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by larsberg 15y ago
Indeed. As part of my PhD duties, I've been the lab tutor for the first serious UNIX/systems programming course for the last three years, and I always teach vi: ESC : q! Because you never know when some commandline tool is going to drop you
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by larsberg 15y ago
All of whose founders had at least one parent with a PhD or law degree. And who also had either exceptional access to early education (private schooling) or extra-curricular education (HP lecture series) or both. Unless by "doing something
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by larsberg 15y ago
Thank you! And just so you know, this comment made my weekend. The ADA requirements are pretty minimal -- it just has to "work." All the work we did to, for example, make the reader's navigation order sensible within the tree views for the
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by larsberg 15y ago
That experience with acceessibility may be true for many websites, but certainly isn't the case for Microsoft products (and I assume websites but do not know for sure). I was on the Visual Studio Environment team, and we put an incredible a
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by larsberg 15y ago
Lucky Dragon Nanofax! Darnit, now I have to re-read the Idoru chain of Gibson books again...
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by larsberg 15y ago
I haven't been through them, but I used to interview for MSFT (I did ~300 in-person interview between 2000 and 2007). I'll admit I'm totally biased having worked for them and that all my experience is there and not elsewhere.
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by larsberg 15y ago
I spend a lot of time on public transit and occasionally open up my phone at work. I'd hate to embarrass myself in a public place.
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by larsberg 15y ago
> has been gamed and is no longer useful To be fair, if you can game it, the interviewer's doing it wrong. The idea is to ask a question that the interviewee can complete and then work together with them for ideas on other ways of imple
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by larsberg 15y ago
There's only one downside to the tile interfaces: many of the apps don't let you customize what gets shown. Recent "issues" with my Windows Phone 7: - Wonder what all the fuss in that younger generation is about and take advantage of your Z
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by larsberg 15y ago
But you can't configure it like the physical kindle, where page turn on either side up higher is "back" and lower is "forward." So if you're going to hold it one-handed, that either has to be your right hand or you do this weird left-arm-ar
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by larsberg 15y ago
All depends on how you plan to get that first job. If you already have a company lined up, are planning on joining a startup, or are using the alumni network at your university, you should be fine. But, if you're going through your universi
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by larsberg 15y ago
> Unfortunatly installing Ubuntu on _new_ hardware is a different thing altogether. This. I made the unfortunate mistake of trying to install Ubuntu on one of the new Toshiba Porteges. I was not expecting such terrible device support (b
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by larsberg 15y ago
And the points they make are even less than that. I've worked places with a subscription to get abstract: http://www.getabstract.com/ Very nice; you can just subscribe to the business books feeds, read the 3-page PDF summaries, and decide
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by larsberg 15y ago
Often, the most productive thing to do is leave. The day in my management career that I learned to walk in to a large meeting, say, "<Direct report R> will be making this decision for my team" and then walk out was the day I reclaim
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by larsberg 15y ago
> Go do multi file grep in BBedit in front of an emacs jock one day. Is there something it does that's better than M-x grep? I'm asking honestly, not to be snarky. And either way, it's not that menu items are bad... it's just, well, I'v
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by larsberg 15y ago
Oh, certainly it is. There are a lot of union jobs that pay well, though admittedly the better-paying ones require quite a bit of skill. My brother is a pipefitter, and while he makes more than many software developers, he is also qualified
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by larsberg 15y ago
> this argument comes dangerously close to suggesting that we should further impoverish I apologize if my comment came across as suggesting a course of action. I'm merely commenting on the original commenter's assertion that Americans d
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by larsberg 15y ago
> Our citizens don't want to work in manufacturing Not true among those to whom college is not attractive. There is a group of Americans that would like a semi-skilled labor job that affords them a middle class lifestyle. I grew up in a
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by larsberg 15y ago
As an owner of one, the biggest issue isn't that there aren't enough apps -- it's that the biggies aren't there. Pandora? Nope. Spotify? Nope. The list goes on, and worse, the startups with a mobile component (think Uber) don't even seem to
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by larsberg 15y ago
That's neat and I'm glad to see it's so high-touch. I tried writing an app for my phone, but got stymied... by the sign-up/verification process. Tried using DreamSpark ( https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx ), and unlike the Apple sign-
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by larsberg 15y ago
Honestly, one little thing that would make me happy is no longer feeling like a second-class citizen on certain sites because I'm using a computer that is 3/4" thinner than the one I just stepped away from. I'm looking at you Hulu! If the
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by larsberg 15y ago
There's also a size/flashiness issue. If I'm going on public transit or waiting somewhere that the whole "look, I'm holding a shiny device that's easy to pawn!" thing may be a bad idea, I bring my kindle. Or if it's likely to rain or I just
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by larsberg 15y ago
That makes sense, and follows with my general experience: once your team reaches >= 8 people, there will always be one of them having a Major Life Issue (cancer, drugs, burnout, divorce, etc.) that will consume incredible amounts of you
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by larsberg 15y ago
Are administrative assistants either really expensive or ineffective at meal purchasing in the SF area? This seems like a tasty service and all, but back-of-envelope I would think it hard to compete with ~an hour a day of $15-20/hour labor.
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by larsberg 15y ago
What are your questions about it? I know two startups friends did that used it (one I was a part of), and the program is exactly as advertised. All the software+licenses, free for use until you either pass the 3 year (IIRC) mark or several
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by larsberg 15y ago
If that was a serious question, places that do developer tools and programming languages for a living (at least MSFT, I assume others as well) pay ridiculous amounts of money to independent third-party companies that specialize in gathering
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by larsberg 15y ago
Yup. At Northwestern, the first course covers the first three chapters. I later went back (~5 years after graduation) and did the fourth chapter and its exercises. I now have an instructors' guide as well, but still haven't convinced myself
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by larsberg 15y ago
Read the RFP. 3/4 of the goals are about understanding, not influencing. After reading it, I'm excited about the kind of research I hope gets done and published around this. Five will get you ten the grad students/profs who work on it end u
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by larsberg 15y ago
Not entirely true. Both interns and new college hires can require a lot of work from your previously-productive employees. I've met many firms -- particularly in the finance sector -- who don't hire anyone below that 3-5 years' experience b
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by larsberg 15y ago
Thanks for the tip! I really wish I'd known about the approved hardware thing beforehand.

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