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Dnia 2015-02-05, o godz. 18:02:22 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> napisał(a): |
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> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:56:26 -0500 |
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> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On 02/05/2015 12:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:21:37 -0500 |
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> > > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> > >> I'll start with the silliest: |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Explain briefly the purpose of the following tools: grep, cut, |
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> > >> sed, cat, wc, awk |
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> > > |
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> > > This is in no way silly when viewed in its proper historical |
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> > > context. It was added because before the quiz existed, someone |
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> > > recruited a couple of developers for Gentoo/Alt who didn't know |
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> > > what grep was, and they broke the tree in a horrific way. |
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> > > |
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> > There are a lot of things that a candidate needs to know before he |
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> > becomes a developer, and this is one of them. My point is, is this |
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> > question an effective filter? No, because given unlimited time and |
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> > access to Google (or `man`), my mother could give you a satisfactory |
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> > answer. It's silly because it's pointless. |
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> It filters out candidates who can't use 'man'... It's sad to admit that |
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> this was necessary, but at the time when I wrote that question, it |
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> wasn't possible to rely upon senior developers to do even that kind of |
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> screening. |
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As well as candidates who don't want to be treated like idiots. Say, if |
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I have proven multiple times that I can use those tools better than you |
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do, why should I now explain what they are? This almost makes me think |
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of those exams where you are supposed to convince the examiner that you |
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know a lot when he has no idea what you're talking about. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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