The Old New Thing

December 8, 2005 - The Old New Thing

The not-entirely-unwitting victims of the Daily Show interview

December 8, 2005 Dec 8, 2005 12/8/05
Raymond Chen
NPR's On the Media covers the world of the fake news interview, the leading example of which in the United States is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Despite what you may think, the people interviewed by the likes of Ed Helms and Samantha Bee actually know that they're being interviewed by a fake news show and go along with it anyway. But ...

Using a physical object as a reminder

December 8, 2005 Dec 8, 2005 12/8/05
Raymond Chen
On our team, we have a mailing list where people can report problems. Those people could be testers from our team or they could be people from elsewhere in the company. Everybody on the team is expected to keep an eye on the messages and debug problems in their area. The job of monitoring the mailing list to ensure that every issue is ...