Did the same thing but sent 220v to my laptops USB while I was debugging the dev board and had some loose jumper cables... At least it made a big bang...

Royalty free != free! Royalty free just means that if a magazine uses it or TV station use it they just pay once and don't have to worry about paying for usage (royalties..)

I've been tripped by that more than once as well...

Not that implausible go be on call all time.. I've been last 7 years or so. Basically responsible for my company's servers running our stuff..

Of course we're not the most sensitive in regards to outages etc as everything has been built so they they can fail and not damage us too much... Basically everything non DB stuff is running behind load balancer and can operate at some minimal level without DB.

And thank God for linode servers which seem to be rock solid with lighting fast response times for outages.

Wouldn't want to do that for wp though :p

Lastly try to get in via existing team leader or similar guy.. Then it becomes more if he likes you or not.. Thus much more culture thing than hr..

Ps. I've hired two interns and hired both as full time in the end.. Both were thrown to the deep end to see how they'll cope and learn :)

One thing that will help is that try to pose yourselves as persons who have been coding for soooo long and know most of the things and just need to get this pesky internship out of the way.. And when they ask you to do hard things learn to Google and learn like there's no tomorrow :) that way you'll stand out.. It's all about marketing :/ and usually really enthusiastic intern can be really good.. But you have to be willing to put a lot of effort on it and market yourself a bit..

Maybe mention that to the recruiter? Sometimes they are looking people for some specific project and it you tell them that they might move along with someone else. However if they know you're interested but have something to complete first they usually understand. I've had almost all of our employees say something similar and it's a good sign usually (not a recruiter but cto)

Check out fortrabbit. It's really interesting and we're thinking of changing soon over there instead of our own linode servers.. In any case leaving this here to catch your link once you're up!

@heyheni nope.. Guessing they are not too interested on those..

I guess there should be a way to follow posts... :)

Need both...