Enough articles have been written about engineering crunch in the valley while some solutions have been suggested (like increasing equity grants to engineers), the bigger issue of broken recruiting pipeline has not gained the attention it deserves.
Its a job of recruiters to source potential candidates and most recruiters are compensated in form of a percentage (usually 20-30%) of annual base salary of the hired individual.
Book Summary: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert comics)
The book is a humorous compilation of pragmatic lessons which Scott Adams learned while navigating his professional career.
The author admits his failures as well as successes openly.
He also talks his personal medical problems (first hand and then speech).
Book Summary: Art of War by Sun Tzu (Samuel B. Griffith’s translation)
The Art of War is considered as one of the classic books on military strategy.
Due to the recent resurgence of China as economic super power, the book has garnered interest from non-Chinese who are curious to know more about its strategy.
Mac OS X Primer (Part 2): Migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac for software engineers
Booting process
- Bootloader loads the kernel stored in /mach_kernel (Tip: Use rEFIt as boot loader for dual booting into GNU/Linux).
- Kernel launched the launchd process (equivalent of init in GNU/Linux).
- launchd loads startup processes from several directories (/System/Library/LaunchAgents, /System/Library/LaunchDeamons, /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchAgents and corresponding files in ~/Library directory) [source]
Random Thoughts: On minimum wage laws
How to compile android emulator on ubuntu 13.10
I was trying to make some modifications to android emulator and was unable to find good set of instructions for the compiling the same.
Here are mine.
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# Get the source code. git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu cd qemu # Install required dependencies. sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libesd0-dev libx11-dev \ libxext-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev \ lib32stdc++-4.8-dev # Install ia32 libraries (missing from default ubuntu 13.10). sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libpangox-1.0-0:i386 \ libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 # Configure and build the emulator binary. ./android-configure.sh --no-gles --cc=/usr/bin/gcc make -j16 # The emulator binaries are in objs directory. |
Why Nokia’s (rumored) Android phone is doomed
In Feb 2014, WSJ is reporting that Nokia is working on Android phone.
In Sept 2010,
Anssi Vanjoki, outgoing head of Nokia’s smartphone division, likens mobile phone makers that adopt Google’s software to Finnish boys who “pee in their pants” for warmth in the winter. Temporary relief is followed by an even worse predicament. [source]
As someone who has advocated Android for Nokia in the past, I think its just too late now to do that.
How to send HTML mails using Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) in python
As the title suggests, I was looking for a way to send HTML mails in python using Amazon SES but did not find anything (or maybe my search skills are bad).
So, once I found the solution, I thought I might share it with everyone.
The basic idea is that contents of the mail (raw-message) must be a JSON dictionary with “Data” as main key whose value is a key value pair containing entries with keys like “From”, “To” etc.
Sample code can be seen below.
Book Summary: The score takes care of itself (my philosophy of leadership)
The book is written by Bill Walsh – San Francisco’s 49ers Football team coach who transformed the worst performing team of its era to the best performing team. The book talks about changes he brought in as well as his philosophy of leadership which is generic enough to apply outside of American Football. He is also known as the creator of West Coast Offense.
He brought in a Standards of Performance sets the expectations from everyone who was part of 49ers.
Process vs Result
- Aim for a Standard of Performance (which is absolute) vs winning (which is relative to others).
- “Process” of improvement leads to “result” of victory and not vice-versa.
- Focus on process which produces results and not on results.
- Promotions/wins/sales quotas are results, they do not provide information about performance. And its important to dig into performance to find truth hidden behind these results.
Three reasons why Intel might lose server market even faster than consumer
One of the biggest challenges to Intel’s x86 hegemony in consumer market has been the emergence of smart phones where ARM based processors have 90% market share. The PC market where Intel has a strong hold is declining at (estimated) 10% annual rate.
While a lot of coverage has been to given to Intel’s decline in consumer market, I believe Intel has tough road ahead in server market too. One major advantage Intel has is the amount of (legacy) code which has been written for x86 (the same thing which keeps Cobol on life support), this advantage is diminishing rapidly due to following trends.