Having been an intern at both, and gone through at least the intern version of their interviews, I didn't see a huge difference. Can you solve problems? How do you approach different types of problems? Simply put, did your education (both formal and personal) teach you enough to know the important things that any software engineer should know? Communication is incredibly important, and your ability to communicate how you are solving the problems and dealing with issues factors in quite a bit.
Once inside, they do have different cultures, goals, focus, but as far as getting in, I feel there's very few people who would be hired by one, but not the other.
While interviewing for an internship with Google, one engineer I spoke to described what Google does from his perspective: Google once discovered a hose that money poured out of. Its name is online advertising. Now, they spend their time searching for either the next hose, or new ways to increase the flow rate of that first one.
Now, whether this is the Chrome browser, Google+, Google Docs, self driving cars, whatever- they have no idea if any of them will be worthwhile. But, they have some of the smartest people in the world tinkering around to try to find out. And if they spend $16 Billion to find a hose worth $100 Billion, or more, then they come out ahead. But, that's the thing about exploration- you don't know what you're going to find.
Well, that should be the final nail in the coffin for the Blackberry. I've been saying for the last 2 years: All RIM has going is the fact that they have a secure phone. All someone needs to do is offer an Android-based phone with the same level of security, and they will have lost the only real selling point remaining that they had.
They're making these things as cheaply as possible. Know what happens when you do that?
#1: Shit doesn't work as well as it should.
#2: Repairs to things that aren't mandatory, like security systems and fences, they don't happen.
Do you have to give the system training for the specific purpose and gesture?
And could the microphone be on the opposite side of the surface? If so, I think I've got an awesome new way to unlock my door.
I was an intern at Microsoft in 2009. Ballmer was scheduled to have this big talk for all the interns one afternoon, and at the last moment, cancelled on us. We were all a bit annoyed, but hey, he's the CEO, 'spose that's what happens. He rescheduled for a week later.
When he started, he apologized to us for cancelling. He said "Sorry I had to reschedule you guys. It basically came down to this: for the last 10 years, we've been flirting with Yahoo, and they finally agreed to go on a date with us". He was pretty excited about the Yahoo thing, very gung-ho.
Side note: That talk left me really impressed with the guy. I didn't stay on with Microsoft, but I still see Ballmer in a very positive light.
They did better than average for one month. I could buy a random subset of stocks, and still have a 50% chance of beating the average.
Call me if they can maintain this for 12 months straight. Then maybe they can see some of my money.
It's *easy* to yell and scream and do things to "protect" a child from scraped knees, cell phones, peanuts, etc and it has the added benefit of making parents feel like they've actively done something to protect their kids. It's also easy to give children junk food rather than proper meals, and to let them sit in front of a TV instead of taking them to sports teams, or better yet, go out for a run with them.
Laziness is the problem. And friend, have we got a lot of it.
I spent most of my youth playing in the forest with friends, often miles from the nearest adult. I pity the kids who are afraid of going into dark places alone.
"Gavin Russell, prime minister of the student government, gathered scores of signatures on a petition supporting Mr. Christie before two staff members warned him that, if he continued, he could also face punishment."
I am ashamed of my country when I can read that, and it isn't followed by "The staff members were promptly fired". Believe it or not, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies even to high school kids, and no, your petty little school rules do not trump those Rights.
My grandfather was a manager with the utilities department for the city of Oshawa, Ontario. He described using this exact technology 60 years ago- a giant wheel maintaining momentum to keep the output predictable despite unpredictable input. Mind you, I don't think he was working on the 20MW range...
Having had to deal with a normal sleep study, where something like 26 electrodes were attached to various portions of my head, chest and legs, this seems like a step in the right direction.
There is Google Chrome OS, and there is Chromium OS. These are separate things, just as Chromium Browser and Google Chrome Browser are separate things. The Chromiums are open source, and you are free to put them on any hardware you like, as Hexxeh has done. If you want to boot up Chromium OS on your desktop, by all means, give it a shot, and document it well so I can do it too!
Why do this? Because Google doesn't want to put their name to something they don't guarantee to be awesome. They want the less than 10 second boot-up, SSD harddrives, and complete guarantee of hardware, so that they can better maintain their security models of the devices.
Bias: I was an intern on the Google Chrome team over the summer.
The Gmail "App" is just an HTML5/CSS3 website that gets returned when your user agent says you're an iPad. It's just clean and slick enough that people seem to assume it's some kind of app.
Change your user agent, and load up gmail, see what happens.
... just keep in mind that with WPA, the initial password is just used for connecting to the network, after which a session password is shared (right? pretty sure I'm right about that). So, technically, it would prevent someone from stealing your interwebs as long as you were already connected.
Now, the guy who got to Starbucks before you and started sniffing before you did, he definitely has your personal information now, and this is a stupid idea.
Google didn't make their index of human knowledge for free you know. If you don't like it, make your own. It will cost you billions of dollars, not just to create, but to keep up to date, up to the second.
He never even says he knows anything, he just purely speculates. For all he knows, the Google-Verizon deal could be that they share catering for Friday lunch.
We *need* to get full support for SVG going. Not as a replacement for flash, or any of that (though really, they could), but just as a basic image format for non-photographic images in computers. Vector graphics scale beautifully, work well with screen magnifiers for the visually impaired, are lightweight, easy to make and edit by hand (it's xml!).
You could implement whole web-apps as a single SVG file if you so desired. That is, if all browsers had full support of SVGs- and as my job this summer is in part to work on WebKit SVG support, let me assure you, nobody is fully compliant yet. But we're getting there. (Damn you Sub-resource loading!)
