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by larsberg 16y ago
It's not even about a secure source of income. Unless you're a founder, simply low-single-digit employee number doesn't give you enough equity to beat even a low-end finance job. Simple math: if you do your business, 9-to-5 only, you'll be
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by larsberg 16y ago
If you can, try to make your career choice first and then your technology choice. Do you want to work at a social network startup? A mobile gaming startup? Do consulting work? Have your own side projects? Get a cushy job with 9-to-5 hours a
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by larsberg 16y ago
That's what it sounds like to me as well. Having spent a bunch of time with the WiFi and related networking APIs (WiFinder, back when private API usage was l33t3!), all of the functions I recall that let you get any information about the ov
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by larsberg 16y ago
Depends on the group. Each team gets morale money ($/head/year) to spend at their discretion on events, swag, and snacks. Your administrative assistant, top-level manager, and group culture will set how things go. When I worked on the Visua
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by larsberg 16y ago
Have you talked to any personal shoppers to see how your thoughts on how men want to be shopped for match up with their experiences? Most of my more successful hacker friends in the finance industry whose wives are not interested in shoppin
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by larsberg 16y ago
It could be worse. Have you ever tried to get help on Pages or Numbers from a search engine? At least stuff with funky characters are unique and if correctly quoted are handled by the major search engines.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Much of this excellent research project has been "embraced & extended" into C# at this point.
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by larsberg 16y ago
The key for me is one real, full day off. No work, no half-day, etc. I've found that not taking any days off is what burns me out more than anything. I probably put in more productive hours taking off one day per week than I did during all
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by larsberg 16y ago
I can't tell for sure (Wikipedia has no info, and http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Microsoft-C... only talks about their IPO), but it certainly looks like MSFT was bootstrapped when they nailed their big licensing deals. T
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by larsberg 16y ago
Right -- and providing dev tools and server platforms for free to students at the high school and college levels is why the MSDNAA and DreamSpark exist on the MSFT side of things. Of course, it took literally a couple of years to get each o
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by larsberg 16y ago
Whoops! Yeah, I'd had WinZip in there originally, then I couldn't remember if this particular story had already come out. I've been gone from MSFT for a long time, but it was generally considered bad form when I was there to call out specif
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by larsberg 16y ago
I also remember that there was a version of <unnamed product> that rather than sending LVM_GETITEMTEXT would just read the ansi characters corresponding to the selected item during LVN_ITEMCHANGED off of a random location in the sta
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by larsberg 16y ago
No, what I'm saying is that you can get exactly the same paper through CiteseerX, modulo the copyright (which is all that changes between the preprint and final).
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by larsberg 16y ago
As another PhD student, I don't really get all of the rage. In practice, everything post-1997 is easily accessible, and if you're searching through CiteseerX you probably won't even notice the difference. I won't claim it's a great system,
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by larsberg 16y ago
Managers often have to sit in a configuration that keeps their monitor away from prying eyes. Just scanning my inbox headers when I was managing would have shown things that were sensitive (HR, like disciplinary action or re-orgs, and legal
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by larsberg 16y ago
Or you have made the grave, grave mistake of installing Adobe products on your machine.
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by larsberg 16y ago
I gave it a try, and at least on the Windows version, their browser crashes if you mouse over the wrong areas or click the wrong buttons (on mytv.taiseng.com).
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by larsberg 16y ago
On an LG (on AT&T) and the update is not available.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Thanks for the tip -- will do!
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by larsberg 16y ago
Does anybody know how it works with video sites that only have a web interface & flash player? I'm thinking of Tai Seng ( http://mytv.taiseng.com/ , a Cantonese movie site my wife watches that's based on the same tech as Crunchroll).
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by larsberg 16y ago
We used to have ridiculous numbers like that at MSFT. If Google is reporting them the same way, they're not counting re-applications and people who are completely unqualified and either hoping for a lottery win or are just satisfying some u
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by larsberg 16y ago
I wonder what role the diminished state of funding has had on increased college costs. In the 90s, the money from DARPA/ONR and even NSF flowed quite readily into schools, which take 50-55% of that as "overhead" costs. Now, military researc
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by larsberg 16y ago
You can't imagine how large that pile of junk CVs/resumes is. When I was doing hiring (MSFT), having full-time recruiters working for me was key to getting the load down to something that was even remotely manageable. I can imagine that if
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by larsberg 16y ago
Past their expiration date? What about having to do the following every time you add/change a references seems outdated? pdflatex paper && bibtex paper && pdflatex paper && pdflatex paper :-) TBH, though, there's jus
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by larsberg 16y ago
> I think it's probably within Apple's rights to use their own private APIs. Only if it doesn't provide applications produced by other parts of their company (say, iBooks) an unfair advantage over other e-Readers on the platform (GoodRe
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by larsberg 16y ago
I, too, hope it's just rebranding. Zune Pass is Netflix for music, and I think people on other platforms (including me, back when I was on iPhone+Mac) are really missing out.
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by larsberg 16y ago
> Other browsers show that it is technically possible to support XP, without limiting your product on Vista/7 I think that other browsers show it is possible to run using only the APIs that were available in Windows XP without using any
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by larsberg 16y ago
I'm sort of surprised by the surprise here. As a graduate student myself, my peers and I have all come to the sad conclusion that Wikipedia is good for breadth and bad for depth, at least in CS (I cannot speak for other areas). The primary
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by larsberg 16y ago
The only time I've seen this many people gathered in one place in the US... is back when Chicago used to do a single, large fireworks display. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.
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by larsberg 16y ago
The push only involved auditing use of APIs. High-level decisions were, generally, not re-thought. For a more concrete example, if you were hosting IE within a window of your process, you had to harden the heck out of anything that IE could

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