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by angdis 15y ago
Wow, that's just mean. That company deserves to have their name dragged out into public.
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by angdis 15y ago
Is there something more to Dropbox?? 300M round of investment and an astronomical "fairytale" potential valuation of 10B, OMG AYFKM? For a company that provides online sync/storage of files?? That said, good for them, how many times do foun
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by angdis 15y ago
Being "scared" is never the right thing to do. Just do your best and realize that things might not always go according to plan. Also, there are a whole lot of places other than SV.
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by angdis 15y ago
The pedagogical structure he is using is known as "programmed instruction." It was popular in the 60's through the 80's for many kinds of technical instruction. One of the interesting characteristics about it is that its progression always
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by angdis 15y ago
If it is at all possible, it is best to maintain enough control over the system so that you can deploy it to their production environment upon payment. No pay, no deploy.
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by angdis 15y ago
I think code examples are something that are best included in the "getting started" section of documentation. It gives the user a quick, usable, concise illustration of how to perform the most basic tasks. Sometimes that's all you need and
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by angdis 15y ago
I think that is the intent too, but he really should spell out what his response will be to each of those things: "Ask", "Debrief", "Warn". The onus is on the manager to handle each mishap in a way helps the project and supports those doing
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by angdis 15y ago
The thing is, you can never predict which command outputs you're going to need to consume programatically. Even if you have control over the codebase, it might not be desirable because of time-burn to make it so that your commandline output
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by angdis 15y ago
OK, yes, apples and oranges, but it is not a "stupid" graph. The graph provocatively illustrates that google+ could steamroll over facebook in a very short time, if they play their game right.
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by angdis 15y ago
Changing culture (or changing anything for that matter) is a REALLY DIFFICULT job and it takes a long time. There's an excellent substantial podcast/interview on this subject on "software engineering radio": http://www.se-radio.net/2009/06
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by angdis 15y ago
Nah, humans can thrive with eating a huge variety of foods. The atkins-type diets, as far as I've seen, are followed by panda-bear-shaped folks who maintain that panda-bear-shape no matter what. If we really understood (as a society) what t
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by angdis 15y ago
Back when I was preparing for the GRE (in the early 90's), I found two things to be very useful for increasing vocabulary. 1) Anu Garg's "A Word A Day" (wordsmith.org), back then it was just a daily email subscription that emailed out an ad
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by angdis 15y ago
Right on. I was at a start up where 8/12 of the folks were VP's. When you think about it, it is ludicrous. I say the minimum threshold for calling oneself an "executive" of some sort (like "VP of -" or "C-O") is the responsibility for a bud
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by angdis 15y ago
Really cool stuff. Of course, you need to get the sequence after you've got your amplified DNA. That involves performing electrophoresis or using a more modern DNA sequencer machine. Questions: Do people still work with gels and electrophor
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by angdis 15y ago
If they ever ship, I expect the market to be squarely in the "playthings-for-the-wealthy" category. This thing just does not solve any real problem other than gadget-lust.
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by angdis 15y ago
I think "salary calculators" do not reflect reality when you're comparing places which are qualitatively very different. For instance, living in NYC or the other big dense cities involves making trade-offs that don't even make sense in a pl
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by angdis 15y ago
Those photos are a mix of dutch housing in Amsterdam, including an old canal street. It is about as far as you can get from "Soviet era planned city." People definitely live in smaller spaces in the Netherlands (and Europe in general), but
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by angdis 15y ago
The damming problem is that not very many Americans are aware that there are other ways to live besides suburbs where all work-commutes require driving, every trip to the grocery store-- driving, everytime you take your kid to school-- driv
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by angdis 15y ago
The exec is right. Why should mozilla "slow down" to accommodate enterprises who churn out absurdly brittle applications and who change them literally only when a crisis forces them to do so. It is the internal enterprise apps that need to
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by angdis 15y ago
Don't worry, recent news stories have demonstrated that you can have a completely insane business plan and STILL get 10's of millions in funding anyway. Hype trumps reality in the short term but reality always bites back.
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by angdis 15y ago
Whatever happened to the idea of having wide range of skills and experiences in the workforce. The best way to actually get competent workers is to CULTIVATE them, not simply scrounge around endlessly trying to grab all the elites in an are
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by angdis 15y ago
The guy needs to take a step back and look at the bigger picture and pick-up some fundamental skills before diving into the objective-C "toolbox." That said, he does have a point about the "shield of complexity". Although I don't think it a
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by angdis 15y ago
No doubt some parents will use this article as "ammo" when forcing their college-age kid to major in something "useful" rather than in something the kid is actually interested in and passionate about. There may not be enough engineers at th
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by angdis 15y ago
I agree this advice does not only apply to emailing VC's. It applies to emailing ANYONE in the course of doing your job: interns to CEO's. 5 sentences often is too much. If you can get it down to 3 sentences (or even 1 or 2 with judicious s
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by angdis 15y ago
Yep, it has some interesting features/capabilities but the syntax is soooo baroque. All I want out of shell is a means to get boring shit done without having to think about it too much. At this point, Cygwin is STILL the way to go on windo
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by angdis 15y ago
I am very suspicious about "the singularity." First of all, I don't think that living forever is something that would be as good as it sounds to us now. Maintaining the viability of the body is one thing, mental well-being is quite another
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by angdis 15y ago
OK, but can you really call "one" fiber with "multiple" cores a "single" optical fiber? All the same, pretty amazing stuff. The current state of the art in systems which are starting to get deployed now is 100Gb/s per wavelength on a single
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by angdis 15y ago
There was DNA evidence to demonstrate it was him and the enemy has already acknowledged that OBL is gone. This was probably the best thing they could have done short of taking him alive. Who cares what internet "truther" types have to say a
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by angdis 16y ago
See also the term "mansplain." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mansplain
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by angdis 16y ago
There are all kinds of things that contribute to "job satisfaction". But at the end of the day, none of these really means anything unless you're willing to make changes. What I am saying is that recognizing a bad situation is easy, you can

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