JailhouseRodeo

I think the author was trying to show us how smart he was, not only in areas of codez (intimate knowledge of hash table) but also in areas of businessing (something called 'liquidity trap'). We should all hold him in high regard, because he only hires A players and had kicked many non-hashtable saavy B players (180+ in all) to the curb.

I know the OP was interested in unix tools, but I've been wondering could you build a lightweight IDE or dev toolset in chrome itself? It looks like action.io and cloud9 have been some nice browser based tools, but what about building something using google native client that runs locally in chrome?

I was checking out the interview questions people are posting on glassdoor.com and felt pretty stupid after going through them. I work at a successful startup at a pretty high level, and I could not tell you the best sort algorithm for some particular case. I could tell you how I would model it in a database, since that's really where large datasets get manipulated in my world. I wonder if the types of algorithm-heavy questions I see in interviews are there because these companies need that skillset, or is it to weed out people who aren't 'rockstar' or 'A Player' engineers. Sometimes it feels like a pissing contest to see who has the hardest interview. At my company, we give you a couple of real world coding tests, as long as you do ok, it's all about your personality and whether or not you seem cool to work with. It seems to work very well.