And you don't think one of the most popular websites on the Internet with her name on the front page won't show up in a quick Google search?

Problem is that since you've never been through a CS program, you don't know what you're missing, literally.

If you want the best and brightest, you only have to do a few simple things:

1. Be willing to pay them obscene amounts of money. Yes, this means more than the next employer is willing to pay. No matter what folks say, size does matter. Salary is just a way of keeping score.
2. Creative Freedom - don't do endless micromanaging on coding style, and restricting open source from being used.
3. Free energy - ample supply of caffeine and sugary snacks goes a long way
4. Technology Stipend - Good craftsmen understand that they need the best tools to do their jobs. Don't stick them with some random corporate IT-issued desktop with Windows98 on it.
5. Stroke their ego about once a week.

The truly good companies that are able to attact and retain the smartest developers are all good at some combination of the 5 items above.

Except after you get pestered every hour to update your Java runtime, you actually do update it and it breaks compatibility with all existing apps. Other than that, yea WORA is great stuff.

It's only another 20 seconds. You already are forced to sit through 15 minutes of trailers of worthless straight-to-video trash on Blu-Rays nowadays, what's another 20 seconds? </sarc>

So basically the article says GPU rendering is bad, but QuickSync is good enough for prime time.

Duh. QS is made to do a very specific task (encoding/decoding video) and it can do it super fast at decent quality rates. There's always the tradeoff of quality vs. encoding time. With QS, I can rip an entire 50GB Blu-Ray in 12 minutes to a 1080p MKV @ 8000kbps. It takes about 16 hours doing the same task with a normal x264 encoder such as Handbrake even though the quality is a little bit better. Is it worth waiting around 16 hours for me? Nope.

With enough bitrate, anything looks good. The key is to just bump up the bitrate in MediaCoder when using QuickSync for encoding to something very high.

The problem is that file storage is so dad-gum expensive these days. 15cents a gb at Amazon makes it $150 per month for a terabyte of storage. You're better off buying the 1TB drives yourself and rotating it to an employee's house every night. Sure there are some cheaper alternatives (nimbus.io) but even at 6cents a GB with Nimbus, you're still better off buying the external drives yourself.

Or they'll just get extradited and hauled before a U.S. court on charges of distribution of copyrighted material. And let's hope their domain name isn't registered with GoDaddy...

Intel still has the advantage of QuickSync for super fast decoding/encoding/transcoding. Besides gaming, the most CPU intensive applications is probably centered around mobile media. E.g., transcoding that blu-ray you got from Redbox so you can watch it on your iPad. Sure the quality isn't great, but AMD has no answer for it in the near future. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,2833-5.html

Your math is wrong. It's $12.60 per month. 350W * 8 hours = 2800 watt-hours, or 2.8KWh. At 15 cents per KWh, its 42 cents per day, or $12.60 every 30 days.