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by jsolson 14y ago
Sure, but would it be too much for Apple to announce that time a mere 24 hours in advance? I realize that's not really Apple's style, but it would at least give everyone a chance to play.
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by jsolson 14y ago
As I said, it was only part of the reason I shelved it. It also turns out I rather like working on an 11" screen. Keeps me focussed.
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by jsolson 14y ago
> The thing is, Lion runs like crap without an SSD or insane amounts of RAM for many people. YES. I have a MacBook Pro Core i7 from a little while back with an old style spinning rust drive and a 11" MacBook Air Core 2 Duo. For purely C
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by jsolson 14y ago
> Don't know how anyone can do development solely on a laptop. Mmmm... I work exclusively on an 11" MacBook Air with no external display. My coworkers think I'm a crazy person, but the constraints work for me. I stay focussed on the one
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by jsolson 15y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, not all cities are created equal. I spent a decade or so in Atlanta (ages 18-28), and I agree that if I were to have kids there I'd almost certainly move out to the suburbs (probably Decatur, certainl
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by jsolson 15y ago
Freedom also carries a cost. At the end of the day, the best OS for any given individual is the one that gives them the largest net increase in utility, for their personal utility function. My experience suggests that a Free OS isn't worth
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by jsolson 15y ago
> Even at Amazon's size and scale. At Amazon's size and scale, it's all the more important that you start with something simple with well-understood performance characteristics from day one. AWS doesn't really get a grace period during
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by jsolson 15y ago
> I read with interest Steve Yegge's mistakenly-leaked email about the oppressive conditions for engineers at Amazon. It's hard to reconcile with the sort of innovation they consistently show. My take on Steve's rant (as an engineer at
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by jsolson 15y ago
For the briefest of moments I wanted one of these, but then I remembered what happened to my last pocket knife. - Sent from seat 26D
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by jsolson 15y ago
I'm curious as to where you heard this particular tidbit, as I currently work at Amazon in a relatively new division (and I'm not buying a word of what you've said).
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by jsolson 15y ago
I've registered a few domains through Google Apps. At least the last time I did this GoDaddy was one of the places you might get randomly bounced to. It may have become the only place.
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by jsolson 15y ago
> It would be an interesting experiment to get a bunch of luminaries from different computing disciplines in a room together and to have them all talk about problems they have and see if anyone has any solutions. I think it would get co
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by jsolson 15y ago
Not interested in switching companies just now, but you guys do nice work -- my girlfriend and I used data from your site (through my insurance provider) to haggle down the price on a Subaru WRX this weekend.
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by jsolson 15y ago
> The engineers are not in control, it's pretty darn obvious. As a software engineer, I take offense at that. This is precisely the right decision to make if you observe that this is how your customers are using your product. You don't
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by jsolson 15y ago
> -A window begins to be unwieldy at 15 tabs, and is impossible to navigate at 20 Interesting. This is actually one of the big reasons why I prefer Chrome over FF. FF does the whole "make my tab bar scroll" while Chrome resizes the tabs
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by jsolson 15y ago
Two in year one, three in year two. Plus an additional 6 "personal days". That being said, I've yet to actually take a vacation day at Amazon, despite regularly getting automated e-mails about it from HR. I send a polite OOTO e-mail to my t
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by jsolson 15y ago
> Natural language is hard, and reminders need to be 100% reliable. Indeed; hence Apple confirming its interpretation of the reminder with you before committing anything.
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by jsolson 15y ago
Being at Amazon, I'm seeing more and more inflow of former MS engineers... damn good ones too. We're happy to have 'em :)
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by jsolson 15y ago
You could of course make the errors that RoR shits out look like IIS. In the interest of familiarity, of course, not because you're trying to conceal anything :)
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by jsolson 15y ago
This is... odd. I started at Amazon in January, and as of November, plain text was the preferred format for resumes. Then again, mine got into the system through the employee referral program, so perhaps it takes different inputs.
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by jsolson 16y ago
So perhaps the answer is to allow Homebrew to bootstrap itself with a basic toolchain if one isn't available. It could even deprecate its toolchain if you later installed Xcode. There's no technical reason why this isn't possible -- the App
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by jsolson 16y ago
At least you've gotten an early start on the apartment hunt. I've heard similar things about the rents (I'm coming from a $1/square foot loft in Atlanta, so I'm quite certain I'm in for a shock). I guess I'll find out when I get there. Righ
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by jsolson 16y ago
Thank you. I'll look you up once I've settled in a bit. Right now I'm still in Atlanta getting my life loaded onto a truck :)
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by jsolson 16y ago
This sounds good to me. I wonder how spread out people are, though (I don't even know how many offices Amazon has in Seattle :). I'll be in South Lake Union office.
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by jsolson 16y ago
I start with these guys Monday. I have a real feeling they're going somewhere. Amusingly, the job posting I applied through gave only slightly more information (New Products Division).
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by jsolson 16y ago
I keep meaning to mention this in a context where Hipmunk people might see it. One little piece of design advice I'd give you based on the reaction of every single person I've shown the site to (which is in the tens at this point), is tha
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by jsolson 16y ago
Rub it in why don't you.
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by jsolson 16y ago
I solve this problem by keeping an archive of and stripping the DRM from every eBook I purchase. My weapon of choice is Calibre with the Kindle PID extensions. My Kindle is still content to read all of the titles I've stripped, although usu
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by jsolson 16y ago
Supposedly they're not deleting them from devices, just from the archives (thus preventing re-downloading the titles): http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-removes-incest-related...
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by jsolson 16y ago
He did, and supposedly they're not actually doing that this time: http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-removes-incest-related...

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