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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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Ciaran McCreesh |
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