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by tinkerteller 8y ago
This is mind numbing article and probably not worth anyone's time. The so called "best" advice is: Stay the hell out of other people's code*.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
My employer is famous for hiring folks at executive levels from GE and I can tell you without doubt that most of them had been some of the the worse execs I have came across. I can easily see GE as frothing with some of the worst senior lev
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
It's not technology problem but execution problem. The 5 lbs/20 mi drones are quite feasible in wide urban areas to pre-selected customers. FAA is no longer a problem. It's all about deploy to small group, iterate and expand.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
While I don’t agree with @comesee, I don’t see his comments are offensive/vulgar language. Even the parent comment states very short and simple fact: > dang called me a troll after I simply asked him exactly what it was about my com
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
You are entitled to your opinions but your assertions are blantantly wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18514873
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
While I know how hard these people work, I really cannot support your enthusiasm. The users are often banned at slightest opportunities and they are not even informed what they did wrong or the fact that they just got banned. They would j
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
AAPL will survive, not because they are doing great but the fact that Android just can't pick up the slack. I was completely mind boggled when top Android phones decided to get rid of headphone jack in order to copy iPhone's mista
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
With current state of things YouTube will be toast virtually with any copyright regulation. Huge amount of popular content on YouTube is stolen and retrofitted for your viewing pleasure. This is a raving cottage industry on YouTube and unth
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
That is a wrong analogy. FB does recommendations prominently luring in you to things that you didn't knew existed. It also filters and sorts to decide for you what information you get to see. The correct analogy is having a secretory
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
BUG: Level 66 salary for Microsoft is more than level 67!
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
It seems equivalent levels at Microsoft are severely underpaid by the factor of 2 and sometimes even 3. How the levels considered equivalent across different companies on this website?
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Google had to punish Andy Rubin once because they found bondage porn on his work computer. Now, does that give you enough context?
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Are you smoking something? There are no right answers, seriously? This dudes were the boss of victims who used their power to control their paycheck, promotions and career for sex. This is very different then relationships between peers
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
This is really on Google. Companies shouldn't be providing cover to sexual predators. They just made sure Andy keep abusing in his even more powerful position as CEO of startup. Shame on them. They have really divorced themselves from
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Dude, she was asked to do interview at Burning Man. It wasn't her choice. It is unfathomable that this guy is allowed to manage anyone at all anywhere.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
I think it could be said that Andy Rubin's penis is responsible for delay in robot revolution at least by decade. BTW, surprising that article entirely forgot about Vic Gundotra who was also fired because of sexual misconduct with big
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Google Turns Over Identities of Bloggers on Benfica(nytimes.com)
16 points by tinkerteller 8y ago|2 comments
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
What's up with calling these division leads as "CEO"? Do they only answer to the board elected by shareholders?
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Even bigger issue on FB is fake ads. About 2 out of 3 ads I see are usually of some very bad product but with very attractive video and headline. I've seen people in my family buying often and getting regrets. Now I have developed musc
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
People took his code and re-distributed en-mass. BASIC paid the Microsoft bills for almost 4 years. Are you saying people stole and/or paid for unusable code?
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Given average Android phone lifespan of 21 months, this leads to $2 per month charge for each Android user in EU. Not big deal for most users. However, interestingly all the fines and taxes on corporations are always passed on to customers.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
This list is not about talent finders/leaders/managers. It's about people who wrote ton of code to accomplish something by themselves that would have been very very hard for a good manager to accomplish by simply lining up
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Original interpreter Gates wrote was pretty hard. Imagine flipping switches to enter a program to do entire BASIC interpreter. You are literally entering machine code, not even Assembly. In those days doing any compiler or interpreter was a
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
This is so boneheaded. They are not tieng revenues but user logins! Expect more nagging emails from LinkedIn to do logins!! According to the filing, the “number of times logged-in members visit LinkedIn, separated by 30 minutes of inactivi
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
If I remember correctly there were lot many more people involved pouring various ideas that became final product although Buchheit had a lion’s share and founded the project.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
(only including people who wrote massive amounts of important and complex code themselves and quite possibly dozen median engineers wouldn’t have cut it) John Carmack Dennis Ritchie Ken Thompson Bill Gates Donald Knuth Jeff Dean Brian Kerni
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Not in a exciting place although probably better than rest of the big 5. The main issue is focus moving off from engineering to quarterly results and lot more non-technical people telling engineers what they need to do. Projects gets cut or
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
C/C++ is one of the domain were 60+ year old can shine - if you had been writing code in it regularly. These are the languages that are hard and requires years of experience and bit of history of evolution.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
If all of these companies were incorporated as part of YC batch that would be very impressive. I've increasing feeling that many companies just want to get listed as "YC company" to leverage investor network and take advantag
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Hope that's obvious. If you are going in for something related to smoking always talk to your doctor. I'm talking about simple stuff where they give you large forms on what you have. They form end up at insurance companies and you

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