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by bcbrown 12y ago
Do you know of any companies doing that in the Seattle area?
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Under a week. I've coincidentally also had off from Christmas-New Years the past three years, though, so I have plenty of free time. I also read a lot of nonfiction, and read a couple of technical textbooks every year.
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A few years ago I started an annual tradition, where around the new year I'll re-read the Pragmatic Programmer. This year will be the third year, and I expect I'll continue to gain new insights from future rereadings.
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Here's a 100-page booklet on the hardware/software interface that covers a lot of that kind of stuff: http://sbel.wisc.edu/Courses/ME964/Literature/primerHW-SWint... The last 20 pages are on GPUs.
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No. Read up on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Knowing the exact location actually means we have precisely zero knowledge of its future location, because position and momentum are complementary variables.
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Well, they did lay off half the Windows test team.
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I've competed in powerlifting competitions twice, each time with 3-4 months of regular training beforehand. The second time, during the entire meet I had an out-of-body sort of experience. My awareness narrowed to just myself, the barb
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What do you define 'machine intelligence' as?
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Awesome.
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Cool stuff. Isn't there still a problem with Option, where when a method takes Option<T> as a parameter, invocations can pass null for that Option<T>? So there's still the possibility of null exceptions.
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Mergesort can be a good introduction to the divide-and-conquer pattern, which seems equally important in an algorithms course.
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"“Russian legislation prohibits propaganda of homosexuality and other sexual perversions among minors,” ZEFS wrote in a statement published on the Web site of Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy. “After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called
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Why are you restricting your scope to startups? Larger companies can afford a longer onboarding/training period, and can be less risk-averse when it comes to unproven candidates with potential. Spend 1-2 years at a big company, and the
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The very first meeting I had with the best manager I've ever had, he asked me what my career goals were. After working for him for a while and demonstrating my interest in a certain sub-field, he got me an invitation onto a new team fo
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> [Don't] Personally fix bugs and ship features. You have to write code to remain an effective tiebreaker, but that’s where your coding responsibilities end. How do you write code without fixing bugs and shipping features? What do y
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That was the hope with the Windows Store. Unfortunately it was Metro only.
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I never had a great impression of PMs when I was at Microsoft. The enduring image is, after asking a pointed question or raising an objection, watching some PM respond with a bunch of meaningless verbiage while nodding their head as if they
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PMs are writing prototypes now? That's a huge change from when I was there (left in '11), when few PMs even had Visual Studio installed.
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The Flavor Bible, as well as What To Drink With What You Eat, and Science And Lore Of The Kitchen, are all invaluable. It's lots of fun to pick an ingredient, and brainstorm a full meal out of the Flavor Bible's combinations.
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This book was somewhat helpful: http://www.amazon.com/Knife-Skills-Illustrated-Users-Manual/...
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I cook for fun, and because homemade food is delicious, and more customized to my tastes. When I've lived in houses with poor kitchens, I didn't cook at all. I don't plan ahead, and decide each day what I'm going to cook
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Given that it exposed a bug in a driver Larry wrote, years before the OS was released, likely only Larry knows what the bug was.
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Delayed adulthood has already occurred, in some sense, in humanity. Homo sapiens is a neotenous[0] species already, meaning that compared to similar species, we are more similar to their juvenile than mature states. It's speculative, b
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> We often see candidates trying to expedite the offer process in order to receive offers around the same time. As a candidate, what would be the best tactics to achieve that objective? Say I have 6-8 candidate employers, from mature sta
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A 19 hour, 100-job Hadoop pipeline! Are you running up against the limits of your architecture, or do you think there's room to grow? "The MapReduce pipeline starts to process data as soon as the data is available. It’s triggered
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Software development is still sales. To successfully roll out a new internal product you need to sell your colleagues on it. To overhaul an existing architecture you need to sell your manager on its necessity. To prevent your coworker from
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In general, I agree with you. But one counter-example would be my experience with Hive in Spring 2013. Our team of four had to ramp up on a very aggressive deadline without knowing anything about Hive. One of my colleagues picked up the O&#
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What's the formula for choosing Top Trending? Is it absolute or relative lift over the previous three hours? Can you disclose any details on the algorithms or the features used in the Similar Products API? I'd love to talk to you
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Read the associated NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/nyregion/for-service-on-so...
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A gunmaker's quest for a smarter weapon(washingtonpost.com)
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