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What Hiring Should Look Like

This is definitely not the first time I've written about this topic, but I haven't written formally about it in quite awhile. So I want to revisit why I think technical-position interviewing is so poorly designed, and lay out what I think would be a better process.

I'm just one guy, with a bunch of strong opinions and a bunch of flaws. So take these suggestions with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a lot of talented, passionate folks with other thoughts, and some are probably a lot more interesting and useful than my own.

But at the same time, I hope you'll set aside the assumptions and status quo of how interviewing is always done. Just because you were hired a certain way, and even if you liked it, doesn't mean that it's a good interview process to repeat.

If you're happy with the way technical interviewing currently works at your company, fine. Just stop, don't read any further. I'm not going to spend any effort trying to convince you otherwise.

Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

This mini-rant came on the heels of an interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/591074055018582016

	# Install dependencies that nginx was originally compiled with
	sudo apt install libperl-dev libgeoip-dev libgd-dev

	# Get the nginx source
	wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz
	tar zxf nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz

	# Get the module source
	wget https://github.com/fdintino/nginx-upload-module/archive/master.zip
	unzip master.zip

	New Release Runbook (if it doesn't work on your system)

	(if you get git network failures, try raising config http.postBuffer)

	Definitions:
	B-L-B: .../browser-laptop-bootstrap
	B-L: .../browser-laptop-bootstrap/src/browser-laptop
	MUON: .../browser-laptop-bootstrap/src/electron

	1. Download it:

	# Adapted from https://developers.yubico.com/ykneo-openpgp/ResetApplet.html
	gpg-connect-agent <<EOF
	/hex
	scd serialno
	scd apdu 00 20 00 81 08 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
	scd apdu 00 20 00 81 08 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
	scd apdu 00 20 00 81 08 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
	scd apdu 00 20 00 81 08 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
	scd apdu 00 20 00 83 08 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
	scd apdu 00 20 00 83 08 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# This script will mount /Users in the boot2docker VM using NFS (instead of the
	# default vboxsf). It's probably not a good idea to run it while there are
	# Docker containers running in boot2docker.
	#
	# Usage: sudo ./boot2docker-use-nfs.sh
	#

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# A sneaky wrapper around Rubocop that allows you to run it only against
	# the recent changes, as opposed to the whole project. It lets you
	# enforce the style guide for new/modified code only, as opposed to
	# having to restyle everything or adding cops incrementally. It relies
	# on git to figure out which files to check.
	#
	# Here are some options you can pass in addition to the ones in rubocop:
	#

	// Usage: require('repl').start.call(this);
	// Press Ctrl+D to continue script
	// Press Ctrl+C to exit.

	require = patchRequire(require);

	var system = require('system');
	var utils = require('utils');

	exports.start = function(prompt) {

	Copyright (c) 2015, Shahar Evron
	All rights reserved.

	Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
	are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

	1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
	list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

	2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

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What Hiring Should Look Like

Most VPN Services are Terrible

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