ikailan

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by ikailan 10y ago
I drank 2-3 Rockstars a day for a few months back in 2007. I knew they were probably not great for me. They made me shake. I just didn't think about it. I also couldn't stop drinking them, because I didn't get much sleep at n
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by ikailan 11y ago
One thing that isn't mentioned is that the "friction" in selecting your friends is actually a positive. Instead of someone just shouting out to the world, my friend actually picked my name to receive some post. Not to menti
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by ikailan 11y ago
We also used it a decent amount externally when we did certain kinds of live Q&A Hangouts like developer platform office hours.
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by ikailan 13y ago
I think you misread his paragraph. He was proud of the business the day in its state that day he walked into the accelerator (and presumably for some time before), not BECAUSE he walked into the accelerator.
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by ikailan 13y ago
Agree with your comment. I wonder if this is what non-programmers think the advantages of understanding programming are? Looks like the author has never actually held a real programming job ( http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kirk-mcdonald/0/4/82
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by ikailan 13y ago
Anecdote alert. I have a wannabe tiger mom. Unfortunately, she had to work full time+++, so full on tiger-ness could not manifest. Just as children of many non-tiger moms DON'T learn decision making and time management skills: some do, and
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What makes Google such a great place to work?(gellmannamnesia.blogspot.com)
1 points by ikailan 13y ago|0 comments
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by ikailan 13y ago
I went to GDC in 2011. I remember that there was a country trying to talk game companies into opening a branch in their country. It was Germany, I believe. They had a beauty pageant contestant dressed in full garb at their booth. It made ab
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by ikailan 14y ago
No, not at all. Serving meals makes it much easier to convince your team to go to lunch together (though many folks will eat at their desks, PLEASE DISCOURAGE THIS). Lunching together with your team frequently is the single best benefit of
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by ikailan 14y ago
Anyone that has worked in the Valley that knows ex-Yahoos have heard crazy, crazy stories of what it was like. I remember hearing a story about an employee who worked there who wanted to quit to do a startup. Her manager panicked, saying, "
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by ikailan 14y ago
Learn what you want to learn, because your tools will change. Many Ruby programmers came to Ruby because of Rails. I'm part of the camp that stuck around because of JRuby for a while, but nowadays I find that I write very little Ruby and a
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by ikailan 14y ago
It's been a while, but there was a lot of use of Groovy on Grails a few years ago for exactly this reason. I was a strong advocate of JRuby when we did run Ruby code, but it didn't get very far.
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by ikailan 14y ago
It was only the mobile API server. Shameless self promotion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4615429
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by ikailan 14y ago
LinkedIn isn't constrained to the JVM, as they had some apps running on CRuby 1.8 and node.js, but they do heavily favor the JVM. JVM interop DOES help with much of their existing codebase which is Java heavy.
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Goodbye Google, Hello Harbor Labs(drshiblon.blogspot.com)
2 points by ikailan 14y ago|0 comments
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by ikailan 14y ago
They remodel the offices pretty frequently. Sometimes ... too often, I think.
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by ikailan 14y ago
The answer is yes. There are lots of non code related things that are done from work pods: reading a design doc, joining a video conference, planning work travel, performance reviews, and so forth (uh ... reading HN on a break). The common
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by ikailan 14y ago
Second example: The Golden State Warriors. Go Dubs!
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by ikailan 14y ago
Worked with John briefly when he was with analytics. Great energy and I wish him the best (bummed he is leaving, though)! He's dead on about how much Google invests in their employees. The value of the things I have learned and am still con
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by ikailan 14y ago
I think this is only for new customers, not existing ones.
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by ikailan 14y ago
There's space for both. Coding skills are a single dimension, and should never be the sole attribute for hiring good developers. It's about time management, project management, people management. I want to see your code, but I also want to
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by ikailan 14y ago
s/recruiters/spammer recruiters
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by ikailan 14y ago
I'm no fan of recruiters myself, but using ONLY GitHub can be short sighted. Not everyone contributes to open source. GitHub has yet to launch products for recruiters. Honestly ... that is a really tough space, and the top guys at GitHub ne
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by ikailan 14y ago
There's no such thing as no maintenance cost. Everything has a maintenance cost. Make sure unused code doesn't break takes time and resources. Breaking code makes your product look unprofessional.
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by ikailan 14y ago
I don't think this is what's happening. If I had to guess, they are slowly deprecating the OpenSocial based InApps platform piece (launched in 2008 - http://socialtimes.com/linkedin-inapps-year-end-review-2008_... ) by piece. This happened
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by ikailan 14y ago
This reminds me of an older article from the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113236377590902105.html Note that Monta Vista doesn't have an entrance exam - parents of students that work hard want to be around students that work at the
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by ikailan 14y ago
This article is wrong. Here's why: http://ikaisays.com/2012/10/09/why-the-real-reason-silicon-v...
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Why “The Real Reason Silicon Valley Coders Write Bad Software” is wrong(ikaisays.com)
3 points by ikailan 14y ago|0 comments
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by ikailan 14y ago
Hey Michael! Was there a recent discussion? I'm fairly certain everyone has moved on from Rails, and I'm not sure if they're still using it anywhere at LinkedIn. There are a few folks using JRuby, but I believe they're using Sinatra: https
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by ikailan 14y ago
Hah, I bet all the new engineers were like, SWEET! I get a system with 36 gigs of RAM! Then their hearts sank when they realized why .

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