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by msg 15y ago
I would hope "you just broke the user experience for 50 million people, there are 30 internal teams screaming your name" is higher pressure and stakes than an onsite interview loop. You can make or break your career in that situation too. I
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by msg 15y ago
When people say this, I usually hear "Would Google've". It looks horrible that way, but captures the intention. I might use it orally (or in fiction dialogue), but not in writing.
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by msg 15y ago
This is Hacker News. We don't copy and paste text. That would be a waste of time and energy. We write Greasemonkey bots that talk to each other. -- SnarkTron TM 2012 Edition --
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by msg 15y ago
But obviously Christians don't believe that heaven is like North Korea or the Movementarians. They see it quite differently from the inside. I take Hitchens as trying to find a common ground for argument by appealing directly to the text. S
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by msg 15y ago
If you read Revelation and take only one layer of meaning from it, you didn't really read Revelation. I find myself writing the ridiculous sentence that Hitchens perhaps took a religious prose poem/vision/prophecy/allegory/history too liter
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by msg 15y ago
(1) any education in journalism; (2) any credentials or proof of any affiliation with any recognized news entity; (3) proof of adherence to journalistic standards such as editing, fact-checking, or disclosures of conflicts of interest; (4)
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by msg 15y ago
3 and 7 disqualify many fair and balanced "journalism" organizations as well. Accept that the judge was BSing and this part of the decision makes much more sense.
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by msg 15y ago
You could say this about any unprofitable business. It's the business's job to offer transactions to each individual customer that aggregate to the positive for the business. It's not my job to provide corporate welfare to ailing Best Buy.
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by msg 15y ago
If it turned out that basically every other mainstream phone OS had just been discovered to cause cancer, yes, I would say the fact that CM doesn't and never will would be welcome news.
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by msg 15y ago
The article contains a false choice between random chance and copying. There are many other ways it could have happened, such as multiple simultaneous invention, aesthetic choices that are in fact constricted by physical analogs, convention
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by msg 15y ago
For me, if you can't do the intro to CS stuff and write simple programs in an interview, that serves as a proxy that you can't do the advanced CS stuff and write complex programs on the job. There are many many candidates who make it to the
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by msg 15y ago
The "copied" ui elements are actually neither copied nor random. They are conventional elements predating both OSes. Such as the tab coloring in the spreadsheet which is from manila folders, the mail reading vertical panes from Outlook, the
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Steam Hacked?(rockpapershotgun.com)
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by msg 15y ago
? The future value of money is discounted by inflation and the opportunity cost of failing to invest. According to this inflation calculator for US, you would lose about $1000 just from inflation if you deferred your bonus for the five year
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by msg 15y ago
I have had it with these mother----ing snakes on this mother----ing plane! Samuel L Jackson swore so much he crossed the line from emotion to a parody of himself doing it. Also, he got to read "Go the ---- to Sleep". You're debasing the m
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by msg 15y ago
I knew what it was, so maybe I'm not the best test subject. And I agree with you that this kind of thing should be above the fold. But it's there if you use your scroll wheel in the first 11 seconds: Be the first to tackle this voxel-based
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by msg 15y ago
I'm an engineer as well. I would say that in interfaces especially, we converge toward best practices globally. Your customer is not happy to have to learn a hundred interfaces or switch interfaces when they get a new device or program. For
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by msg 15y ago
If you sit experts in separate rooms and give them the same problems, often they will converge to the same solution. Whether that is due to physical limitations, mathematical or statistical considerations, the current state of the market, w
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by msg 15y ago
For reference, All time #6 is the NEA with $37M, #7 is Goldman with $36M. If you look at people counts, the NEA has about 3.2 million people. Goldman has about 36,000 employees. Two orders of magnitude more contribution per person. As a sma
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by msg 15y ago
people doing PhDs usually wind up doing bad research FTFY Seriously though, limiting it to STEM majors would goose academia in the right direction.
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by msg 15y ago
I don't think the 1 star rating is good for product reviews. If you like something, give it 5 stars, if not don't. You don't have a 1 star in electoral campaigns.
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by msg 15y ago
This was a good article about starting fires, but it is very incomplete. I was expecting a comparison of various kinds of kindling, like paper vs. twigs. Instead it was a simple description of how kindling is used to start a fire. It appear
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by msg 15y ago
It's a little hard to talk about this broad topic without bloviating. Here goes. So first, take that stuff Steve said about extensibility to heart. He has another blog somewhere, oh here it is http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinoc
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by msg 15y ago
Amazon engineer here, just a couple of observations after a few years at the company. As many people said, there's a wide variability in experience at Amazon depending on the team. And I would say even more, depending on where you sit in th
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by msg 15y ago
Facts are the machine language of knowledge. Hopefully you didn't spend university, in whatever major, memorizing long binary strings. You were meant to be climbing the abstraction ladder (say, to higher level programming and language desig
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by msg 15y ago
I'm in good company when I say that the pace of innovation has accelerated to ludicrous speed. Last week I read about scientists who knocked out a rat cerebellum and replaced it with an artificial one - and it worked. A few weeks ago I read
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by msg 15y ago
XXXXXed out the user name. You might want to scrub your exceptions before showing them to the user... Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User XXXXX already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/XXX
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by msg 15y ago
He was trying to say, leading from the preceding sentence: "[For dogmatic people] there's no distinction between [acclaimed artist/thinker] and [Bible-thumper/wanker]. [but there is for me]" You might have the causation exactly backwards fo
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by msg 15y ago
Roll out an "Import my recommendations" API integrated with IMDB and Amazon and Qwikster and other rateable sites, and you might have no trouble. Otherwise this is a very serious regression. The customer wants one interface to rule them all
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by msg 15y ago
tl; dr: Is Windows 8 vaporware? Meanwhile iPad is surrendering all the way to the bank. I lost a few brain cells on this one.

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