Oh wow: now this is a solid example of HN fandom. Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Dropbox, Evernote, Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, Square, PayPal and countless others are hiring their engineers using some variation of whiteboard coding. Engineers in those companies built literally 99% of the technology the author of the comment above uses every bloody day. From the browser he used to leave his comment, to operating system to run the said browser and the phone in his pocket to notify him of new entries on HN to open with that browser.
For some, this is not good enough proof though. A local star running an obscure company is certainly more enlightened -- because, you know, he wrote a blog post on hiring.
There's some evidence that the iPhone in your pocket, for example, may have been built via forced manual/child labor in Taiwan/Vietnam/China etc. The fact that the iPhone is a revolutionary (and generally game-changing) product doesn't somehow add to the virtuousness of how it was built.
For some, this is not good enough proof though. A local star running an obscure company is certainly more enlightened -- because, you know, he wrote a blog post on hiring.