People have different levels of “nerves” as others, and it kind of sounds like you may filtering out applicants on an arbitrary metric (how nervous a person may be in an interview). Don’t have enough information about your process to say for sure (obviously), but it may be something to think about. Interviews can be very high-stakes for some people (such as “I may become homeless”), and not for others (“my parents are rich”). After hired, it’s not necessarily as high-staked, and toy problems aren’t what SEs work on day-to-day.

If doing an overlay network (network on top of the Internet), you probably won’t be able to do much better than Tor or i2p.

We confirm the trilemma that an AC [anonymous communication] protocol can only achieve two out of the following three properties: strong anonymity (i.e., anonymity up to a negligible chance), low bandwidth overhead, and low latency overhead.

https://freedom.cs.purdue.edu/projects/trilemma.html

This applies to all types of anonymous networks as well (BT, Wifi, etc).

Big butts. I mean the ones featured in “Baby Got Back” were ok. But, today, some people are going crazy with it.

A lot of convenience stores around me don’t even have any prices shown on many items. Drives me crazy, but I guess many people are used to it? Sales tax is usually around 7% in most places I’ve been to, so if I know the price of an item, I know, roughly, what to expect.

People who specialize in one will have more time to go deep into the specific technologies, frameworks, and new developments related to a specific part of the stack. Similar to general practicioners and specialists in the medical field.