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by larsberg 13y ago
You can do pretty well for analyses where n is the number of variables instead of the number of program points / expressions. In those cases, the typical trick is to shorten the height of the tracked lattice, as you only get in trouble
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by larsberg 13y ago
I've been assuming this is what Apple is going to do with the next MBP retina. Intel graphics when headless + a new Thunderbolt Display with built-in Nvidia or ATI card when "docked."
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by larsberg 13y ago
Certatinly, but there's a correlation present, at least between the first two. "Star programmers" are a completely separate problem, as Joel has mentioned before (e.g., are your stars really "Stars" if they're
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by larsberg 13y ago
It will be interesting to see if there is still a shortage of "valley-quality graduates" in 3-ish years. The reports I'm hearing from most of the top-15 departments are of record CS enrollments starting from last year, far ov
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by larsberg 13y ago
> the kinds of jobs that pay well also have a tendency to require complete focus. They consume your attention, your life. That's probably true at the seven-digit level, but most of my tech friends who are in finance work no more tha
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by larsberg 13y ago
If he were actually interested in a change in employer for great financial gain, something more like a $250-500k base with "uncapped bonus" might result in real inquiries. Particularly if his experience included a decent amount of
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by larsberg 13y ago
You can compile away those issues with a sufficiently smart compiler! https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2364563 (Caveat: I'm the author of that paper)
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by larsberg 13y ago
The people making these campaigns may actually be ignorant. When I was at Microsoft (long, long ago), there were portions of some source trees that were covered by security or NDAs and nobody except for the very few people signed on (and bu
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by larsberg 13y ago
Did you set up the advanced spam filtering and then train it on all of your folders? I also set the super-advanced options and changed the thresholds to around 3.0 (instead of the default, which was I think 5.0), which really helped. It&#x2
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by larsberg 13y ago
ML
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by larsberg 13y ago
This post is a mischaracterization of why tech companies as basic coding questions. Or at least Microsoft, where I learned to interview and coached my own team of interviewers over several years. 1) Basic coding questions are a nice filter.
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by larsberg 13y ago
If you haven't tried it, I used the "3M Natural View Fingerprint Fading Screen Protector with Back Skin" on my retina iPad and it made a world of difference. It doesn't change the quality of the screen, but it dramatically reduces glare and
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by larsberg 13y ago
Academic publications. The tool stack is significantly better targeting PDF or PS (especially from LaTeX). I've tried a bunch of the random tools for either converting, directly generating, or rendering PDFs in HTML, and they aren't pixel-p
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by larsberg 13y ago
Talking to users? I don't know if you saw anyone play Draw Something, but unlike every other social game I've watched my wife play, she seemed to talk about it as a horrible chore after the first two days.
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by larsberg 13y ago
I got to my compensation level (L64) as an individual contributor. I switched to be a first-level manager for a couple of years, but there was no bump in level since it was the same effective scope (12 directs).
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by larsberg 13y ago
When I was working at Microsoft, after about 6 years I was well over $200k a year (before cash bonuses). About 3/4 of that was salary. The rest was primarily rolling stock grants vesting. Most of them were a grant of X shares over 5 years (
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by larsberg 13y ago
#2 wasn't always that. When I started at MSFT, many moons ago, there were also testers who solely provided end-user style testing and feedback on the product. While their loss was less traumatic to my own division (DevDiv), during and after
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by larsberg 13y ago
Great point. A good rule of thumb in jobs is that if you are the undisputed top <X>, make sure that you are being compensated very, very well. Because you just sold out. It is quite hard to reach new levels of expertise without expl
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by larsberg 13y ago
Yes, but it's still better than when I went to school. Back then, they took 100% of your parents' savings and all available income, too, but also saddled you with debt while doing it. I'm firmly of the belief that for the top-tier schools
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by larsberg 13y ago
My wife and I each came out of our undergrad education with around 50k in college loans. But, we majored in Computer Science and both paid them off within the first two years of working and are now doing quite well <knocking on wood&#62
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by larsberg 13y ago
One other possibility is that this developer is experiencing schedule chicken. I'd recommend reporting your time estimates to your lead, giving it the old college try, but going home at reasonable times and not pushing the clock too hard. I
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by larsberg 13y ago
Maybe it wasn't a trading-focused firm? Most of my friends (and wife) work at firms that are primarily about trading, and it's hard to hire (good) traders if you restrict them from also trading with their own funds on their own time. So, th
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by larsberg 13y ago
POPLmark seems to generally be considered solved. There are multiple good solutions using different tools for all of those problems, I believe. And the real goal has largely been reached. At this point, if you're proposing new PL theory a
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by larsberg 13y ago
One advantage people don't often talk about with finance industry jobs is their incredibly lax moonlighting clauses. Most seem to be of the form, "if we don't trade it and our vendors don't make it, knock yourself out." That is a far cry fr
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by larsberg 13y ago
fastmail.fm has made me extremely happy as a mail replacement, though I've been using icloud for calendar, so I can't speak to their replacement for that. The only downside to the fastmail mail is you need ~200 spams learned before the bays
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by larsberg 13y ago
> For starters, airline customers care almost exclusively about price I fly exclusively on United because they have Economy Plus, which lets me buy an additional 3-5" of legroom at a reasonable additional price. Sure, it's more than Sou
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by larsberg 13y ago
Fastmail.fm They already provide my e-mail hosting (significantly better spam management than GMail, where about 20-30 were getting through per day) and static web hosting is included.
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by larsberg 13y ago
Whole Foods. Whatever else you say about them (or their prices), they've made these issues easy to deal with as a consumer. http://wholefoods.com/about-our-products/quality-standards/a...
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by larsberg 13y ago
The pictures in that article don't really give a sense for how bicycle-friendly that city is. I went there for a conference last September, and the fact that there were bikes and bike lanes everywhere as well as more bike parking at every
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by larsberg 13y ago
Will do on both counts! John is my advisor :-)

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