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		sakopov on Aug 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search f... This is a perfect example of cargo cult thinking. Just because you're a tech start-up doesn't automatically put you on the same level with Google and Microsoft. Both of those companies have products which require a team of developers with understanding of computational complexities of algorithms, data structures and etc (think of Windows, Visual Studio IDE, Google Chrome/OS, Bing/Google search engines). I'm yet to find out how this applies to your featured list of companies such as Disqus, DropBox or Weebly and i am more than 100% sure that it doesn't.

palish on Aug 7, 2011 [–]

Working at Dropbox would almost certainly require "advanced knowledge of computational complexities of algorithms, data structures and etc".

sakopov on Aug 15, 2011 | [–]

I hope you didn't mean scalability when you wrote that.

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