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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm embarrassed to say it took me a full year of mac use (I came from linux originally) to learn that preview app could edit as well you can insert your own signature!
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Are you really saying you'd prefer to work for a company that doesn't think about what its internal culture maybe.... kidding. culture is really hard to define. But yes your point is taken but my point is by defining concrete
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by agentgt 9y ago
Every time GIMP crashes on my Mac (been meaning to figure out why but for some reason its when I copy and paste) I think of Microsoft Paint and I would love it if Apple had an analog. Its sad because other than MS Excel, MS Paint is one of
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by agentgt 9y ago
No it isn't. They are telling you what they want it to be. I'm sure Uber has/had a similar manifesto. Do you think they put in the whole sexual harassment in that document. It's like a government writing what the culture
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by agentgt 9y ago
Yes but they are never going to tell you the actual internal culture. In fact I believe it isn't stating concrete things (ie a lack of formality) that may actually lead to things like Uber. When you say this is the hours, and this your
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by agentgt 9y ago
I was sort of exaggerating there but I'm not entirely sure liking == trusting (or the obvious reversal). In fact I would not be surprised if having say two personalities that do not mesh well one on one but work great on a team to mayb
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by agentgt 9y ago
I could have done a better job with my comment and it was sort of tongue and cheek. Of course culture concerns existed before but it was way more spelt out if you will. When I used to ask companies "hey what is your culture like"
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by agentgt 9y ago
This is not the same (boards/aggregators) as Yelp, HN, Reddit, Stackoverflow or various other user generated content review sites. This is because most if not all the jobs come from the companies website. They are a search middleman si
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm going to be a little contrarian but I wonder what happened to the good (or maybe bad) old days of just come to the company and do your job. You work these hours, and have these benefits, and this is how much vacation/sick time
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by agentgt 9y ago
> That is true of Indeed, but true neither of Monster nor CareerBuilder. CareerBuilder sell a lot of HR software, as well. Actually they all sell additional HR software (I know this intimately well but unfortunately I can't legall
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by agentgt 9y ago
"I only turned it on when I went to pee or to climb down to get fresh water," he says. I know this is really dumb question but why did he need to turn on his light to pee? I presume he is in his wet suite?
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Honestly the work to be done in search in general is still gigantic, and it's even bigger in job. I completely agree! After all I'm basically admitting that what my company does (albeit we make company job portals and job m
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by agentgt 9y ago
When Rebol first appeared it reminded me very much of new language that appear at the same time called Curl (not be confused with ubiquitous HTTP tool). The similarity, goals, and timing of release of both languages is in interesting con
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by agentgt 9y ago
My company makes recruiting software and it we knew it was only a matter of time (a couple of years ago... now its obvious) before Google would enter the recruiting industry. Particularly because the major players other than LinkedIn basica
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by agentgt 9y ago
Now we just need some way to digital sign speeches (and hopefully eventually with quantum cryptography). I'm not sure how but perhaps this could actually improve the issue of fake news with or least the assimilation if there as a broad
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by agentgt 9y ago
For service consistency we have been experimenting with the CV which is the standard deviation over the mean (with of course 99% as well being looked at). I told someone we were looking at it and I too got a similar response.
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Google Photos already picks out objects in photos to make photos searchable by keyword, removes obstructions (eg. fences) from photos. Tesla cars already automatically follow the speed limit, automatically brake, automate lane changes,
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by agentgt 9y ago
I generally agree but often those affordable houses are massive cheaply made McMansions (particularly in Texas). Living in New England I'm often envious and this is probably coming from jealously but really family's of 5 don'
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by agentgt 9y ago
I live in Waltham and while I don't work in Boston (work from home) it only takes me 15-25 minutes (depending on where in the city) to get into Boston. The Boston area has awesome suburbs that aren't really suburbs like Newton, Ar
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by agentgt 9y ago
I have always wanted a rich text editor where you could see the markdown as well as the formatting it produces at the same time (and in the same edit pane... ie not realtime rendering in a pane above). That is if you typed: **blah**
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by agentgt 9y ago
Even mentioning his brief stint at Georgia Tech would have been more apropo than the politics (I am of course biased as I went to the school). I do appreciate that Carter is one of the few presidents with <strike>at least some albeit
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm not against Net Neutrality but If Google were to do that it would be ironic, evil, and probably exacerbate the situation. One of the arguments against Net Neutrality is it would help break up the Google marketing monopoly (yes this
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by agentgt 9y ago
I agree. There is some work to go off heap with Java and supposedly you can get incredibly results. Unfortunately the libraries that seem to help doing this are either proprietary are not very well support or stalled. Of course I think part
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by agentgt 9y ago
> while my Java apps take 2 minutes to start up This is the classic case (and I'm/we are guilty of it as well) of Java apps that are probably traditional monolithic apps that use frameworks with extensive reflection and class l
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by agentgt 9y ago
I realize this is off topic but how does Discord make money? I can't figure out their biz model (I'm not a gamer so I didn't even know about them).
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by agentgt 9y ago
I have often thought the government should provide an alternative option for critical service just like they do with the mail and now health insurance (ignoring current politics). That is I think the net neutrality issue could be mitigated
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by agentgt 9y ago
The technique mentioned in the article of using an interface for pseudo pattern matching with anonymous implementation is basically the visitor pattern (yes I know patterns are BS once your language is sufficiently powerful but lets ignore
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by agentgt 9y ago
I failed to explain why with Lisp and Haskell it feels ok but I think you sort of nailed it with the "expansion" part. With Haskell and Lisp you think in expressions being expanded. The DSLs in Ruby, Groovy, Scala (often but not a
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by agentgt 9y ago
I used to be fervent embedded DSL fan many years ago (particularly in college with Scheme/Racket) but since then I have grown to hate them particularly Scala, Groovy and Ruby DSLs. External DSLs (that is a DSL independent of the host l
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by agentgt 9y ago
>> Ever see a family eat the same thing. I mean a family of say five >What do you mean by this? When I was growing up the whole family (of 4, plus dog eating leftovers) ate the same meal. Is that not the norm? Is it an American thi

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