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by gwillen 15y ago
XMPP MUC also has the problem that the largest XMPP client, Google Talk in Gmail, afaik does not support it. It handles multi-user chats via some proprietary method that only works for Gtalk clients.
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by gwillen 15y ago
California's laws state that IP can only be contractually assigned to the employer if it is "related to the employer's business or [to the employer's] actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development." Google's position, when I wa
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by gwillen 15y ago
You are right on the money. Starting a startup while working for Google would be an absolute non-starter. Any code you write, they own (within certain restrictions that end up being so broad as not to matter.) And moonlighting in a business
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by gwillen 15y ago
This smells funny to me. From everything I saw when I worked at Google, Glassdoor had the salary range right. For all the guy's self-deprecation, if he was really making $250k, even after bonus and stock, he must have been promoted multiple
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by gwillen 15y ago
I think all the options there ignore the _very_ _very_ obvious fact that popcorn is _not_ a competitive market, because most of the consumers in the market don't know the prices! If you disagree, try to recite for me how much popcorn costs
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by gwillen 15y ago
I am one of the people listed in the acknowledgements at the end of that paper, for having done work on Dapper when I was at Google. It's nice to see HN taking an interest in it -- Dapper is a very cool system.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Interesting. It still worries me to see it in the "Windows 8 Platform Integrity Architecture". Are you not worried about it, or just pointing out that it's not relevant to the topic at hand?
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by gwillen 15y ago
I found something that concerns me a lot at the "announced" link at the start of the article. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the... If you look at the diagram, it appears that Remote Attestation is being brought
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by gwillen 15y ago
There's no such thing as "a story submitted on multiple subreddits". Any submission is associated with exactly one subreddit. But an upvote there also counts as an upvote towards sending it to the frontpage.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Unfortunately for your Slashdot submission, it's hard to get people outside Google to take the gagging seriously, because of course people who are inside Google won't talk about it because they don't want to be fired. (And those people insi
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by gwillen 15y ago
How are you finding this out? I can't imagine PIPs would be advertised widely... (I'm immune to all this because I quit between RNCH and the Plus launch.)
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by gwillen 15y ago
As someone who does not eat breakfast, I imagine it's to avoid the kind of response I get when I tell my host I don't eat breakfast: "Oh, are you sure? It's no trouble? It's good for you! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Why
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by gwillen 15y ago
That section is descriptive of current practice. The semantics of 511 are the previous section.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Well, superconductivity is an inherently quantum phenomenon, more so than other things in everyday life; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_pair .
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by gwillen 15y ago
Use the algorithm given here: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
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by gwillen 15y ago
Do you have a cite to a case or good reference for this? I've heard it before, and it would be nice to have a source for it, in case I ever need to rely on it.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Googling for the quoted text in the review reveals that the original source appears to be the website of a competing product. I cannot find the article in Science which is supposedly referenced but not cited.
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by gwillen 15y ago
First puzzle seems broken for me in Chrome for Mac 13.0.782.220.
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by gwillen 15y ago
I don't think you realize that, at large companies, you don't necessarily _get_ to negotiate with your new boss. Large companies like standardization, and generally everything goes through HR, and everything is boilerplate. If a large compa
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by gwillen 15y ago
I used Unison + cron for years, but recently I had to replace a machine, and discovered to my horror that my synced directory has grown beyond the size that Unison is capable of doing an initial synchronization of, EVEN if I precopy all the
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by gwillen 15y ago
As a sufferer of sleep paralysis, I would think it almost impossible that sleep paralysis itself could persist through dying painfully, since pain or other external stimuli (or passage of time, usually less than a minute) will generally kic
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by gwillen 16y ago
I almost believed you, until I ran through this version of the problem, and realized that, if I know Monty always opens the lower-numbered goat door, it actually gives a completely different result. In particular, if I pick door 2, and Mont