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jessfraz / boxstarter.ps1
Last active March 4, 2025 09:17
Boxstarter Commands for a new Windows box.
# Description: Boxstarter Script
# Author: Jess Frazelle <[email protected]>
# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
#
# Install boxstarter:
# . { iwr -useb http://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } | iex; get-boxstarter -Force
#
# You might need to set: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
#
# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an **elevated** command-prompt:
[global_config]
title_transmit_fg_color = "#f2f0ec"
title_inactive_fg_color = "#2d2d2d"
title_receive_bg_color = "#6699cc"
title_transmit_bg_color = "#f2777a"
title_receive_fg_color = "#f2f0ec"
title_inactive_bg_color = "#d3d0c8"
[keybindings]
[profiles]
[[default]]
@jvns
jvns / interview-questions.md
Last active April 17, 2025 16:25
A list of questions you could ask while interviewing

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".