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We also do pre-commit reviews for the important stuff, especially things related to privacy and anonymity. We know when to do them pre-commit or post (which is the norm).

Quora has taken code quality very seriously. And yes, it was setup for CD pretty much near the beginning.

commit 9bcf5be94a6ce3efac5fda8de342a476af52d231 Author: Adam D'Angelo <dangelo@ugcs.caltech.edu> Date: Tue May 19 15:28:20 2009 -0700

    autotest work

commit 9da3069015ec3b2821f9825eb100a62dcedf70f3 Author: Adam D'Angelo <dangelo@ugcs.caltech.edu> Date: Tue May 19 14:04:43 2009 -0700

    add after_git_update.py

Sorry to hear that. What would appeal to you? This is just a single post. Maybe you'd like to come by :)

Not everyone eats together everyday. And no one will be considered outcast if so. There are many ways we interact on a day to day basis besides meal times, and we're all in the same room.

Folks also bring their own food sometimes. I'm sure something can be worked out for you too if you have special dietary needs and what we have isn't appropriate.

It was sponsored. I have my own too at home. Others use other keyboards. Whatever makes you productive.

Press release here: http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/...

What happens when the 500k quota is exceeded? What is the pro-rated price per point based on? ($150/500K) per point?

I would recommend using gel pens (vs. ballpoint). These let you write on paper with a lot less effort compared to ballpoint, allowing you to write faster and without getting tired as quickly. If you don't already do so, you should write smaller (~15 words per line) and with very finetip pens, so you can cover more words in the same amount of time.

In high school, these were my favorite pens: http://www.jetpens.com/product_info.php/products_id/82

What about before Etherpad? I'm curious to know.. :)

Maybe if he didn't spend that much time on all the other 23, he would have aced Chemistry. :) I'm sure he'll do well once he focuses only on medicine.

Interesting story for sure, but I don't see anything wrong with it on several levels (seems implied, but I may be wrong).

1) It was an acquisition. Didn't Google also have C# when they acquired Writely? Don't think it was advertised much either.

2) Python is a language. Eventually that get's compiled down to probably native C instructions at that time, right? Probably not like it was an open-source module distributed in violation of a license?

What I like though was how the author and Microsoft did to "get it shipped."

It's still my idea! But I think I'll prefer credit cards as cell phones.

(i.e. cards with e-ink and touch sensors and micro-antennae that can still function as phones) :)

Have you tried Windows 7? You might want to, I was really pleasantly surprised.

Yeah, I thought about completely facing the door, but mainly because I don't like people staring at my screen when they walk past. However, I can also imagine getting extremely distracted by people walking past all the time. There are people who sit at a 45 degree angle from facing the door, but I feel that with that I would be both distracted and have my screen looked at by passerbys.

But he _did_ have the Rockies outside, I can imagine why it happened... :)

Yeah, the multiplayer aspect was cool though. Pre-counterstrike, it was awesome!

It says "Available from VARs worldwide for under $10,000" in here http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_computing.html

Now I know how it felt like in the '80s when people were looking at the mainframes/desktops of the time and wondering... can I afford this $10K machine? :)

Not going to argue either way (I do like both Java and C#, choosing one over the other depending on what I want/need to do)... but don't you think most enterprise languages mature over time too?

Java seems to be no exception: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history

If you've taken part before, you will realize that the goal of CPC was never to hire the winners. There are puzzlers at Microsoft, and people who like solving puzzles at schools, and the event brought such people together. It's really meant to be a day of fun, doing something intellectually challenging, that gosh isn't like your all the homework you have due the next week.

As quoted from their FAQ, "While this is not quite a recruiting event, we will be accepting résumés, so feel free to bring one along! And of course, we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have about working at Microsoft." I also vaguely remember a previous version of their website crediting the fact they the CPC was inspired by the MIT Mystery Hunt.

The technical interviews that they conduct on campus and on site are wildly different. In fact, from my recruiting experience, it was more the finance companies that had brainteasers for interview questions.

on this thread, i'm not so sure about that :) never knew you lurked here.

somehow I think I know you ;)

I agree with the reasoning. However, more from a hacker's point of view, wouldn't you rather hide the implementation details of your email system you use behind something that you know will stand the test of time?

For example, if gmail were to no longer be the preferred email address system of techies (because they start charging, they are no longer reliable, or as seen more recently, you get totally locked out with no way of getting real support, etc), you would have to struggle with letting the word out about your new email address, or something.

With your own email address, you would have the flexibility to switch out to a different mail provider with your domain's MX records. You also can print business cards without worrying about reprints and the like. :)

Anyway, I don't necessarily think bigger customers will think you're bigger just because you own a @stormpulse.com email address.

Why don't you get your own email address @stormpulse.com instead of gmail?

Sell it to tipjoy :)

I did think of that, but I realized that there wasn't too much additional value because map-reduce can be run cheaply enough on Hadoop clusters via EC2. I wonder if there are other ideas that this would open up.

Indeed, but I'm being realistic here. This isn't just a hypothetical "wouldn't it be nice if...".