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by dbecker 14y ago
The article claims that "this will be a test of a new style of leadership," as if we have no examples of how a large company will run under a Computer Scientist. To the extent you trust a single example, Schmidt/Google will tell you that a
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by dbecker 14y ago
Why does this article about begin concise, because no one gives a shit, start with two paragraphs of biography... which I really couldn't give a shit about. He had a good point, but I almost gave up before getting there.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I don't really understand what it means for physical items like shoes to be open source in the sense that some software is. Users are already free to modify their shoes. And even if you had a video showing how the shoes were made, that isn
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by dbecker 14y ago
I also switched to 1password after that debacle (though I should have done it before). 1password is great on a mac, but accessing passwords (via dropbox) from a linux machine is a pain in the ass. Password management still seems like an un
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by dbecker 14y ago
I don't understand your post (or perhaps you didn't understand mine). You are right that I didn't have nefarious goals when I did this stuff as a kid, though I knew it was illegal. In any case, the fact that I didn't get caught was mostly
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by dbecker 14y ago
I think it's awesome that she is donating the commission to charity... but it's worth noting that Amazon prohibits telling others that you are doing this. https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t15/...
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by dbecker 14y ago
This reminds me how lucky I am to be relatively successful as an adult. I could easily have spent time in juvenile detention for something stupid, and who knows how that would have turned out. I suspect a lot of people on this board did th
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by dbecker 14y ago
If I'm going to trust some expert to certify that other websites are following specific best practices, I'd prefer the expert simply implement those best practices, and I'd log into everywhere else by their OpenID.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I would guess you are in the minority on this one, and vast majority of readers don't care about obscenities.
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by dbecker 14y ago
"Fairly characterize the evidence for your position" shouldn't apply only in Nature. If Gladwell came up with an hypothesis and gave anecdotes both supporting and disproving his hypothesis, that would be "exposing ideas." Instead, he (some
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by dbecker 14y ago
In the hand-wringing over Knight's mistake, the media seems to be missing the massive benefit to many other traders. Specifically, Knight kept buying certain stocks even as they were driving up prices of these stocks. Everyone who sold th
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by dbecker 14y ago
The hostility towards this guy in the comments is astounding. I already had low expectations for comments on blogs, but this took it to a whole new level.
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by dbecker 14y ago
bad
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by dbecker 14y ago
The point isn't that you can do more with the command line, the point is you can do them so much faster.
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by dbecker 14y ago
the "ebay meets dating" impression is not correct. Craigslist is closer to an "Online Classified Ads" which is popular for posting jobs, apartment rentals, cars, sporting equipment, musical instruments, and pretty much everything else you
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by dbecker 14y ago
The desktop Outlook application epitomizes everything I hate about enterprise software. I've been forced to use it by my last few employers, and outlook-induced frustration has been a frequent source of conversation among my colleagues. If
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by dbecker 14y ago
Is Apple trying to change their brand image from "It just works" to "Using our software is stressful and requires special knowledge. Expect to work with tech support for day-to-day usage."
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by dbecker 14y ago
I see. I think many of us had an (uninformed) expectation that he would receive fewer resumes... I certainly didn't expect so many resumes with 5+ years of experience. I agree that it lacks context for comparison to other places/times. Bu
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by dbecker 14y ago
I keep hearing programmers tell me how much better IPS is than TN, but then they emphasize colors and viewing angles. Are these monitors better for programming and text editing?
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by dbecker 14y ago
I'm wonder what the ratio of job postings to job applicants is. If there are 600 applications per listing, and each applicant sends 50 applications, then there are 12 times as many applicants as listings. Do the 600 and 50 numbers seem abou
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by dbecker 14y ago
I'm not sure what sort of context you were looking for. The author certainly explains the methodology well. As for whether it's scientific, it strikes me as having many similarities to a paper "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakis
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by dbecker 14y ago
He hates groupon. We get it. But his customers had no idea that Groupon is slow to reimburse him. I'm surprised he doesn't show a little contrition for screwing them (and himself) by signing up for Groupon.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I respect you, but anyone who refuses to get a cell phone because of the recurring fee is a bad barometer for what the market will bare.
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Comparing violence in America to other countries(crookedtimber.org)
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by dbecker 14y ago
Why is it dead. The Sparrow team won't work on it any more... but they weren't going to work on the Windows version anyway. If you were writing it, why not keep doing so? Obviously you might have to change the artwork, since that belongs
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by dbecker 14y ago
I was probably overstating the author's position when I mentioned interviewing every single applicant. But, I think I'm correctly interpreting him as interviewing a lot of people who don't meet some predefined "requirement" list. The stric
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by dbecker 14y ago
Though I found the git vs. mercurial question useful, a question's popularity does not in general indicate it belongs on SO. Look at the front page of Reddit to see what popularity can do. I'm glad SO doesn't move in that direction. SO ha
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by dbecker 14y ago
Joel recently tweeted something to the extent "You think you should have the right to ask anything. The fact that we don't allow that is why your happy when SO shows up in your google search."
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by dbecker 14y ago
The claim that every applicant should get to "make their case" to a human may sound nice in theory, but it would be a monumental waste of time. It's easy to get a stack of 500 resumes, and many of those resumes are from people who legitimat
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by dbecker 14y ago
Most rewrites described in that article were also intended to be substantial revisions rather than a functionally identical version with "new" code.

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