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Comment I hire and do whiteboard interviews. (Score 1) 196

A whiteboard interview is (for me) never about programming or a personality exercise. The section I lead is true full-stack (drivers all the way up to presentation layers), and we own every mission critical piece of tech for one of the biggest consumers of bandwidth in the world. I really just want to see their mind work. I fully understand that 99% of people that I am interviewing are nervous, and that nervous people forget things, or are so worried about looking stupid that they do stupid things. No matter how at ease you try to make someone you can only do so much. I really just want to see how they go about problem solving. Pseudo code is fine, mistakes are OK. If they are very junior I want to see how well they take feedback and incorporate it into their solution. If they are senior I want to see how many novel solutions they can explain to me in a clear manner. Everything else; languages, concepts and standards, me and the team can teach them. My team is full of intelligent folks who excel at team work and learning new skills.

Comment Re:good old fashon spy defection (Score 1) 82

That's only true for Military tactical and strategic secrets. In cases of propaganda and civilian subversion tactics that cannot be effectively blocked, you announce it immediately to minimize their impact. Using the internet to meddle with elections is not something we can block effectively.

Comment Investors think profits are guaranteed (Score 5, Insightful) 171

I work on Wall Street and all of the investors think they are entitled to profits, and that they are guaranteed growth every quarter. The public companies have played into that doing whatever it takes to get their stock to look attractive, and NVIDIA plays this game as ruthlessly as anyone. This is a situation of their own making. The market as a whole is morally bankrupt and needs to be brought under control.

Comment Slack Beacons (Score 5, Informative) 78

Slack Beacons do not follow normal light-speed laws of the universe. The Department of Forbidden Science, who's activities were though to be limited to giving haircuts to bums, has discovered that Slack travels much like Tachyons do. Low energy slack actually travels further than High energy slack and exists at all points along the route simultaneously. The Slack beacon will run on these solid principles of Forbidden Science.

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