90%+ or whatever of the programmers out there are working on in-house code for in-house projects used by in-house people. Stuff that will never ship. So it does not matter how much stuff is logged.
It still matters, if the data being manipulated is about customers. And it almost always is.
Blacks were bred to work in the fields and some of them learned to enjoy it. That doesn't mean it's right.
There's nothing wrong with working in the fields, and lots of people (of all colors) who work farms do enjoy it. Forcing someone to work against their will and without pay, that's not right. But there's nothing at all wrong with farming.
easily $50 per day for touristy east-coast resorts
Wow, that's cheap. Of course, east coast skiing sucks, so I suppose it's reasonable, but still... that's cheap.
Powering the potato gun.
They have a combustion chamber at the rear. You open it up, spray hairspray into it, close it, then twist (or whatever) the sparker to ignite it. The potato chunk which was inserted into the muzzle flies a great distance. Laugh. Repeat.
Cool - show me some code - show me an app you developed. Is it good?
FWIW, Google doesn't really pay attention to what you've done. They pay attention to what you do during the interview.
From the fate of other 'search' companies (some of which were very good), I'd say the board at FAST were correct - and that you're the idiot.
So, you are saying, two competing companies doing about the same thing. One quits the business, the other goes on to be HUGELY successful, and I'm the idiot for calling the quitting company's manegement idiots?
No, he's saying that there were lots of competing companies doing about the same thing. You say one of them (who I'd never even heard of) walked away. Fine. Several others didn't walk away, and instead got trounced. Perhaps FAST could have competed and perhaps not. Apparently they didn't think they could.
You may have missed what I wrote: "Google sells ads, nothing else even comes close on their books."
Not yet. Non-ad revenue has been climbing steadily, growing significantly faster than ad revenue, with the result that advertising's share of Google's revenues -- while still dominant -- is decreasing every year. It's still 90%, but that's down from 94% just two years ago. I expect it to drop to 80% within a couple of years and to be less than 50% in a decade or so, perhaps less. Nearly all of the company's big growth initiatives are in non-advertising businesses. Not that Google doesn't keep pushing the ad revenue numbers upward, and not that they aren't mind-boggling.
someone shows up with a Lit degree but still knows how to code and program
Now you're adding additional qualifications. I've known some excellent programmers who had degrees that weren't in CS or a related field. In that case though their degree is irrelevant. Why not hire people who have on HS diplomas? I've know some excellent people like that too.
I know a couple of Google employees without bachelor's degrees. One has an associate's degree and the other didn't even complete high school. Both are brilliant people and outstanding engineers. Google doesn't really pay attention to credentials in the interview and hiring process. Bock's point wasn't that the CS graduate was more likely to get hired because of what would be written on the diploma, but because the more challenging coursework would be a better preparation.
This presumes, of course, that the CS degree program really is more challenging and requires more critical thinking ability than the English program. I'd generally expect that to be true, but there are counterexamples. My university, for example, had such a weak CS program that the English degree probably was harder.
I should point out, though, that most Google engineers do have BS or MS degrees, along with a substantial leavening of PhDs, and most of them are in CS, math or other engineering fields, but far from all.
What are the chances of pulling four-of-a-kind from a deck of cards in five tries?
It depends on what you mean by "five tries".
Do I shuffle and pull four cards, check to see if they are all the same number, and if not, repeat up to 4 more times? Or, do you mean "what are the chances that you have four-of-a-kind when dealt 5 cards?"
That would be a perfect first response, BTW. Many good interview questions are intentionally vague, precisely to see if the candidate will recognize the ambiguity and ask appropriate questions to clarify it, because that's a critically important skill/habit for the real world.
(I am a Google interviewer.)
My brother owned a draft horse and there was nothing he liked better than pulling. If pulling teams are animal cruelty, then so is playing fetch with your retriever.
Just another anecdote, a friend of mine has sled dogs (~30 dogs, two sleds; he's fairly serious about it) and those dogs clearly love to pull. All you have to do is jingle a harness, or start loading equipment into the trailer used to haul dogs + gear and they go nuts with excitement, crowding over and trying to be first into the traces/trailer. You lay the traces out on the ground and they immediately run to their positions, with some squabbling over who gets to be where, and wait anxiously to be hooked up. The toughest part of getting going in the morning is making them wait until you're ready to go, and then they'll happily run all day long (as long as they get suitable breaks, with food and water). Those who are hurt or otherwise getting a day off are clearly dejected by not getting a chance to get into the traces.
I've known many horses who were almost as excited about their jobs... though I've also known a few who were quite lazy and didn't like to work.
Which is bad, but what is worse is Development feels like a "young persons game". Rarely do I see anyone over 45 (not far off) coming for an interview
Meh. I'm 45, and see no reason to believe I won't be writing code for another 20 years. I work with several guys in their 50s and 60s.
I think most of the apparent dearth of graybeards is just the growth of the industry. If there are an order of magnitude more software jobs than when I started 20 years ago, and if software development is a career that people don't shift into at a later, but start young -- which does appear to be the case -- then we should expect 90% of positions to be filled by people younger than me. If you also factor in a fair amount of attrition from people choosing to shift into other careers, whether into other fields entirely or into sales or management, then you should expect that the number is 5%, or even less.
Source please?
Butamax is a shell company of BP and DuPont. It is suing Gevo to prevent it from selling Butanol fuel based on an obvious patent developed at public university, partly with our tax money.
So, you're telling me someone who can afford to drop $70,000 on a car is going to want to be seen driving it 8 years later?
That depends. Top Gear reports when the cocks have shifted brand, I believe they've moved from BMWs to Audis just in time for me to buy one and remove all doubt. Otherwise, they seem to get rid of their cars (What's a $70k car? S-Class, A8, Jag...) about the same time all the electrical stuff takes a dump. I don't think they're worried about being current, only having the correct brand.
Holy shitballs, batman. Even on an Audi A8 the transmission lines are only four hundred bucks. They only list one part so apparently that's both of them and you buy them together.
On the other hand, the Chevy dealer wouldn't sell me door handles, they wanted to sell me door handle mechanisms. 2000 Astro, a thousand bucks in door handles. I got the handles on eBay for ten to twenty bucks a piece depending on placement. So I guess Chevy really is worse than Audi
With gas cars, you buy them doing calculations about repair cost and resale value that simply do not apply to the situation with electric cars. It's damn unlikely (unless I get in a wreck) that ANY repairs will ever be needed on my Leaf other than the big one
The suspension is pretty much guaranteed to be ripe for a rebuild by or before that time, because they're still not using polyurethane bushings. That's spendy and it's no less (or more) spendy on the Leaf.
The CNC milled guns tend to have parts that go in without smithing. I'll take that over pedigree.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
