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I’ve personally been in a room where you were very much not keeping quiet about it!

That's how they get you! (I used to run recruiting marketing there as a side job and good pizza was part of the playbook).

I don't think he missed the point. You should probably read all of this (which the Hole Hawg bit is an excerpt from) to a whole picture of this school of thought: http://people.cs.…

Unlike a human, you can usually just reboot the computer and try again.

Could you cite some actual sources here?

Care to cite an example?

(I'm the author of that post)

Agreed on where the devil resides. I'm working on a follow up post that delves into that detail - it should be published in the next few weeks.

For the record, I'm not a recruiter (and was sad to see myself labeled as such). I've worked on the recruiting problem pretty extensively for Palantir, but I'm actually a software …

... and, honestly? Not much has changed. The cultural zeitgeist of both SJ and SF are very much the same.

And to add to the point above, Yelp ratings are not well-normalized across markets. The things that people care about in the 'burbs is different than in the city and places get vot…

Some of this list is just plain incorrect. For example, Rangoon Ruby in Palo Alto is a pale imitation of Burma Superstar in San Francisco, a restaurant is openly models itself afte…

If you're working on a problem that you can solve alone, you need a bigger problem.

Have you considered that stable currency is a service performed by the government? Feel free to accumulate wealth, just don't use government backed currency.

A good complement to our other post last week, How to Rock an Algorithms Interview - http://blog.palantir.com/2011/09/26/how-to-rock-an-algorithm...

It was much cooler to be jaded about the interview process last year. But in all seriousness, I'm sure there are companies like the one you described and there are many that aren't…

You'd be surprised at what people will do to game an interview. I've had people give me the correct answer to a question I didn't ask (but from our list of questions) - clearly hav…

I think you're correct that for certain types of apps, this sort of knowledge is pretty useless. However, once the number of things you're dealing with gets up to, say, the million…

Whoops - yeah, we're working on that problem right now - at the moment it's back up.