mkaufman

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by mkaufman 5y ago
Author doesn't give Ballmer enough credit. Ballmer built out Microsoft's enterprise business - primarily SQL Server, Exchange. Not only did this give Microsoft deep in-roads into enterprises (as author notes), but it gave micros
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by mkaufman 5y ago
1. Find a job on a team with good, experienced people trying to do something hard/ambitious. Learn from the experience. 2. Read other people's code. Reading others' code is a skill. Reading code is the best way to learn wh
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by mkaufman 5y ago
state_less sounds like a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever.
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by mkaufman 5y ago
you do you.
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by mkaufman 5y ago
Got to agree with @arsitofun. Time is your most valuable asset - if you're not energized by "selling" or "learning how to sell", then hire someone who is.
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by mkaufman 5y ago
I know this from looking at some Amazon job postings where they looking for ppl w/ chromium experience.
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by mkaufman 5y ago
There's a team at amazon (I want to say part of their worklink product?) doing cloud-based rendering and then streaming it back to clients. I believe they're focused on solving security problems though, not performance. Perf marke
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by mkaufman 9y ago
> Would you be interested in hiring new grads? Those are rough characteristics we think we'd see in successful candidates. Happy to make exceptions for the "right person", but it's hard to say w/out seeing a resu
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by mkaufman 9y ago
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