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by RNeff 11y ago
http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm collects salary information from self-reporting employees of various companies. Twitter, Uber, and other startups are in SF. Google, Facebook, and Apple use private buses to move employe
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by RNeff 11y ago
Current LCD screens have three colors per pixel, Red, Blue, and Green (RGB). Common graphics chips store the three colors as eight bits (byte) each, so 24 bits per pixel. So a 500 by 500 pixel image would have 3 by 500 by 500 bytes or 750,0
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by RNeff 11y ago
Gordon Bell and Allen Newell edited wrote "Computer Structures: Readings and Examples" 1971, which is a collection of original technical papers and their commentary on significant computers. It is online at: http://res
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by RNeff 11y ago
Think of yourself as a marionette, a puppet controlled by strings. Do you control yourself, or are you letting other people pull your strings? If you react to a wrong, you are letting others pull your strings and control you. The other &#x
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by RNeff 11y ago
Microsoft shut down its Research Lab in Silicon Valley. The staff included two Turing Award recipients. The Computer Science Research community was unhappy: https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re
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by RNeff 12y ago
Are you building really cool stuff? Are you paying enough that a programmer could afford an apartment close to your office? Free snacks, free lunch, free dinner, gym membership? Private offices (with doors!) or noisy, chaotic open plan? Are
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by RNeff 12y ago
1. Diffs: There is no easy way to diff two versions. You need to diff the visual changes (what it looks like) and the semantic changes (what it means). How do you visually display the changes in a useful way? IE, what do you put into github
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by RNeff 12y ago
CalTrain http://www.caltrain.com/ ends at 4th and Townsend, then can walk or bus or cab to Mission. CalTrain meets BART at Milbrae (by SFO); BART runs under Market, which is parallel to Mission by one block. Google maps
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by RNeff 13y ago
I'm really old. During 1973-5, I worked at Hewlett Packard's Advanced Product Division in Cupertino. I programmed the HP-21 and HP-25 Pocket Scientific Calculators. The chip architecture was bit serial with 14 decimal digits (56
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by RNeff 13y ago
Ask your new employer for a realtor recommendation, talk to him/her. You have not internalized how expensive the area is and how bad the traffic is. The bridges and the freeways are maxed out during commute. Each city has good areas an
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IBM's Watson installed at Computer History Museum(siliconbeat.com)
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by RNeff 14y ago
Berkeley. The weather is a lot nicer, never freezes. It is on the edge of Silicon Valley, and across the bay from SF. It is a very big state school with lots of weirdness. Seriously, take the "Software as a Service" class at EdX that start
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by RNeff 14y ago
1. Make telecommuting work. Multiple screens, cameras, great software. 2. Make a computer/operating system that cannot get malware; only originally installed software is trusted, any downloads are fully sandboxed. 3. Put QR codes on garment
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by RNeff 14y ago
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry by Martin Campbell-Kelly/ The Computer History Museum is in Mountain View, CA, part of Silicon Valley, close