gummadi

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Which Is Worse: Premature Optimization, or Premature Abstraction?(sites.google.com)
1 points by gummadi 11y ago|0 comments
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by gummadi 12y ago
>> Give everyone a long probation period, and allowing them to seek feedback frequently as to how they can influence the decision to hire them on a more permanent basis so that the final decision will not be a surprise binary event. H
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by gummadi 13y ago
Here is a developer's account who worked under Sinofsky during Windows 7 development http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/10/15/engineering-7-...
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by gummadi 13y ago
Facebook for me is just an address book of all my contacts. I never share anything personal there due to the number of privacy settings I need to hop through to make sure I shared with the right people. Path is just a curated set of close f
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by gummadi 13y ago
That's paid over two years and you usually don't get yearly bonus during that time.
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by gummadi 13y ago
I really like books from Manning publications. Their "in action" series are excellent.
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by gummadi 13y ago
If you are using Chrome, Go to dev tools and delete the modal dialog part using "Edit as HTML". You will be able to navigate through the site.
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by gummadi 13y ago
>> Larger companies get away with inefficient recruiting because they can. I would disagree. I interviewed with MS, Google & Amazon multiple times. MS & Amazon are definitely much more organized and very prompt in following up
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by gummadi 13y ago
Great points! A lot of this advice matches with Scott Berkun's "Confessions of a Public Speaker". Excellent actionable advice on public speaking. http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Public-Speaker-English/
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by gummadi 13y ago
" I know people who ask "how can I run more?" and I ask "well, do you enjoy running?" and usually they say they don't. I don't tell them they need to buy different shoes or gadgets to try to coerce them into doing it, I suggest they look at
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by gummadi 14y ago
>> Don't use a 'moving mouse'. Apple magic trackpad is great. Trackballs are great as well. I have used Apple Magic trackpad for almost an year and I started having severe discomfort when I my middle and ring finger are stretched. I
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by gummadi 14y ago
One of my friend always take his personal laptop to the onsite interviews and asks the interviewer permission to type code on his IDE for whiteboard exercises. He didn't have a problem and infact most of them are more than happy to allow hi
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by gummadi 14y ago
Glad that you bought this up. If you have more knowledge regarding this, can you please explain how exactly the posts & nested comments are stored directly using flat files. How are concurrency issues handled?
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by gummadi 14y ago
>> she takes 30 lines to write what should be written in 15 or 20, she introduces bugs that QA has to spend their time on, and she doesn't really grasp the concept of writing code that performs well >> she is a great communi
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by gummadi 14y ago
Apparently they do send a text link. >> A web link is sent as a text message to anyone that does not have the app so they don't miss out. http://hipvite.com/learnmore
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by gummadi 14y ago
How many software systems are even 1% as battle tested as a "CPU"? Even the most well designed software system doesn't have the kind of test coverage of a hardware.
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Guy who said "Steve Jobs wasn’t great; he wasn’t even close" wasn't right(blog.dhruvvemula.com)
4 points by gummadi 15y ago|0 comments