About 10 years ago I interviewed with Radionomy for the lead position on the Winamp revival.
By that time I was working on a competing product at another company, and was admittedly a little young for a tech lead position. They didn't hire me.
Years later, in another company, we replied to a call for offers for yet another Winamp project, from the same company. We were 4 mobile app engineers, all super enthousiastic about the prospect and would have been able to deliver.
We didn't get the contract for money reasons.
I still believe Radionomy should have hired me, the first time or the second time, Winamp would be alive and kicking. Dammit!
Nice! Might need to buy a car soon, so that's handy!
A few comments:
- maybe add somes weights to the questions? For example it's more important that the rear view mirrors are properly attached than having no stain on the upholstery.
- some questions deserve more details. "After revving the vehicle in neutral...", am I supposed to rev it for long?
Other than that... Thanks! Looks pretty good :) Nitpick on the price: I would be ready to pay to remove ads, but not for the current price.
I hang out with a lot of car guys. I have a friend who swears by the idea that whenever he wants to buy a used car, after a test drive he'll just leave it idling for an hour. If nothing goes wrong by that point he'll buy it.
The better tip is to test with a cold start. Lots of used car problems are masked with a warm engine. Sellers will often pre-warm the car, so note the engine temperature when you start it the first time.
Do both. They are complimentary tests. The cold start answers questions about the sensors and power systems needed to get the engine going. The idle tests the opposite, how the engine handles thermal issues without the airflow of driving. But the common theme is that if the engine starts and runs, most everything else can be reasonably fixed.
In my area, people talk about only buying cars in winter. You don't know a car until you see it at sub-zero temperatures.
It's not that different from having the same user/password accessible via ssh. It's best to not have direct access to important machines anyway, and go for a bastion or similar service.
But... you can switch to Kerberos SSO, or setup smart cards login instead.
You can also use it kind of like a jump host and do ssh keys I to secondary server.
I find it cool to give nice way to access in environments where ssh is not allowed by default, but https is. It's sometimes easier to setup proxies/reverse proxies in corporate forest instead of opting for direct ash access.
By that time I was working on a competing product at another company, and was admittedly a little young for a tech lead position. They didn't hire me.
Years later, in another company, we replied to a call for offers for yet another Winamp project, from the same company. We were 4 mobile app engineers, all super enthousiastic about the prospect and would have been able to deliver.
We didn't get the contract for money reasons.
I still believe Radionomy should have hired me, the first time or the second time, Winamp would be alive and kicking. Dammit!
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