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Sat Jun 6 10:43:01 UTC 2015

My first thought on reading that was "who the hell cares if a person
knows about internet culture". But than I had to reconsider - it's a
very apt way of telling if someone read the right books :)

I would also add Ritchie, Thompson, and Diffie to that list (since you
ask about Larry, it's only appropriate).

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:32 AM, jim deleskie <deleskie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember you asking me who Jon was :)  I have since added to my list of
> interview questions... sad but the number of people with clue is declining
> not increasing.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Joe Hamelin <joe at nethead.com> wrote:
>
>> Back in 2000 at Amazon, HR somehow decided to have me do the phone
>> interviews for neteng.  I'd go through questions on routing and what not,
>> then at the end I would ask questions like, "Who was Jon Postel?  Who is
>> Larry Wall?  Who is Paul Vixie? What are layers 8 & 9? Explain the RTFM
>> protocol.  What is NANOG?"  Those answers (or long silences) told me more
>> about the candidate than most of the technical questions.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
>>