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by bkirkby 10y ago
you may envy the guy with the "real thing," but future generations likely won't. if you have fully immersive virtual reality environments, then it won't matter where you live. as someone who has done a recent job search,
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by bkirkby 10y ago
"there’s ample evidence of the professional class using its economic and educational capital to preserve its advantages" i do think that this is a part of it. degrees and certifications are largely an exercise in compliance. that&
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by bkirkby 11y ago
- Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek - Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull - Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux - Joy at Work, Dennis W Bakke - Valve Employee Handbook, Valve Software This list is heavily skewed toward self-organization because
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Our Performance Experience on AWS HTTP versus HTTPS(medium.com)
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by bkirkby 11y ago
Company: zappos.com Location: Las Vegas, NV. Seattle, WA. Buffalo, NY ONSITE Visa: transfers and sponsorships Roles: Full-Stack Software Engineers About the company: Zappos.com is an online retailer specializing in shoes and clothing. We&#x
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by bkirkby 11y ago
note: i'm a former engineering manager at Zappos. (still with the company, just not a manager any more) you're making many mistakes in your opinion: 1. correlation and causation. this latest round of people leaving is only because
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by bkirkby 11y ago
former Zappos engineering manager here. still with the company, just not a manager any more. this latest round of news stories all stem from the offer that was given in may being extended to a select group who were deemed critical to finish
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by bkirkby 11y ago
but doesn't that show that russia used their limited resources to inefficiently respond to SDI, even if it's just for posture? "The 1983 announcement by the US of their SDI program prompted further political and financial sup
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A Lean Approach to Creating an API(medium.com)
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When did physics become an information science? (the birth of the bit)(dogfoodconnoisseur.blogspot.com)
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Genetic Optimization Algorithm in Lisp (2013)(github.com)
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by bkirkby 11y ago
i did a presentation on quantum computing starting with a history of discovering quantum theory. it's a little over an hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Od08UbnFPI
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Knuth's Radical Perspective(dogfoodconnoisseur.blogspot.com)
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by bkirkby 12y ago
where the author sees an echo chamber that portrays false success, i see a bias on behalf of the author that blinds him to some seemingly obvious truths. others have already pointed out the demonstrably false assertion that "no one ma
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Tech Authority as a Blunt Weapon(dogfoodconnoisseur.blogspot.com)
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by bkirkby 12y ago
novell bought WP mid-1994 iirc. i went to work for WP late 1992. i don't know the details of when a divorce was final or any such thing so he might have technically been married then. i also have limited knowledge of the culture of out
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by bkirkby 12y ago
timeline isn't exactly accurate. i worked at wordperfect/novell from 1992-2000 as a system and then software consultant (WordPerfect SWAT then Novell Consulting) and bruce was already out of the closet when i started. i ran into h
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by bkirkby 13y ago
this app is perfect the way it is. i'm disappointed that the pioneers of design in software are requiring you to make things less simple for some arbitrary reason. "make things as simple as possible, but no simpler" --Einstei
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by bkirkby 13y ago
las vegas, nv zappos IP inc. is hiring for several tech related positions: http://about.zappos.com/jobs/jobs-zappos-family/search-open-... three years ago i decided to come work at zappos after reading tony hseih&
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How do you get WIFI at home?(wedgies.com)
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by bkirkby 14y ago
thanks for that! i wasn't even aware of field tags. i can see this solution causing other problems too. there can only be one tag per field, right? what happens when another library has a different meaning for the tag? are we going to see a
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by bkirkby 14y ago
i've not had a ton of experience with Go, just some coder challenge type stuff, but i love almost everything about the language. it has the feel of old skool C, but greatly improved and upgraded. the one thing i hate about Go is how it does
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by bkirkby 14y ago
i was looking at some petroglyphs at zion's national park a few months ago when i realized that they were drawing pictures of the same things we take pictures of today. the only difference is we take pics of our food after it's prepared whi