"Can I take a glance at your code?" - If applying for an programming position, this is one of the leading indicators of how well the team works regarding refactoring, communication, and their philosophy towards coding.
I took to asking to see samples of real production code at all my interviews towards the end of my time working as an employee.
No-one ever objected. In fact, most places seemed glad I was interested and thought it was a reasonable request. It was pretty common to be asked to wait until the second interview, though, as most places wouldn't be kitted up to do this without notice.
The chances of you seeing a section of code that is central to their IP and the answer to the question, "how did they do it?" and, additionally, your ability to instantly understand it are very slim.
This is a great question for an engineer to ask. Being able to see if the code is smart (e.g. using shorthand instead of multiline logic), neat and documented is a great way to get a feel for how your potential future coworkers work. They've spent the last two to four hours grilling you and know you, how you code and how you solve problems pretty intimately -- why not get to know them better, too?
Don't you ever watch movies about programmers? That's exactly how it works. The protagonist looks briefly at some code before declaring "Oh wow, this guy is good." For added realism, he should be typing the entire time.
You don't ask to see the code so you can identify the really good places, you ask so you can run away from the really bad places. It's the flip side of employers asking for basic coding tests: it's not there to tell you how good the good guy is, it's there to get rid of the guy with the great-looking CV who can't write "Hello, world".
At one of my round 2 interviews (for an internship, so entry-level stuff), a large part of the interview was them showing some of their code and quizzing me on what it did and so forth.
"We’ve attracted over 1.5 million users, found over $300 million in savings, managed $50 billion in assets, and helped people track nearly $200 billion in purchases."
I'm not sure I would sell - $170m seems rather low. Furthermore, they have so much room for expansion, which only will be crippled by working under a tax software company. They might be trying to automagically do your taxes for you, but they don't have enough relevant information without having it to be the same hassle as using the software.
I asked my friend, who is a teacher, about using the service. She had replied that it is too difficult to discourage cheating on Math-related assignments (she still has students hand-write).
A potential idea would be to have students do there assignment online, and have a "playback" button to show the student working. A crude cheating measurement (or genius measurement) would be the time between answer submission and the time to completion.
Cheat detection is a successful industry also. I know that many existing solutions integrate with services such as <http://www.turnitin.com>. We are tracking requests for this kind of functionality; maybe as a premium feature?
*I apologize for the previous grammatical mistake.
From my friend's point of view, your service will not be considered without cheat-protection so I don't think it should be appropriate as a premium feature. I may be wrong, but my take on freemium is to allow the user to recognize the value when under the free plan and the use of premium to make things faster, larger, or better. In that vein, I would suggest automated grading for absolute or relatively absolute answers as a premium feature (i.e. integral x = (x^2)/2 or a single US founding founder would be part of a set {Thomas Jefferson, James Adams, ... }). That way, grading is completely automated. I'm sure teachers will pay for such a feature.
Lenovo were the OEMs for IBM's Thinkpads. LG still makes monitors for Dell, hard drives that are rebadged and I'm not sure of what else (they are a huge conglomerate)
LG was never an ODM (sic). And they don't manufacture hard drives. Sure, they manufacture displays but so do Sharp and Philips. Also, I was under the impression that Lenovo merely acquired IBM's PC business. All the other companies are ODMs though.
Lenovo had been the manufacturer for the PC business for some years before they bought it entirely.
I don't think the comment you're replying to claims that LG was the only manufacturer of displays, just that it has manufactured displays badged with other brands (and perhaps still does) and recently started selling them under its own name (perhaps as well, rather than instead).
I'm amazed by that $60 CPM on Simpsons. You need to really get the viewers to take some action to recover that cost. I guess if you get one out of a thousand to switch from Coke to Pepsi then it will have been worth it?
True, but innovation may occur based on necessity rather than incentives (Most of the population is still ridiculously poor). Different constraints and resources may also yield other solutions.
From a Electrical Engineering standpoint, any battery of tests will not hold up due to the amount of variables, both software and hardware. The article references iPhone as a perfect case, but Apple (and AT&T, indirectly) have 100% control on what occurs on the device. The software, hardware, and user flow is under strict standards of processing and memory allocation. Furthermore, the low processing power and subsequent need makes the margin-of-error and standard deviation lower.
This is not the case for laptops. Due to running different programs, there are differing memory and processing allocations which cause different hardware elements to be accessed. Chrome and Firefox (same use case) have vastly different memory footprints and certain versions of Photoshop (same program) will utilize the GPU, increasing current drain. Since programs are constantly under development and will use different amounts of resources, a manufacturer cannot say that browsing the internet or using a specific program will be a certain amount of time.
Mainstream laptop batteries are Lithium-Ion, which degrades with time (faster with use). Unless retailers begin to throw out older batteries (by manufacturing date), there will be no standardization for consumers.
I know you want to look in your online communities, but I have a friend who is a wedding photographer who can introduce couples with specific dates. Let me know if interested.
