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Jeff at Coding Horror recently asked, "Is Open Source Experience Overrated?" I think his question was asked a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it is something I had been pondering lately and was already considering writing about.

I do not, contrary to the opinions of some (rather weepy) individuals, ask interview questions like, "name the types of C++ inheritance" then flog the interviewee for saying "virtual, non-virtual, single, multiple," because I was expecting "public, private, protected." Indeed, it's been more than two years since I last had the opportunity to interview, but when I did, I made sure of two things:

1. I always knew I had fully researched the answer before asking the question.