It's an answer to the thread about Mark Zuckerberg still writing code, where TechCrunch asked if Bill Gates still coded 5 years after Microsoft was founded. That's why it was (re)posted.
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Much better to set a temporary Crawl-Delay directive. Otherwise you're not just telling the engines to pause crawling you, you're telling them "take all of my pages out of your index."
I think of perl as a replacement for C. We're using it as a system language, doing things like running epoll event loops, sending/receiving udp packets, mmapping files, etc.
IMO perl, python and ruby are all great choices for a project. Perl seems to be unfashionable these days, but we picked it because it came out the fastest on the benchmarks for what we're doing, and being the oldest is has some of the deepest library support through CPAN. The pragmatic-vs-idealistic attitude of the community is also a plus for us.
But yeah, it's a hack.
The area around his apartment is walking distance to a great complex with a ton of pan-asian restaurants... pho, korean, huge chinese grocery store, malaysian, chinese.
Even more so for a senior guy like that. He's leaving one hot company to go work at another - he can talk about the great opportunity at Twitter. He doesn't need to gripe about the job he's leaving.
His post spawned a bunch of mildly unfavorable press, which is currently #1 on Techmeme. Bad form.
Coming across material like that when researching someone for a job would probably be a no-hire flag for me - and many others. I'm sure he's a great designer, but does a post like that expand or limit the number of future gigs he might get? You could say "he wouldn't want to work at places like that anyway", but I'd rather have that decision left to me rather than a lack of response when I'm looking for work.
Offering this in the spirit of advice. I've been hiring people in the valley for 10+ years. I used dejanews to screen applicants prior to google... today yes we will read your tweets, find your blog, and skim it all to get a sense of who you are. Be thoughtful about what you post.
I think programmers hate terms like 'cloud' because they're fuzzy, ambiguous and inspecific. Marketers like them for the same reasons. :)
Some of the stuff we find, like 1-in-80M core dumps are to be expected because they're so rare and most folks don't have that much test data. But many others could be found by simply running a parser against a few hundred random urls from the dmoz rdf. I wish more lib developers would do this.
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Clearly they have titles. Perhaps the vagueness of the article is actually indicative of it not being very accurate or telling the whole story.
OTOH, users always bitch about change.
As others have pointed out, Valleywag doesn't have a monopoly on linkbait titles and thin follow-through.
The YC folks here in the sfbay are supposedly all together in a building in Sunnyvale. They commune there daily and share wisdom. Can you ask, here, if one of those companies will host your visit and invite you in to chat?
This is just 1-2 hours of everyone's time, but will make all the difference. Besides, maybe one of them wants to hire you. :)
Use Linkedin, Facebook, friends-of-friends, help-me posts on wherever... get meetings.
Say "I'm an entrepreneur from xxx and I'll be visiting the bay area on xxx. I'd like to meet with interesting valley technologists and businesspeople. If you could spare a few minutes of your time, I'd love to chat, get coffee, or have lunch. Thanks!"
[alter as necessary for audience, indirection, etc.]
Looking at one-story office parks is boring. Go inside and talk to the right people.
that will give you 1000 concurrent connections, 100k total connections.
good luck.
Also remember that anyone at that level is completely insane.
Sun has, in fact, destroyed every acquisition they've ever gotten their paws on. That list he links to only goes back to 2002. The full set is a dizzying tower of failure.
If you get a 3% raise at a big software company, that's usually a sign you're not doing very well and might want to think about leaving. A healthy raise should be in the 6-12% category. Your top co-workers are getting raises like that. Compounded yearly, it adds up.
Not to mention the component of negotation that comes into play. You'll have similar employees making $60k next to ones making $90 or $120. Not necessarily all skill driven.
Worry about saving a little out of each paycheck and getting good returns in the stock market? You're better off doing well at work and getting a healthier raise.
Pick a good place to work. If you care enough about your career to spend time on ycombinator, but you're working in the back office of a healthcare company, you should seriously think about upleveling your employer. Remember, you can always fire your boss. Find a place to work where the software talent is the main thing. Not back office support. Not consulting. A place where software drives the business from the revenue side, rather than being a cost center.