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Sorry if that sounded like badmouthing. Just a comment--I realize I don't have the proper context.

"A pseudo-stack machine JIT runtime thingamajobber." Ugh, really? I feel like 90% of the time if you find yourself writing a JIT compiler, you're probably doing it wrong. And "quir…

Re: past experience, I agree, but this is harder for college hires. It's not unreasonable for a student to have only taken the standard courses and done nothing especially interest…

I'd love to talk more about how we can improve on the typical fare of programming and algorithm questions. I've had to write my own sorting algorithm perhaps twice in the last some…

My understanding--and I'm an engineer, not a lawyer--is that many companies segregate contractors as a response to labor laws. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp . The impo…

Agreed. The author is clearly a delusional moron. You could've been a bit more polite about calling him on it, I guess, but sometimes you call a spade a spade.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. My contract as a software engineer (for a major competitor of Google's, no less!) specified similar--I am not to talk to anyone about the work I …