Does the NSA have better engineers than Facebook or Google? - Quora

Answer: I have worked at both the NSA and Microsoft. On average, the engineers...   Your Quora Digest Top Stories from Your Feed   Does the NSA have better engineers than Facebook or Google? 1.2k Kevin Borders, Former NSA Employee I have worked at both the NSA and Microsoft. On average, the engineers at the NSA are not as good. In addition to poor HR, which was mentioned in another answer, here are t... Read More » You are invited to an intimate family dinner by a close friend. Then you realize the hosts have a tradition of praying before dinner. For an atheist, what would be the best etiquette in such a situation? 7.2k Dan Holliday, Gaytheist I went into a Hindu temple nearby and was told not to touch the deities. I didn't touch the deities. I went into the Tempe Mosque a few years ago and was asked to take of... Read More » Does anyone outside of the UK find Rowan Atkinson funny? 109 Samarth Mohan, has a questionable sense of humour. Yes, definitely. If you haven't, I heavily recommend seeing the British television show, Blackadder. [1] Atkinson has writing credits for and starred in it. And it is absol... Read More » What does it feel like to be old? 4.6k Stan Hayward, Film/TV/Book writer I am the same age as Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood. In Dog-years that is really really ancient. I am shorter than either, but heavier than both. I am not sure if that ma... Read More » What was John Nash like as a professor? 943 Jon Hersh, PhD candidate in Economics In 2007 I spent a week with John Nash in Barcelona. Ostensibly I was assisting with a paper he was writing (The agencies method for coalition formation in experimental game... Read More » How feasible is Elon Musk's idea to establish a colony on Mars in the 2020s? 1.4k Philip Metzger I manage a NASA lab that develops tech for "living off the land" on the Moon or Mars or asteroids. That includes mining and processing local resources like water ice or oxy... Read More » What is it like to have a photographic (eidetic) memory? 4k Christian McConnell, IQ of 180 Painful. I remember every detail of every second of every day perfectly. I can tell you the license plate number, make, and model of every car I have ever driven behind. T... Read More » When people want to address a gathering, they usually start by saying "ladies and gentlemen." Why not the other way around? 635 Anne W Zahra, ESL/Language Specialist I liked the other answers, but I disagree with them all. :) The most obvious (and unsatisfying) answer is that "Ladies and Gentlemen" is a collocation-- a set of commonly ... Read More » Why does China want to build 36 million houses for Iran? 103 Reza Shaeri, Attorney China owes Iran a large sum of money for the oil and gas it purchased, but did not actually pay for, due to sanctions restrictions on bank transfers. By some estimates, th... Read More » What do economists do at Google (their responsibilities as Google's employees)? 1.6k Hal Varian I'm the Chief Economist at Google, so I believe I am uniquely qualified to answer this question. I joined the company in 2002 and initially worked on the economics of the ... Read More »   Read More in Your Feed       This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Quora is your best source for knowledge. Unsubscribe from this email.