bengl3rt

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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   Thanks for the shout-out. It was lots of fun :)
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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   May I ask what you do, and how I might get into doing it? I am craving a job with > 0 travel...
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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   This is great, now I can machine-learn years of text messages and create something that replies to future text for me...
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   What will happen when Uber launches in Boston?(quora.com)

   1 points by bengl3rt 15y ago|0 comments
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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   Am I the only one who looked at this title and thought they were talking about hurricanes? Seemed topical...
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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   I've seen a car with the license place "WWSJD" pull into their Cupertino headquarters before. I hope there's more people like that there.
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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   Being the only person who's remote can suck, yes, and keeping one or two people in sync with an otherwise co-located team can also be a challenge (and not necessarily worthwhile for an early-stage company). I was more wondering why more fou
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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   WFH (work from home), WFCS (work from coffee shop), WFV (work from Vegas), WFP (work from plane), WFF (work from France), WFW (work from work) Where can I get me some of this? Most very small teams seem to want co-location and fairly regu
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   by bengl3rt 15y ago

   Yep. Maybe small companies are this way but within something the size of Apple or Google there are always different groups with different plans and priorities.
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Any time someone says "company x hates company y", I stop reading, because it's always more nuanced than that. Any sufficiently large company competes with others on some fronts and collaborates with them on others. Apple uses Google Maps a
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    I agree with this - whenever I see that a company has actual pairing stations (computers with mirrored monitors and two keyboards and two chairs) I tend to shy away. However, I still think everyone should have their OWN whiteboard, to ena
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    A broadly, perhaps overly general (and oversimplified) read, for sure, but still interesting. As I am about to graduate college I stand at a crossroads of choosing, roughly, which path I want to go down... iOS development offers a nice comp
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    I love Central Computer! It has the selection of Fry's, but the employees actually speak english and the merchandise is well lit and organized... and for that you do pay quite a premium over Fry's, but it's worth it.
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Unique power footprint... hmm... like a Stargate? A Doomsday Machine?
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    It's all about diminishing returns. Once you're spending more than a few hundred bucks per component you have to concentrate to tell any difference at all. I'd say $12,000 spent on a whole SYSTEM would outside the bounds of reason - spend a
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Another thing he failed to mention: expandability. I got so sick of all these different external hard drives, each with their own power brick and USB terminator (micro? mini? heck knows). Bought a Mac Pro and put them all on the internal dr
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Yikes! I find myself using LinkedIn less and less these days as it seems people just add each other indiscriminately so the "curated" feeling gets lost. I think their design has also not aged well. Happily, I got an invite to Careers 2.0, a
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    If this is true, I'm glad that Twitter is choosing to honor a promise that Backtype made pre-acquisition.
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    This is kind of odd for me to read considering I actually grew up in the Valley - San Jose, to be precise - and have been working in high tech companies since I started high school. It's weird to me to think that the place where I grew up m
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Ah, that wasn't clear - it just let me log in. Maybe I should have separate Apple IDs for my personal stuff vs. my development stuff...
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Man! I wish they would open source the code to JustSpotted. I'd love to fill the void they left behind, but preferably without starting from scratch...
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Erm... Okay, so I want to move all my mail (and my address) over from MobileMe. Where's the button?
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    I have no sympathy for companies that bitch about how hard it is to find engineering talent if they don't operate a strong internship program. There is a Joel blog on this - the best talent graduates from university with job offers from all
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Won't the write load of log files and things eventually kill the flash chips? USB sticks are made from pretty bottom-of-the barrel parts...
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Yeah. The new Macbook Pro can obviously drive two displays in daisy-chain off a single TB port... does the Air not do it? Can it only run one?
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    This past week a co-worker introduced me to Moom... he said it was the closest he would ever get to xmonad on the Mac: http://manytricks.com/moom/
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    I really hope so...
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    I'll echo what I said on the Siracusa thread: Has everyone managed to overlook how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors? Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a different space AND
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    Siracusa strikes me as a power user type so I'm extremely surprised that he neglected to mention how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors. Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a d
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    by bengl3rt 15y ago

    I want to work here. Does anyone know these people? (Hi Mike! When's your RTW trip?)