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by freyr 11y ago
Right, Google just needs to will something to succeed, and poof , the world rallies around it. Like Dart, and Google Wave, and Google+, and Google Glass, and Google Answers, and Google Buzz. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad,
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by freyr 11y ago
I go to the demo, resize the browser window, and the layout falls apart. Not a good advertisement. http://i.imgur.com/KkxICEw.png
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by freyr 11y ago
> Google is a large company with many businesses. Yes, many tiny, unprofitable "businesses" that contribute little to nothing to Google's bottom line, except through direct or indirect support of the advertising business
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by freyr 11y ago
Google's business is targeted advertising. Its competitive advantage is knowing more about you than other advertisers. Obviously, embedding clothing sensors could collect and deliver tremendous amounts of information about a person and
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by freyr 11y ago
Putting dots in the space between words makes it harder to distinguish word boundaries, which makes the text difficult to read. If design hinders usability, it's not good design.
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by freyr 11y ago
I knew it! I had near-perfect SAT scores and a very high GPA, but I was rejected by many schools that accepted my friends with lower scores. Now it makes perfect sense. Except I'm white and my high school classmates were Asian and Indi
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by freyr 11y ago
While many teenagers feel stress to get into the right college, these teenagers will probably be under tremendous pressure to develop a successful app. If the tech economy contracts or Silicon Valley's fetishization of youth subsides,
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by freyr 11y ago
Personally, I wouldn't say "the best years," but certainly it was a very unique time that stands out from everything before it, and everything after it. Perhaps this is partly from the excitement of being out on your own for
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by freyr 11y ago
As time has gone on, my appreciation for college has only grown. Particularly, it exposed me to non-technical subjects I wouldn't have otherwise studied, and it exposed me to people with interests and backgrounds much different than my
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by freyr 11y ago
I go back and forth on this. There's always a ceiling. For a doctor, banker, corporate lawyer, or salesperson, the ceiling is some multiple higher. But are they better jobs? An MD would require many years of study first, a law degree w
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by freyr 11y ago
> "Does it work?" This speaks nothing about maintainability or extensibility, which can add great value to a product in the long term. These factors aren't a matter of style or aesthetics, and they go beyond simply getti
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by freyr 11y ago
> negotiating pay requires a willingness to lose the job if the negotiation doesn't go well. That's why, if possible, you negotiate when you already have another offer. I negotiated a +50% annual pay raise at my last job beca
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by freyr 11y ago
>> "I choose to rent, I choose to have no property rights over the building I live in, I choose to be legally incapable of installing solar panels and batteries on a structure I don't own: Elon Musk has failed me" &gt
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by freyr 12y ago
Again, your personal experience does not extrapolate well to the world at large. This is demonstrated by the fact that it doesn't correlate with statistical evidence. I don't know why this is so difficult for people (even smart pe
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by freyr 12y ago
Yes, of course. Top law offices hire heavily from top-tier schools, and they're largely responsible for the upper mode. > "Peter Thiel once said that a diploma is a dunce hat if you don't go to a top school." This i
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by freyr 12y ago
I was at Google's NYC offices last week, and I immediately felt like I was on a college campus. The vast majority of people there look very young. I'm not sure whether the underlying cause is age discrimination, but clearly it&#x2
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by freyr 12y ago
Tesla's goal seems to be making the best electric car they can possibly make, and it shows in their results. We can never know for sure whether Google would have interfered with that goal or diluted their focus, but that's how acq
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by freyr 12y ago
Again, why 'I'? If the poster actually wanted to avoid that ambiguity, a better title would be "I was interviewed by the Fog Creek blog," or "Peteris Krumins' interview on the Fog Creek blog" My first impr
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by freyr 12y ago
> No real athlete would consider a power bar, gatorade, or fast food to be a good post workout meal anyway That's not strictly true. Intense athletic activity will deplete a person's stores of water, electrolytes, and glycoge
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by freyr 12y ago
> The after-workout meals had approximately the same nutritional content—about 70% carbohydrates, 10% protein and 10% fat. That's 90%. What's the remaining 10% of nutritional content? Also, the article links to a study from 2
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by freyr 12y ago
Specific actions are symptoms of the underlying problem, namely, the founder's low opinion of the people who use his service. That particular quote is an extremely relevant example. If you want examples that illustrate the effects of t
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by freyr 12y ago
> It's interesting that this is what you choose to remember. Not really. Throughout its existence, Facebook has routinely made decisions that make me doubt whether it, as an organization, values people. I don't choose to rem
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by freyr 12y ago
> This sort of disrespect, this sort of complete dehumanization of the worker, it's the new normal. When you decide to work for a CEO who called his own users "dumb fucks" for using his product, I'm not sure you sho
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by freyr 12y ago
Ah nice catch, I misread the quote as 9k engineers. That said, after seeing their new offices, I'm not sure I can retract the general sentiment of my previous post.
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by freyr 12y ago
> How can you have technological or scientific advancement without someone to pay for it in advance? Who would pay for it without a reasonable expectation of getting more out than they had to put in? Value is not the same as growth. We
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by freyr 12y ago
> By your measure, Facebook is still not a large-scale engineering organization "9,199 employees as of December 31, 2014" -- that's probably close enough to his metric to call it a large-scale engineering organization. O
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by freyr 12y ago
A "quite desirable software company" is one that can attract people who are smart and socially competent, and can weed out employees who are toxic. Your current company clearly can't do that, and I'd question the basic
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by freyr 12y ago
> do you really think you can call yourself an iOS developer when... I don't really want to call myself an iOS developer. I just want to port a simple web app to iOS, and my options are learning just enough iOS development to do i
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by freyr 12y ago
I guess my concern is how salaries grow with experience, in a place with cost of living comparable to or higher than Manhattan. A software engineer, a management consultant, a white shoe lawyer, and a banker may all start out at a "mod
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by freyr 12y ago
Should someone learning iOS development stick to vanilla iOS while learning, or would it be feasible to use React Native from the outset? I already have some React experience, and I have some React-based web app that I'd like to turn i

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