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Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

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Post by philwelch »

bconway wrote: post #47
nerfhammer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Acquisition employees still have to go through a round of intense interviews in order to continue through the acquisition

And the number of acquisitions that Google has started and not completed because of an employee interview (excluding something like outright fraud)?

I parsed it as the employee has to interview for their particular job to continue, not for the acquisition to continue.

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

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Post by sfard »

charlesju wrote: post #33

I'm sure this guy has no problem finding a job at any company he wants probably doing anything he wants. I don't understand why this is such a big deal.

Most sensible comment here. Working at a big name as some low level software developer is not a big deal. By virtue of being at Stanford alone he had a good chance at the job.

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Post by [deleted] »

KeithMajhor wrote: post #4
zerosandones wrote: post #2

Good for him and all, even though the search results were: 1) Painfully slow compared to Instant's realtime. 2) Only one at at time. 3) Text. (People respond to visual cues, and for a vid site, better to have thumbnails display in the results with captions.)

He made it in a day.

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Post by feross »

djacobs wrote: post #21

Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."

Hi, I'm the author of YouTube Instant. Actually, I never "announced" this site anywhere. I posted a status update to some friends to get their feedback. They shared it and it spread from there. I woke up this morning to the sound of my phone ringing - a Washington Post blogger wanted to interview me. It's been a crazy day, to say the least.

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Post by code_duck »

jrockway wrote: post #58
djacobs wrote: post #21

Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."

Why? Do you really think we are much different than Digg or Reddit? The main difference is that we value slightly longer comments. (But so does Slashdot, and they have a lot more users.)

Longer comments, they are only LONGER? Slightly longer??

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Post by code_duck »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #39
djacobs wrote: post #21

Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."

Which means that the YouTube CEO is scouring Hacker News.

Just like being a rock star, successful CEOs continue to be normal people, which is for some reason surprising to the public, and their former peers.

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Post by InclinedPlane »

jrockway wrote: post #58
djacobs wrote: post #21

Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."

Why? Do you really think we are much different than Digg or Reddit? The main difference is that we value slightly longer comments. (But so does Slashdot, and they have a lot more users.)

It's silly to think that technology makes the site. That's about as sensible as comparing books by their binding and type face.

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Post by wazoox »

jrockway wrote: post #58
djacobs wrote: post #21

Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."

Why? Do you really think we are much different than Digg or Reddit? The main difference is that we value slightly longer comments. (But so does Slashdot, and they have a lot more users.)

I know how he feels... Reddit has begun to suffer from a massive AOL effect, and he's afraid that the publicity may attract an unwelcome crowd here :)

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Post by _delirium »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #49
oomkiller wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Internal languages? Why would Google make new languages when there are already many great ones already available? It sounds counterintuitive and inefficient. Please answer if you can.

http://golang.org/

That one actually seems more supply-driven than demand-driven. Google hires huge piles of accomplished people, and the senior ones then continue to work on whatever it is that they do, because they're well-known and independent enough that it's hard to assign them to projects they don't want to work on. So they hire Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, and the result is a programming language inspired by C and Limbo, because that's what they do. =]
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