Once you get a job at a company, you move from one side of the interview table to the other. My ideal candidate for just about any engineering position:
has the ability to present technical ideas on the fly; has practical Unix knowledge; can write clearly and concisely in English and in code; has a strong technical background.
Knowledge [...]
Public wireless networks can be scary; you never know who might be sniffing your traffic, recording your GMail authentication cookies, or worse. Ideally, all of your net activity should be end-to-end authenticated and encrypted. Fortunately, since this is not always feasible, ssh makes it easy to use an untrusted network by routing your traffic through a trusted end-point. All you need is an ssh [...]
During the course of a given week, I answer a lot of technical questions. They range from the friend asking, “What laptop should I buy?” to strangers with very specific questions about the source code used in my research. I rather enjoy solving technical questions and taking a line from Jon Udell’s “Too busy to blog?” post, I’m [...]
