{"id":560,"date":"2005-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/05\/24\/495\/"},"modified":"2005-05-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T22:00:00","slug":"495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/05\/24\/495\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the worst bug you&#8217;ve ever written?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Lester &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/7134\">What&#8217;s the worst bug you&#8217;ve ever written?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Then, after the candidate tells me the story of the terrible bug, I ask the crucial follow-up: &#8222;What did you learn? What did you change about yourself?&#8220; The reaction is often telling, and I can easily see how self-aware she is. If the answer is &#8222;We fixed the bug and had to do some cleanup,&#8220; then I know nothing&#8217;s been learned. If she comes back with a &#8222;I&#8217;ll tell you one thing: I made sure that my X always&#8230;.&#8220;, I know that she&#8217;s a self-optimizing person.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Lester &#8211; What&#8217;s the worst bug you&#8217;ve ever written?: &#8222;Then, after the candidate tells me the story of the terrible bug, I ask the crucial follow-up: &#8222;What did you learn? What did you change about yourself?&#8220; The reaction is often telling, and I can easily see how self-aware she is. If the answer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}