kanelbullar

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by kanelbullar 8y ago
Oh sure, their stuff only kinda works -- like the products of a great many tech companies. But at the end of the day -- well enough to have people lining outside the door. And they can't seem to stake out new buildings fast enough to
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
In what non-small part? Their business is built on the deployment of custom (if not particularly sexy) office technology and quite simply could not exist without it. There's also another certain very significant tech company they ou
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
two willing parties Please, this is a very old topic. The way society is currently configured, at some point, for all practical purposes, you are effectively forced to take some kind of job. Or see your life turn into living hell in a
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
WeWork is, in no small part, a tech company.
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Coca-Cola Is Eyeing the Cannabis Market(bloomberg.com)
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
And yet, "does violence to the rule of law" seems quite dubious in both the case referred to in the original article, and in the above-cited context.
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I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them(theguardian.com)
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Amazon’s ‘worker cage’ has been dropped, but its staff are not free(theguardian.com)
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Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs – Growing Up as Steve Jobs’s Daughter(theguardian.com)
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
You may well need to spot a deadlock or a race condition in code. The thing is - if your production system really ends up going haywire and losing $10 million every second or whatever, then then the root cause isn't some race conditi
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
I came up with the wrong answer and told the interviewer that I wasn't sure if that was correct, and to let me know if it was incorrect. He blankly stared at me and said he wouldn't help me. Meaning: presumably he's trying
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
He told me finally "We expect Google engineers to be able to solve problems. What if you were a Google engineer, and you had to solve this problem, what would you do?" At that point - he's talking to you as if he thinks you
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
People who don't think of Comp Sci knowledge as a set of substantive first principles, just as meaningless tokens they need to memorize and regurgitate to get the job -- those are precisely the people who should be weeded out. And ye
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
If you are stressing over an interview, what will you do when you lose $1 million in 10 seconds? Beats me - but the "skills" demonstrated in the interview process you're defending -- "suck up; just keep going online un
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
Over time, almost everyone in the team looked for opportunities to transfer to other teams (and sometimes companies) that looked like they were having more fun. You know, the actual work you have your people do (along with the monetary
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by kanelbullar 8y ago
Interesting, that instinct to Google for the answer is actually one of the 'culture fits' that we look for. Interesting, because many candidates would (rightly and safely) assume that you're asking if they already know th
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Google Pulls YouTube Ad by Putin Critic Alexei Navalny(theguardian.com)
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We Are Not Born Human(nytimes.com)
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