Quote of the Day

From the Joel on Software post about phone screens: "I've had people with great resumes tell me a pointer should fit in one byte."

Ouch!

(If you're not a programmer, a pointer gives the memory location of a structure or object a program needs. A byte would allow for no more than 256 such items across the system, as he's written the sentence. Suffice it to say that's not nearly enough for, well, anything, even if the interviewee meant "within a single program" instead of "across the entire system.")