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by larsberg 16y ago
I have to admit that my current major Emacs trouble is moving between Linux and OSX. Switching meta and hyper causes me major brain-fry (alt is immediately left of the space bar on every keyboard but those made by Apple).
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by larsberg 16y ago
Has she tried working with her college's career services? Most of the major colleges that I know of have a separate set of people (from their undergrad folks) that are dedicated to helping alums get re-employed.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Stay at one manager for as long as you possibly can. Until they cry, beg, plead, and threaten to put in another. As soon as your hierarchy goes from MGR->everybody-doing-work to MGR->Leads->everybody-doing-work. If you're a star
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by larsberg 16y ago
Schools that have switched to the How to Design Programs ( http://www.htdp.org/ ) curriculum for their intro classes would beg to differ! Of course, whether that specification+testing approach to development is carried through to the rest o
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by larsberg 16y ago
To be fair, I've hung out with some of the folks in the business school here at the UChicago, and there are some really bright and useful folks that I would be delighted to work with again. Participated in their new venture challenge thing
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by larsberg 16y ago
How successful are the people you hire, and how well do you avoid bad hires? Ultimately, until you have a few years of data on your own decisions, it's hard to know how "effective" your interviewing process was. And even then, without wider
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by larsberg 16y ago
FYI, Lutz was on Blend (then called Sparkle) since he first produced reflector, at least as far as I remember. He was the brave soul tasked with integrating some components my team was producing for them, back in the deep, dark, early-aught
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by larsberg 16y ago
There's another thing you should take away from this article: if all you want to do is work on really hard technical problems, be well compensated, and never have to worry about managing people and career-limited for it, Microsoft, Facebook
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by larsberg 16y ago
re: #1, I'd like to hear some Stanford kids' feelings on that. When I was managed developers and doing a lot of new college interviewing/hiring at Microsoft, I honestly can't remember a single candidate from Stanford who didn't elect to d
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by larsberg 16y ago
I just wish it had some smarts for two-column PDFs (easily 90% of what I read). I often resize, read down the left column, then shift to the top, which moves the crop window and confuses GR horribly.
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by larsberg 16y ago
I know I should "just do it myself," but I keep waiting for something that can unsplit and unwrap PDFs generated in ACM double-column style with LaTeX word-breaking and turn it into an epub with graphics for the figures/tables. Trying to de
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by larsberg 16y ago
I moved from my iPhone (which finally bit the dust) to the LG Quantum. The nice things: - Zune Pass. It's like Netflix for music, but you can carry your queue around with you even if you're off-signal. - I stayed with AT&T, and have sig
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by larsberg 16y ago
I think the problem isn't their specific styles, but rather that their styles are different from the successful founder. What happens when you have an organization that's organically grown all of its internal processes, decision-making, and
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by larsberg 16y ago
The in-application browsing experience is pretty lame on OSX and Windows, but 'open externally' works great. The iOS app is almost there. Once it has sync like the desktop (right now you have to individually download each!) and supports ope
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by larsberg 16y ago
You should also be careful about taking your opinions on debugger usage from compiler, virtual machine runtime, and operating system implementers. Debuggers, particularly gdb, are seldom useful for more than crash dump analysis when you're
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by larsberg 16y ago
My team (back at MSFT) did this on checkin. It'd look at the class you changed and what tests had code coverage that touched that class, and rerun just those tests before allowing the commit. Post-commit, the rolling builds would update the
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by larsberg 16y ago
This should work fine. A couple folks on my team split out some of the VS backend to run on a server and do the editor in JS inside of a browser back in 2003/2004 and the intellisense, etc. was totally reasonable. All tests were done with c
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by larsberg 16y ago
Unless their margins on coffee are high enough to subsidize a book inventory. At which point, they could basically be a library without the lending.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Further, at least in Computer Science, most of my fellow PhD students came in explicitly not interested in professor jobs. They just wanted the freedom to work on larger problems (in a research lab or at the higher levels in a company) th
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by larsberg 16y ago
I understand the difficulty of the problem, but I still have trouble not getting irritated. Between 5 and 10 affiliate marketing messages make it through to my gmail inbox every day since I moved over in September, despite diligently markin
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by larsberg 16y ago
There's also some graph issues here. For example, on the multithreaded one, it takes two seconds on 1 core. Ideal with full use of 6 cores would be (1sec/6~=0.167sec). The points at 6-8 cores are clearly above 0.1 seconds and probably below
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by larsberg 16y ago
Well, all the OSX users should just Thank Steve that the XCode designer is no Visual Basic so at least you're limited to people with a significant amount of development savvy doing non-standard UI. Otherwise, you'd have the hodge-podge horr
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by larsberg 16y ago
Inexperienced users will never notice because they only have one password.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Obviously, those who run nice!
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by larsberg 16y ago
Grab the free version of Visual Studio (Express).
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by larsberg 16y ago
Back when I was working on the VS editor team, we had to worry about things like users opening multiple-gigabyte XML files in the editor, expecting text to immediately display, and for the little scroll nubbie to immediately size to the cor
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by larsberg 16y ago
I buy a digital cable package with HD just for the football season. We only turn it on for football games. ~300 channels and an extra $80 or so over my cable modem costs for 2-3 games per week. We cancel post-Super Bowl every year and resta
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by larsberg 16y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that startups should take more time to train their people. Back when I was doing a lot of hiring, I found that post-startup developers tended to have gotten broader (more technologies and spattering
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by larsberg 16y ago
Having had an iPhone for several years now, I find myself wishing I had a device that was nothing but text messaging and a WiFi hub. I'm probably just getting old, but I'm tired of trying to work on a small screen. The only thing I miss whe
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by larsberg 16y ago
"(See how I can just make stuff up too?)" Unfortunately, I didn't make up my post. Your reply is just as interesting without peppering in a baseless accusation.

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