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Noticed that I had 20 Mozilla windows open. Just added up my open tabs… 201. That’s scary. A tab counter plugin would be interesting…

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got all my Audioscrobbler plug-ins re-installed; nothing aggregated on the list that’s “wrong”, although I think the Radiohead count is waaaay out of wack. Well, eventually my profile will better reflect what I’m actually listening to these days (music over time would be quite interesting)

(less time to program this output [3min] than writing the above paragraph thanks to rss feed + magpie)

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AmazonInterview3

This was my first Amazon full time interview. It was not with a
recruiter but with a head of a two pizza team (a 2PTL). They were
surprised I hadn’t spoken with a recruiter already..

  • Tell me about an exciting opportunity that you worked on
  • How did you use technology there
  • How did you account for scaling?
  • What would be your advice for rapid growth sites such as Friendster
  • Talk to me about working in teams
  • What was your least effective team situation
  • How do you tell someone that someone else is better at a particular position than them
  • Design a web based email system. Describes pieces, components,
    design, large scale, and use case (This lead to lots of questions about
    the components and other decisions)
  • Why Amazon?
  • Where do you see yourself in five years?
  • Find the missing element in an array with values from 1 to 1000.
  • What ideas do you have for Amazon?
  • What blogging software do you recommend?
  • What blogging software do you use?
  • Any questions?

After the interview they sent me a coding question which I have to
complete and email to them before my next phone interview. That next
phone interview will be spent discussing my solution and then on the
basis of that interview they’ll make the fly down decision or not. The
question is:

  • Code up a simple class in the language of your choice to represent
    a deck of cards with operations to shuffle the deck and to deal one
    card.
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Saddle Creek is one of my favorite labels. After my initial exposure to some Bright Eyes/Cursive tracks (via AudioGalaxy, RIP), I’ve since bought just about every album put out by the label (yes, including the Bright Eyes Christmas Album). Which led me to a slight predicament — the Saddle Creek Store is currently offering a free copy of the Saddle Creek 50 sampler with an order of $25 or more, which would be quite tempting to give as a gift, but would involve finding some stuff I didn’t already have. After looking around, I did find some worthwhile albums to pick up. The first, Rilo Kiley’s Barsuk Records debut album. The second, the Amos House Collection, Vol 2, which has tracks from Elliot Smith, Spoon, Bright Eyes, etc.

Also, picked up a Park Avenue album (the one sample track [RA] sounded great), and also the Fizzle Like a Flood album. The entire album is available to sample online.

Lastly, Hopeless Records is currently having a $1 sampler sale. I’m not much into punk/pop-punk nowadays, but the Weakerthans and Atom and His Package tracks definitely make it worthwhile, a no-brainer at $1/pop.

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Ouch, take a look at this new IE exploit. I wonder how long it’s been in use in the wild? Hook it up to some JS status mouseover, and you have yourself a pretty convincing fraud potential (just in time for xmas shopping!). via Simon

Not a problem if you’re using a better browser, of course.

[To elaborate, yes the user@domain attack affects all browsers; that’s just URI syntax for you, and yeah, there are people suckered all the time by this. But w/ this 0x01 flaw, I suspect it’ll catch a whole lot of people off-guard who would otherwise ‘know better’; if you click on a link from an untrusted site, this attack can pretty much be made completely transparent (on the surface).]