Category: engineer
-
Too Old At 34 For A Software Engineer
The photo is of my holding my Treo phone, my daughter Cate was taking a photo of me taking a photo of her. My dad was the person who pushed me into software engineering in college (I was drifting a bit with no goals) But after working for 5 years in SGI, my dad saw…
-
Daily Life Of A Yahoo! Engineer (archive 2005)
A Yahoo! Engineer (Y!E) is a very lucky person. Y!E gets into the office anywhere from 6:00am to 10:00am. If this was a bell curve, 80% fall under 9:30-10 Y!E gets to eat freshly cooked omelettes, hot cereal for under $3.00 Y!E gets free espresso drinks all day Y!E gets free pool tables, ping pong,…
-
Profile Of a Typical Yahoo! Engineer
The Typical Yahoo! Engineer from this point known as Y!E. (this is all my personal ramblings, if it doesn’t fit you, sorry.. it fits me) Y!E is someone who drools when his needs to design his software to work for 30 millions users. Potentially growing at 40% every year. Y!E designs software with no upper…
-
Spending The Night At Yahoo!
Tonight I don’t feel like driving home. I’m here with my 2 pillows and the Yahoo! blanket we got for 2003 Christmas. I’ll be spending the night trying to catch up on some work. It feels strangely very comforting to be here. Yahoo! has been like my 2nd home for the last 5 years. I…
-
Never ending bug list
I currently have 280 bugs assigned to me with priority 1,2,3 I don’t think I’ll ever finish the list. A lot of them are just little annoying bugs.. But if they’ve been in the queue for 1-2 years, probably no one cares any more. One day I’ll clean up this list, get rid of the…
-
Geeks talking about money
Our lunchtime conversation often revolves around money because money is important part of life and one of the reasons why we work so hard. It’s one of the factors that society uses to judge men and how successful they are. In today’s stocks market and realestate market in the bay area, where would you invest…
-
I hope Firefox != IE in 3 years
Given the large number of extensions available for firefox I’m surprised it has not been hacked more often. If you read the following story and replace Firefix with IE and replace Foundation with Microsoft, it’s kinda funny. Y! News Story: Crtical Flaw Found in Firefox There isn’t anymore loyalty towards browsers any more. I’ll use…
-
A Good Engineer == A Lazy Engineer
Software engineers are usually called upon to solve problems that involve large numbers. large number of machines large number of text to search large number of page views large number of users In order to be an efficient software engineer, you must always keep in mind to be lazy. Ask yourself, what is the easiest…
-
A Retrospective On 6 Years Of Yahoo! News
I joined Yahoo! in May of 1999. I had my pick of either Y! News or Y! Sweepstakes. Lucky for me, I picked Y! News Very soon, we are about to launch biggest redesign of Yahoo! News ever and I wanted to look back at what I remember of the history. As I understood it…
-
Can You Think Like A Computer?
I’ve been working in the computer industry for 12 years now. I get a lot of requests throughout the day with people asking me to troubleshoot technical issues they they are stumbling with. Most of these are troubleshooting issues such as why can’t I login from one place to another.. Why doesn’t this work? 99% of…