eecsninja

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by eecsninja 7y ago
> few who had interest in computers rather than viewing programming as a path to easy money. FTFY
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by eecsninja 7y ago
25 years since I started learning C++ as a kid, 14 years in industry and feeling like a disappointed old man despite still having the youthful looks to pass for a student!
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by eecsninja 7y ago
This is exactly it. There's a lot of apex fallacy going on in the discussion of tech. Most of us in tech don't have any say in the direction of the industry. Many of the rank and file workers would actually prefer to live someplac
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by eecsninja 7y ago
"Tech bro" describes a few people at the top (think Adam Neumann or Travis Kalanick) known for their bad behavior but unfortunately is used by the media to paint the rest of the men in tech with the same negative light. The irony
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by eecsninja 7y ago
The problem is that large organizations like government agencies and corporations don't want alternate opinions, except in the rare cases where they specifically have a devil's advocate position to test the validity of ideas. Bett
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by eecsninja 7y ago
This is significant because it is a company that pays very well. Not because of where it stands relative to the US average. I'd like to know what this person actually did for work. The media tends to ambiguously use terms like "te
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Googler not on Cloud team, but using Google Cloud Platform for an internal project. I've encountered my share of bugs and other flaws while using this platform. I think all these platforms are just too damn complex and brittle. It&#x27
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Don't you mean fen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fen_(currency) 1/6 of a penny is 0.0016 USD, or 0.01 CNY: https://www.google.com/search?q=0.0016+usd+to+cny
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by eecsninja 7y ago
The problem with your example of Office 2003 is not that they added sharing in later versions. It's that they replaced the old toolbar with the awful ribbon interface, instantly breaking years if user familiarity.
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Good article but why does the HN title include"silicon valley"? The article doesn't include SV in its actual title, and mentions SV only twice. Not to mention that the old SV model is mostly dead, and the new SV is highly cor
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by eecsninja 7y ago
How do you find these fixit jobs? Are you brought in as a contractor/consultant?
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Latest Version of Chrome on Android Breaks Editing URLs Containing Japanese(bugs.chromium.org)
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The failure of the digital computer (1998)(the-adam.com)
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Maybe many people you see are Asian foreigners (Chinese, Korean, Filipinos, etc) and you just don't realize it. I hear Chinese spoken on the streets all the time.
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by eecsninja 7y ago
I had a travel plug adapter (for conversion between US/UK/EU-style) that had a bright blue LED on it to indicate power. I don't know who thought the choice of blue was a good idea, because as a travel adapter, it would be plu
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by eecsninja 7y ago
If I had the option to reduce my working hours by 25%, I would actually prefer to accrue the extra time as vacation, so that I can take several weeks off at once.
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by eecsninja 7y ago
I've been in OP's boat, mentoring people (normal hires, not from boot camps) who couldn't be bothered to put in the effort. It was a colossal time and energy sink. My attitude today is that you have to put in the initial effo
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by eecsninja 7y ago
The data you linked is for the entire Tokyo metropolitan area. The trend is that people are moving out of rural areas and into the urban core. It would be more appropriate to look at the central part of Tokyo, the 23 wards (former city of T
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by eecsninja 7y ago
If only the naysayers of development as a solution bothered to do research on how Asian cities (esp Tokyo) develop to get ideas to apply to cities in the west.
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by eecsninja 7y ago
And parking minimum laws make it worse. Just look at all the new 2-bedroom apartments in North San Jose, that are inhabited by single people.
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Are 4 years of living in dorm rooms stressful?
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Keep in mind that this is a survey of people of each age living during the 2010s. Not a graph of how each generation's happiness has changed as they aged.
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Ironically I use it as a Chromium/Chrome developer to check whether certain documents are visible to users outside of Google, as a way to determine what information is internal-only.
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Maybe if we got them started earlier than college CS, it would be easier. I learned how to use the MSDOS prompt growing up as a teenager. Most of my programming was done in an IDE, though -- including the first few years of my career. I had
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Remember when Tokyo was expensive? https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...
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by eecsninja 7y ago
Ding ding ding, we have a winner! This is something that most people who in the "only luxury housing will be built" camp miss. If the newly rich (either acquired wealth or moving in) can't buy luxury housing because none is b
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by eecsninja 8y ago
This reads almost like a satire. I urge anyone to read this over and consider that this disgrace of a CEO not only took someone else's place in Stanford, and later took funding that could have gone to other uses, refuses to own up to h
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I've met my share of Googlers who are lazy, don't know how to solve problems (as opposed to write code itself), or still need help with basic tasks after several years on the job. You just can't test for some qualities like f
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by eecsninja 8y ago
A good rule of thumb to follow when writing C++, esp C++11 or later: Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
No, but they certainly have no use for SWEs thinking outside the box in ways beyond engineering work. Such as recognizing that interviews don't work well to predict ability and success. We engineers are supposed to shut up and conduct

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