Driving cross-country to get to an interview with five minutes to spare was not exactly how I'd intended approaching this, but hey. I should know by the weekend if I'm hired or not.

To anyone who's added a comment recently wishing me luck in interviews: thanks. It's appreciated.

The interview was scheduled for 6pm local. The phone rang *once* at 6:36, and hasn't rung again since. I can only assume that confusion is reigning in Seattle, since the previous call was an hour and fifteen minutes late due to unspecified "confusion" on their part. Oh well. I guess I'll just mosey on in to their office on Monday for the face-to- ( Read more... )

I really need to learn more about the Linux kernel before mentioning that I've done kernel-level debugging (I have, but.) Sigh. Not really expecting much more than a PFO from that.

Apparently, cutting the power to someone's building *doesn't* count as a network-based DoS.

Apparently "lunchtime" is not one of the times contained in an inode.

1. Rate in order of speed: read from cpu register, disk seek, context switch, read from main memory.
2. What are the three packets which establish a TCP session?
3. How many machines can you put in a /17 network (method of calculating will suffice)

More news as this story develops.