Article: 163059 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: Tanuki the Raccoon-dog Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: And he wanted a job :-) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 09:17:27 +0100 Organization: Microsoft Rest-Home for the Incurably Gullible. Approved: cerberus@hades.com.au Message-ID: References: <8qu935$1gg$1@allhats.xcski.com> Reply-To: Tanuki the Raccoon-dog NNTP-Posting-Host: canismajor.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: canismajor.demon.co.uk:194.222.149.180 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 970302790 nnrp-07:9328 NO-IDENT canismajor.demon.co.uk:194.222.149.180 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 <4phXCXVeq6CNED$IuVQrAXJODv> Lines: 20 Path: news.meer.net!nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!canismajor.demon.co.uk!Tanuki Xref: news.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:163059 In , void said >(One of my favorite moments in technical interviews is when it's time to > say "I don't know." I try to say it with confidence, looking right at > the interviewer. This is a message of sorts, and a smart interviewer > will Get It.) Must confess, i would far rather have an interviewee respond something like "I don't know the exact details, but I know it's covered by a [RFC|ORA-book], so I'd go and look it up". Life is vastly too short for you to act as a repository for all necessary knowledge; the best you can do is store a set of pointers to where the knowledge can be found should you need it. -- !Raised Tails! -:Tanuki:- "Well at least it's not going to cause a world crisis... unless one subscribes to chaos theory. In which case, who knows what effect your not doing the laundry might have. Plagues of mice? Toilet-paper not tearing along the perforations?" Article: 163826 of alt.sysadmin.recovery Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery References: <8qu935$1gg$1@allhats.xcski.com> From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: And he wanted a job :-) Organization: Atid/2 Approved: not bloody likely X-No-Ahbou: Yes Message-ID: <39dbc178$1$fuzhry$mr2ice@news.mnsinc.com> X-Newsreader: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.2/20 Lines: 17 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:47:04 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.55.10.86 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 970715481 206.55.10.86 (Thu, 05 Oct 2000 03:11:21 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 03:11:21 GMT Path: news.meer.net!nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!feeder.via.net!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: news.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:163826 In , on 09/30/2000 at 09:17 AM, Tanuki the Raccoon-dog said: >Life is vastly too short for you to act as a repository for all >necessary knowledge; the best you can do is store a set of pointers >to where the knowledge can be found should you need it. It also helps if you know what data are volatile, and look them up rather than relying on your excellent memory of things that used to be true. I've seen people get caught on this one. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Reply to domain acm dot org user shmuel to contact me.