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How to Ace a Google Interview
Imagine a man named Jim. He's applying for a job at Google. Jim knows that the odds are stacked against him. Google receives a million job applications a year. It's estimated that only about 1 in 130 applications results in a job. By comparison, about 1 in 14 high-school students applying to Harvard gets accepted. Jim's first interviewer is late and sweaty: He's biked to work. He starts with some polite questions about Jim's work history. Jim eagerly explains his short career. The intervi...
Google,Interview,Questions and answers,Job 2011-12-26 09:17:36
A brief guide to tech internships
Planning to be an Intern in the Bay Area during Summer 2012? Make sure to read an Intern's Guide to the Bay Area, and join the 2012 Facebook group. (via this guy, via this guy) Joel Spolsky, from the Joel On Software blog and StackOverflow, wrote an article with Advice for Computer Science College Students back in '05. According to Joel, No matter what you do, get a good summer internship. As such: here’s everything you ever wanted to know about tech inter...
Internship,Advice,CS student 2012-02-01 04:48:31
Why Software Is Eating The World
This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world. But both moves are also in line with a trend I've observed, one that makes me optimistic about the future growth of the American and world economies, despite the...
software,quota,internet world,eat up 2011-08-22 12:06:40
How I Learned to Program Computers
I’ve been asked this question a lot lately, especially after I built YouTube Instant. So, here’s the answer, once and for all, for those who are interested.In short:I learned how to program by building lots of websites.The full story:I learned how to program by working on lots of different website projects starting from a pretty young age. What follows is a full account of all the major websites I’ve built, back to the very first site I made when I was 11 years old. Wha...
Programming,Computer,Tips,Feross Aboukhadijeh 2011-10-17 10:25:32
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world†actually works. ...
Career,Programmer,Advice,Low level,Development 2011-10-29 07:09:23
Find where the start up page is set in Firefox
Recently I encountered a weird behavior where a strange webpage showing up every time when I launched my Firefox. The first thought came into my mind is that my homepage of Firefox had been tampered. It might be changed because some software changed my browser settings to promote something. So the next immediate thing I went to check was to see my Firefox browser settings. To my surprise, the homepage setting was not touched. It would still open the Momentum screen which would display some beaut...
WINDOWS,FIREFOX,HOMEPAGE,STARTUP PAGE,HAO123 2021-10-02 02:28:53
Google transferred a domain name to a Chinese company for free
Google just completed a domain transfer to another company in China. The interesting part is that this domain transfer is for free. The story begins with a recent tweet from the CEO Dash Huang of a Chinese game company called X.D. Network Inc who claims that they obtained the domain name taptap.cn from Google for free. From the tweet, Mr. Huang expressed his appreciation to Google for freely transferring the domain name taptap.cn to their company. Their company launched some product ...
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