Guy Makes YouTube Instant, Gets Google Job Offer

[wolfram23]

Wow, grats to him hah.

 

[maigo]

And now he's making 500k a year and spends all day swimming in the google ball pit...

 

[gorillateets]

I wish I knew how to do that stuff. Why doesn't any else recognize my ability to fix computers and such besides friends and family? Am I the only one with this problem?

Congrats on that genius those for his job of a lifetime.

 

[nightcrawl3r]

This guy is a genius!

 

[Cyex]

[citation][nom]haunted one[/nom]The one thing I dislike is that the video plays right away.[/citation]
Well duh, maybe you were looking for "YouTube Sort of Quick" instead of YouTube Instant.

 

[jaksun5]

"tags don’t have cross-domain restrictions!)"

In the words of Homer Simpson: "Slow down egg head!"

 

[shoelessinsight]

[citation][nom][/nom]Feross thought YouTube Instant would be pretty easy to rig up and bet his roommate that making real-time YouTube search could be done in less than an hour. Unfortunately, he was wrong. It actually took him three hours to finish the site, with additional time on top of that to polish the UI.[/citation]

One of the things that I was taught as a programmer when estimating how long a project will take is to double the time I honestly think it will take (because programmers always seem to forget about the annoying little touches) to find out how long it will actually take if there are no unforeseen complications.

Then it is necessary to double it again (so that it's four times the original estimation) because there will ALWAYS be unforeseen complications. This final estimate is what a programmer should give to management.

Apparently, Feross Aboukhadijeh hasn't learned that yet. Had he followed these steps, he would have won the bet with his friend. =)

 

[godmodder]

@shoelessinsight: that alone would have let me not to hire this guy. respecting deadlines is one of the most important things in software development

 

[lradunovic77]

Problem is that Google and Youtube Instant Search freaking annoying.

 

[lradunovic77]

Hello Bing...

 

[quantum mask]

[citation][nom]gorillateets[/nom]I wish I knew how to do that stuff. Why doesn't any else recognize my ability to fix computers and such besides friends and family? Am I the only one with this problem?[/citation]
I hear ya bro. If I had a dollar for everytime I jury rigged one of my friends or family's old, old computers (when they really need to stop being cheap and buy a new one) I wouldn't need a job offer from Google. Sometimes I wish I could just say,"LOOK! YOUR OLD 486DX IS NOT GOING TO RUN ANY FASTER! NO MATTER WHAT I DO!"

 

[quantum mask]

[citation][nom]godmodder[/nom]@shoelessinsight: that alone would have let me not to hire this guy. respecting deadlines is one of the most important things in software development[/citation]
Are you kidding me? Gran Turismo is routinely 1.5 years later than the projected release date. Not to mention a host of other popular software that misses release dates.

 

[nokz]

This is why I love Google. They see someone with potential and they hire them. Apple sees someone with potential, they sue them and steal their idea.

 

[Guest]

And now there are so many instant search mashups coming up
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2010/09/best-instant-search-tools-online/

 

[marcus_br]

I just find it stupid how someone jumps a bandwagon and randomly things happen.
I bet many people did whatever shit*instant*, but this guy did a complete useless youtube instant and got some attention landed. It's probably more merit of twitter and being an attention whore than of the feature itself (i hated google instant too, perhaps with a few tweaks it can get nice enough, good idea, horrible execution).

I've seen a few stupid and easy internet projects getting millions in funding, just because "someone knows someone".
Youtube itself is a BIG fail, the only reason it's still alive, is because influential people created it.

My buddy asked me like 10 times around 2002-2003 for we to make a video site just the way youtube came to be (it was an obvious next step after the almost-dead-nowadays fotolog.net, which was an obvious step after the blogger.com phenomena)..
The trouble was always: WAY too expensive to be made, a LOT of money lost for a LOT of time...though luck finding someone dumb enough to invest on that (lots of servers with gigabits of bandwidt with no way of getting a FRACTION of the money back)...
Then "someone" launchs youtube...loses a lot of money...sells to google for billions...and google is still losing money up to this day (a L-O-T of money).

Oh, by the way, if it took him 3 hours, he is wayyy too junior to be hired for anything useful, this is really a "less than 1 hour" job...

 

[phil kizer]

I love the site, props to him, he deserves at job at Google! I just thinks it's messed up how some people are finding lame reasons to dislike this guy and what he accomplished instead of just giving him his credit.

 

[sailfish]

I love it. That site is awesome.

Thanks Jane and THG