bluebknight

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by bluebknight 6y ago
My experience at Amazon paints a very different picture. There's layers and layers of management. There were 12 people between me and Bezos. Unlike Google, peer feedback is a lot less important at Amazon. Promotions and PIPs are solely
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by bluebknight 6y ago
This is completely wrong. There's no lottery for Canadian PR. There's no fast track for masters. It's entirely points based. Source: I work at Google Canada and submitted my PR application last year.
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by bluebknight 6y ago
We did something similar about 6 years ago. The user gets a chat interface while one of our operators transcribe the conversation both ways. I believe Path Talk did something similar too. I'm curious about how you raised so much money?
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by bluebknight 6y ago
At Google, engineers start committing code in their first week too. That doesn't mean they're fully on-boarded until 6 months in.
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by bluebknight 6y ago
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language. The desire is to have the idea clearly communicated to the other person. It is only necessary to be precise when there is some doubt as to the meaning of a p
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Guy who made his own iPhone brings 3.5mm jack back(youtube.com)
7 points by bluebknight 9y ago|1 comments
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by bluebknight 9y ago
Off topic from parent. But which companies were your competing offers from? I failed to negotiate recently with other offers.
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by bluebknight 9y ago
Too many uninformed people spreading misinformation. There's clear and measurable difference between a software engineering degree and the one you get from a boot camp. It's exactly as strict and rigorous as you'd expect from
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by bluebknight 9y ago
Please stop spreading wrong information. Software engineering is a very real thing. I'm about to finish my BSEng with the iron ring. Unlike computer science, I had to take courses in DSP, ethics, software management and development lif
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by bluebknight 10y ago
Then, these supposedly "good" developers complain how they have a life and a family so they don't have free time for open source.
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by bluebknight 10y ago
I fail to see what someone would gain from doing so. A few lies? Sure... But so many?
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by bluebknight 10y ago
A lot of people bash on Google's interviews and say things like "memorizing algorithms" is easy and how that doesn't signal engineering skills. However, they fail to see that the hiring process obviously works for Google
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by bluebknight 10y ago
> Dockable Phone to PC Microsoft has done this already but thanks to their poor marketing and crappy Windows phones, no one even knows about it.
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by bluebknight 10y ago
It sounds like a great place to work at. Kinda sucks that, they only interview new grads from top schools unlike the other Big 4.
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by bluebknight 10y ago
What I found ironic was, I had to enable flash player to see your Google finance link. I guess Flash is still alive in many places.
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by bluebknight 10y ago
It does sound like he means companies in Canada.
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by bluebknight 10y ago
There's only about 5 companies in Canada that pay about 5k/month. Everything else pays 3k/month.
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by bluebknight 10y ago
Some perf numbers from Google. >LinkedIn is a prominent user. Their entire mobile stack is built on Node.js. They went from running 15 servers with 15 instances on each physical machine, to just 4 instances – that can handle double the t