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by andywood 13y ago
This has been the very essence of Google for the past two years. Forcefully assimilating existing services, where users already had data, into G+, changing functionality and terms, and generally leaving users to feel insecure about how priv
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by andywood 13y ago
I don't know about this. So far I've left jobs with nothing lined up 4 times. That's every time. So far, finding work hasn't taken more than a couple months of dedicated searching. Maybe I've gotten lucky, but it
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by andywood 14y ago
At every company, and in fact in every village, there is both a formal, extraverted, hierarchical organization, and an informal, social, graph-like organization. Much is made of "networking", but I wonder how many understand that the social
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by andywood 14y ago
What is it about google that causes people to throw all of their thinking ability out the window? Was that really necessary? This isn't some conspiracy to inundate you with ads, this has nothing to do with building "crawlers" for meatspa
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by andywood 14y ago
I have a strong hunch on this one that the limitations are on our imaginations, and not on the potential applications once such an infrastructure existed. I agree that the leap to transportation is small and that it will happen. I just can'
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by andywood 14y ago
Exactly analogous to its web crawlers means fully-automated, regular, scheduled collection of GIS data.
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by andywood 14y ago
Every time the subject of Google's driverless cars comes up, here or anywhere, almost 100% of the discussion always seems to presume that this technology is heading directly towards consumers as a travel solution. While I'm sure it'll get a
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by andywood 14y ago
The point of 'The Oatmeal' isn't necessarily to be funny. The focus of the work of Matt Inman has always been to get pageviews, and he's notoriously good at it. Sometimes it's by being funny, sometimes it's by finding something that resonat
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by andywood 14y ago
When I was 16, I lost a hard drive with 2 years of game development work on it. I eventually rebuilt the game much bigger and better, and shipped it, but not before I cried for three days straight. Now I never leave anything un-backed up th
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by andywood 14y ago
I've always made this decision based strictly on whether I am feeling generous enough in the moment to give money to a stranger who asked for it. I personally find bothering oneself about what they are going to do with it to be extremely co
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by andywood 14y ago
I count at least three poignant lessons related to entrepreneurship, concerning the value of persistence, chance encounters, and courtesy.
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Google's Self-Driving Car is for Real-Life Crawling (2010)(russellheimlich.com)
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by andywood 14y ago
"I can code in somewhere between 60 and 80 languages, and I can assure you there is nothing like C#." Um, really? I can just barely name 35 languages, even including esoteric ones like Brainf*ck and Shakespeare.
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by andywood 15y ago
This is very cool. I recognized the website right away, because I've used Amit's excellent resources on pathfinding in the past while working on games. http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/
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by andywood 15y ago
I think it's more than the lack of a summary. The whole essay could really benefit from a lot more editing and tightening up.
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by andywood 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Seattle and Remote 14 years of varied development experience. Worked on Microsoft Encarta. Lead front-end web developer on a certain Windows Live property. Independent game and iOS developer. Very experienced 3D graphics prog
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by andywood 15y ago
Let me be more clear. Whether this is a problem is entirely dependent on context. It's not really about the words used. There are times when asking for more information, even citations, is completely reasonable and expected. No objections t
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by andywood 15y ago
I think very analytically the majority of the time, even when I'm not programming. When I saw this lottery in the headlines and in friends' Facebook posts, the first thing I did was break out a calculator and figure all the relevant statist
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by andywood 15y ago
I agree with you, and there is a specific type of pedantry I find especially grating. I'm talking about the constant insistence on citations and double-blind studies, even when it isn't appropriate - even when someone obviously means only t
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by andywood 15y ago
What about "Because he would have been angry about it, and sometimes we don't make the best decisions when we're angry?" Why go fishing for the least charitable reading?
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by andywood 15y ago
All this says to me is that YC does not directly fund Googles and Facebooks. This is still very good for the founders. They can take their exit money and self-fund whatever they want.
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by andywood 15y ago
You're not the only one. If this is real, they seem to have gone out of their way with editing to make it look like a fakery. I would have been far, far more convinced by simple, unedited HD footage. For what it's worth, a friend of mine wh
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by andywood 15y ago
From the Wikipedia article you linked: "Avoiding a photorealistic texture can permit more leeway." For me, this goes nowhere near the uncanny valley, for the reason icebraining points out. The coloring and visual tone of the whole piece say
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by andywood 15y ago
I've used C++ more than any other language, both professionally and for personal projects, for 13 years. I freely admit that C++ is complex, and it takes considerable effort to understand how to write good C++ code. Even after 13 years, I k
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by andywood 15y ago
I've found charging a fixed fee for an agreed upon deliverable to be so utterly BS-free, that it's worth dealing with the smaller problems. The clients love it, because it takes a lot of the risk and possibility that they might be getting s
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by andywood 15y ago
This really would have been more responsibly titled "What Happened When We Swore At Our Users That One Time".
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by andywood 15y ago
I don't think it's any coincidence that I remember 1998-2004 as the era when "Little" Google consistently wowed me, as a user, with every product, every feature, even every verbal statement that you made. The specific feeling of trust that
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by andywood 15y ago
This probably depends on the local culture. When I was at Microsoft, in the groups I worked in, we were explicitly evaluated on criteria such as "makes others better". My reviews actually stated that actively mentoring and going out of my w
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by andywood 15y ago
Game consoles compete with other consoles in their own generation. PS2 beat XBOX 1 to market by a full year, and trounced it in sales.[1] XBOX 360, on the other hand, beat PS3 to market by a full year, and did better in sales.[2] XBOX is al
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by andywood 15y ago
I knew he didn't have long, but this still feels so sudden. I got so much out of his way of framing things. I'm grateful that he wrote and spoke so much while he was here.

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