I just read this article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/opinion/24friedman.html?_r=1 from NY times. It talks about how we as a nation has fallen behind so much. We are all GM. It is so true. We should admit that we are in crisis, not just financial crisis but a intellectual and behavioral crisis. We wasted so much energy and investments on the wrong priority. It is time to change our priority and invest in the right priority. We all need to rethink and reinvent ourselves.
Dec
3
I had several interviews with Amazon.com in the past. The first set of two years ago and I got all the way to the face to face interview. I didn’t get the job but was impressed by the interview process. They asked a lot of tough questions. It is good to go through the process because it helps you to prepare almost any kind of interview in the future. Today, I had a phone interview with them again. I already got a job but I like to go though it to practice my interview skills. I don’t think I did as well as I did last time. I missed a couple questions. I think being a manager last two years are making me less technical. Anyway, here are a list of questions Amazon guy asked me on the phone:
- How to you make sure a link list doesn’t have a cycle?
- Data structure question: Hashtable, array and tree.
- Architecture: what are the three tiers? Answer: Presentation, Application and persistent. How to implement a service oriented architect. Scaling, etc….
Again, it was fun to practice interview with Amazon. I am probably not qualified for the job.
Nov
10
Yeah, it is going to painful to a lot of workers and our pride. But both the unions and executives are to be blamed for not make the right choices and sacrifice earlier to save the industry. So let if fail and then other people to rebuild the industry from ground up. Meanwhile, use the bail out money to paid for unemployment and retraining for US autoworkers.
Nov
7
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.” “It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.”It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.”
Oct
25
Here is the hope for our future. Watch it and you will see why you need to Vote for Obama.
Oct
10
If you want to understand what collateralized debt obligations is and how we got into this mess, here is a video for those of us who don’t have much financial engineering background. It is explained using Wine and Bottle.
Crisis explainer: Uncorking CDOs from Marketplace on Vimeo