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by yannickt 15y ago
Joining an ambitious and brand new project at a large company can offer the best of both worlds. E.g. first generation Xbox, Kindle, Instant Video, etc.
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by yannickt 15y ago
I agree with you, however most posts I have seen bashing C++ for its complexity do it from the perspective of the systems programmer as well. So it is nice to see someone showing how C++ can be superior.
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by yannickt 15y ago
I find the article to be vastly more informative than most of Linus' posts about C++, which usually read more like rants than well informed criticism. He does not characterize Linus as a "C-hacker", Linus does that himself by posting an o
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by yannickt 16y ago
Cringely's article, as well as Allen's accomplishments outside of Microsoft make that questionable. Gates may have had more business savvy, but it seems pretty evident that Allen was in no shortage of it either. To put it another way, I don
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by yannickt 16y ago
I dunno. It looks like Allen's contributions as a co-founder back in the DOS days were very significant. I think he deserved at least a face-to-face, open and honest discussion.
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by yannickt 16y ago
You can actually learn a lot from a candidate's past projects if you know how to follow up with the right questions. Someone who had a negative net contribution on a project will not have anything interesting to say about the data structure
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by yannickt 16y ago
It is exactly the kind of response I would expect from someone in his position. He has nothing to gain by reacting overly negatively, and his legacy is not exactly at stake.
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by yannickt 16y ago
My interpretation of the article is that Allen felt betrayed because Gates and Ballmer were having these discussions behind his back .
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by yannickt 16y ago
Cringely wrote a piece in 2006 about Allen progressively distancing himself from Gates, Ballmer and Microsoft. It certainly raises questions about Gates' character. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20060330_0008... Edit: Bea
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by yannickt 16y ago
Code written by true programming motherfuckers is self-documenting, motherfucker.
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by yannickt 16y ago
I salute you. Good luck!
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by yannickt 16y ago
Unqualified people applying is not a problem. The real problem is your application filter. For example, ask every applicant to include a certain character string (maybe the solution to a trivial assignment) in the body of their cover letter
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by yannickt 16y ago
Actually most of the guide relate to good programming practices, and not just stylistic preferences. Also, I would argue that taking offense at style guidelines (which bring a lot of benefits, especially at a big software company like Googl
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by yannickt 16y ago
Things like move semantics and r-value references in C++1x will make them much tougher to beat. And for the most part they're not particularly hard to understand either. The standard library in particular, despite being a generalized librar
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by yannickt 16y ago
The STL is not a third party library anymore and most of it has been part of the standard for several years now. I would be curious to know what problems did you have with the STL, and how long ago? In my experience most people who refused
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by yannickt 16y ago
It is no more likely in a non-regular job. In fact, it might be even less likely.
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by yannickt 16y ago
Recessions are built over a relatively long period of time (at least longer than your average engineer stays at one job). So by the time a recession hits, a good engineer at a large company should have accomplished something of significance
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by yannickt 16y ago
It won't do them any good if they don't have people in house who "get it". Look what happened with the Kin after they acquired Danger. Edit: another thing, the top dogs in this space (Google and the staggeringly efficient Apple) have a lot
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by yannickt 16y ago
"In order for Schmidt to go to Microsoft, Ballmer would have to be forced out" Not only that, but Schmidt would also have to win the confidence of Microsoft veterans, some of whom have been rumoured to have CEO ambitions (e.g. Sinofsky). De
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by yannickt 16y ago
Woz would be terrible as a CEO.
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by yannickt 16y ago
Another great book is "All About Asset Allocation" by Richard Ferri.
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by yannickt 16y ago
"crappy returns the S&P has over the past 10 years" The returns were only crappy for those who invested a lump sum at the peak in 2000 and never reinvested dividends.
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by yannickt 16y ago
Asset allocation matters. Investors who took the time to develop a plan, figure out an asset allocation that matches their risk tolerance, and actually rebalanced periodically to adjust their portfolio back to their allocation target, proba
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by yannickt 16y ago
"and LinkedIn is toast" I doubt that. I think people who take career networking seriously tend to keep their personal and professional lives separate.
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by yannickt 16y ago
I don't think the suggestions are superficial. A company does not need to follow every single one of these tips in order to increase their applicant signal/noise ratio. Many companies would achieve this goal if they simply refused to "loo
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by yannickt 16y ago
People often stay to build up their fuck you fund, and to prepare their exit. Finding the right job can be a long process. And even when you find it, taking it is not necessarily the right decision. If you're married and you have kids, for
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by yannickt 16y ago
I really hate not being kept in the loop, and then getting blamed when things "break".
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by yannickt 16y ago
I would say that Wall Street is probably more appealing to experienced professionals than it is to recent grads. People have goals (e.g. comfortable retirement) and very real needs (paying the house, providing for family, etc.) that take mo
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by yannickt 16y ago
Having everyone on site is almost essential for an early stage startup, but the more established the business the less frequent the dynamic you describe, imo. I think many companies would benefit from hiring a few remote workers. It is one
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by yannickt 16y ago
Vogels joined Amazon in 2004.

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