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by dspeyer 15y ago
Probably about 50 altogether. Each of us promises to never ever look at personal data, before being granted privileges. And I'm pretty sure all those promises are serious. I don't know how enforcement works, though a single offense would
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Or injected with a very hard to find radio tracking tag, or audio bug if that's possible, and then led to think he escaped on his own. Which might be what happened. We'll never know.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
The first instruction on the first google hit for brogrammer is: > Polo, tight so the chicks can see how defined your muscles are It's hard to see how this would apply to a straight woman.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
After some research, I can't tell if brogramming is a parody or not. It could be that the startup figures it is, and wants people who can laugh at things like that. If so, still poor communication.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
> the chief technology officer ... of a tech startup ... might own a golf membership or two at fancy clubs, costing $300,000 each Really? This strikes me as rather implausible, and makes me doubt a lot of the other claims.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
I think this is assuming you don't work. If you exert any effort to support yourself, you are by definition working class.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Not if your employer is trying to screen hundreds of candidates a day (as attractive big companies are). Anything that requires extra work just gets thrown out.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Why is this being published now? Honeycomb was ages ago. Gingerbread (which is free) still dominates, and Ice Cream Sandwich (which will be free) will be out soon.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
For those who don't want to wade through it, the key point is: background-image:-webkit-linear-gradient (and moz, o, ms and khtml equivalents)
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Let us know how it goes in the end. Do your ideas actually improve?
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by dspeyer 15y ago
I work at Google. This isn't true. Yes, ads fund everything else. But they don't dominate. People in non-advertising teams hardly ever ask "how will this effect click-through rates?".
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Confirming that he is an auditor is insufficient. A sufficiently clever legitimate auditor might attempt social engineering attacks and fail you if they succeed. In fact, this seems like a more effective way to sniff out plaintext password
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Handing over the data is certainly not an acceptable response. If it's the sort of organization that makes saying no very hard, and leaving looks impractical, this may be the best option. Sometimes all you can do with a prestigious idiot
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Did Google actually make an offer for Groupon? IIRC, Google's never said either way, and it seems unlikely (they'd be a horrible culture clash, if nothing else).
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by dspeyer 15y ago
The worst code I've seen is from programmers who had no mental model of what they were doing, just changed things at random until tests passed. The worst writing I've seen: * is ungrammatical to the point of incoherency * loses its train of
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Indeed. Most of the stock is held by the founders and not currently for sale.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Why guess? Aren't there server logs?
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by dspeyer 15y ago
He seems very impressed with the privacy: "In fact, nobody knows that he got it except me and him", "nobody can ... look at your account balance". But every transaction is public. Is there anything stopping the NSA (or Amazon, or me) from
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by dspeyer 15y ago
No we can't. Not so long as the Mainstream Media is powerful and afraid of the internet. They are very good at spreading myths, and very motivated in this case.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
For technical support in a non-technical company, yes. But for an actual tech company, where tech is the product? A company with that philosophy will produce mediocre results and lose in the market. Certainly the trend-setting giants (MS,
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by dspeyer 15y ago
This is the definition used for assembling official statistics. It is unlikely that this is used by companies setting hiring rules.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
If it takes four years to teach a basically proficient student to program at the BA level (which we've seen it does), why would anyone expect to be able to teach a true beginner to the same level in the same time? Perhaps there could be a s
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Except that here Google writes the terms (not just interest, all the fine print) and the investors take them or leave them, whereas in a loan the bank writes them and the borrower takes or leaves them. Not really relevant here, but worth ke
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by dspeyer 15y ago
A scalable proposal: When a suit is filed, an engineer is given the problem and told to build clean-room implementations. If he gets it in under a month, it's obvious and overturned. If he gets it in a day, it's extremely obvious and the
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Trade secrets are less secret than patents, because outside engineers don't carefully avoid reading trade secrets. Also, hardly any secret can be kept for as long as a patent lasts.
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by dspeyer 15y ago
This was ages ago. Does anyone know what happened? Was the confidence justified? Can we learn anything from their experience?
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by dspeyer 15y ago
If you're interested, I think PG's "Hackers and Painters" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html ) does a good job of expressing the concept, and "The Power of the Marginal" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html ) has some good insights. A
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Is it just me, or does this author have no understanding of hackerdom? Starting, of course, with the terminology and history, but also in the assumption that a staged model will always produce a better design than rapid iteration and refac
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by dspeyer 15y ago
I never meant to imply that they did. My point was that we don't know the story. For all we know, they could be super-top-secret humanoid robots that Google is developing!
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Indeed. I know of a case in the past where Google expressed concern about something a contractor had done, and the contracting agency immediately fired them. Google then turned around and demanded the worker be rehired with backpay (which

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