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by bcbrown 13y ago
Having worked at a company where the development cycle is glacial, I absolutely want to work at a "fast-paced" company. By that, I mean the interval between "we're gonna do this" and "we did this" should b
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I bet most if not all professional athletes use periodization. At some point, the stimulus required to produce adaptations will overwhelm your recovery ability, and you need to start adding lower-intensity work.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Wow, that's obnoxious. Just leaving your mouse over the "button" is enough to activate it.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I think you've reached the point where analogies break down, and you'd have to do the math and physics to resolve your objection. http://xkcd.com/895/
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by bcbrown 13y ago
This book doesn't directly address your concerns, but it's related, and I found it very thought-provoking: http://www.amazon.com/Times-Arrow-Archimedes-Point-Direction...
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I've done a not-quite-so-bad commute, Seattle to Redmond, only 20-40 minutes on the way to work, 50-70 minutes on the way home. I found it soul-crushing. Most of the wait on the way home was in the line to get on the freeway. I became
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Hey, I've recently begun the interview process at Cloudera, would you mind sending me an email? My address is in my profile, and I'd love to ask you a couple questions.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
The difference is now most job-seekers have a college degree, so just the mere fact of having a degree is no longer a differentiator.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
You are right that there's always going to be uncertainty. Perhaps it turns out that in practice, the uncertainty with this method is less than other approaches. The point I was trying to make was about the different between incidental
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by bcbrown 13y ago
What I like about leaving it uncompilable is that way, I know I won't forget to finish that unit of work. Sometimes I'll leave it uncompilable, sometimes I'll just leave my self a little note with what I've done, and wha
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I'm not familiar enough with newer Windows development to comment on it, so that's why I qualified my statement.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
In traditional Windows development, the way that was handled was by having human-strings in a resource file (which you could replace with a file in a different language), while the computer-strings were hardcoded constants.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
You seem to often conflate the world of programmers with the world of VCs. It looks like tunnel vision or myopia. I know plenty of people who are 30 years old, and are making 20-30k, or don't have a career and are still working in the
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by bcbrown 13y ago
The half-life is statistical, not mechanistic, so there would be an inherent variability in that definition. The larger the radioactive mass and the longer the time period, the less variability, but it's still variable.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
> when you could easily look at all the work I've already done? While I agree with you that homework-style pre-screenings aren't something I like, I think for a lot of people it's hard for prospective employers to look at
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I've only written a little C and C++, about six years ago, but enough to understand the syntax well enough to understand C and non-templated C++ code. The introduction was at just the right level for me, and I didn't have any prob
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by bcbrown 13y ago
You have some control over this, by the ability to upvote stuff on the 'new' page, helping the sorts of articles you like to appear on the front page. I try to run through it once a day. Then, whenever a story I upvoted makes it t
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by bcbrown 13y ago
It's nice seeing that Zappos is able to experiment like that even after being acquired by Amazon.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
The team description: The first part will focus on enhancements to core algorithmic, modeling, and optimization components. The second part of the work will focus on the data architecture that brings all the data we collect into the hands o
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Data Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce. It was a key reason I got my current job, which is my dream job at this point in my career.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
He has some crazy dreams: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/14/10456...
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by bcbrown 13y ago
That was a very painful module to take, but it was incredibly useful.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
> Apple would literally need to build a skyscraper to achieve that in San Francisco proper. That is exactly what Amazon is doing with their current expansion in Seattle.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
What do you do if you don't have a twitter account? It's required in the form.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
> A secret subterranean heart, tinged with mystery and myth, beats beneath the streets in many of the world’s great cities.... Now Seattle, at least for now, has joined that exclusive club. That lead is funny in light of http:/&#x2
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I've worked 9-5 type hours at three companies. At my current employer, the office is empty by 6pm.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Not all tech jobs are for "programmers". Writing HTML may not be glamorous or prestigious, but it's undeniably a tech job, as is being a sysadmin or ops or qa or technical writer.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I'm curious, what would that nook space be used for?
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Email addresses of the City Council: http://www.seattle.gov/council/councilcontact.htm sally.clark@seattle.gov sally.bagshaw@seattle.gov tim.burgess@seattle.gov jean.godden@seattle.gov bruce.harrell@seattle.gov nick.li
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by bcbrown 13y ago
That's a fantastic insult.

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