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                A list of questions you could ask while interviewing
              
          
    A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.
I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.
I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.
I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.
I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

  
## strace-notes.md

      
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    Did you see my talk about strace? Do you want to know more? Here's your chance!
If you didn't, and you want to watch it, go watch it! Spying on your programs with strace
more strace resources (Linux-only)


I've written tons of blog posts about strace. I'm a little bit obsessed. You can read them at http://jvns.ca/blog/categories/strace/. If you want an introduction, start with Debug your programs like they're closed source.
Strace - The Syadmin's Microscope and Strace: The Lost Chapter are both excellent articles by Greg Price
Brendan Gregg has an excellent article about how strace will slow your processes down, and when it's not appropriate to use it


## ruby-python-profiling-tools.md

      
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    Ruby and Python profilers

CPU profilers

Python

cProfile
https://github.com/bdarnell/plop (blog post)
https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler
https://github.com/uber/pyflame (blog post)


## Makefile
obj-m += rootkit.o

all:
	make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules

clean:
	make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) clean

## fastmail-jmap-quickstart.js
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
async function run() {
    let username = "YOUR USERNAME HERE";
    let password = "YOUR APP PASSWORD";
    let authBasic = new Buffer(username + ':' + password).toString('base64');
    let session = await (await fetch('https://jmap.fastmail.com/.well-known/jmap', {
        headers: {
            "Authorization": "Basic " + authBasic
        }
    })).json();

## big.php
<html>
<head>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
<style>
h1 {
font-family: 'Open Sans', serif;
font-size: 50px;
text-align: center;
color: #333;

## women_speak.md

      
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Ageism hits women harder than it does men.

All the "which do you think would make you happier" section answers put the responsibility on me to fix my issues with being a woman in STEM. I need my male colleagues to not talk over me and to verify they heard what I have to say. I would like my fair share of eye contact during technical discussions. I'm sick of the constant pissing matches that come from a solution not being a particular dev's solution so we have to refactor said existing solution AGAIN. As someone who is talked over and is denied eye contact, how hard do you think I have to fight to be heard or have my solutions last? Being told I'm recognized as talented in my field, only to have some basic computer science concept explained to me in the speaker's next breath (I do think this is a general geek problem so I won't call it mansplaining but the behavior is exhausting all the same).

A lot of my male co-workers don't want to see or are completely oblivious to the sexism that their f

  
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## kernelfuntalk.md

      
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                You can be a kernel hacker
              
          
    Hello!
Did you see my talk at CUSEC? If you're interested in hacking on the Linux kernel, here are some more resources! If you have suggestions for learning about OS X or Windows, or you're interested in learning about BSD, let me know!

4 paths to becoming a kernel hacker explains the 4 strategies I talked about in the talk.
I talked about Hacker School, which is amazing.
I wrote a lot about kernel programming on my blog

Reading kernel code:
	obj-m += rootkit.o

	all:
	make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules

	clean:
	make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) clean
	const fetch = require('node-fetch');
	async function run() {
	let username = "YOUR USERNAME HERE";
	let password = "YOUR APP PASSWORD";
	let authBasic = new Buffer(username + ':' + password).toString('base64');
	let session = await (await fetch('https://jmap.fastmail.com/.well-known/jmap', {
	headers: {
	"Authorization": "Basic " + authBasic
	}
	})).json();
	<html>
	<head>
	<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
	</head>
	<style>
	h1 {
	font-family: 'Open Sans', serif;
	font-size: 50px;
	text-align: center;
	color: #333;