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by larsberg 15y ago
This review mirrors my experience almost exactly. I would also expand it and mention that PDF reading is pretty terrible. I tried the built-in reader and all of the paid applications. Only one of them, ezPDF, was even able to decently rende
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by larsberg 15y ago
Agreed. I use Calibre to download all of my news subscriptions to it and between that and a several books per week, I've never seen my kindle 3 crash in the many months that I've been using it. As opposed to my iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad an
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by larsberg 15y ago
Ha! I'm upvoting you because I did almost exactly the same thing in that situation... my YouTube name is lalalalalalalala2334.
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by larsberg 15y ago
I believe this post. I took a peek at the MSFT numbers on glassdoor, and either they are salary-only or total compensation packages have been reduced significantly since I was a manager ~6 years ago. I remember the general salary ranges for
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by larsberg 15y ago
I was hoping he was pointing out the painful thing about it from the user side --- you have to use the Kindle itself to borrow a title, which (at least on their e-ink readers) requires a level of patience I don't possess. Browsing through h
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by larsberg 15y ago
I like its look, but I wish newsblur didn't require a username or would just let me use my e-mail address. I failed the "new character" test. Once three or four don't work, I really want you to just offer me one. Or not require one in the f
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by larsberg 15y ago
> He did the XBox and Zune. I'm not sure on the timing, but these may have been in 2002 or more recent. At least from my experiences in DevDiv, that's around the time that BillG pretty much checked out. I think that point and the first
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by larsberg 15y ago
This article sounds as if nobody on the Courier team had been prepped for a MSFT exec review. There's internal training you go through (Precision Questioning and Answering) that teaches you what BillG's email question was: A test of whether
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by larsberg 15y ago
If you're on a mac and want something in the menubar (or whatever they call the thing on the top), try PandaBar. Very nice, has keybindings, and the dev adds features requested as quickly as Apple will turn around updates through the App St
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by larsberg 15y ago
Some feedback on this graphic's data: At least at Microsoft, my recruiters told me that a huge portion of the resumes submitted were from people who submitted either every day or multiple times a day. There's a "zeroth" reviewer that is a
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by larsberg 15y ago
Maybe it's something else, then, but I don't know what it could be -- I don't have any background apps and I set it to ping for mail every 30 minutes. Maybe my LG does poorly when signal strength gets low? (AT&T coverage is spotty in Ch
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by larsberg 15y ago
Developing for the platform is definitely trivial, as you mentioned (disclaimer: I worked at MSFT for years, but I've done an iOS app with over 1M downloads, so I've seen both). Owning the device is a pain, though. 1) Lack of apps. No Pando
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by larsberg 15y ago
The biggest thing you'll notice in practice from ICC is that it is much more likely to unroll a loop and transform the body to use SSE instructions when requested. If you have dense numeric code and aren't either using ICC or hand-unrolling
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by larsberg 15y ago
He mentions missing Chinese food, but there's a reason there isn't much of the Good Stuff -- it's all up in Richmond, BC. It's just a couple hour drive north over the border, and is a small town just south of Vancouver with a population tha
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by larsberg 15y ago
Interestingly, his enumerated set in the "Bad Programmer" list is almost exactly what I was grilling for when I asked people to implement stupid algorithms on a whiteboard and then step through them, debug them, etc. I somewhat disagree wit
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by larsberg 15y ago
The only sad thing about the advice to take "core" requirements during your first year and then do your major in your second to fourth years is that it hurts CS majors (and presumably others) who then end up forced to take multiple heavy sy
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by larsberg 15y ago
I suspect the intern was using that as an excuse to go somewhere else. Usually, when this situation occurs, the prior firm's lawyers immediately send a notice of intent to file an injuction as well as a statement that the new firm must reta
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by larsberg 15y ago
But, if you don't even try to prove part of a process correct, it's almost certainly wrong. See the excellent work that John Regehr's group is doing related to compiler and optimization verification/testing ( http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/
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by larsberg 15y ago
Boo! Thanks for the heads-up. I'll track down the author or another GHC dev at POPL or one of the co-located workshops.
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by larsberg 15y ago
Maybe they all have their accounts in Google Apps and G+ is just not available to them yet :-)
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by larsberg 15y ago
Thanks for all the details! We're looking at moving from MLRISC to LLVM in Manticore, and some knowledge of the pitfalls in the terrain are definitely helpful. We're most worried about our ridiculously custom calling convention while in-ML,
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by larsberg 15y ago
Possibly true, though for the same position it will be the same pay. Having managed H1B employees, every year I was required to fill out a bunch of paperwork confirming that I was not underpaying them for their work relative to their peers.
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by larsberg 15y ago
Overhead on grants is > 50%. The exact rate is negotiated between your university and its major funding agency (NSF or NIH), depending on which provides more grant money in total to your institution. That rate is then used uniformly acr
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by larsberg 15y ago
To be fair, this is a story from the product management/marketing side. I always felt sorry for those poor folks, as (at least back when I was there) they were consulted early in the planning process for some market segment/user investigati
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by larsberg 15y ago
We are currently working on Manticore ( http://manticore.cs.uchicago.edu ). It's not at a state where you would want to use it for anything in production, but we have best-in-class parallel functional language performance. We recently pick
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by larsberg 15y ago
I would expand on point #4 about type constructors. Datatypes are so easy to define that it's easy to create intermediate representations (IRs) that enforce static properties of your language. In Manticore, we have four IRs we move through
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by larsberg 15y ago
I'm not sure this author actually reads the 0.99 books from Amazon. I read quite a few of them (kicked a bad video game habit), and it appears many authors of the SciFi multi-volume publish book 1 at either free or 0.99, with the rest of th
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by larsberg 15y ago
And Peter Hallam, original J#/C# compiler dev lead, IIRC. It's like an ex-MSFT .NET party over there!
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by larsberg 15y ago
> the CEO would be in the office from 11am to 8pm and it drove me crazy It's probably worse than you think. I would bet that the CEO works 8-8, but like many managers has trouble getting dedicated blocks of time while in the office and
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by larsberg 15y ago
That's certainly a possibility down the road. Our tech staff has a gForge installation that has LDAP configured and all the other goop, but only supports svn. Not managing accounts, password resets, and the inevitable extra map from student

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