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Status of earlier Google Calendar issue(google.com)
2 points by jsolson 13y ago|0 comments
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by jsolson 14y ago
> So, yeah, no technical limitation, but explaining to Jeff that you've spent a year retooling the build system to support node.js but not actually shipped any features yet might lead to limitations of another sort :-) Indeed, and this
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by jsolson 14y ago
While I agree that it's terribly unlikely, one could argue that having the services backing the frontend fleet written in JavaScript was "powering" Amazon.com via JS. There's no technical limitation on what you can build those services in,
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by jsolson 14y ago
To be fair, they also clearly publish how to enable "Developer mode" which lets you do more or less whatever you want for each new model of Chromebook. Admittedly, it's harder for some than others: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/devel
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by jsolson 14y ago
If what's happening to Apple right now counts as "failure", I'd love to see what success looks like.
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by jsolson 14y ago
I think he may not be an outlier for Microsoft. I've worked with a few people from Redmond who left not because of a crappy manager or an unpleasant team, but because their projects kept getting cancelled. It's hard to feel like you're work
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by jsolson 14y ago
So this is apparently less of a thing now, or at least it wasn't an issue for me. I negotiated an offer with Google last week, and I have a very good idea of which team I'm going to. I was given three options based on preferences and "match
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by jsolson 14y ago
> This already exposes that you are not a hacker. The irony of discussing the importance of openness in the things you own with such a closed-minded worldview about the people you interact with is palpable.
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by jsolson 14y ago
That may well be, but you can't dismiss someone as "not a hacker" simply because they make a different OS choice than you might. Even hackers have priorities. I'm definitely not a businessman. I'm a rank-and-file engineer for Amazon, and
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by jsolson 14y ago
Sure. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I just don't have experience on that side of the fence.
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by jsolson 14y ago
To be fair, many of the folks on this site probably don't much care either. If you've got an Apple developer license, you can put rather a lot on your phone that Apple wouldn't let through the store. ... and of course, if you Jailbreak your
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by jsolson 14y ago
This may be true for some fields in some countries at some universities, but it is certainly not the norm for, for example, Computer Science in the United States at any school I know of.
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by jsolson 14y ago
If I was in the business of investing other people's money, I would like very much to be perceived as a shrewed individual who tries very hard not to be wrong, favoring long bets and coming up right. Nothing wrong with that.
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by jsolson 14y ago
I disagree. This sort of catchall and keep going error handling could leave your browser in a completely unknown state. It could start making bad requests, making the wrong requests, start leaking info, or more likely crash elsewhere but wi
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by jsolson 14y ago
How is the blocking being carried out? For example, if you switch to Google DNS, does that get around the issue?
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by jsolson 14y ago
Nope. It's uncommon enough in the US that Amazon is experimenting with this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=... They'll ship your items from Amazon to, effectively, Amazon, just closer to you.
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by jsolson 14y ago
I agree with you that the frequency of my shitting goes up while the quality goes down, although I was amused when I came across this line: > That same high dosage is also effective in fighting against colorectal cancer I do have to won
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by jsolson 14y ago
For what it's worth, the tutorial described there reminds me of at least one RTS I've played, although I can't place which one. Particularly that you start the game under attack. Maybe a C&C game or an Age of Empires game? Not sure.
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by jsolson 14y ago
I think noisy sales people would drive me crazy. If we leave the door open to the team room we can hear recruiting right outside. Very nice people, but I have even more trouble concentrating when they're on the phone all day. Then again, th
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by jsolson 14y ago
My office at work is a virtually silent team room. All of my coworkers are exceptionally quiet people. It drives me mad. Most days I spend my entire productive workday in a coffee shop across campus, precisely because it is loud and busy. O
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by jsolson 14y ago
Commented on this above, but the best favor I ever did myself in terms of online learning was to watch Gilbert Strang's (MIT) linear algebra lectures from iTunes U.
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by jsolson 14y ago
I'd agree that basically all of the material in this text is covered in an undergraduate and master's CS curriculum, but that doesn't mean you won't learn anything by going through it. For example, I wouldn't say I really understood linea
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by jsolson 14y ago
This book was used for an algorithms class for which I was the TA. My experience suggests that students who lack sufficient grounding in discrete math will have trouble with some concepts as the book speeds past them without giving any supp
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by jsolson 14y ago
They could always build a Thunderbolt display with a built-in GPU.
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by jsolson 14y ago
> OK, let's assume that the Surface's keyboard completely solves the problem of not being able to write properly. That still leaves us with the problem of not being able to point properly. The touch cover also has an embedded touchpad w
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by jsolson 14y ago
So, the professor in question was Dana Randall. I believe she was talking about this topic: http://en.scientificcommons.org/42983059 Basically, yes, self-avoiding paths. This was basically a brief aside in her honors undergrad algorithms
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by jsolson 14y ago
Perhaps they're assuming that the cube is a set of integral points and they want you to count lattice paths. This is trivial in 2-space (e.g., give me the number of paths that go from (0,0) to (5,5) by going only up or right one point with
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by jsolson 14y ago
Interesting that you mentioned Georgia Tech (BS '06, MS '09), as I was thinking that it's disappointing that no systems or compilers classes are required anymore. The new Threads curriculum doesn't (or didn't when I last paid attention to i
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by jsolson 14y ago
I'm curious what core principle of design you feel they've violated that they'd have gotten right by having "ever read a design book". What do you find so objectively appalling about Metro?
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by jsolson 14y ago
Yeah, I've managed to get a Linux box to recognize the Command key as super when I plug in an Apple keyboard. Some apps seems to look for actual scancodes, though, rather than for what X11 tells them the mappings should be. My experience wa

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