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by larsberg 15y ago
I assume the reason they're on a ThinkPad/Lenovo is that there is a well-deserved reputation there for running Linux well. I recently picked up one of the new Toshiba Portege models to run Linux, and stock Ubuntu is giving me flashbacks to
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by larsberg 15y ago
Made a wireless stumbler for iOS in about two days that sold a bit over $100k total. Admittedly, I spent probably another day in random debugging for version 3-ish of it (just went walkabout in Chicago with a debug build, logging AP details
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by larsberg 15y ago
Yeah, I found that statement funny, since the first tech company I worked for was MSFT. Out in that area (the pacific northwest), physical activity is a huge deal -- hiking, skiing, and snowboarding especially. On every team I was on, the v
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by larsberg 15y ago
But, if you give them guidelines, they can work well with you. If you're currently in the $150k range and you want to get to $200k but don't know how, talk to your local friendly recruiter over coffee. They'll even buy. As long as you're cl
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by larsberg 15y ago
Modulo regulatory approval, of course. Most of my family works in various manufacturing industries (high end foundry, steel mills, etc.) and you're looking at years to get even the most basic permits through unless you are in one of the sta
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by larsberg 15y ago
That's certainly true, and I apologize if I made it seem like I was encouraging type #1, in particular the "tends to micro-manage, frequently overrules consensus with his own views." Micro-managing your reports is a sign that you're either
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by larsberg 15y ago
> their heart is usually at least in the right place I've normally seen that people in role #2 are just not prepared for the hard conversations that come with being a manager. Sometimes, you have to call people out on poor or below-pote
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by larsberg 15y ago
This article gets more than a smidge of its history wrong. For instance, it makes it seem as if WPF (nee Avalon) was written by DevDiv in isolation from Windows, where in reality the Avalon team was mostly made of the former IE team after i
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by larsberg 15y ago
If you are still interested in learning more about writing compiler optimizations after reading the Appel book, there are two really fantastic Ph.D. theses: Olin Shivers, Control Flow Analysis in Scheme David Tarditi, Design and Implementat
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by larsberg 15y ago
A lot has changed. If you're looking at other strongly-typed functional language, particularly if you don't have to handle laziness, Compiling with Continuations is a fantastic book ( http://www.amazon.com/Compiling-Continuations-Andrew-W-A
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by larsberg 15y ago
You're in the post-first-year quiet rejections, months between e-mail replies, and horrible uncertainties of iOS development period. Perhaps Facebook will get there one day too? :-)
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by larsberg 15y ago
I wouldn't say that about the ATI driver folks. Back when I was running a small team at MSFT, we were the first serious users of the then-new WPF text rendering APIs that were built on top of the new driver models. So, we hit bugs. The ATI
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by larsberg 15y ago
Next up: crossing Seattle without passing a coffee shop...
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by larsberg 15y ago
"More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day" I love pseudo-statistics. They might as well say that 99.9% of their highly-active users log on to Facebook every day. Unqualified qualifiers lack quality.
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by larsberg 15y ago
Rumor has it, leaking info coming at BUILD is insta-termination. And while that's old hat for Apple employees, devs targeting the Microsoft platform aren't used to surprises or secrets. Of course, who else is expecting to just hear that Sil
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by larsberg 15y ago
Professor Harper's own book (free! while in draft form), http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf , is a better source for understanding the material in this post. But, to be perfectly honest, I'm a systems-focused PL graduate student a
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by larsberg 15y ago
Except qmail, of course ( http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html ) :-)
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by larsberg 15y ago
There are also enterprise sales organizations where all members of the team are given director or better titles because that has a real impact on whether or not they can meet with the CTO/CIO-level potential buyers.
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by larsberg 15y ago
Honestly, they don't need to take Ballmer's spot -- one of them should take BillG's old spot before all that CEO nonsense. That is, the old Chief Software Architect role, when he used to run around reviewing every product both creating a
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by larsberg 15y ago
You definitely missed an opportunity. My first year, I volunteered without pay in a research lab just to see what was going on, and then by the second through fourth years I was contributing to actual research. Of course, it's not entirely
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by larsberg 15y ago
Thank you for this clarification! That was not the case in 2002-2004 (when I was a hiring manager at MSFT).
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by larsberg 15y ago
Google is considered (or at least was, by other tech companies) to have a very poor sourcing and general recruiting experience. It was assumed to be because they contract out the work. As a contrast to that, at MSFT, we had full-time recrui
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by larsberg 15y ago
Further, at least at my school, the majority of the incoming CS PhD students have no interest in a tenure-track teaching position and are targeting those other jobs from the start.
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by larsberg 15y ago
I've recently noticed that > 90% of my gmail ads are job-offer-related (mainly Jane Street, Google, and Intel). That seems to be a new trend, at least for me.
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by larsberg 15y ago
Nah, Microsoft wasn't like that. I've always joked that if you wanted to do corporate espionage, you should either ride one of the local commute lines (the 245) or just sit around pretending to drink coffee at the Redmond Town Center Border
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by larsberg 15y ago
Trying to turn pages on a PDF being displayed on a Kindle makes me want to punch kittens. Multiple. Because that's how much time I have between. Each. Page.
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by larsberg 15y ago
You sound like the only person who's dealt with this problem before :-) I remember the Visual Studio setup team and their stories about the woes of trying to make downloads as small as possible. You're fighting with: - wanting the file down
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by larsberg 15y ago
Many places solve the assistant problem by going through a temp agency and then offering the individual full-time employment if they work out at the end of their contract. And I think there's an article waiting to be written about the dange
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by larsberg 15y ago
Not at all! It wasn't that bad -- the object files just needed to have sections that had particular size restrictions, names, etc. Nothing too tricky. I don't recall the hardware being too separately encumbered. Sony Research provided all o
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by larsberg 15y ago
The AIBO used a proprietary commercial operating system and required a separate set of commercial compilers to produce valid code. When I was working on it through a special arrangement with Sony Research, I made a bunch of perl scripts tha

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