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by jlees 17y ago
I actually saw someone who was job-hunting self-describe with "My technical experience, business knowledge, and passion for technology make me a ninja-rockstar." Double bzzzt!
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by jlees 17y ago
I loved that postscript. Apart from the Google housing, I do pretty much all of those things every day, discounting Google Coffee and Google Bacon. Of course, there's always evenings and weekends... sorry, Google Evenings and Google Weekend
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by jlees 17y ago
An echo chamber that's just as bad if all you do is talk to techies in silicon valley all day long... A lot of people at Google do non-Google things too. I know people training for marathons, doing comedy classes, living in flatshares with
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Mary Meeker's Internet Trends: Mobile to surpass desktop within 5 years(gigaom.com)
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by jlees 17y ago
"It would seem Apple knows exactly what developers want." Aye, money outweighs freedom even today.
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by jlees 17y ago
To play Devil's Advocate, why would Google want you to create stuff that works across browsers? They have their own browser and are creating an operating system based on that browser. It's in their interests to reward you to develop on Chro
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IPhone OS 4.0 Includes Advertising Platform (iAd)(huffingtonpost.com)
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by jlees 17y ago
The sheer amount of Governmental apathy shown for the debate around this was astounding. Add that to the underhand pre-election rush tactics and I'll take my gambles with the DMCA over here for now..
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by jlees 17y ago
It's not just about the negative. A lot of us have grown up with machines and technology, and we often forget there are humans involved in the simplest of transactions, such as shopping or customer service. Instead of fuming that you have t
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Google Summer of Code 2010 student applications now open(socghop.appspot.com)
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by jlees 17y ago
A fascinating article and on the money IMO. I definitely see this outsourcing of capacity to anonymised servers in the cloud, with tools like map/reduce and memcached becoming cloud-equivalents of single-OS concepts. Interesting how social
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by jlees 17y ago
The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler. A really interesting analysis of modern narrative structure rooted in mythology. It'll appeal to HN readers; it's an analytical way of breaking down every story ever told.
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by jlees 17y ago
Well, it'll hurt your future relationship (should there be one) with the VC, which could be detrimental further down the line if they remember you. Plus, if every VC behaves like this, it'll hurt you because nobody will ever refer you and t
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by jlees 17y ago
Oh, I'm awesome, I just don't like answering to other people and not working to my own schedule.
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by jlees 17y ago
Tell us more about who you are and what gets you excited before I waste time bragging about myself to an anonymous wall. Also, far more minor, lack of clarity with the question Skype or XMPP => I'd just reply "XMPP" ;)
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by jlees 17y ago
Everyone wants to be Dustin Curtis. Still, the author calling HN posters Neanderthals was a nice touch.
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by jlees 17y ago
Because I'm unemployable.
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by jlees 17y ago
Inflammatory title, but it rang true with me. One of the dangers that first time founders living outside of the Valley (like me) face is that our minds get poisoned and our ambitions shrunk by the parochial leaders I think there's a healt
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by jlees 17y ago
Yeah, apart from the part that might actually be interesting to HN readers, which everyone seems to have missed? She complained about privacy in Buzz, as did other people. Her case was specifically mediaworthy and got widespread attention (
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by jlees 17y ago
Attaching everything to my email address would be great if I could just change my primary gmail username. I'm a bit fed up of it now. I have secondary accounts (which are painful enough to manage in the light of Buzz etc), but I don't want
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by jlees 17y ago
Agreed in a social context; in a business context, though, short status updates from the people I email most (and higher ups) are very very useful...
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by jlees 17y ago
We had the OHP handwritten essay style of lectures as well, primarily in maths, but I seem to recall one computer science topic that stooped that low. We definitely had one pre-prepared essay type, but most of these were lecturers would jus
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by jlees 17y ago
The Oxbridge system relies heavily on lectures to set the scene for the group supervisions though. You only get one or two hours of small group tuition per week per topic, so you need to make the most of it. The system generally goes: go to
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by jlees 17y ago
The people in the channel submit interesting and relevant articles on regular base and I think those submissions are one of the main reasons I visit this site on a daily base. and. crucially. nobody forces anyone in the channel to upvot
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by jlees 17y ago
One bad apple does not a blacklist make, surely?
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by jlees 17y ago
when i graduated from university, in England, with a BA in computer science I was offered a starting salary of sub $35k, par for the course in the uk. I'd earned the equivalent of $50k pa as an intern in the US and bay area companies pay tw
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by jlees 17y ago
there's a mention higher up this exact comment thread of people doing exactly that. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098358
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by jlees 17y ago
Not that easily actually. You have to re-interview - and I don't actually want to be in a coding role, so I doubt engineering would suit me ;)
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by jlees 17y ago
And even if you itch to strike out on your own, google is a great place to learn a lot of crazy stuff from a lot of crazy smart people-that's certainly a big part of why i'm here.
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by jlees 17y ago
Aw man, I wish I'd joined as an engineer now. The lens I'm seeing the company through (product management) isn't half so cool. I mean, a lot of the above is still true, but we definitely have deadlines, tasks, responsibilities, and the team

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