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Agreed on all points.

actually PG said it at the event, but to prob only a few people. It wasn't communicated well. Even though a simple e-mail, before hand could of explained everything.

Though I think they should have a special color sticker, for MBA's without programming/design skills, Managing Consultants and general Harvard douche-bags who think they are the smartest person in room.

From ArsTechnica,

"Amazon has also added a few unique twists of its own that will further improve the user experience. An Amazon engineer at the New York launch event told us that the split browsing infrastructure can even compile JavaScript to ARM machine code on the server side in situations where it will provide a speed boost. He also told us that Amazon will track whether users prefer the full or mobile versions of various websites so that they can predict which one is better to send to users."

We don't have much information on Amazon Silk. It be interesting to know how it works in depth and how web apps will be affected.

PG was correct on everything he said about NYC. When I first heard him speak at the event, I thought he was going to talk fluff about how great NYC was, but he was honest. Every point he made was true.

Haters gonna hate.

It was inspiring. I really didn't hear anything new. But it was great to finally see PG and some of the other partners.

I would recommend going to one of these if it your first time. However, if you have attended, you should be heads down creating something, inStead of just going to another start up event.

the only thing I didn't like, is people interviewing you and then walking away without telling you anything.

one guy told me "I am from Harvard". Lol

It pretty much is a digital scrapbook. I think allot of FB users will like it. I personally don't see a need for it though.

However I can see the people who currently use scrapbooks and are on fb, really use it on fb.

As a business decision, I think it's a good one. It will keep some of their customers engaged. I am curious to which demographic will really like the feature.

I am banking that fb thinks that the "popular" users will really use it. By "popular" I mean user(s) in any fb graph, that have the most profile views from other users in that same graph. The users that in a fb graph, people want to keep up with the most.

Those users I think don't necessarily have to be early adopters. They are just popular.

FB as business to grow just has

1.) Maintain Users 2.) Have Current Users use the site more and create more content on it

That is probably why we are seeing more and more features to keep users engaged.

Why did you guys go with clojure, instead of something maybe like scala?

You should highlight, recent college graduates. If someone does get hired to your firm, I hope the "real world" problems are just as interesting.

I actually like those type of algorithmic problems you highlighted. I am not sure, what it measures other than the recent graduate knew his/her data structures and read their MIT Algorithms books really well. Very few jobs do require knowing that fundamentals that in depth. Are we writing a Kernel, or a file system? Are we writing a new type of java collection.

The type of real world problems that in the class of the 2 problem solving problems you mentioned seem far in few, unless you writing something new, that really needs to be optimized in some way.

I think this is a real problem with computer science schools. It great to teach the absolute bare essentials. But I think schools should also teach some modern programming and not leave it on the kids to learn on there own.

College grads that know modern frameworks, Node, ROR, they know javascript and ruby really well. They have written some nice web apps. Those are the ones with the best job perspective. They have proven they can do the work.

I can understand if you were interviewing for the core google search team. Their optimization's make the company money.

Remember what Knuth said about optimization.

What type of candidate are you looking for? Obviously recent graduates will not have that much coding experience and reading comprehension.

Are you looking for someone to write new libraries from scratch? Who can implement new algorithms and data structures from nothing. Someone who can write new protocols and publish it to the team?

Are you looking for someone who can read your code base? Just fix bugs?

This one problem I keep seeing, many software companies don't know what to look for. Everyone wants that "smart and gets things done", but do you what things need to be done?