I'm a big fan of reading Joel Spolsky's essays. Usually when I should be grading papers, or something like that, and decide to procrastinate instead. Perhaps y

I'm a big fan of reading Joel Spolsky's essays. Usually when I should be grading papers, or something like that, and decide to procrastinate instead. Perhaps your interviewer is better at resisting procrastination than me? (I should be polishing off a grant proposal now as I write this, but here I am commenting on HN instead..) Some positions may require an extensive knowledge of who's who and what the trends are in the industry, but I would guess a technical position is not one of them. Not a red flag, in my opinion.