the UK at the moment not to have to worry too much about getting another gig. This puts us (UK people anyway) in rather a fortunate position of being able to be picky.

    I shall, of course, eat my words (and my hat) when the *next* recession turns up and we're all clinging onto our jobs like the handrail on the deck of the sinking Titanic.

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    Note to developers:
    CAST(SUBSTRING(CAST(FLOOR(NULLIF(ISNULL(COALESCE(1,NULL),NULL),NULL)) AS CHAR(1)),1,1) AS INT) == 1
    So why complicate your code AND MAKE MY JOB HARDER??!:crazy:

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