Algorithm For Hiring At TaraganaOctober 12th, 2006 It is hiring time again! Srini has devised an algorithm for hiring at Taragana which I think very appropriately describes our hiring funnel:
if (isClueless()) {
goToIBM();
} else if (runOfTheMill()) {
goToWipro();
} else if (thinkUMLIsDesign() && bigAmbitionToBeADesigner() &&
chooseVariableNamesLikeTheLengthOfThisOne()) {
goToAccenture();
} else if ( appreciateDesign() && (knowJava() || knowPHP()) && isTrueDeveloper()) {
welcome();
}
If that looks like you and you are located in India (or willing to relocate) please send your resume to hiring[at]taragana[dot]com.
Note: No animals or companies were harmed in the making of this algorithm.
Clean Room Implementation of Google Page Rank AlgorithmAugust 17th, 2006 Finally a clean-room implementation of Google's Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) {
// start off with a random low PR
int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3);
if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) {
pageRank++;
} else if ( isHostedOn('microsoft.com', url) ) {
pageRank--;
}
// Support valid pages
if (isValidPage(url) ) {
pageRank += 1;
}
tag_value['b'] = 1;
tag_value['h2'] = 2;
tag_value['h1'] = 3;
tag_value['strong'] = -1; // W3C sux!
pageRank = calculateTagsPR(tag_value, pagerank);
// Sergey said good news sites have
// lots of nested tables
tablesOnPage = getTagCount('table');
if (tablesOnPage >= 50) {
pageRank += 2;
}
if (pageRank >= 5) {
pageRank = 4; // helps selling AdWords
}
if (linksFrom('mattcutts.com', url) >= 4) {
// I link to "clean" sites only
// ? Matt, Feb 2006
pagerank += 2;
}
pagerank += countBacklinks(url) / 10000;
blacklist1 = getList('c:\chinese-government-censored.txt');
blacklist2 = getList('c:\larry-page-hatelist.txt');
if ( inArray(blacklist1, url) || inArray(blacklist2, url) ) {
pageRank = 0;
}
d = dashesInUrl(url);
pageRank = (d >= 3) ? pageRank -1 : pageRank + 1;
if (inString(url, "how to build a bomb")) {
// added on request.
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For example previously I used to write:
private gbWay() {
....
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September 3rd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
As someone who pays the bills annoying you (sorry) I can tell you these things don’t work but they do entertain us….remember we rebuttal for a living…we have heard it all….if it’s a new hire though….you may get them pretty rattled.