Taking the measure of a developer
Continuing on the interview stuff, here is something that can tell you quite a bit about a developer. Given the following error, what do they do?
    
Here are a couple of options:
- They tell you: "I can't get it to work, it keeps failing and I don't know why."
 - Look into the inner exception.
 - Googles the exception message first, and give up if the first result doesn't show anything relevant.
 - Look into the inner exception, google that, and fix the problem.
 - Fix the error after reading the message
 - Look into the inner exception and fixing the problem.
 - Download and install the kernel debugger and then they start digging
 
If they can't pass this test (and if you are reading this post, I sure do hope that you know what of the above is a correct response), they don't hire them.

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