There is no need for me to live in a city. I work from home and telecommute. I travel to a city that is 45 minutes away for pleasure. He was 100% on from my perspective.
Code reviews are normally done after the developer has spent some time on the code. That is fine that it takes 20 second to determine the code is totally worthless, but the developer has already wasted DAYS of effort.
I was surprised at how CS Theory oriented they are in hiring. My technical interview went like a CS final exam. I don't expect that I will apply to Google again. If I was interested in CS Theory I would have got a masters in CS. They have to weed people out somehow though.
I also was rejected after 'failing' a technical interview. What was annoying to me is that I told the recruiter that I am rusty on my CS theory. I wish he has just said; "We are only interested in people that could do very well on a senior CS final exam right now"
I doubt that college students are going to be upset by an open source project 'Destroying Wealth'. Why would anyone other than RIM share holders care if RIM is loosing market share to Android?
You really expect every one of your contacts to let you know before the buy an Android cell phone, or sign up for gmail or call you on google voice? What if one of your contacts doesn't trust ANY company other than Google? Using your logic, you shouldn't contact them on anything other than Google services.
You are confusing trust with the right to have an address book. if you give me your phone number I can save that number in my Verizon cell phone, then when I switch to ATT I can move the number to my ATT cell phone. That IS a black and white issue.
Because I demand the right to move phone numbers to my new phone, does not mean that I demand the right to sell your phone number to telemarketers or send your phone number to sex offenders. Doing things like that would make me a shitty friend. And being a shitty friend is totally unrelated to what websites/phones I store contact information on
Mark is NOT a role model. Millions of people get duped into sharing information they think will remain private every day. He has screwed over a lot of people in the process.
'Idea people' that hire 'tech people' don't get it. Lots of people have ideas for companies. The twins were not the first people to think of creating a friendster for colleges. They don't get to own 50% of another company because their company was delayed by a few months.
They live in a world where Mark was just an employee that stole their idea and started another company. If only he stayed on as their employee they would own facebook. They don't understand that you can't have it both ways. You can't have a badass employee that understands your business and gets a lot done, and at the same time expect that employee to happily do most of the work while you supervise and make the profits. If Mark was the kind of person who just wanted to code and get a paycheck he wouldn't have even been doing a side project. He would have got decent grades at harvard and then easily got a 100k+ coding job at a big company working 30 hours a week