For those who want to understand how much dependency there is, watch this Channel9 video. This is a talk with Joe Pamer (F# compiler team) & Rich Hickey (Clojure creator). Following is a snapshot from that video – do you see anything odd? Link to this post!
Posts Tagged ‘intel’
Intel-speak during out-of-office hours
There is no denying that the corporate work culture has a big impact on our off-office life. For example, if you are a SW development manager by profession, you automatically tend to map many of the things learnt in the office on to normal house activities – ‘Lets put a detailed requirements list for the [...]
A story of WMDs and patents
It has been a pretty tight week so far. Luckily my hotel is closer to my office, at least I don’t have to worry about getting lost. Talking about getting lost, people here use GPS heavily. The cab driver, when I came from the airport to the hotel, didn’t know where Holiday Inn was in [...]
Yahoo vs Google: why Yahoo lags behind?
You wanna know why Yahoo lags behind Google? Look at the image below that I took from Yahoo’s careers site today (WW10.4). It shows all open reqs, sorted by date (descending). As you probably noticed (follow the arrows please! ), the sort hasn’t happened properly. How did the coder miss this? No unit tests funda [...]
Conan O’Brien visits Intel head quarters in Santa Clara
This is a funny video of Conan O’Brien visiting Intel HQ at Santa Clara. I have never been to SC, but I can relate to what he says very well. In fact, the saying inside Intel is “If you have seen one, you have seen them all!”, this is very true for the buildings Intel builds. [...]
Performance appraisals – Should they be so complex?
We went through the performance appraisal phase in my company last quarter. As we had come to expect, it was one of the stressful periods, so much that we literally threw a party when 360degree feedbacks were prepared and sent (ok, am just kidding. But, you get the point!). We call this process FOCAL; when [...]

