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by angelbob 17y ago
It sounds like Microsoft's internal competition is exactly the same kind of dysfunctional as its external competition.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Google constantly emails me asking if I want to apply, though I'm not sure they'd hire me if I had the patience to go through their interview process properly. I'm 34, have a bachelor's in math and one in comp sci from Carnegie Mellon, and
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by angelbob 17y ago
I can't successfully click anything on the front page. I'm using Google Chrome on Linux.
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New IP Law For Startups Blog, by Jill Hubbard Bowman(iplawforstartups.com)
1 points by angelbob 17y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
What is nasty about pointing out this difference in scope? In this case, your tone.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Hand-coded C++ is much more than twice as fast, but 2x is what you get from machine-converted HipHop at this point.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Well, some things can be "abetted", which is similar.
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by angelbob 17y ago
I agree that Google's scope of possible evil is much more significant. But this is really all about perception, not reality. What Steve Jobs says at an internal Apple employee meeting isn't going to truly change Apple, but it may change h
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by angelbob 17y ago
We're in Mountain View (SF Bay Area) looking for Rails/JRuby/Java coders, preferably folks who are okay with all three. I got hired with just Rails experience, so you might too if you're good :-) If you've played with JRuby and have strong
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by angelbob 17y ago
Adobe didn't "innovate" Flash -- it bought it from Macromedia, who bought another company to get it. So apparently you have to go even farther back to find something innovative from Adobe :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
It's important for Jobs to convince the rank-and-file at Apple that Google's "Don't Be Evil" is bullshit. Right now it looks an awful lot like Apple is being closed and evil, while Google is being open and excellent with Android apps. If t
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by angelbob 17y ago
Nope, in most states it's legal. It was widely publicized, and the Kerry campaign wound up hiring her, if I'm remembering the right story.
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by angelbob 17y ago
So... Their problem is that log files don't filter out VT100 escape sequences by default? This is not a terribly serious bug...
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by angelbob 17y ago
Isn't there a Federal minimum wage? Don't the states have to respect it? California's is higher, but I thought everybody had to respect Federal minimum wage, at least in the US.
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by angelbob 17y ago
How so?
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Entrepreneurial Success Not Correlated To University Prestige(lonegunman.co.uk)
1 points by angelbob 17y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
Usury was forbidden by the Bible, if memory serves. Still, that doesn't make accepting the loan moral and offering the loan immoral. Presumably both sides are breaking the old Biblical prohibition.
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by angelbob 17y ago
The fact that it is easier (less expensive) for a company to settle a case for $1K, rather than fight and win a case while costing themselves $10k gives the companies no incentive to fight back. Also, The plaintiff is already in debt and i
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by angelbob 17y ago
Amusingly, (old-school, paper) mapmakers would do this, partly to defend against these problems.
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Why Bushwhacking Your (Video Game) Players Is A Bad Idea (Jeff Vogel, Avernum)(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
3 points by angelbob 17y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
I still read a number of RSS feeds (Reg Braithewaite's Homoiconic, RailsInside and Adam Wiggins' blog, to name three at random), but yeah, I'm starting to drop RSS feeds as well. Joel Spolsky and 37signals are great examples of blogs I usua
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by angelbob 17y ago
One difference is that "illegal but not prosecuted" is still not admissible as evidence in court. I'll bet there are some defendants' lawyers celebrating this ruling right now, because now the FBI is going to have to prove that it got thos
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by angelbob 17y ago
What's odd to me is that the OP sued them, won, is offended by what they did... But won't reveal any of the company names, or executive names. That seems like it would be the most effective way to keep them from doing this again.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Git is significantly more complicated to learn, basically because having an additional level of repository and no default upstream repository makes for more moving parts. Git also has more flavors of branch (tracking or non) and repository
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by angelbob 17y ago
Is there a good list of these features somewhere?
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by angelbob 17y ago
Yup, that's what it is. I don't know what they meant it to be, but it always looked like a Ouija puck to me.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Can you imagine the kind of indigestion that eating Oracle would give you?
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by angelbob 17y ago
NVidia's engineering department doesn't seem to, to give one example where I've worked. They expect long hours, and they expect to pay a premium over market price for them.
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by angelbob 17y ago
A point he merely skimmed was that Ford did seek out the best talent (and presumably fired people if they turned out not to be the best). Paying people very high wages (he says) retains the best talent, which turns out to be a really go
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by angelbob 17y ago
All of that looks like a good investment if you have sufficient stability (including cooperation from fellow kleptocrats) to have a serious chance at harvesting what you sowed. It's probably simply too unstable to do so right now, and a l

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