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Having been an intern at both, and gone through at least the intern version of their interviews, I didn't see a huge difference. Can you solve problems? How do you approach different types of problems? Simply put, did your education (both formal and personal) teach you enough to know the important things that any software engineer should know? Communication is incredibly important, and your ability to communicate how you are solving the problems and dealing with issues factors in quite a bit.
Once inside, they do have different cultures, goals, focus, but as far as getting in, I feel there's very few people who would be hired by one, but not the other.
While interviewing for an internship with Google, one engineer I spoke to described what Google does from his perspective: Google once discovered a hose that money poured out of. Its name is online advertising. Now, they spend their time searching for either the next hose, or new ways to increase the flow rate of that first one.
Now, whether this is the Chrome browser, Google+, Google Docs, self driving cars, whatever- they have no idea if any of them will be worthwhile. But, they have some of the smartest people in the world tinkering around to try to find out. And if they spend $16 Billion to find a hose worth $100 Billion, or more, then they come out ahead. But, that's the thing about exploration- you don't know what you're going to find.
Well, that should be the final nail in the coffin for the Blackberry. I've been saying for the last 2 years: All RIM has going is the fact that they have a secure phone. All someone needs to do is offer an Android-based phone with the same level of security, and they will have lost the only real selling point remaining that they had.
They're making these things as cheaply as possible. Know what happens when you do that? #1: Shit doesn't work as well as it should. #2: Repairs to things that aren't mandatory, like security systems and fences, they don't happen.
Do you have to give the system training for the specific purpose and gesture? And could the microphone be on the opposite side of the surface? If so, I think I've got an awesome new way to unlock my door.
This is worse than realizing that the matrix came out in 1999.
I was an intern at Microsoft in 2009. Ballmer was scheduled to have this big talk for all the interns one afternoon, and at the last moment, cancelled on us. We were all a bit annoyed, but hey, he's the CEO, 'spose that's what happens. He rescheduled for a week later. When he started, he apologized to us for cancelling. He said "Sorry I had to reschedule you guys. It basically came down to this: for the last 10 years, we've been flirting with Yahoo, and they finally agreed to go on a date with us". He was pretty excited about the Yahoo thing, very gung-ho. Side note: That talk left me really impressed with the guy. I didn't stay on with Microsoft, but I still see Ballmer in a very positive light.
They did better than average for one month. I could buy a random subset of stocks, and still have a 50% chance of beating the average. Call me if they can maintain this for 12 months straight. Then maybe they can see some of my money.
Even with the moon full, I was sitting in a hot tub outside tonight, staring up at the stars, and saw a ton of them, bright and easily visible.
It's *easy* to yell and scream and do things to "protect" a child from scraped knees, cell phones, peanuts, etc and it has the added benefit of making parents feel like they've actively done something to protect their kids. It's also easy to give children junk food rather than proper meals, and to let them sit in front of a TV instead of taking them to sports teams, or better yet, go out for a run with them. Laziness is the problem. And friend, have we got a lot of it.
I spent most of my youth playing in the forest with friends, often miles from the nearest adult. I pity the kids who are afraid of going into dark places alone.
What, exactly, are people *doing* at Microsoft's website that would take 204 Billion minutes?
I am ashamed of my country when I can read that, and it isn't followed by "The staff members were promptly fired". Believe it or not, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies even to high school kids, and no, your petty little school rules do not trump those Rights.
*puts on sunglasses* ... those cupcakes were dynamite.
My grandfather was a manager with the utilities department for the city of Oshawa, Ontario. He described using this exact technology 60 years ago- a giant wheel maintaining momentum to keep the output predictable despite unpredictable input. Mind you, I don't think he was working on the 20MW range...
I don't really know how you can train the sleep apnea out of me, but you're welcome to try.
Having had to deal with a normal sleep study, where something like 26 electrodes were attached to various portions of my head, chest and legs, this seems like a step in the right direction.
Wake me up when they're delivering drugs via spaceships. Then I will be impressed.
Why do this? Because Google doesn't want to put their name to something they don't guarantee to be awesome. They want the less than 10 second boot-up, SSD harddrives, and complete guarantee of hardware, so that they can better maintain their security models of the devices.
Bias: I was an intern on the Google Chrome team over the summer.
The Gmail "App" is just an HTML5/CSS3 website that gets returned when your user agent says you're an iPad. It's just clean and slick enough that people seem to assume it's some kind of app. Change your user agent, and load up gmail, see what happens.
... just keep in mind that with WPA, the initial password is just used for connecting to the network, after which a session password is shared (right? pretty sure I'm right about that). So, technically, it would prevent someone from stealing your interwebs as long as you were already connected. Now, the guy who got to Starbucks before you and started sniffing before you did, he definitely has your personal information now, and this is a stupid idea.
Google didn't make their index of human knowledge for free you know. If you don't like it, make your own. It will cost you billions of dollars, not just to create, but to keep up to date, up to the second.
He never even says he knows anything, he just purely speculates. For all he knows, the Google-Verizon deal could be that they share catering for Friday lunch.
Just go to the next convention, and look for the guy who is no longer living in his mother's basement.
You could implement whole web-apps as a single SVG file if you so desired. That is, if all browsers had full support of SVGs- and as my job this summer is in part to work on WebKit SVG support, let me assure you, nobody is fully compliant yet. But we're getting there. (Damn you Sub-resource loading!)