From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Interview question
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 21:15:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DCF5069E-988D-4A3C-B517-1C9FA7B0C8B8@cfcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230102203646.GT25547@mcvoy.com>
Sadly, I can't remember whose USENIX talk it was, but I recall a software maturity scale that went something like this:
1 - it works in your office
2 - it works in an office down the hall
3 - it works for someone you've never met
4 - you don't have to explain why you use it
5 - you have to explain why you don't use it
-r
> On Jan 2, 2023, at 12:36, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> The /bin/sh stuff made me think of an interview question I had for engineers,
> that a surprisingly few could pass:
>
> "Tell me about something you wrote that was entirely you, the docs, the
> tests, the source, the installer, everything. It doesn't have to be a
> big thing, but it has to have been successfully used by at least 10
> people who had no contact with you (other than to say thanks)."
>
> Most people fail this. I think the people who pass might look
> positively on the v7 sh stuff. But who knows?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-03 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-02 20:36 [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 20:38 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2023-01-02 20:51 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-03 4:44 ` Ori Idan
2023-01-03 5:15 ` Rich Morin [this message]
2023-01-03 5:32 ` Ajay Shah
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