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by cpks 12y ago
The harder problem: How does one overcome such a mentality?
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by cpks 12y ago
His writing usually sounds insane to most people at the time, and proves prophetic 1-2 decades later. The guy suffers from extreme Cassandra's Complex.
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by cpks 12y ago
10 years to discover you have to create some kind of value to make money sustainably.... Otherwise, it's just gambling. Bit of a waste, spending that much time on get-rich-quick schemes.
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by cpks 12y ago
Honestly, while it makes sense to shut down Google Code, it is mindboggling that Google destroys information. Public projects on Google Code ought to be archived and the archives and redirects ought to be kept up in perpetuity. People may n
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by cpks 12y ago
Peter: Are you reading this thread?
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by cpks 12y ago
It's not a question about whether you speak out. It's a question of whether you do it through proper channels. And yes, I'd much rather accusers speak out only through proper channels, at least when those channels work pretty
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by cpks 12y ago
Ellis' new employer hired her before this happened. Some people will hire her, mind you. It just reduces the set of opportunities perhaps ten-fold, or reduces the level of those opportunities by one or two rungs on the corporate ladd
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by cpks 12y ago
Hiding and sweeping under the rug is exactly the best way to manage something like this. In any conflict negotiation, you want to minimize value destroyed. Swept under rug == no reputations are ruined == minimum value is destroyed. The way
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by cpks 12y ago
It destroys the accuser -- I don't want to hire a liability. She may make a similar accusation at my company. It destroys the accused -- again, I don't want to hire a liability. He may harass someone at my company. Quite frankly,
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by cpks 12y ago
Then: 1. Compile evidence in your existing job. 2. Find a new job 3. File a lawsuit. That's how we manage things in a civilized society. It's precisely why we have a court system. We want: 1. For Google to follow standards we&#x27
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by cpks 12y ago
I hate the public shaming. If you're in a position like this, two choices: 1) Leave and get a better job 2) Leave and sue I've been in companies with claimed harassment. It's gone both ways -- about 50/50. In about half
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by cpks 12y ago
Mike Goldman is now immortalized on the internet as someone who welches on bets...
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by cpks 12y ago
Indeed. In addition, living frugally is not rocket science. I left graduate school around $2k ahead of coming in, and mine was in an area with higher costs of living than most of the ones mentioned. I shared my run-down apartment with three
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by cpks 12y ago
It's the way the patent system works. You file obscene numbers of unenforcable patents for the sake of mutually-assured destruction should a patent war come up. Most patents have massive amounts of prior art, are obvious, or otherwise
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by cpks 12y ago
I would gladly pay big $$$ to not be brainwashed by ads.
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by cpks 12y ago
Gosh. I like the concept, but the web site really needs more information and better design -- starting with whether this is a free or paid service.
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by cpks 12y ago
Two ways to look at it: 1. Return on investment. Every hour spent on applied math generates a lot more applications (not to mention elegant mathematics) than the same spent on theoretical math. Theoretical math has about as much value as kn
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by cpks 12y ago
1. You're confusing theoretical math vs. applied math. Google doesn't benefit from algebraic topology. 2. Startups would exist -- just not as many. The cost would be slightly higher; they'd have to pay employees either fair s
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by cpks 12y ago
Let me give an alternative explanation, championed by Philip Greenspun for women in science jobs: Startup jobs suck, and women are better at recognizing it (scroll past the description of science jobs to "Why do American men (actually
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by cpks 12y ago
I worked in a cargo cult SCRUM organization for a while. All the rituals, none of the understanding. It sucked. Fortunately, management got replaced by competent management, eventually. Which is a really unusual outcome. It became a very go
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by cpks 12y ago
OCW is insanely expensive, and sponsors got bored with it after a decade.
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by cpks 12y ago
I really want 2gb. I'm surprised there isn't a market of Pi-like devices, with compatible software, but higher price points and higher specs.
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by cpks 12y ago
Simple bit of math from much earlier in my career: * Google salary is $180k * Startup salary is $125k Expected value of stock options must be >$55k per year to be economically equal. If we assume 5 years to exit, 20% odds of successful e
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by cpks 12y ago
What agency? What job?
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by cpks 12y ago
Honestly, I believe the data, but not the conclusion. When I first started using Uber, it was a taxi replacement. I take taxis once every few weeks e.g. to go to the airport and similar. Most of my other transit was either by subway, walkin
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by cpks 12y ago
This is the most confused article I have read in a long time. 1. "Maker" is one way to self-improve. As an engineer, it means that I pick up basic knowledge of other engineering domains in my free time, which lets me be a better e
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by cpks 12y ago
Completely self-serving, where it is coming from, and completely wrong. An early employee at a startup will get fraction-of-a-percent equity (at time of exit, and often, at time of joining). And that overstates the amount of equity. Investo
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by cpks 12y ago
It's a false dichotomy. The split isn't about no abstractions vs. services, but about whether the abstractions should be behind a network boundary. Let's look at these one at a time. 1) A single syntax error will _still_ brea
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by cpks 12y ago
For me, latest iOS+older iPad completely killed it. It was the last major upgrade, which added the animations. My iPad was the first gen with retina, and the animations were slow and jerky. I eventually enabled some accessibility mode which
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by cpks 12y ago
This seems almost a perfect way to end. I grew up with Dr. Dobbs. It's hard for me to overstate the impact it had on me growing up. It maintained a high standard of quality and integrity. When I was a little kid, Dr. Dobbs was the only

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