> how did that person at the 2004 conference know you had the right stuff? I was there talking about my FOSS work, that probably helped. toolz asked me if the

> how did that person at the 2004 conference know you had the right stuff? I was there talking about my FOSS work, that probably helped. toolz asked me if the "Portable .NET" platform was portable enough to run on some new hardware & gcc patches he had got before the conference (not insane, but cross-compile & port the project from a Zaurus/iPAC to run on a PicoPeta Simputer). Anyway, it must've looked more impressive than 2 days of work, because when toolz died, someone else remembered that incident[1]. (as a side note, I had already interviewed at IBM, Oracle Platforms team and several other places with no luck at that point ... so I had already spent 4 months prepping & interviewing in 2004.) And after the conference, I met Swaroop [2] & Philip, who were at Yahoo then. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812177 [2] - https://python.swaroopch.com/ https://python.swaroopch.com/