wouter van ooijen voti.nl> writes: > some more comments from a nitpicker... You know, there are more ways to fail a test than to pass it. Starting a fight with the tester on the basis of Svejk logic is one of the best ... just like asking what the sum of 2 + 2 is and expecting to pass when answering 4 (hint the correct answer is: there are three possible answers: 1 in base 3, 0 in base 4, and 4 in all other bases higher than 4 - this is an ESPECIALLY relevant test wrt embedded assembly and radix imho - not that I'd think about it like that but *this* would be more of a theme for discussion than Dutch stubornness involving 0pf capacitors instead of a standard 1 stage common emitter transistor ac amplifier with an emitter resistor ensuring degenerative feedback at dc and thus temperature stability - the standard expected answer for such a test). I also find it annoying that engineers write tests for technicians because they tend to try to see the theoretical and 'potential' side of the answers where practice is the emphasis for technicians. I had to spend many years in the company of people I am no longer on speaking terms with due to professional divergences of the most serious kind as a result of such 'genius' hiring policies. This does not even touch the alpha ego problem (so brilliantly illustrated by Wouter) which is a proven recipe for sparks in a team. Peter P. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist