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by larsberg 14y ago
I rely on LastPass for confusing sites like that one. If it weren't for that addon, I'd never know, for example, which of the 7 or so Windows Live accounts that have been generated on my behalf is The Right One for which website.
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The major complaint I hear about Uber from Chicago taxi drivers (I like to chat when in a cab) is that Uber only pays them after 10 days. They have to pay weekly rent on their cab, though, which means they can only use Uber when they alread
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by larsberg 14y ago
As a manager at Microsoft, I wasn't allowed to answer anything further than confirming or denying employment. I don't believe I was even allowed to confirm/deny offense-based dismissal.
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As opposed to gmail, which I visited in a browser (with AdBlock) once, to set up two-phase auth during that loud security push?
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I'm not sure about the engineering cost being minimal. My research group builds a compiler for a parallel programming language, and we have trouble getting reliable performance on OSX. Many of the things you take for granted on Linux are no
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by larsberg 14y ago
> The best developers are almost always intrinsically motivated. Have you managed a large team before? The single best way I know to demotivate a highly motivated developer is to let them see a coworker at the same pay grade do signific
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by larsberg 14y ago
> Does anyone here (besides Stripe) do this? We did at Microsoft. Honestly, for very experienced and senior people in dev tools, "crazy intensity" were usually not needed. Great engineers tend to also have friends who are great engineer
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by larsberg 14y ago
I certainly agree with your point about the goal and the issue in some companies. However, having seen Microsoft in action from the inside, any collaborations - most of which are _required_ at gunpoint from top-down - result in a horde of p
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by larsberg 14y ago
I'd argue against your statement that the company doesn't: > take risks and work together When I was there, I was _constantly_ being told (as a manager in DevDiv) that our next release had to work together with each and every new techno
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The retirement problem is particularly interesting. There are folks like my father who has spent > 40 years in the foundry industry about to retire, for whom there will probably be serious demand for part-time consulting (to answer ques
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by larsberg 14y ago
Somebody should make a kickstarter for political lobbying. Then, somebody could start a project to raise funding for writing new patent laws, and based on funding thresholds there'd be a certain amount of lobbyist facetime with congresspeop
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by larsberg 14y ago
Uber is awesome, even the taxi version of it (which I primarily use unless taking the wife on Big Dates). For only a little bit more than a usual cab (which basically comes even to a large-ish tip), you get: - Improved safety. You know the
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by larsberg 14y ago
The Reuters app _used_ to download all the content and then was changed not to. Who does that?
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Quality seems to be the biggest complaint. With availability it's usually just that Android plays second fiddle. For example, Madden Social is iOS and facebook, but not Android (it's like Words with Friends for the football crowd).
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Interestingly, most of my friends and colleagues who made the shift from iPhones to Android phones during the vast gulf between iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 are looking to switch back, due to app quality and availability issues. So at least for t
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by larsberg 14y ago
Not a prof, sadly - last year of my PhD, though! Thanks for the additional info on your peers. I don't know what the undergraduate pay is like for 20-somethings. All of my friends (and wife) are > 30 and were experienced developers befo
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by larsberg 14y ago
Certainly! If you want to trade on your _own_, then being in a financial firm - particularly a market maker - is a bad choice. But if you just want to work 9-5, pull in your 200k (which goes pretty far in Chicago!), and enjoy your money, it
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> If you want money, go work in finance. This (and its converse) are exactly the advice I give to undergrads who, here at the University of Chicago, are heavily recruited by both local and NY finance firms. I like to point out that if y
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Having been involved in quite a bit of college recruiting in my former life as a hiring manager for a development/test org, I learned a couple of very important lessons: - Every real school, no matter how low in the ranking, produces at lea
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by larsberg 14y ago
I recommend first checking for him in Monaco. Monte Carlo, Monaco, to be precise...
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This program is exactly what we usually recommend for people who aren't using SML/NJ inside of an Emacs inferior window (which is far and away the most common usage mode for experienced SML/NJ programmers - all ten of us <grin>). I
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by larsberg 14y ago
American has been dead to me ever since they got rid of their 'more room throughout coach' tagline. As a taller guy (though not _that_ tall), it basically pushed me to United and their Economy Plus seating, which I love and happily pay a li
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I worry about and benchmark this sort of stuff on a daily basis (in the context of Manticore, a parallel dialect of Standard ML), so I have a few data points to throw out: - Pinning to cores is not a good idea unless you have also pinned al
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by larsberg 14y ago
> what is the deal with Moleskine notebooks For better or worse, if you write in a Moleskine with either a fountain pen or a Pilot G2 ink pen, you will probably find that it bleeds through so much that you can only really write on one s
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This advice is also similar to what I tell undergrads who are about to step out into the workforce for "just a couple of years before going back for grad school." A few people do it, but the vast majority will get used to the new salary, ge
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Thanks! Had no idea.
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I don't know about being overwhelmed by the awesome; facebook tends to depress me. It keeps recommending that I "add friend" a friend of my friends who died in an accident a few months back, which is always a bit of a buzz-kill. And that's
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I really miss the stylus input on the old NEC Versa Litepad tablet. Combined with its great handwriting recognition, I could actually do some serious editing of PDFs in Acrobat and writing in OneNote. Contrast that with an iPad (mini and ma
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by larsberg 14y ago
> it's never about the money In finance, that's certainly not true. I've seen several people make the leaps from the entry-level $100k job to the mid-level $200k job to the profit-sharing (or director-level) uncapped compensation jobs,
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I've also just contacted providers of apps on Google Play. Usually, they either provide an APK file or push their app onto the Amazon store (it's been 50/50 on the places I've contacted). I know it would be easier to get a Nexus 7 in some r

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