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India wants to pre-screen bundled apps(reuters.com)
1 points by magicloop 4y ago|1 comments
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by magicloop 4y ago
India are in discussions with phone vendors to pre-screen the default apps that come on smartphones, and want such apps to be removable. They sight security concerns.
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by magicloop 4y ago
Meta is undergoing a standard phase transition. It was innovation fuelled previously, but now it is value fuelled (milk the existing machine, take care of regulators, be part of the establishment). Intel and IBM are similar examples. So Zu
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by magicloop 4y ago
That's a great article. To me it makes painful reading because what it means is that some of the most talented engineers are being hired by Google to do just regular enterprise software stuff, but disincentivised to actually do innova
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by magicloop 4y ago
If I'm understanding it correctly, you are saying doing 20% time on a side project is a career risk as you won't be seen to be "delivering" as much as your peers (because the side project is not valued). Is it even worse
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by magicloop 4y ago
One thing I can't figure out (genuine question) is why they don't have 20% time anymore for innovation. I thought it was a key driver for new products at Google. Does such a thing cause career risk, or political strife? Also, I&
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by magicloop 4y ago
The UK/IE market is skewed due to the legislation that essentially ignores intermediaries and considers whether a freelancer is under management supervision and control, in effect an employee (using an unfavourable tax definition of su
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by magicloop 4y ago
When I started out one of my first jobs came with an on-call pager. It was a puck shaped item that you carried on your belt. When sitting on the toilet it would slide out of its carrier and fall into the basin. Nearly happened twice to m
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by magicloop 4y ago
It reminds me of: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the re
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by magicloop 4y ago
I was also at the same juncture and found the 'The Personal MBA' Josh Kaufman book highly valuable. Because this book is an index book. Each couple of pages is the distilled top level wisdom/knowledge of a separate business
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by magicloop 4y ago
I've got a couple of life hacks that have seen me through things quite well: 1. My short term goals are: good quality sleep (8hrs), daily exercise (30 minute walk), proper healthy good meals 3 times a day. 2. Work intensely for 40 hour
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by magicloop 4y ago
Rather than trying to be T-shaped, I think it is better to be curious and follow up learning paths on those innate feelings for exploration. Maybe your skill set becomes fractal looking. I think this can be the basis for unique value crea
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by magicloop 4y ago
Since the author mentions there are many users of curl on Apple platforms, there should be a pool of engineers from which a volunteer could be found to help out. The author didn't mention reaching out to Apple for help? My opinion is
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by magicloop 4y ago
When I first was learning to program I was shocked at the logical mistakes and errors I was making. I thought these were an initial bout of bad luck that would pass. But no! And I learned the craft of debugging before my programming hobby
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by magicloop 4y ago
I think pg is one of the best placed people to critique the situation because he knows what a start-up is and how to do one, he's in the same tier of society (top tier wealth), and he knows what is takes to run a social network. The &q
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by magicloop 4y ago
I see reading as a knowledge compression function. So it is efficient to read something that the writer otherwise spent a long time assembling. But reading is just a route to quality thinking. Another route is via technical debate. You verb
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by magicloop 4y ago
I'm glad someone pointed out these things, as I concur. I learnt C++ via the C++ programming language book, and it gave me many of the above benefits/insights. (The book has its faults though). It is akin to trawling through th
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by magicloop 4y ago
The article focuses on the financial world. Historically in the UK (and elsewhere) finance roles have had strong interest for applicants, and high salaries were on offer. So the industry could pick the "most talented". Now the m
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by magicloop 4y ago
It is very possible to do this if you are a contractor working on a tech stack that people consider “legacy” because the software built on this will more likely be in a maintenance/bug fix phase (as a broad generalisation). Pure bug fi
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by magicloop 4y ago
The proposal was unstable on both sides in fact. Jobs didn't fully appreciate the importance of power efficiency at the time - an internal team scrambled to demonstrate why Intel would have been a non-starter due to power budget. The
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by magicloop 4y ago
Actually that is the "Innovator's Dilemma" in action. Managers will always prefer to safeguard and enhance the high margin aspects of the business and discourage/under-invest in low margin disruptor aspects of the busin
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by magicloop 4y ago
Ironically once I studied a part of TAOCP dealing with parallel bit computation as I heard it would help with a Chip vendor I was applying to for a job. The end-of-day boss fight interview arrived with a puzzle I directly solved with my TA
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by magicloop 4y ago
My attitude is that take-home tests should be given to candidates if they cannot share work they've already done. This creates a win-win incentive because it would become standard in our industry to have a portfolio of GitHub contrib
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by magicloop 4y ago
Great to see the code up there on GitHub. So many cogent points made here. It brings it all back to me. What happened there from Symbian to Nokia and then Accenture ought to be taught in MBA programmes as a Greek tragedy.
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SV companies are heavily loaded up with engineers that passed leetcode style tests. Not everyone though, due to acquisitions - engineers get grandfathered in. Leetcode coders implicitly will bias to hire other leetcode coders. There will
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by magicloop 4y ago
Yes, https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep580cf25b... explains how to MDM them for OOB management. (Lights out management).
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by magicloop 5y ago
I think one of the best things about school is the timetable. You don't need to be there too much of each day, and there are generous periods of holiday. What this means is that you have lots of time on your own to go deep and explor
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by magicloop 5y ago
You've hit the nail on the head here. Education is primarily a prestige product. Secondarily, the social and alumni effects of the network around you when you attend. Thirdly, it is the college campus experience. Fourthly, it is wha
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by magicloop 5y ago
I'm an author of a book also published through Amazon Direct Publishing. I've documented how my book is put together with source code, so if you want to produce something suitable for self-publishing, have a look at: https:&#x2F
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I think is this a good document and it also brings to the table the threshold images count (around 30) and the alternate neural hash they will keep private (to guard against adverserial images trying to create a false positive on-device). F

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