I'm in a company which seems to have a similar diversity hiring. After they checked at least one of each box (White, Black (not African), Asian, Mexican, European), then they hire as many Indians as open spots they have.

Fun fact, not all devs are skilled devs....I've also had to repair our develop branch a few times (4, in the last 2 months) because of them. (not all from the Indian hires)

When interviewing someone, ask them "what is the difference between 'merging dev to your branch' and 'rebasing your branch with dev', and how do you reverse that action?"

As someone with aspergers, I felt his pain. Wanting to fix problems, but their face looks like a sheet of paper, and the words look like a rubble of gibberish, and the tsunami of bad code is approaching. No time to be fluffy, just be blunt and speak the problem directly. It's anxiety riddled!
My gf is always reviewing/ updating me on how I'm phrasing things, to help me be "more human-like". Because of her, the team has unofficially made me their lead dev and the go to guy for random fun knowledge.

Congrats on helping your lead dev find a window to communicate with the team, and being a great trustable friend when he was in need.

"Can you help me code a few parts of the app I'm working on?" - them
"Eh, my schedule is kinda tight, but I can try. What parts do you need help on?" - me
"[insert many large parts of the app], also, can you teach me how to code? And which language would be a good to learn for mobile devices?" - them

@f7u12 "candidate", :-/. I'm a phonetic speller and coding has replaced my mother tongue (which was English).

@Wabby, I think he meant more on raw development of features.

I'm currently the only dev on the team, and without seeing the code, they think I'm slacking til I give a presentation of the current app state.

We finally did hire an ios dev, he's missed 2 sprints (so far) in the attempt to catch up with me in a quicker time. "android had 1 month to do those features, I'm sure the ios can do it in 1 week. It's SIMPLER, right?"

When I've had progress where I'd like to keep its state, but not commit to keeping it as such, STASH!
When it works and I'm comfortable with how it's working and ready to move to another experimental upgrade, COMMIT!
When something isn't working and it's a recent action, BLAME ANOTHER DEV!

... I'm the only dev on my team... EVERYTHING IS OK!

One of the companies I worked at, we got to sit during stand-ups, but ONLY on Fridays. The company keg room also opened at noon on Fridays, closed the rest of the week.

Mine went like this:
Marketer: "the company was looking for xarmarin devs, but gave up and is going native Java"

Interviewer: "how many xarmarin questions can I ask before you realize we gave up on Java and moved back to xarmarin?"

Good morning everyone! (no, I don't have donuts, these are my 2 dozen)

I don't have any ducks yet, just coding cubes...they also like to be played with when talked to.

"actually, this is a really nice mouse, so I'm gonna just quietly pick it up before leaving."

@frozentruth android studios, android emulator, chrome, sublime, and Logitech software for the mouse. Everything else is pre-installed.

Feels kinda like mac OS is becoming more of what they hate about windows, and windows OS it becoming more like what they hate about mac....hows the Linux OS world doing anyway? Best of both I hope?

Google.... looks a lot like a neural network.

Yay for source control.

"what was I doing?... hmm, something with class X. Cool, let's keep doing that."

@Voxera the case of this test, which exposed other problems, is that we were saving a state (hasAudioFocus) to a static variable. But the variable was set privately within the class that's being tested.

The test in question was when passing an invalid channel type to the focus manager to request focus.
To test the channel blackbox style would require too much setup just for a response.

... then it turns out other tests were changing the static variable, which caused more problems.
Eventually resolved it by filtering the channel sooner which natively included channel tests (it's complicated).

@mmcorreia it's in Java. Although it lacks the elegant get/ set as C#, the setter can still be protected, but they viewed that just as exposed as a public.

It's being one with everything/ everything is one, only the things you want to happen will happen, you are and will be safe when everything is over, and things you did will be remembered after everything is done.

... as for the drug, I don't know yet, it's still on my todo list. ;-)

(google "db acid")

..... can't tell if batteries or bombs in the background. Is this at work?

@uddinstock, yes, but for asking what the weather is and sending texts to people. He hasn't even asked Siri for a joke yet (despite my often request)!

@kwilliams you mean you have to wear actual pants (instead of pjs) and something besides a hoodie?

Like an open source tool, but frustrated by its limitations, fork and improve it!

Devs make the gears run, testers control what gets passed, but testers also entirely depend on the devs for work.
PM laughs in the background while stroking a whip.

First thought "why is someone posting a picture of spray on plaster?".
Second thought "does it burn like a spider's nest too?"

Some companies can only see their self and assume their product is the only thing you need in your life (ref macbook wall wart charger).

@KeyWeeUsr it's more a pseudo-code kinda thing. Compiles better in the brain than cpu.

The Onion made a post about a similar service out there called "Noveller". It's exactly like Twitter, but people can write short 75k-300k word novels instead of 2 sentences.

I would have given him a ballpark bottom number, hear the features and then say "wow, that's a really unique feature, but unfortunately it's also expensive on development time and the cost of the app will be higher" or "I think myspace already made that feature".

@teoval8 your English was good, it was more a Lord of the Rings reference (one does not simply walk into Mordor) + sad coding fate while jumping straight into a project.

One does not simply "start a project", but "attempts a project". "started a project" is mentioned only after the dumb mistakes have been cleaned out and it's peer review worthy.