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Eh. I'm in Facebook bootcamp now. Between this article about the ranking system, a truly uninspiring (to me --- YMMV) choice of teams to work on, and the press Facebook has been ge…

> included unethical, anticompetitive and illegal Oh, like Uber and AirBnb?

> I always assumed cryptography is slower than IO Cryptography is a CPU-bound operation that often has specialized hardware support. Here's a rule of thumb: in modern computing, IO…

See, that's what I love about this profession: it's never boring. If something _is_ boring, then almost by definition, it can be automated. The automation itself is usually interes…

Actually, no. That wouldn't be nice at all. Large government solves the collective action problem and is necessary to have a modern, functioning civilization. I'll take a welfare s…

The stack rank is the _reason_ there's so much dead wood: managers have to keep mediocre performers on the payroll so that star performers don't get bad reviews and leave. You need…

Optimization problems like that are fascinating. We can treat them generically without having to teach our program about the specific problem it's trying to solve. All we have to d…

With the creator of Python on your team, what can't you do? (See http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail-... )

I'm sick of Google being hailed as a magical place you'd have to be crazy to leave. Look: Google sucks. All technology companies suck, albeit in different ways. It's possible for a…

Are Swedish startups (or EU startups in general) interested in talented American programmers?

It sounds just like Seattle, then: perfection.