Adam D'Angelo, former Facebook CTO starts new company: Alma Networks

[prakash]

http://www.alma-networks.com/jobs/

[pj]

We're working on building a community-generated database of the trusted information that interests people most.

Well that narrows it down...

[hendler]

The other engineer, CCheever has been with Facebook since near the beginning. His blog is pretty interesting too:

http://www.ccheever.com/blog/

[boundlessdreamz → hendler]

Thanks for the link. His blog documents the facebook platform better than facebook wiki!

[GeneralMaximus]

> Familiarity with functional or declarative programming languages (OCaml, Erlang) a plus

Now that seems interesting.

[zackattack]

This guy silver medaled the USACO (CS olympiad for HS students) when I was in high school. He is a smart dude and I readily join his company if I had the prerequisite tech skills.

[prakash → zackattack]

Who won gold, and where is that person now?

[jgrahamc → prakash]

http://www.uwp.edu/sws/usaco/2002/usaco2002.htm

Gold: Tiankai Liu

http://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=6446

http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/publications/winter_04...

[zackattack → prakash]

Winning Putnams by the dozen a la cpercival.

(He's placed like 3 or 4 times.)