job screening question

Fri Jul 6 18:46:31 UTC 2012

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:12:50AM -0400, valdis.kletnieks at 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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