>"We should hire mid-tier developers based on code review, typically based on open-source code."
While I agree with sentiment this is not always possible. Company I work for, strongly "discourages" to sharing any code outside organization and also open source contributions.
Its not hard and fast requirement but recommendation to avoid code leak and sort of saying we might re-consider your job in passive language.
I know tons of companies right in SF who have "ultimate secrecy" for coding and also what they can contribute to open source.
There is no possible one solution for this problem.
This is so true. In 2010, I worked on Mainframe. Yes , 2010 and yes on Mainframe. It was project interfacing modern data services with mainframe. I had to learn COBOL and z/OS architecture on how to do it.
I graduated in 2007. When I talk with people of my age , they are so surprised that mainframes are still around and I worked on Mainframe.
Many people don't know that large percentage of financial , insurance transaction still happen on mainframe.
Remember you purchased policy last time or made changes or swiped your credit card ? Guess what , Mainframe was monster involved in processing. Now that was also programming.
So yes , regarding argument at hand , I think programming may not "necessarily" involve math ( as taught in school , college --FFT, DFT, DE, Matrix etc. ) always , math is integral ( sometime hidden ) component of programming.
Disagree. Uber is just another taxi service with availability of smart phone. There are many other services which allow you order taxi with smartphone.
DUI has nothing to do with using Uber or not. One may get ass-drunk and still don't get caught and others might be one or two ml above limit to have DUI.
Correlation is very hard to prove that says drunk people are likely to order Uber and there by reducing DUI. How many other drunk people ordered taxi service or how many people drove themselves while being drunk ? Where is this data ?
Most bars/clubs always have taxis ( at least 2 ) or in close proximity. They wait there in case someone get blackout drunk or fight breaks out then patrons throw them out.
Can we get following information from founder or does anyone know ?
1. When perfectaudience was started ?
2. How much revenue it had at the time of selling ?
3. What was rough ( though not exact ) percentage of company holding by owners at the time of selling ?
4. What software technologies they used for this platform ?
I am kinda newbie in search technology field. Can someone please explain what is difference between haystack, elastic search to me ?
How does this compare to search engines like google , yahoo and others from application prospective ?
Where to use haystack, elastic search and where not ?
> Because the US is a sovereign state, which means they have jurisdiction over whatever they choose to have jurisdiction over, subject to constraints forcibly imposed by outside parties.
I am afraid this is not correct. A sovereign state has jurisdiction over physically defined borders ( boundaries) of the state. Thus, US can not claim its jurisdiction over India because US is sovereign state. In case o Credit Suisse , since they are doing business in US , US does have jurisdiction on CS US entity. I believe though, US has no jurisdiction of other parts of CS that don't exist in US.
totally agree. I have been researching on this topic for a while. In my opinion instant search makes killer. Any search term that is rising higher , making it appear in instant search just make it nuts and goes on breakout.
I think google need to apply weight on content relevancy and not apply same rule to big and small guys.
Just an FYI : Don't click finish button at the end. This is very sneaky technique to gauge personal information about you. Though it is not asking your name it will calculate fingerprint / signature of your info ( based on IP + traffic analysis + many other techniques ).
If you look at the form after you calculate personal information worth, that data is transmitted to "http://emailthis.t.ft.com/form"
I don't want to say FT are bad guys but its good practice not to share any information that would give chance to uniquely identify you.
This is how profiling and targeting works ( source : I work for one of the two largest data broker )
While working for my previous employer I always ended up working more hours when I worked from home. I just don't know why ? In office, I at least get up for lunch, coffee but when worked from home I developed habit of working while having lunch and not putting away laptop.
I guess it requires a lot of discipline to work from home and manage yourself as if its actual office.
The company I work is around for 40+ years now. There are some folks as "Programmer Analyst", "Software Engineer", "Sr. Engineer" for 20+ years now.
I have asked many of them why you didn't move up the ladder and report to someone junior ( or H1B in his early 30's). Most of the time answer I got it, they love what they do. They love having opportunity to program , provide logical + thoughtful solutions.
Of course, when new management comes in and there are times to make decision to layoff, these people become victim due to range of salary they have reached, age, skillset. This is very unfortunate but true.
I would not completely write off what author is saying but I believe it depends on individual prospective. Of course, money is important factor but if you are getting a job 8 am to 5pm + raising your family/kids comfortably + spending time with family and yet have good balance when you retire then being programmer is quite good deal actually.
Honest question: Who gets the settlement ? Anyone who worked for defendants between certain years ? How do they determine 60K employees ? What if someone has left the industry altogether or in an unfortunate case, is no more ?
Can someone shed light on this area ?
Larry is truly amazing and no question about that. To me though, this comes as less surprise. His contributions can certainly be attributed to few not so well known facts.
1. Highly educated parents. His father has Ph.D. and is considered pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence ( source : wikipedia)
2. Mother : Comp. Science professor
3. His brother Carl Page Jr. sold company called eGroups to Yahoo!.
So when you consider all this facts together, with kind of upbringing he had it less surprise that he followed the suit and created search engine. I bet this sort of environment must have played crucial role when he went for VC capital.
If you have read crossing the chasm it talks about how a company with few hundered people can go mainstream. Larry leveraged all his background, upbringing and knowledge he had to create one of great software product.
This post deserves more upvotes. You are right on spot , Sir.
I earn moderate income and nothing from Airbnb but if we are really talking about shortening income gap there has to be check at some level. Right now, with AirBnB model , there is no way to guarantee that this actually helps needy than those who own more than one house/apartment homes. There are chances of ( or infact already happening ?) system abuse where people buy houses solely to list it on Airbnb. I would wholeheartedly expect cities to chip in at this point and make adjustment to tax code to heavily tax those , who solely buy to list houses on Airbnb.
While I agree with sentiment this is not always possible. Company I work for, strongly "discourages" to sharing any code outside organization and also open source contributions.
Its not hard and fast requirement but recommendation to avoid code leak and sort of saying we might re-consider your job in passive language.
I know tons of companies right in SF who have "ultimate secrecy" for coding and also what they can contribute to open source.
There is no possible one solution for this problem.