I don't think this guy understands much about how corporate networking works. If he's a developer, I suppose he doesn't need to, but maybe he could check into details before writing:
"isn't it worthwhile for Facebook recruiting to prepare for such a case, and make the interviewer able to switch to a different Facebook IP range, to give Skype routing a second chance?"
Yeah, um, I don't know of *any* company that would set up their HR staff for such a scenario. And this interviewee doesn't seem to understand how Internet routing works. Assuming the particular Facebook HR office is BGP multi-homed, the Facebook NetOps staff would have to determine what IP address the interviewee is connecting with and then modify BGP local-preference for that AS number to use a different ISP outbound. Or, have two networks with different outbound ISPs available at every desk with staff trained to switch between them.
It would be utterly ludicrous to do something like this for an interview.
What's surprising is they didn't try another option like Google Hangouts. Perhaps as a Facebook competitor, it isn't an option. Did the interviewee not have a speakerphone? He mentions being unable to both type and talk... I think they solved that problem in the 1980's.
I don't know about the Linux hobbyists out there, but I've seen time and time again the one reason Ubuntu is not used in a professional environment: Oracle database support.
The way I understand it, Oracle Database only supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's reason enough for most places to exclusively run RHEL or a combination of RHEL and CentOS. Because the distros are so different (especially software packaging) it doesn't make sense for a company to run both.
So my question is: do you think Oracle will ever officially support Ubuntu?
Most agree that the "official" documentation for Rails leaves a lot to be desired.
You seem to have completely ignored the various Rails books though. This is the best way to learn. For example, Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd Edition) or The Rails Way. O'Reilly has been pumping out some Rails books lately too.
I read the slashdot summary and thought to myself "Oh no! Mongrel is a very well-respected and popular component of many Rails apps. This is a huge loss to the RoR community!".
Then I read his post (and had flashbacks to 8th Grade).
Let's just say I am no longer concerned in the slightest.
Union City is nothing new. In High School physics we had a project to time yellow lights in town along with speed limit and distance of the intersection, compared to deceleration (braking) of the average car.
I would say about half of the lights the class examined had a "no win zone" where it was impossible to either make it through the intersection (w/o speeding) or brake in time if the light turned yellow. This was in 1994.
I'm not sure if it's greed on the part of governments or just simple incompetence. Probably a bit of both.
Yahoo is, what, 95% FreeBSD and Linux? I just laugh at these Microsoft rumors. I seriously doubt Microsoft's pride would ever allow them to acquire that much open-source software. They probably realize it would be nearly impossible to convert to Windows, too. At the very least they'd probably lose over 50% of Yahoo's engineering staff if they tried such a thing.
there isn't much choice you fat fucking Americans could do about it
Excuse me, but I don't fuck fat.
I would have already colluded with other television manufacturers to produce units that would spontaneously fail after 2 and a half years
Doesn't Sony already do this now? Maybe the other manufacturers played a trick on them.
Like our cars! Come to think of it, there's another industry that you lazy, fat-assed, dumbfuck Americans couldn't compete.
Yes, the non-U.S. car companies are smart to go to great lengths to prevent their factory workers from organizing. I'm sure you are aware of the Fun Fact that most U.S.-based factories producing Asian cars are non-union.
The funny thing is the 5 or so "main Yahoo news items" have been pretty much my main source of news for the past several years. Yes, that's probably rather sad.
At any rate, you can remove that stuff pretty easily, but I'd imagine it's per-browser unless you're logged in, so yeah, I guess for the ultra-sparse look Google wins.
Though there's also alltheweb.com and altavista.com, both of which are also Yahoo Search.
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I don't think this guy understands much about how corporate networking works. If he's a developer, I suppose he doesn't need to, but maybe he could check into details before writing:
"isn't it worthwhile for Facebook recruiting to prepare for such a case, and make the interviewer able to switch to a different Facebook IP range, to give Skype routing a second chance?"
Yeah, um, I don't know of *any* company that would set up their HR staff for such a scenario. And this interviewee doesn't seem to understand how Internet routing works. Assuming the particular Facebook HR office is BGP multi-homed, the Facebook NetOps staff would have to determine what IP address the interviewee is connecting with and then modify BGP local-preference for that AS number to use a different ISP outbound. Or, have two networks with different outbound ISPs available at every desk with staff trained to switch between them.
It would be utterly ludicrous to do something like this for an interview.
