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Twitter: Won’t you join them?

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For these last few months we’ve been using twitter, why don’t we join them? Now they are looking for people with passion and talent to run this small company with a bright future. Just open http://twitter.com/jobs and find some information there. I put some positions to apply below:

Open Positions

Administrative
Commercial Counsel San Francisco, CA
Office Manager San Francisco, CA
Receptionist San Francisco, CA
Customer Support
Spam Support San Francisco, CA
Terms of Service (TOS) & Spam Support – Weekend Shift San Francisco, CA
Terms of Service (TOS) API Support San Francisco, CA
Terms of Service (TOS) User Support San Francisco, CA
User Support, Communications San Francisco, CA
Engineering
Front-End Engineer – Internationalization San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Anti-Abuse Tools San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Anti-Spam San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Front-End San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Internal Systems San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Platform/APIs San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Release San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Research San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Ruby On Rails San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Search San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Security San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer – Systems San Francisco, CA
IT & Website Operations
Corporate IT Manager San Francisco, CA
Operations Engineer – Search San Francisco, CA
Operations Engineer/Unix System Administrator San Francisco, CA
Platform/API
Developer Advocate San Francisco, CA
Product Management
Product Manager San Francisco, CA
User Experience & Design
Interaction Designer San Francisco, CA

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November 15, 2009 at 9:17 am

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140 Google Interview Questions

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This is a re-post article taken from blog.Seattleinterviewcoach.com by Lewis Lin about the Google interview Questions. I re-posted this article because I think you all should know that some weird questions (e.g: how many golf balls can fit the school bus) do exists in a job interview -even at Google.

Google Interview Questions: Product Marketing Manager

* Why do you want to join Google?
* What do you know about Google’s product and technology?
* If you are Product Manager for Google’s Adwords, how do you plan to market this?
* What would you say during an AdWords or AdSense product seminar?
* Who are Google competitors, and how does Google compete with them?
* Have you ever used Google’s products? Gmail?
* What’s a creative way of marketing Google’s brand name and product?
* If you are the product marketing manager for Google’s Gmail product, how do you plan to market it so as to achieve 100 million customers in 6 months?

Google Interview Questions: Product Manager

* How would you boost the GMail subscription base?
* What is the most efficient way to sort a million integers?
* How would you re-position Google’s offerings to counteract competitive threats from Microsoft?
* How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
* You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
* How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
* How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory?
* Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
* How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
* You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?
* Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?
* Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
* In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. If they have a girl, they have another child. If they have a boy, they stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
* If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?
* If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!)
* Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?
* You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?
* How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
* You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
* You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)
* You are given 2 eggs. You have access to a 100-story building. Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100th floor. Both eggs are identical. You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-story building an egg can be dropped without breaking. The question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.

* Describe a technical problem you had and how you solved it.
* How would you design a simple search engine?
* Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
* There’s a latency problem in South Africa. Diagnose it.
* What are three long term challenges facing google?
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November 14, 2009 at 9:06 am

Kamus KasKus

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Wow! I got this from my friend’s blog. Happy reading!

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Administrator Kaskus = Andrew Darwis

Admin – Administrator = orang yang bertugas untuk mengurusi

hal-hal administrasi

Abu Gosok = masih abu-abu, belun ijo

AFAIK = As Far As I Know

AFK = Away From Keyboard

Afgan = sadis (FJB)

Agan = istilah lain juragan (bahasa Sunda), panggilan kepada

sesama member Kaskus

Agreement = peraturan dari kaskus mengenai tata tertib dalam

forum

AKA = As Known As, alias

AKTB = Akses Kaskus Tanpa Banner

Aktivis Kaskus = pangkat setingkat di atas Kaskuser, dengan

jumlah post 500 – 749

Alay = Anak Layangan, norak atau kampungan

AMH = Anime Manga Haven

ASAP = As Soon As Posible

Avatar = gambar identitas member

Aq = aku, saya
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November 5, 2009 at 1:06 pm

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I Got My Dots Connected

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We can only connecting the dots by looking backwards

Steve Jobs Commencement Speech

It was a words that Steve Jobs said in his commencement speech few years ago and it also becomes the words that I really believe in. Why? Maybe because I had a concrete experience related to that words in these past few days. Let me tell you my story:

My first dot is about my ability in English, especially writing. About two years ago I got a scholarship for one semester at Macquarie University, Sydney, as an exchange student for one semester. I could choose any subjects that I wanted during the study. As a psychology major student, it was an innate desire that I want to take psychology subjects at that time. However, I asked myself , “What could I get in one semester?”. I mean, studying psychology isn’t like taking a computer short-course. I felt that I could not really understand deeply if I only study there for one semester. So, under that consideration, finally I took three different subjects: Print Media Journalism, Linguistic, and Creative Writing. I chose those subjects because I wanted to improve my english (in writing).

