Thought Stream — week of 13 Oct 2014
Gender prediction from Indian names - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mfaruqui/papers/techsym-2011.pdf
When interviewing candidates, a lot of stress is laid out on design, architecture, algo, data structures etc but not on debugging skill.
Irony is, we spend as much time or more on debugging as writing new code.
Media is one of those occupations where performance does not matter.