MattLaroche

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by MattLaroche 14y ago
I haven't been following this closely, but if I understand correctly, the jury found against Samsung on the Nexus S. That is a Google phone built straight from Android and with no specific Samsung code at the UI level. (Don't think a discla
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by MattLaroche 14y ago
McDonalds owning Chipotle isn't an urban legend, it was true but is no longer. In 1999, Chipotle was a subsidiary of McDonalds ( http://www.chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=chipotlemcdonalds ), but McDonalds was fully divested around 2006 ( htt
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by MattLaroche 14y ago
Is this at Rands? That's not what I gathered at all. To me, Rands was concluding that Apple is secretive to surprise the whole world, not Apple employees. I don't think it's possible for a company the size of Apple to have all employees kno
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by MattLaroche 14y ago
Why not link to Google's blog instead of TechCrunch? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/spring-cleaning-in-su...
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by MattLaroche 14y ago
The Galaxy Nexus is stock Android. Apple is suing Samsung because of stock Android software - not firmware, not hardware, but software. Is there a legal reason Apple is suing Samsung instead of Google, or is it tactical / political?
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by MattLaroche 14y ago
Plus if Gabor doesn't come up with another successful idea before he needs money (which I doubt), he can always get a day job again to pay the rent.
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by MattLaroche 14y ago
Corn is a grain, not a vegetable. Dietarily, Americans do like to treat corn as a vegetable, but it should be more thought as as a starch.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I used a friend's Asus Transformer Prime a couple weeks ago (Android tablet with keyboard) and it seemed very well implemented. The Transformer Prime is a great netbook and dang close to being a laptop replacement. It made me wonder what th
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Honestly, I hope America gets universal healthcare as well. I just don't get "if this is struck down, it'll pave the way for true universal healthcare." I think, logically, that universal healthcare would be more likely without the individu
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
At the same time, America treats emergency healthcare as a right and then the rest of society pays those bills. It's probably cheaper for people to get care before it gets to the emergency level. It certainly results in better quality of li
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
What are the chances that if the Affordable Health Care act is found unconstitutional that America gets universal health care in the next decade?
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Where's Pico?
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Ha. You may have missed the past tense on "worked for Palantir." I was the bottom half of my class at CMU, so if it floats your boat to work at Palantir, apply away.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Disclaimer: I worked for Palantir. Palantir does a good job pitching the "We only hire the best and brightest." The pitch worked on me. When I accepted the offer, the smartest person I knew from the CMU CS class of 2006 (my class) was worki
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
The body of the post doesn't follow the headline. (Apparently, I've ragged on the author, Dave Winer, for similar things before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2808050 . I came here to comment on it and it just happens to be the same c
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
It was also added yesterday and killed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542831 It seems this guy found it yesterday and resumed public interest in the issue: http://www.disinfo.com/2012/02/mythbusters-banned-from-discu...
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
How is it evil for a recruiter to say "Y'know, we offer a lower salary than you're looking for, but we make up for it in perks!" And then how is it evil for the food team or corporate finance team to say "We're wasting money in food - liter
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
One thing this article doesn't point out: it wasn't Google who argued that the supposedly lower salary was offset by food - it was a person (sure, an employee or contractor of Google). Perhaps this person was reading from a recruiting scrip
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
That doesn't sound to me what nl is talking about at all. He's asking what others would do if they were running Google. He's not suggesting that ethics don't exist.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I've thought about excluding an employer from my resume. I left Google in April, worked at another company for 6 months, didn't like it and resigned, and started at Strava (which I'm loving) in November. I have a decision to make: do I incl
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Weather.com has the best weather data, but the worst "professional" site on the internet. So I run AdBlock on Weather.com and allow most other sites to run ads.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Not just a paper, but an entire book. It's easy reading, and if you've been negatively affected by assholes at work, worth a read.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work at Palantir. However, I never used the Government product, and never as much as saw a demo of the Government product. I'll talk mostly about the Government product, but much of this goes for the Finance product to
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
The title should have been copied and pasted from the article. Droid and Android are two different things. The article has the correct naming ("Android... Open Sourced"), whereas this posting is incorrect.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
If the CIA weren't doing something intelligent with the public stream of Twitter data and Facebook data, I'd be worried about their competence.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I feel for you. I have failed a few interviews; I choked in the interview because I didn't simulate the interview environment in practice by whiteboarding and talking through problems alone. I recommend you read Steve Yegge's post about int
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I've done a lot of interviews. Hired a bunch of people. And I'll agree that technical interviews aren't a great proxy for how we really should be handling hiring (blogged about it a couple days ago http://mlaroche.blogspot.com/2011/10/algo
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
The title is "Most Technical Interviews Suck". The content is about how what a series of interviews at one specific company sucked, and the interviews didn't sound all that technical. Bad day, sure. But definitely not supporting the title.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I drew a different conclusion when I got that email from Barnes & Noble. While I dislike B&N buying Border's customer list, B&N was transparent about it and pre-emptively offered a clear opt-out before they started sending adver
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
The book The No Asshole Rule talks extensively about Steve, IIRC labeling him a certified asshole and discussing his management style. The conclusion I drew was Steve succeeded in part because he was more often charismatic but people were a

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