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by eykanal 14y ago
After reading so many "I'm leaving company X because try all suck" posts, this was such a nice read. The author didn't leave because he hated everyone, or because he felt very the business model was evil, or because he was tired of being wo
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Employees stay because of good managers(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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Employees stay because of good managers(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 14y ago
Never mind the fact that it was a plea bargain , which means he would have had to plead guilty to a crime he didn't believe he committed. What a bastardized thought process: "Just admit that you were wrong, we were right, and sit in jail f
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by eykanal 14y ago
I like the perspective of comparing Aaron to older "hacker/visionaries" of decades gone by. I wasn't aware of some of those brushes with the law.
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by eykanal 14y ago
This article flies in the face of so much contradictory experience that I'm not sure what to make of it. Here on HN we regularly see articles espousing the concepts of pair programming and code reviews and SCRUMs and other techniques involv
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by eykanal 14y ago
So, this person hates the calendar, hates the phone, and lives in Chrome and gmail. For this person, the G+ long game is brilliant. For the rest of us who use calendars, get along with our cell phones/landlines just fine, use a browser as a
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by eykanal 14y ago
Safari version 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) is blocking it now as well.
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by eykanal 14y ago
For drawing, I've been reading "Drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards. There's a lot of text but the ideas and exercises do seem to work. I haven't gone through the whole book but so far it's OK.
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by eykanal 14y ago
For the uninformed, if something like this happened, what information should we save? You mentioned saving: * a screenshot * "network information" (what does that include?) * cookie information - I assume you just saved the cookie, itself,
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by eykanal 14y ago
1) I completely agree that it's an extremely impressive feature. 2) Tremendous amounts of bad data is far less desirable than "only a lot" of good data. The data as they're collecting it now is simply untrustworthy;. It essentially is a mea
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by eykanal 14y ago
Point taken, which is why I suggest the second fix using weighting. That being said, limiting to similar skills—while eliminating a few potential genuine recommendations, like the situation you mention—would stop the bogus recommendations a
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by eykanal 14y ago
I'm mostly curious why no one on LinkedIn (a) saw this one coming, or (b) implemented any form of an easy fix. I put two in this article, but there are probably dozens when you consider more advanced machine learning algorithms designed to
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by eykanal 14y ago
Because many, many programmers don't store their code on Github, as the majority of their work is on proprietary, closed-source projects for for-profit companies.
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Why LinkedIn's "recommend" system is broken, and how to fix it(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 14y ago
I'd love to hear from anyone who has observed children learning from this book to hear how it went.
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Those "stupid ideas" may not be so stupid(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 14y ago
OK, I think I'm missing something. To quote the article: > And no, you can not get around this problem by doing a multivariate regression of speed on gas pedal and hill. That's because gas pedal and hill will be perfectly colinear. This
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by eykanal 14y ago
"Social hacking": the next big thing.
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by eykanal 14y ago
Somewhat interesting not to see Apple on there. Then again, Apple's IP portfolio is probably larger than all the cosigners combined, and they may not want to encourage legislation leading to that all being invalidated.
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by eykanal 14y ago
What with the shelf-life of software being so short, it's very easy to forget how programs that are now almost universally hated, derided, and synonymous with "large, bloated corporations" (i.e., Lotus Notes) at one time represented the sta
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by eykanal 14y ago
Everyone's blown away because they priced themselves out of their target market. Whether they agree or not, this is going to be compared to the other tablets (i.e., the iPad) out there, and for the base models, the cost is almost double. Fo
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by eykanal 14y ago
Exactly. Either this or just say "c'est la vie", deal with it, and move on.
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by eykanal 14y ago
I hear you, sorry if I came across too harsh. While you may or may not be correct, I don't think these posts do anything to help the situation, and particularly given that you don't propose any suggestions it comes across (to me) as ranting
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by eykanal 14y ago
These kinds of posts really bug me. Users don't give a rat's left buttock whether the "ecosystem" is closed or open or anything in between. They want something which works well and lets them buy stuff they want. Simple observation of consum
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by eykanal 14y ago
> Sorenson notes there is more than three quadrillion gallons of water in the air, which is essentially a massive untapped resource. For what it's worth, air with low humidity can be pretty damaging. Lots of materials would become exces
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by eykanal 14y ago
I'm mixed on whether this is a good way to handle reporting something like this to the public. On the one hand, they didn't release the guy's name, which is completely and entirely appropriate, and I commend them for doing so. On the other
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Handling the on-site interview(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 14y ago
> It's strange that they can't continue to compete in this category, especially given the high price of their device. Given that Amazon posted a net loss this past quarter in part due to manufacturing expenses, I wouldn't call their
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by eykanal 14y ago
Interesting, that site crashed safari on my iPod.

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