Tyrannosaurs

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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
You're being harsh - graduate CVs are tough because almost no-one has done anything useful. Yes it all looks rubbish but I'd rather someone who had made an effort to sell themselves and had shown they had the ability to pitch up t
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
But it doesn't fail. I've been recruiting solid teams who deliver software for a decade now. The right current skills and the ability to learn future skills aren't incompatible. After all, how do you think those people got th
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I don't disregard them completely and I think CVs can be written in such a way that recruiters (who actually get very excited about such stuff these days) and HR people will be fine with this sort of thing. What I would say is that the
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I see where you're coming from but I disagree. I accept people leave when their salary diverges more than a certain amount from the market rate but that would normally - even in a good market - take time. Personally I wouldn't exp
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I'd be terrified of anywhere that didn't put their best people forward for interviews. Two reasons: 1) Hiring someone is a big deal. You want the people best placed to judge whether they're right involved. 2) You're sell
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Speaking as a hiring manager this feels perfectly reasonable so I'd be interested to know why people might think it isn't. I write a job spec which lists what we're looking for which is advertised and passed to recruiters - i
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
It's not a myth, at least not in most cases. If I take you on I want some indication that you're going to stay around long enough for the investment we're going to make in you to be worthwhile. We'll normally pay a recru
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
It merely says that it's more representative than the other groups, not that it's particularly representative. For instance college samples are massively unrepresentative (younger, smarter, probably wealthier than average). Essent
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I agree that hacking the Echo might be pointless because it won't sell many is reasonable but that's a somewhat different argument. Still, personally if I had concerns about privacy and secrecy I'd be looking to limit the num
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Doing 2 on a smartphone feels like it would be something which would start draining battery really quick which would be a giveaway. With this it's running on mains, it could upload in the middle of the night when it would probably be u
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Isn't this patently false? If it's not listening how can it hear the wake word?
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
It's not a sync service, it's a backup service. The flow is directories on your machine > BackBlaze. Anything in the other direction is manual.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Or their late 30s when they're hollow eye-d with tiredness from the screaming children, knee deep in the detritus of a young family and wondering when they might get five minutes free to set up the smartwatch which is sitting in an uno
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
That's harsh, it's more versatile than that - there's a beautiful person in their 20s checking the stock price while on a yacht, there's a beautiful person in their 20s out running, a beautiful person in their 20s making
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Cook is clearly a prime decision maker in where Apple operate but the poor situation for Chinese workers can't reasonably be laid at his door. The wages are controlled by market forces, even if the market is
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
> its shallow, naive definition of tolerance But if you believe that, that's a pretty intolerant view you have there. The question of tolerance of intolerance isn't perhaps as simple as you make out. It's been well discuss
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
> by using underpaid overworked labor Underpaid in what way? Are there many other jobs those people could be doing which pay them better? They're not paid much by US standards but the alternative is subsistence level farming. Is any
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Indeed. Just the proportion of people who play computer games who see them in this way is shrinking rapidly.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
You need to think outside of the US. It may not be official Google Android, but low cost generic Android tablets are massive in Asia. Most of them are low spec devices but that's all you need if all you're doing is watching movies
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
So they should reinvent the wheel when there are good solutions out there? Isn't the whole point of standards to stop that sort of thing happening? I get that you may feel that someone is just appropriating your work rather than doing
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
> People that need to edit complex spreadsheets, compose scores for films, analyze genomes, and render 3d effects need real computers. As a developer this kind of customer is in many ways a better customer to serve than a teen snapping s
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Ben Evans himself says that Eric Schmidt was right when he said Google would own the TV market a few years back - he (Schmidt) just didn't realise it would be Android tablets rather than GoogleTV.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
My experience of watching kids (ranging from 3 to 15 years old) use this stuff is, in order of level of use/desire to own: Smartphones, tablets, <moderately large gap>, PCs/laptops. As a proportion of use, parents are more l
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I disagree. Disruption involves change which is often stressful and yes, many of those who are disruptive can play it fast and loose with the rules. But being nice? I see no evidence that old businesses are nice (we're just more used t
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
>> Setting up online stores is not rocket science ( to compete with Amazon ) > Sorry but I can't read past that. Come on - setting up an on-line store is trivially easy - Amazon can provide services covering you for ordering,
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Amazon vs. Hachette is increasingly one of those battles you'd like no-one to win. The discussions around the conflict have, to me at least, shown pretty clearly that book publishing as it currently is isn't a model which stands u
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
The thing which I always see missing from these descriptions is the persons other half. The usual logic runs - from 8am to 6pm I'm at work. From 6pm to 8.30pm I'm dad (or mum but realistically it's usually Dad). Once the kids
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I've got an old MacBook kicking about somewhere. If an Apple I is worth that much I should get at least a million for a MacBook, it's way more powerful.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Ah, the naivity of predictions. Play "Space War"? As if games on a computer will ever catch on - we're all too busy making turtles and drawing men with them...
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I think Apple are pretty aware of the limitations - they don't accept TouchID on first login after a restart, for the first purchase after a restart, if it's been 48 hours since an unlock or for resets/major config changes. F

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