Re: Programmer mood

David said:

<a lot of good stuff, which broadly tallies with my experience at the second
attempt>

Hello Iftikhar,

I loaded the latest flash at work and checked out your personal
web site, including the paper describing the test, as well as
the flash-based test. There are any number of problems with
the test procedure that probably make it very inaccurate.

That was my experience, too, when I made the ultimate sacrifice and fired up
a Flash-aware browser. The first film was a time-waster. If it was intended
to calm me down, it failed. (It didn't calm me up, either.) The second was
mildly diverting, though.

The questions betrayed a singular ignorance of the C++ language, and
contained several basic errors other than those we were supposed to
identify.

After the second film, the browser (Firefox) spontaneously resized itself,
hiding the "next" button below the bottom of the screen. By the time I'd
corrected this, the program had already decided to move on.

On the whole, I have to say I can't see the results as being particularly
useful to anyone.

<huge snip of good stuff from David>

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