The other dot is about presentation. I could say that I had a really bad public speaking ability until a year ago. I always nervous whenever I needed to speak in front of many people. My heart was pounding, my hands shook, and I spoke uncontrollably. In short, I was a clown. And it had become my greatest fear ever to talk in front of people. Fortunately, I have been trying hard to overcome my fear since a year ago. The first time was when I needed to give a powerpoint presentation in a business plan competition. I have two partners that encourage me to do the speech, at least for 5 minutes. And after I went through that 5 minutes of hell, I could manage my fear better. I kept practicing by giving a lecture at Universitas Indonesia  (faculty of Communication studies), became a trainer, and surfed many websites that give me many good examples of powerpoint design.

Finally these dots were connected in these past few weeks. I had some kind of occasion that needed myself to be examined. I had three test in a row for three weeks: interview test, Presentation test (in english), and essay writing test. I could not imagine if I did not have those dots before. It would’ve been a disaster for me. I could get nervous while doing the interview test and presentation test, and I could write a trash essay on the essay writing test.  I have my dots helping me eventhough I did not think that the previous dots was going to be helpful to me. It’s just like Steve Jobs said, “We can only connecting the dots by looking backwards”.

Make the dots as many as you can.

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November 1, 2009 at 10:29 am

Between A Realist and A Real Dreamer

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I believe all people in this world only have two ways of life.

1. The first way is to be someone who is realistic with all their decision. This way of life will give you a safe way to live; no deep scar on your heart and no glorious joy whatsoever.

2. The second one is to be someone who always pursue what they want ignoring whether it is possible or impossible. Just simply follow your heart and follow your ego. As a result, there are possibilities to feel insanely down or vice versa.

Cool your head, drink a glass of water, and think clearly which way of life do you choose. By defining this, you are a step further on knowing who you really are. Realistic people who love to act within his range of competency will feel good if they can measure what are they capable of. On the other hand, the person who always follow his heart will feel satisfied everytime he takes risk.  So in what condition that defining whether you are a follower of your dream or someone who realistic can make you a better person?

I should say: in any condition that needed you to make decision. Why? It’s because everytime you make decision, you are being tested that are you someone who really know about yourself or not? If you really know about yourself, then you must be seldom to regret what you’ve decided. And this will lead to a happy life without looking back to your past.

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October 26, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Finally…

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Finally… I am writing my blog again! It’s been a long long time ago that I wrote on this blog. Well, lots of things happened during my absence. There were my ups and downs on romance, education, career, friendship, and family. There was a time when I felt quarter-life crisis. And there was the time when I felt that I could climb all the mountains of life in this world. In short, lots and lots of things happened and stupidly, I didn’t write that so I could barely remember those feelings now.

Today is already October, and I haven’t succeed any of my resolutions this year. I guess time goes as fast as bullet train, once you’ve missed the train, there’s no other way you could be on time.

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October 17, 2009 at 12:19 pm

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Cool Google Chrome Commercial

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Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
We’re the lucky ones….

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June 14, 2009 at 4:37 am

Larry Page’s Commencement Speech at Michigan University

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Larry Page, the Google co-founder, was giving a commencement speech at Michigan University. He shared his story about google and his family. This is the words that we all should remember from him:

Overall, I know it seems like the world is crumbling out there, but it is actually a great time in your life to get a little crazy, follow your curiosity, and be ambitious about it. Don’t give up on your dreams. The world needs you all!

Read the transcript here.

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May 16, 2009 at 1:46 am

Bohemian Rhapsody in an old school computer remix form

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May 14, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Few Photographs while I was visiting MIT

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MIT 1

one of the awesome building at MIT

The other angle of the awesome building at MIT

The other angle of the awesome building at MIT

me on the center

me on the center

me at the center of another awesome building at MIT

me at the center of another awesome building at MIT

I've walked the hallway here...

I've walked the hallway here...

there's cafeteria inside

there's cafeteria inside

this is the awesome spot to look at

this is the awesome spot to look at

and I peeked at this lecturer's room

and I peeked at this lecturer's room

These photographs were taken when I was attending the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) 2009 at Harvard university on March 2009. After attending the conference, I still had few days left and I decided to go around Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) and you guys could see some of the pictures I could get there. I actually sneaked into one of those classess, but I couldn’t take any picture inside because my camera would’t work without flash (and it’s impossible to take a photograph without making a scene) so I didn’t take any picture while I was in the class at MIT.

Does anyone know how to apply for a scholarship at MIT? please tell me… I desperately need it..

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May 11, 2009 at 3:05 am