YoungUpstarts
MARCH 4, 2014
If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project. The downside, of course, is that when a price of a project is estimated, the ‘cost’ a company is ‘paying’ Neo to be on a project is ignored in many cases.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 15, 2013
When screening engineers from other companies, it’s smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies. All things being equal, always interview the Google engineer over the Quest Software engineer. The Cost of Making a Mistake. The Conclusion.
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Ben's Blog
APRIL 15, 2013
When screening engineers from other companies, it''s smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies. All things being equal, always interview the Google engineer over the Quest Software engineer. The Cost of Making a Mistake. The Conclusion.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 17, 2013
Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.
www.igda.org
JULY 24, 2012
But his experiments, which hed been conducting for at least 12 years, showed him clearly that cutting the workday from ten hours to eight hours — and the workweek from six days to five days — increased total worker output and reduced production cost. At that point, the costs strongly begin to outweigh the advantages.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 8, 2008
Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. First, a word about why continuous integration is so important.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Creative, innovative, or dreamy (not so sure about the last one), green 'get started' button or orange? I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. Forgive me, I'm a green Quora user.
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