(congrats to the kid in any case)
>Aboukhadijeh will continue to attend Stanford while he works at the company.
Because of his imagination. Stupid idea, but worth millions. Innovative people are hard to find.
He also validated for them that users want YouTube Instance without the company doing any work or taking any risks. For this reason alone, he deserves more than a job offer.
He get's a job YouTube while finishing his education at Stanford. Sounds like a good deal. I don't see the downside.
What's with the sour grapes?
I was equally leery for the same reason. I've made tons of apps that bound events and pulled/updated data from cache layers I had setup.
Apparently I didn't have the good sense to be a shameless self-promoter.
This is frankly exemplary of the one thing I don't like about HN, even though I dearly love the community here.
The emphasis on typical business values, rather than on true productivity and hard work agonizes my conscience on a regular basis.
It makes me nauseous to think he got such publicity and a job offer for that.
I hate to be sour about it, but damn.
S'like hiring a B-school kid because he completed a rudimentary business plan, rendered it into PDF, and put it online and it happened to go viral for some absurd reason.
Honestly, I'd never intentionally hire anyone with your attitude.
I've made an app that gets around the lack of transactions in MySQL MyISAM and allows auditing of arbitrary django ORM models with logs.
I wrote a micro-compiler last night using llvm and my own lexer, parser, and tokenizer.
I simply don't write things that are necessarily "accessible" to the general public, and I don't go out of my way to promote them.
The fact that I'm leery of people who are aggressive self-promoters or opportunistic doesn't mean I'm "jealous", I don't actually want to work for Google.
I'm leery because in past experience, the aggressive self-promoters are covering for a lack of something, whether it be scruples or technical aptitude.
I was making an observation and expressing reservation, you're outright saying you wouldn't hire me.
But hey, lesson learned, I'll just make one-off apps that don't actually do anything and promote the shit out of them.
God forbid someone express reservations about the enthusiasm over relatively unproductive demonstrations without getting publicly hammered by a well known startup personality.
You shame yourself and demonstrate why many programmers I know don't take Silicon Valley seriously.