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by larsberg 15y ago
I hate to be "that guy," but I don't see why the count display isn't an option in our account panel. In the previous polls, people seemed to be split 50/50-ish. Unless pg, as HN Overlord, feels that either removing counts has a performance
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by larsberg 15y ago
Another possibility is the replacement of particularly the intro-level courses with lecturers instead of research faculty. Of course, that would mean giving up on the "you are taught only by professors at <X> university" tagline + U
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by larsberg 15y ago
> What has the employee turnover rate been? At least at MSFT, we were not allowed to answer this question. These rates can also be deceptive at face value, as you really want to know the breakdown between good attrition (fired a poor pe
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by larsberg 15y ago
My wife and I have been able to stream to a laptop and the Wii at the same time. But, I don't know if there are no restrictions, or if there are "only 1 device type at a time."
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by larsberg 16y ago
I know quite a few families in this situation that just re-register kindles between Amazon accounts when they want to grab a different book. According to them, registering a device switches its account, but does not delete or remove stuff y
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by larsberg 16y ago
Yes. Real code that actually works in the real world, for large numbers of users, on all sorts of weird platforms and configurations, tends to accumulate some cruft. I'm sure there exist beautiful, production code bases that have been downl
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by larsberg 16y ago
As a US-based recovering WoW-addict, I find it impossible to associate Leroy with anything other than "Leeroy Jenkins." Your post pleasantly caused me to discover that a suitably strong internet meme can completely wipe out racial stereotyp
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by larsberg 16y ago
I can't speak to the other fiction categories, but there are a number of readable books in the Kindle SciFi category in the 99-2.99 range. In particular, if you just want to turn off your brain and pick up something in the "space opera" cat
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by larsberg 16y ago
Based on usual MSFT behavior, I would assume there are already several companies in an Partner relationship and working on products under NDA. At the time the commercial version (if not the Academic version) of the SDK is launched, I'd expe
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by larsberg 16y ago
I disagree with one statement: > performance will go up, but implementation code size and > complexity will go up by about a factor of two Moving from basic compiler optimizations (CSE, let-floating, unused variable elimination) to
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by larsberg 16y ago
On the upside, I spend a lot less time looking at the HN comments. I used to scroll down, looking for insightful comments within otherwise low-ranked threads or in a sea of trite comments. Now, I can't distinguish them, so I don't even look
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by larsberg 16y ago
This sentiment is identical to what I experienced interviewing and hiring Stanford CS grads, even though it was back in 2002-2005. Not all, to be sure -- one of my top-performing college hires was a Stanford CS grad! -- but it was certainly
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by larsberg 16y ago
I apologize if it came across that way! I was impressed by their desire to work with cool tech and on interesting problems instead of being dominated by economic fear and just going wherever they were most likely to get a big payout (whethe
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by larsberg 16y ago
I don't think they're like CMU, which has a separate school of Computer Science you have to be admitted to in order to be a CS major. If Stanford is like the University of Chicago, the only thing stopping students from majoring in CS are th
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by larsberg 16y ago
The same thing appears to be happening here at the University of Chicago -- increased numbers of undergraduates in the sequence as well as greatly increased Ph.D. student applications over the last couple of years. And not just money-grubbe
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by larsberg 16y ago
Given the $10-13 price point for most Kindle books, I'm honestly surprised Amazon isn't giving the device away to customers who already spend more than $100 / year and don't have one.
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by larsberg 16y ago
I'd say that people can't estimate time because it's an acquired skill and most people don't try to acquire it. When I managed a team, I had people put their initial estimates in the tracking tool, and when closing out the item they'd also
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by larsberg 16y ago
I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they outsource the non-iOS development. Many multi-platform shops I know build only one flavor and then to save on full-time developer costs send out the work on other platforms elsewhere. I know of a
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by larsberg 16y ago
I haven't gotten any direct numbers from them, but the authors of technical books that I've talked to have told me that your Amazon sales are proportional to the number of reviews, not the rating associated with the product. They claim that
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by larsberg 16y ago
> Unfortunately, it's not the tech guys who are running the company I can believe that is the case now. Things had been becoming more marketing/business driven even when I left back in ~2006. And I was in Developer Tools, which was much
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by larsberg 16y ago
> WinFS was marketing through vaporware. That may be how it looks from the outside, but from the inside that's not what it looked like at all. The WinFS team Truly Believed in what they were building. They tried to get Office on board w
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by larsberg 16y ago
It's pretty terrible (in HFT terms), particularly if you're trying to use a junky on-board NIC. Folks not using FPGAs use separate ethernet cards and enable kernel bypass and can do significantly better with that.
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by larsberg 16y ago
"we ended up hiring the candidate with the smoothest answers" I mentioned this in another thread, but the point of coding questions is to see how they think about code, whether they understand how to walk through it (have a machine model),
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by larsberg 16y ago
If you can, track down somebody who has done a lot of these interviews before to give you a test one and some feedback. I do that for the undergraduates at our school (I went back for my Ph.D. after retiring from MSFT), and they claim it ha
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by larsberg 16y ago
The slow pages turns are a killer. Especially with PDFs. "As shown in Figure N" for any value of N not on the current page was what basically killed the usefulness of the device for me.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Many candidates wrongly assume they failed to get a position because they got a question wrong. Unless the question was trivial (i.e. what is the height of a tree?), most of the time these questions are intended to see how well you can care
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by larsberg 16y ago
Not entirely true. I know several startups (through the UofC b-school) that have used 99designs to get a first design and then stuck with the designer separately from 99designs for all future, higher-pay work. 99designs is a very nice way t
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by larsberg 16y ago
Many modern, enforceable (even in Cali) non-competes have a clause that provides you full salary/benefits in exchange for not working for any competing firm during that period. Pretty sweet deal for hacking projects you never got around to
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by larsberg 16y ago
It's possible, if you're a perfect candidate. Crazy relocation bonuses I've been a part of (on the employer side): - Horse transport - Premium wine collections - Luxury automobile collections - Months of weekly first class flights to/from t
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by larsberg 16y ago
If you are a superior candidate (significant years of experience, many successful products that you were one of the couple key dev members on), interview anyway. There are relocation benefits usable to the large players with deeper pockets,

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