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From: "Joe Hamelin" <joe@nethead.com>
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.
Original RFC editor. Invented Perl, among other things. Co-designed DNS (did I get that right?) I personally always label layers 8, 9, and 10 as money, management and inside counsel, but I know views differ. I don't RTFM, I google. It's often faster, so many of TFMs are online now. And this... is NANOG! What's my starting rate? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274