The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job interview with Facebook

Re:The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job inter... by spudlyo on Sunday October 03, 2010 @10:26PM (#1754360)

What is load exactly? What does it mean? Discussions on threads and processes. How can two processes communicate with one another? [...] I was not prepared for some of these questions, since some of these questions were Computer Science fundamental.

I enjoyed this article, and I rooted for the author to get the job, but I was somewhat confused by this part of the article. Perhaps the questions he mentioned weren't what he considered to be "Computer Science fundamental", but were there just for flavor. The questions mentioned seem more like Unix fundamental -- the load one in particular I ask almost every time I interview a sysadmin.

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Re:The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job inter... by lazyant on Monday October 04, 2010 @10:07AM (#1755659)

beyond something related to number of processes nobody knows what ´load´ really means http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/index.h...

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Re:The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job inter... by awakeasleep on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:56PM (#1754551)

Is that just about the load averages you'll see in top?

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Re:The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job inter... by spudlyo on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:58PM (#1754554)

That's what I assume he was talking about -- the average number of processes/threads in the run queue or waiting on disk I/O for the sample period.

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