Re: a question regarding resumes

[Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>]

>>>>> "Win" == Win Bent x265 <whb@evtech.com> writes:

Win> I think a good question for a candidate would be "Write a shell
Win> command to kill all processes named 'foo'", and see if the person comes
Win> anywhere near the simplicity of the one-liner presented earlier, and if
Win> they use xargs or some other method of possibly-multiple inputs.

And especially if they don't use "kill -9" or "grep -v grep".  Both of
those are dead givaways that they are mostly clueless and are guilty
of cargo-cult cut-n-paste programming.

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