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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by seanp2k2 on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:02AM (#12706883)
Yep, and when devs watch me key in the s_client pipe to OpenSSL to dump the cert info it's like I've become Neo and entered bullet time. I guess they don't need to know this stuff, but trying to do things like editing a hosts file in OSX, flushing dns, opening an incognito tab, looking at the SSL cert through the GUI, manually comparing it to one in an editor....vs a pretty short one-liner with curl or OpenSSL and a diff....I guess I'm either biased or lazy. I also almost never get asked WTF I just did, just a "wow, thanks" at most.

A previous employer had a sysadmin wiki. We call it Devops now, but I really liked working with the plain-text files of Dokuwiki there. Confluence is good for some things, but as a notebook of shell snippets and when to use them, it's not great.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by micaksica on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:44PM (#12709795)
> I also almost never get asked WTF I just did, just a "wow, thanks" at most.

Asking "wtf did you just do" is responsible for probably 1/5 to 1/4 of the professional knowledge I have today. It's sad that many people ignore that people will often teach you their little tricks if you ask.

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