hcatlin
Joined 16 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
Can we get the metric system now?
Comment · 10 years ago
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Except, remember, top company also means experience. If you are at a top company, your second-year CS stuff might be a little rusty.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm sure this happens, yes. But, that's not what's going on here, IMHO.
Asking a person to traverse and modify a linked-list (a very common problem) or to implement a B-tree are not 'tech outside their job'
Most of these interviews are more like math problems than anything a practical developer would encounter.
Shit, if these interviews were "What do you think of node?" or "What is Go's concurrency model?" I think experienced people would do fine.
Comment · 10 years ago
Cool!
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm not really sure what the use cases are for collaboration on this kind of thing or what that means. Are there real-world use cases I'm not thinking of? "Collaboration" is a great buzzword, but what does it have to do with a data store?
Comment · 12 years ago
When I was first releasing Haml, I remember that Ezra piped up and encouraged me. Actually, thanks to the Internets, it's still there https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/UqYlo_N59zo...
Seeing someone as brilliant as Ezra saying he liked my project (Haml was the first thing I ever released) really encouraged me to continue on in OSS development. And, of course, we added iterators to Haml shortly after Ezra suggested it.
Also, Ezra was super helpful when we built m.wikipedia.org using Merb... helping me get everything set up so that we could scale that project to 2 billion pages a month through the three dinky machines I had!
I'm totally surprised and gutted to hear that he's passed. :(
Comment · 12 years ago
If it's "for teams", then users seems like a better option. You wouldn't want to punish usage. Remember, you are creating value and you want to make sure that the user gets as much value as possible... and that's by sharing more often, typically. And, as the user base within a company grows (hopefully), the price should go up. This stuff is always hard to figure out and I don't think most companies are always 100% happy with how they are charging, but if you are a team-based app where you can easily measure by employees using it, then user is probably the clear winner, even with the little information you've given.
Comment · 12 years ago
If they are promoted to CEO, then... yes. Hence why we were building apps for it knowing full-well that he was a homophobic CTO. CEO is a whole other level, and was our personal line.
Comment · 13 years ago
This reads like "I don't like big cities" which is totally fair, but not a general comparison. To each their own. Dirty, loud, expensive: It's a big city! I personally love big cities. I grew up in the suburbs, but have chosen to spend my adult life in Toronto, NYC, London, and SF. I love the kinetic motion, the bars, the rowdiness, the closeness of social classes, the camaraderie of being 'miserable'. I love it!
But, I also see how someone who only moved here for a tech job and to be financially comfortable, who previously lived in a very middle-class suburban area, wouldn't be totally thrilled. Fair enough! Lots of good jobs in lots of decent places.
I do want to throw in one small defense item in the middle of SF hating. I didn't move here because of the tech stuff (which I am a part of) or because of the weather. I moved here for the crazy, wild, weird city that SF is without technology. For the hippies, the dropouts, the drag queens, the commies, the environmentalists, the capitalists, the techies, the artists, ... the great mashup of people that make up SF as a big and wild city.
Before anyone moves to SF, they should read "Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin. If reading that doesn't make you want to immediately move to SF, then you'd probably do better in some other city with a decent tech scene. Or, as another reader pointed out, you'd probably be happier in the Valley if you are looking for a more NC-feel.
PS: the homeless problems being right next to the rich reminds me of the Settlement Movement of the early 20th century. check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_movement
Comment · 13 years ago
Yeah, its run against the WHOLE sass spec!
Also, thanks for the supportive post!