[154620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Fri Jul 6 14:47:43 2012
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 04:46:31 +1000
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:12:50AM -0400, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:42:42 +1000, Matthew Palmer said:
>
> > Ugh, I know someone (thankfully no longer a current colleague) who ardently
> > *defends* his use of questions like "what does the -M option to ps do?" on
>
> Is that an African ps or a European ps? ;)
That was actually the reason why he picked on ps in particular -- because it
had two completely different command sets and yes, he expects candidates to
know the difference.
- Matt
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