From the monthly archives: December 2007
blist is hiring across all disciplines. I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you what you can expect when interviewing at blist. Assuming we’ve been introduced via email, I’ll usually first ask a software engineering candidate to complete a programming challenge that you can find on our website . If you’re not a programmer, [...]
Continue Reading →Do sculptors like many sculptures they see? Do chefs like many dishes they eat? Do people who work in car manufacturing plants like many cars coming off assembly lines? As someone who has spent his entire professional career developing software, I sometimes feel awkward that I like so little of the software that is produced [...]
Continue Reading →Tastes Great! Less filling! NYT, Blodget, Don Dodge – lots of words flew around over the weekend about Google taking on Microsoft and more specifically the false dichotomy of fully web-based productivity apps (Google) vs. partially web-based productivity apps (Microsoft). What’s this false dichotomy, you say? In the interest of plotting a compelling storyline, journalists [...]
Continue Reading →Early to mid last century switchboards were manually operated by telephone operators, most of whom were women. In the late 1960′s Lily Tomlin endearingly characterized the role as Ernestine the telephone operator on Laugh-In. Advances in technology democratized the act of dialing a phone number and now we all do it ourselves. In the 1960′s [...]
Continue Reading →As blist develops and we get closer to launching the service, it’s been fun and rewarding to demo the application to people who have deep opinions and pedigrees in the space in which we plan to operate. Over the last few weeks I’ve been fortunate to conduct two specific demos of this sort. I’ll admit [...]
Continue Reading →We’re looking to hire our first engineer focused on ops automation. This is primarily a software engineering role, although to be successful you’ll need to have roots in and a passion for systems administration. At blist systems engineers develop software that automates as much of operations as possible. The goals are fully lights out operation [...]
Continue Reading →Web Office – What’s next? What’s innovative? Richard McManus has his Web Office 2007 Year in Review up today. The real trend in Office 2.0 has been on polish and refinement, and not on what you can really call innovation in a deep, Clayton Christensen sort of way. Exactly one year ago, I was playing [...]
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