18:[[7457877,{"by":"egsec","descendants":31,"id":7457877,"kids":[7458303,7458921,7460267,7464551,7459309,7458900,7460661,7461247,7460806,7459015,7458221,7477836,7458877,7458335,7458284],"score":77,"time":1395665424,"title":"How to explain buffer overflow to a layman","type":"story","url":"http://security.stackexchange.com/q/53878/36538"}],[6565286,{"by":"0cool","descendants":9,"id":6565286,"kids":[6565733,6565385,6565763,6565716,6565568,6565903,6565735],"score":9,"text":"","time":1382017713,"title":"Hiring your startup’s next great employee","type":"story","url":"http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/06/06/4-rules-for-hiring-your-startups-next-great-employee-and-avoiding-the-duds/"}],[6142758,{"by":"superEb","descendants":38,"id":6142758,"kids":[6143430,6144371,6142997,6143894,6143972,6142853,6142936,6143601,6142995,6146863,6150727,6142923,6142880,6143459,6149338,6143484],"score":7,"text":"I'm looking to hire CS grads for an entry-level Java developer position. The general hiring process is this:

1. Apply (or get referred by a recruiter) with resume

2. Provide one- or two-sentence answers to some simple prescreen questions

3. Do a phone interview with member of dev team

4. Visit office for a face-to-face interview, and complete a code exercise while in office

5. Receive offer of employment

Now what has happened several times is that a candidate will do well enough on #1 and #2, talk a good game on #3, come in for #4 and totally bomb because they don't know how to throw a freakin' exception!

I am completely dumb-founded by this. How do you get through a complete CS program in college and expect me to hire you as a professional Java developer without knowing one of the basic principles of the language?

Are my expectations really that unreasonable, or do CS programs in general neglect exception handling when teaching OO?","time":1375384600,"title":"Ask HN: Shouldn't a recent CS grad know how to throw an exception?","type":"story","url":""}],[6137679,{"by":"srinivasanv","descendants":3,"id":6137679,"kids":[6137874,6138390,6137701],"score":2,"text":"College season approaches, yet Haswell computers are few and far between. Most incoming freshmen at my college would hope for their computer to last three years at least. For those who don't want Macbook Airs, would you recommend waiting for Haswell or purchasing last year's MBP/Thinkpad?","time":1375315021,"title":"Ask HN: Which computer for college?","type":"story","url":""}],[6090406,{"by":"primalpop","descendants":49,"id":6090406,"kids":[6092592,6091006,6090532,6090509,6094727,6092684,6090783,6093057,6090642,6093104,6091999,6090976,6091124,6092303,6090540,6091072,6091238],"score":26,"text":"$19","time":1374591753,"title":"Ask HN: Developer laptop under $1500?","type":"story","url":""}]]

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