What's surprising is they didn't try another option like Google Hangouts. Perhaps as a Facebook competitor, it isn't an option. Did the interviewee not have a speakerphone? He mentions being unable to both type and talk... I think they solved that problem in the 1980's.
I don't know about the Linux hobbyists out there, but I've seen time and time again the one reason Ubuntu is not used in a professional environment: Oracle database support.
The way I understand it, Oracle Database only supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's reason enough for most places to exclusively run RHEL or a combination of RHEL and CentOS. Because the distros are so different (especially software packaging) it doesn't make sense for a company to run both.
So my question is: do you think Oracle will ever officially support Ubuntu?
So Google, when will you be adding SIP support to Google Voice? Looking forward to it.
Professors in the academic bubble recommend that you stay in the academic bubble and continue to help pay their salary? Shocking.
There's no chance of Obama doing anything about this in his first term since it would doom his re-election.
I'm just hoping he has the balls to do something if he's elected for a second term.
Right now strategies, techniques and culture may be so entrenched that it stifles innovation
Wow, they did a great job simulating the real world.
Ron Paul is a Libertarian using the Republican Party to be heard and get elected.
And he's from Texas.
I am also in favor of Texas seceding, so I can move there. Provided Ron Paul is their president, of course.
Most agree that the "official" documentation for Rails leaves a lot to be desired.
You seem to have completely ignored the various Rails books though. This is the best way to learn. For example, Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd Edition) or The Rails Way. O'Reilly has been pumping out some Rails books lately too.
Huh, funny, since I start at my new job using Rails in a couple weeks.
I read the slashdot summary and thought to myself "Oh no! Mongrel is a very well-respected and popular component of many Rails apps. This is a huge loss to the RoR community!".
Then I read his post (and had flashbacks to 8th Grade).
Let's just say I am no longer concerned in the slightest.
Union City is nothing new. In High School physics we had a project to time yellow lights in town along with speed limit and distance of the intersection, compared to deceleration (braking) of the average car.
I would say about half of the lights the class examined had a "no win zone" where it was impossible to either make it through the intersection (w/o speeding) or brake in time if the light turned yellow. This was in 1994.
I'm not sure if it's greed on the part of governments or just simple incompetence. Probably a bit of both.
I was thinking about moving my blog to Typo. This makes my decision easy!
So in other words it is exactly like a cablemodem?
Hotmail was a debacle and that was ONE application. Yahoo is orders of magnitude more complex.
Yahoo is, what, 95% FreeBSD and Linux? I just laugh at these Microsoft rumors. I seriously doubt Microsoft's pride would ever allow them to acquire that much open-source software. They probably realize it would be nearly impossible to convert to Windows, too. At the very least they'd probably lose over 50% of Yahoo's engineering staff if they tried such a thing.
From the Zimbra press release:
Will the Zimbra server and Web client remain open source?
* Access to the Zimbra source code will remain available and free.
Will new Zimbra projects and additions to the current Zimbra suite be open source?
* Zimbra will continue its practice of offering both an open and certified, network editions of the software.
there isn't much choice you fat fucking Americans could do about it
Excuse me, but I don't fuck fat.
I would have already colluded with other television manufacturers to produce units that would spontaneously fail after 2 and a half years
Doesn't Sony already do this now? Maybe the other manufacturers played a trick on them.
Like our cars! Come to think of it, there's another industry that you lazy, fat-assed, dumbfuck Americans couldn't compete.
Yes, the non-U.S. car companies are smart to go to great lengths to prevent their factory workers from organizing. I'm sure you are aware of the Fun Fact that most U.S.-based factories producing Asian cars are non-union.
Troll, of course.
The funny thing is the 5 or so "main Yahoo news items" have been pretty much my main source of news for the past several years. Yes, that's probably rather sad.
At any rate, you can remove that stuff pretty easily, but I'd imagine it's per-browser unless you're logged in, so yeah, I guess for the ultra-sparse look Google wins.
Though there's also alltheweb.com and altavista.com, both of which are also Yahoo Search.
I don't understand what you mean with the API example, since Yahoo Maps has a pretty nice API:
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
The Yahoo Local API is rather handy as well. I just used it in an app I'm working on.
sigh... for the 3rd or 4th time on this topic:
search.yahoo.com
I generally use alltheweb.com as my main search engine
You realize this is Yahoo, right? Same results as search.yahoo.com.
search.yahoo.com
Uh... search.yahoo.com
Google and Yahoo search results relevancy are neck-and-neck. There isn't much difference.