rachelbythebay

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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
A staff engineer could just be someone who's one level above senior. Someone like that in Mountain View probably makes around $200K/year.
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
There are two kinds of APIs: the ones which are deprecated and the ones which don't exist or work yet.
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
It's not just a technical interview. It's also a "should we hire this person", and in that case, the answer is no.
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
Years ago, Googlebot would send If-Modified-Since headers, and Apache would honor them. I ran into this by chance when writing a wrapper to obfuscate e-mail addresses in mailing list archives. I didn't change the URL but had it served by a
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
Implications? Maybe he'll make a Google Profile social network before Google does.
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
Your kind is more common than some might think. "Hi, this is $obvious_female_name calling from $company for $candidate, please?" "Oh, I thought this would be a technical interview." Result? Instant 1.0 score, which basically means that if
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
They might also have problems keeping the "BASF" people that somehow managed to get in anyway. If hiring is job 1, retention probably should be job 0. (BTW, your internal epitaph was posted as requested. Hope things are well with you...)
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
This article also has a number of jabs at Google and basically says it failed to "appreciate the value such people can bring". She left in 2008. It's 2011, and time has not been kind to less-traditional engineering folks.
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
Not all of them were fake. Some of them were spam traps which never appeared anywhere else. Some of those spam traps were also coded so you could track down when they were served to connect the spiders to the spewers. At least, that's the
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
The lawyercats seem to be quite successful in keeping people from experimenting on their own time. That plus the nebulous list of product areas which might be "tainted" somehow makes it dangerous to guess. Worse still, if you go and ask if
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by rachelbythebay 15y ago
Bash? No. Try to fix? Absolutely. Ever watch a friend slowly slip away? They change from something you knew to something unrecognizable. You have to at least try to do something about it.
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by rachelbythebay 16y ago
How about if you can set a time and date at which point everything will be released? The site could show that to all visitors, so it would be obvious that you should get in before that.
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by rachelbythebay 16y ago
This turns my laptop into a space heater. Nice, but not the sort of thing I'd want to run for extended periods of time.
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by rachelbythebay 16y ago
Andale is gone, sorry to say. It's different, that's for sure. Different isn't necessarily equal to better, though.