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by larsberg 14y ago
Not solved by any means, but there is typically only one GC-related paper per top-tier PL conference such as PLDI or ICFP these days. Many more GC results, particularly for more actively developed systems where the changes tend to be increm
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by larsberg 14y ago
It will be interesting to see how those papers compare with the Most Influential awards which, at least for SIGPLAN conferences, are given 10 years later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGPLAN
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by larsberg 14y ago
Having worked with some of the first few Rational employees, my understanding is that Rational was/is very good at sales through their consulting arms (hired a consultant? congrats, you just paid a member of their sales force to wear your e
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by larsberg 14y ago
Use your faculty and alumni network. In particular, scan the alumni network for people who work at a company where you want to work and contact them --- even if they're not in your role. Take advantage of the fact that most people are quite
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by larsberg 14y ago
Two things: 1) Yield is a big issue. At larger companies, they track how many people they get from different universities, how long they last, how far they go, etc. Most recruiting efforts are then focused on the few schools that give the m
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by larsberg 14y ago
This problem is why, as a hiring manager, you should be asking your best people whom they know and would hire. Then, talk to tose people, establish a relationship over years, and be ready to jump during the small interval between projects w
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by larsberg 14y ago
I assume it's because they're both popular and free to borrow via the lending service if you're an Amazon Prime member. IIRC, up until a few months ago, the free Jane Austen e-books dominated the top highlighted passages.
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by larsberg 14y ago
Realize that my info is ~10 years old. At the time I was leaving Microsoft, they were working on adding more transparency to the process since, as you'd guess, people wanted to know more. Part of that was explicit titles tied to levels; par
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by larsberg 14y ago
I would certainly agree that the path from product support to any of the product development arms is not an easy one internally, particularly for an FTE role where it is generally expected that you would have a CS degree. Especially after t
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by larsberg 14y ago
> I saw this at Microsoft As a bit of MSFT-specific advice, if you're in the dev/test/pm org and an IC and feel this way, you should make sure that you're having a regular (e.g. every six months) 1:1 with your manager's manager. During
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by larsberg 14y ago
Certainly. But turn that around --- if all of the major Go developers were at Canonical, even if it were precisely the same language today, would Rob and Google use it?
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by larsberg 14y ago
It would be interesting to know if Rob and company would be using the language if they weren't also the compiler developers. It's one thing to trust a language with "less" features when you own the compiler and runtime, but another entirely
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by larsberg 14y ago
> part of the reason why Apple is still hawking them I've always assumed a large part of the reason Apple uses proprietary connectors (other than any potential circuit real estate savings) is that it significantly reduces their testing
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by larsberg 14y ago
I'm somewhat surprised he isn't predicting something closer to a mix of the OnLive strategy partnered with the last-mile provider (Comcast, AT&T, etc.). It seems like some way of letting game makers or these services rent space in data
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by larsberg 14y ago
Most large mammals other than humans sleep or relax a large portion of the day and are only active a relatively short time for hunting (work) and eating. So one could interpret his statement as saying that they work short, focused hours and
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by larsberg 14y ago
My problem with the memorization approach is that the technology is still moving quickly enough that the orders of magnitude still "wiggle," particularly in the middle numbers. For example, at a glance, the disk seek numbers are off by orde
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by larsberg 14y ago
Honestly, I'd rather programmers know how to _measure_ these numbers than just have them memorized. I mean, if I told them that their machine had L3 cache now, what would they do find out how that changes things? (This comment is also a sha
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by larsberg 14y ago
If you go the weight route, make sure you don't just train grip strength (wrist flexors) but also balance a bit with wrist extensor exercises or you'll just move the pain around. It can be as simple as wrapping a rubberband around your fing
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by larsberg 14y ago
I think that's part of the G+ problem. I meet people at conferences and workshops and add them via G+, but otherwise I would have never had a chance. It's not at all visible externally.
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G+ feels more like going to some sort of gathering where everybody is off in groups talking quietly amongst themselves. It's not empty; it's just not very interesting if you don't know anybody there. For example, the developers and research
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by larsberg 14y ago
Totally unrelated to the beautiful pictures in this post, but I was recently talking to a Credit Suisse employee who mentioned they'd made a large move to F#. I'm not a big fan of working in finance, but that's a much bigger selling point f
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by larsberg 14y ago
> intelligent enough to discriminate on more than money Depending on their background, these kids are often looking at more money than they have had in their lives and, for many, a larger salary rate than their parents. While there are
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by larsberg 14y ago
I did exactly that and can't recommend it highly enough. I finished the CS major in my first 2 years and then spent the next two years taking "independent study" courses and just generally hacking and doing research for a few different facu
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by larsberg 14y ago
> Microsoft allowed Internet Explorer to completely stagnate IIRC, after the legal madness, there were some major shakeups. Not least of which included the entire IE team being settlement-forced into other positions in the company (many
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by larsberg 14y ago
Thanks! That text has been there for at least 6 years and we've never noticed.
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1) Using one of the more efficient CPS transformations will help remove many stupid constructs that are harder to statically find later. 2) In our CPS-based intermediate representation, we rely heavily on control flow analysis (CFA) to enab
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by larsberg 14y ago
There's a difference between money for the university and money for yourself. I think the poster was trying to point out that taking an academic job is not the path to riches. For example, I made more at around five years in to working at M
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by larsberg 14y ago
Well, except for emacs/gnus :-)
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Hopefully now they can afford to extend their iOS client to includes handwriting input ala Notability (especially the Tablet PC-style input pane at the bottom).
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It may be a Seattle-area thing. When I worked at Microsoft, the "super excited" phrase was a bit of a running joke, but it still didn't stop us from using it at every conference, in every public e-mail, hallways, etc. Search for Microsoft A

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