cdibona

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by cdibona 18y ago
Nothing food service related! Think your keyboard is dirty now? Wait until your laptop has been on the salad station for a night or two. Seriously though: The forest service has some -lonely- jobs watching for fires in the national forests.
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by cdibona 18y ago
So: working for a large company is different than working for a small company. I started at G when it was ~2k people and now we're at ~20k people. I've worked for very small companies and much larger companies than Google and I have to say
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by cdibona 18y ago
This is pretty interesting to me. When karma was implemented at /. we used to expose the number, but then the number became why people did things on /. Then we obscured the number by replacing it with english words like "excellent" for the
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by cdibona 18y ago
Well, honestly, there is a lot of revenue out there if you are willing to hustle for it. Some of the most difficult work with open sourcing (and just developing) a platform like android was the media codecs and opencore stuff. It's why comp
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by cdibona 18y ago
It was 71 in cupertino today.
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by cdibona 18y ago
Also, NVU is easy to use, go get some cheapo designer or grab a free template online.
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by cdibona 18y ago
I'd get a handle on how to understand those users. The smaller shops need a fair amount of help dealing with almost every aspect of codecs on their devices. From patent clearing to implementation, deploying these systems are ridiculously co
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by cdibona 18y ago
Actually, 20% time is still available to google engineers. That's good too, a bunch of folks use 20% to release code into open source. But, yeah, I'd like to see more code released :-)
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by cdibona 18y ago
Okay, so that was more than 2 thoughts.
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by cdibona 18y ago
Two thoughts: 1) Never, ever, ever do patent investigations before coding. If you for some reason still build something and are sued, it's called willful infringement and awards triple. 2) Successful patent litigation or settlements on non-
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by cdibona 18y ago
You should worry more about what happens when cobra runs out..because If you or someone who is dependent on you has a history of -anything- the insurance company can ratchet it up to the maximum allowed by the insurance commission. A few ye
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by cdibona 18y ago
If you have kids and a wife, hang out with them. You owe them, as likely as not.
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by cdibona 18y ago
I think that you'd have a hard time tracking down the cranberry juice, unless you are some kind of universe-reincarnationalist,
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by cdibona 18y ago
Also, before anyone gets too excited, Google generally doesn't go beyond Java, C++ and Python. But we do have some special purpose languages internally, as well. Also, I don't have a PhD :-)