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by msg 14y ago
I left an employer after designing a large project. I might have put them in a time crunch on that one. But I didn't feel bad about that, because they had just had me work mandatory overtime and weekends throughout the summer to finish a pr
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by msg 14y ago
It would be nice to get everything on one page. As it is, in my laptop I am scrolling up and down a lot to see the instructions, the terminal, and the local filesystem, which are laid out as three rows in one long column. I did the tutorial
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by msg 14y ago
I feel for you. I totally buy that there can be unhealthy leadership throughout an org. The story sounds familiar to me. It only takes one bad grand-manager to ruin the show for a lot of people. If there's one thing that has gotten on my ne
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by msg 14y ago
I've been an engineer at Amazon for some years. I started in a worse-off team, but I moved to one since that succeeds and is insulated from politics. We're on the margin of the dependency graph and own our whole stack from pageview to datab
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by msg 14y ago
Can someone put this in context? Is this an inkling of things to come? I'm curious about how the trend toward automation, away from human labor, will affect unemployment and disaffection in China.
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by msg 14y ago
You seem to be talking about the replacement of intrinsic with extrinsic rewards I first read about that in the book predictably irrational. here is a link http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061353248/ref=as_li_qf_sp_... (Nb: I stole this
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by msg 14y ago
I agree that choosing a computing device is a First World Problem. But that's not on point. GP was saying it's a luxury in the sense that it's completely redundant for most of us who already have a laptop, phone, and workstation. In that se
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by msg 14y ago
It is a bird's eye view of a human holding a laptop in an armchair, said laptop composed of a touchscreen docked into a keyboard/case apparatus thusly.
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by msg 14y ago
I hate to break it to all the people that failed to read, including the OP, but the hated acronym you want is BFM not BMF. http://bfmdigital.com/ As for judgment on the actual issue, I think ContentID bends over backward to big content to
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by msg 14y ago
Because our interests are not aligned. Because you have to earn intimacy. Because my sharing is not reciprocated. Because I don't trust you.
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by msg 14y ago
Today's driving scenarios will be served by a small pocket of tomorrow's automated power, granted. If we have self driving cars, fast switching and routing, we may find ourselves in possession of a packet switched human transportation netwo
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by msg 14y ago
I was lucky to tune in about ten minutes before launch. I wasn't alive for the Apollo program, and I thought of our space efforts as a little lame as the shuttle program ratcheted down and finally expired over my lifetime. This launch blew
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by msg 14y ago
Like I said, people have different expectations. You can also see when people are logged into Facebook because they are available to chat with. How would you react if they were logged in but you didn't have a read receipt? Or there was a re
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by msg 14y ago
The difference is you can't turn it off. People have different expectations when using this software. I think I've logged on once in the past 6 months. A heavy user who sends me a message and expects, but does not see, a read receipt may th
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by msg 14y ago
Did you have a license to create a derivative work from this guy's words? The minimal rewriting didn't elide the substantial structure and organization of the original work. Just linking to the guy did not attribute the paragraph. For me, i
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by msg 14y ago
When we were subscribing I was able to use HBO Go fine on 4G (TMobile, Seattle area). My bugaboo in this area is international football. Getting Premier League games in the states is a real pain. I'm sure there's equally entrenched interest
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by msg 14y ago
It has a different title in the US, which was where I read it. Agreed, it's a great book. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie
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by msg 14y ago
This is so cool! I started drawing without watching the video and didn't get it. Thank goodness I didn't give up there. Recipe for fun: Make a very thin rectangle by dragging in a square, and holding down shift to resize it. You can basical
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by msg 14y ago
Minecraft's hand holding and difficulty curve are still pretty bad. They tried to help the situation with achievements that are like little tutorials, but the wiki is still required for anything other than the basics.
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by msg 14y ago
For $50? College students have done much weirder and stupider stuff for less money than flipping a coin twice and answering a straightforward T/F question, even if it were twenty questions. The technique has been around for a long time. You
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by msg 14y ago
Maybe we are talking past each other. This is the page I was thinking of: http://itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzles.ht... These aren't classic Microsoft "puzzle questions". They are programming challenges that say a lot ab
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by msg 14y ago
One interesting thing you can do with such a questionnaire is a coin flip survey (sorry, I don't know the real name). Give the survey participants a list of sensitive true/false questions and a coin. Instruct them to flip the coin twice, co
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by msg 14y ago
I think some of the ITA programming puzzles (for instance) are fun on their own merits. Not to get too meta, but what if the company essentially buys your argument? "Yes, this is a non-real world problem for entertainment purposes only..."
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by msg 14y ago
Looking back, were they overqualified or underqualified? If you had tested the second guy's C++ skill (sounds like he couldn't have done Fizzbuzz in your interview), would you have disqualified him? If you didn't think C++ was that importan
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by msg 14y ago
Which sets of Senators were facing election that year? As a rule, only approximately a third. It would be nice to see if they were correlated to the group "switching" sides. Which party controlled the Senate that year? It would be interesti
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by msg 14y ago
I agree with the story. To interview, you don't turn little details into big questions. You turn big questions into little details. Interviews are lossy compression of a career, experience, and brain shape, over a noisy channel of whiteboar
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by msg 14y ago
How is it an immature attack to point out that an advocate for the opposing side failed to predict the future? Or that he has no real expertise? It goes to his credibility.
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by msg 14y ago
On the other hand, Groklaw does have a history of predicting future events in these court cases that FOSS Patents can't pretend to match. Don't blame Groklaw if the reality of the law has a strong bias in their favor. You don't get truth by
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by msg 14y ago
I've flagged Gruber in the past for posts that were contentless flamebait (in my opinion, of course). I don't know what the story is with Thurrott. Because of the banning, it sounds like a special case that the mods of HN have ultimately de
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by msg 14y ago
You can cut to the chase pretty fast if you read between the lines at Mini-MSFT (especially the comment threads). Sure, some of it is outright BS. I'm sure trolls fabricate some comments. But in the middle of the curve, disputed by no one,

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