Comment by carlesfe
11 years ago
That was great out-of-the-box thinking, and I wonder if that could be used as one of these job interview questions:
Q: "Your email server for some reason is only working for addresses within 500 miles of the server. What may go wrong?"
And let the candidate think logically and reach some sane answer, even if not 100% accurate (i.e. check routers first, connectivity, DNS, timeouts...)
That's one of those interview questions that tests for someone reading hacker news and pretending that they figured it out all on their own...
"culture fit"
Translation: "Tunnel Vision" and "Lack of diversity"
Anyone who short circuits and brings up this story should get a +1.