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by ephermata 6y ago
Facebook | Privacy Engineer | Menlo Park, Seattle| Full-Time | Onsite Facebook is seeking passionate engineers to identify, advise, investigate and mitigate privacy violations and/or exposures in our products. Your skills will be the f
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by ephermata 7y ago
There were at least two programs when I was there. I heard a lot more about them under Ballmer than under Satya. HiPo -- for junior to mid level -- special training, networking, and seminars. MiniMSFT comments section mentions this from tim
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by ephermata 9y ago
Microsoft (Security Risk Detection in AI & Research) | Senior Developer | Redmond, WA | ONSITE | Full-Time Microsoft Security Risk Detection brings pioneering Microsoft technology for analyzing the risk from "million dollar" b
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by ephermata 9y ago
[Disclaimer - I work for Microsoft] Azure just released nested virtualization VMs. I've tested Hyper-V running in such a VM and it worked well. Have not yet tested HAXM.
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by ephermata 13y ago
This is valuable advice. The supervisor is absolutely the most important consideration. It is worth pointing out two things that are different in many U.S. universities. 1) PhDs in the U.S. in CS take between 3-10 years to finish. Less if y
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by ephermata 14y ago
What optimization tasks do Exec and Uber solve to provide the quality of service their customers expect?
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by ephermata 14y ago
Congratulations! Now to go put this together with exec or taskrabbit. :)
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by ephermata 14y ago
(Disclosure: Microsoft employee writing this on a Surface with Touch Cover) Check out the Samsung Series 7 slate. 128GB SSD, 4GB RAM, core i5. 11.6 inches and a little less than 2 lbs. Unfortunately I don't know where you could find one in
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by ephermata 14y ago
Congratulations!
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by ephermata 14y ago
Start a mailing list, start recruiting people to post...who knows, maybe you'll set up the new place?
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by ephermata 14y ago
I read that as "the employer pays you 2K or 3K RMB less than what it otherwise would" , not "the employer pays only 2K or 3K RMB per month."
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by ephermata 14y ago
While none of these are exactly the same as Exec, they do let you hire people remotely to do things. http://www.taskrabbit.com (see also API at http://taskrabbit.github.com ) http://www.zaarly.com http://www.gigwalk.com http://www.g
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by ephermata 14y ago
Yes. One of the clever touches of the TaskRabbit web site is that every task has a unique URL that facilitates sharing stories like this. You can even push a button on the page to "use this task as a template." Some of the things I've found
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by ephermata 15y ago
I'd love to see livestreaming from Exec workers. That would help "human telepresence" tasks like these: http://www.taskrabbit.com/tasks/attend-a-talk-at-uw-and-writ... http://www.taskrabbit.com/tasks/please-help-me-shop-for-furn... htt
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by ephermata 15y ago
Could you hire people on www.taskrabbit.com to go pick things up for you? You'd have to probably pay them on retainer to get the responsiveness you need, but it's a way to recruit in different cities.
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by ephermata 15y ago
I've seen people post "Stand in line for me at the DMV" on TaskRabbit. I haven't tracked how many tasks, but it would be interesting to see growth over time. I wonder how that compares to the specialized services.
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by ephermata 15y ago
Another bit that leapt out for me is his discussion of displays. He's talking about flatscreen color displays, about 15-20 years before they really become commonplace. My favorite is the end, where he talks about how belief and momentum inf
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by ephermata 15y ago
Checking David Heckerman's web page shows this paper from October 2011 in the Journal of Virology. I don't know how it relates to the news article specifically but it's interesting if you'd like to follow this stream of work. http://jvi.as
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by ephermata 15y ago
I can't seem to reply directly to adambrault. Just to expand on why I asked about MS Paint adventures. The aesthetic is similar -- although of course &! is about productivity instead of kids playing a most dangerous game, the emphasis o
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by ephermata 15y ago
It's wonderful that you have "give us feedback" as one of the initial tasks in the first team created. It's less wonderful that there is no obvious way to give you that feedback. Five minutes in and already I'm falling behind on shipping! O
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Proofs of Ownership In Remote Storage Systems (like Dropbox)(eprint.iacr.org)
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by ephermata 15y ago
This is why I tend to leave the laptop & cell behind when attending DEF CON. Besides, it's about meeting the people there, isn't it?
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by ephermata 15y ago
Thank you for posting this. Puts into words what I and I expect others are feeling. Sad to think he is gone.
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by ephermata 15y ago
I'm sorry to hear that you're leaving. Thanks for posting about your reasons for leaving. In any case best of luck with your move. You may want to drop by Noisebridge in SF sometime, you might enjoy meeting some of the people there. Since y
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by ephermata 16y ago
Try Metrix Create Space, in Capitol Hill. http://metrixcreatespace.com/
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by ephermata 16y ago
I just noticed that a Kinect game featuring Michael Phelps has been announced. Time will tell if this is brilliant, or if it's the latest way to flail badly in front of your TV. Does look like it'll make you exercise, though. http://www.jo
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by ephermata 16y ago
The name unfortunately is a homonym for "Mi-Go," who are an extra-terrestrial race that appear in several stories of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The Mi-Go are not particularly friendly. For example, in one story they extract a person's
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by ephermata 16y ago
For WP7, the officially supported languages are C# and VB.NET. That being said, because it is just running Silverlight, you can try running any .NET language. For example, there are a few people running F# on Windows Phone 7. I haven't trie
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by ephermata 16y ago
Grant writing is stressful and has an impact beyond just the meetings directly discussing the grant. I haven't had the pleasure of writing them myself, but I know several people who do. There is intense pressure because the grants pay the s
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by ephermata 16y ago
Nitpick: Matt was at Harvard, not Stanford. With respect to what has changed, one of the things that comes through is that his day at Google is more self-directed and less interrupt driven. Fewer meetings, no petitioning others for grants o

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