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by larsberg 14y ago
I also found the Fire HD's sound and screen a bit nicer, but not enough to overwhelm the ecosystem choice, which matters more on a daily basis. Though, frankly, if you care about ecosystem and have had an iOS device before, you'll probably
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Probably the most unknown area I read and/or hear about today are private G+ circles. For example, much pre-publication PL/compilers work is mentioned in "limited" posts. I've heard similar things are happening in ML areas, though I have no
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> Your first job out of college won’t make you or break you I disagree with this statement. Certainly, if you go to Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Apple, the choice doesn't matter and you can do whatever after you've learned how to work on r
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Having both, I find that the Kindle Fire HD's speakers and feel in the hand are also a bit nicer. That said, the horrible app store and out of date android build get old. More than half of my apps on it are APKs I got from the support staff
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Yes, it's built-in (there's a "Videos" link at the top, and any videos you start watching show up in the carousel interface).
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Ugh. The worst thing is that I've been relying on my personal domain e-mail address _also_ being a valid google address. So I have to either pony up for my family's accounts or move us all and re-create logins on a page or so of "authorized
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by larsberg 14y ago
> If you like doing things outside, the weather there is consistently inconvenient for about 10 months out of the year. Within a few years, you learn to just do any outdoor activity in the rain unless it's June. And you get very friendl
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by larsberg 14y ago
To jump on a point totally unrelated to the post's complaint but related to selling smartphones, I've found that if I'm selling electronics (especially generation-behind iPhones for the family) I can do much better than eBay, even before yo
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by larsberg 14y ago
> so many yc start-ups have co-founder issues My guess would be that it's the number of "companies in simultaneous crisis" that grew beyond control. I used to warn new managers that somewhere just above 8 employees is the point where yo
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People started caring a lot about power and mobile, combined with AMD basically shooting themselves in the feet repeatedly in the server space. AMD has delivered a large number of cores (you can cheaply put 64 in a box), but even for embarr
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> when you can instead much more easily get a position at a > lower profile company, like Amazon or Microsoft It's not quite comparable. When I was a hiring manager at Microsoft, I regularly saw candidate who already had offers from
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by larsberg 14y ago
I really, really hope this means they can implement 3-way merge on sync for text-only notes. Any time one of my clients silently decides to stop syncing, I'm then stuck doing a hand baseless merge on every device. It wouldn't be an issue if
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by larsberg 14y ago
If you travel and are someplace where your phone does not have internet access, you will not have access to your notes. This happened to me in Japan and I was not happy. They got my $10 for that month...
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While I can only speak for Chicago, the traders/finance people certainly lean right, but the developers seem to generally lean left, at least given the last few GOP candidates. Most that I know are in finance because you can stay in Chicago
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Having spent a long time targeting the market for developer tools, I think you're underestimating that market based on your own experiences and social circle. It was a multi-billion dollar market in ~2006, only including IDEs, SCC, static a
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by larsberg 14y ago
> There's no class ring for PhD students, but this would make a similarly nostalgic memento. While I can't internet-verify it, one of my Spanish co-PhD students told me that in Spain you _are_ given a ring upon completion. It's supposed
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by larsberg 14y ago
Sure, drop me mail. I'd prefer not to chat about it on a public forum. People (myself included) get defensive about their alma mater, but in e-mail you can just ignore me if you think my gross generalizations from experience are off-base fo
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by larsberg 14y ago
The biggest one I'd recommend is "find a mentor." And I don't mean a manager (unless you're going on that path), but rather a technical leader that you can meet with once a week to month whose opinion you value and can provide you honest fe
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by larsberg 14y ago
I've found that more expensive in-ear headphones are significantly better at shutting out all external noise. But be prepared to spend some time playing with different pairs, plugs, and wear-styles (e.g. headphones dangling vs. wrapped over
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by larsberg 14y ago
I agree with his sentiment of "integrate the tools more tightly." In practice, though, that's pretty hard to do in a way that still lets third parties integrate easily into the IDE (I guess it's fine for Apple) because it results in very co
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> Some great stuff in there, I just wish it was about half its length. Would tighten up the points a lot. If the "John Galt speech" is your baseline, that was brief for a libertarian/objectivist.
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Even if your company offers it, you should be careful about taking it. There are a few downsides: - Your advancement and promotion chances are basically zero in such a position. Not due to some conspiracy, but just because you're not around
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As a hiring manager, I tried to have my recruiting managers or sourcers handle the notification of bad news whenever possible, but I made the mistake of doing so myself a few times and will never do it again. While certainly most people eit
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by larsberg 14y ago
> walking 10K steps have almost no effect on my weight If you're going to change and track something to test its correlation to weight, please consider calorie intake instead. 10k steps is really not going to burn many calories (my mara
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by larsberg 14y ago
> you might get hit by fees from your own bank for using an overseas ATM as well Check with your bank before you travel. I'm with Citibank, and they have a bunch of packages that they can enable on your account for free that remove fore
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> Sitting in classes listening to an instructor spend a whole week explaining how a "for" loop works to students who for the most part won't be able to successfully write their own "for" loop by the time they graduate (with a 3.5 GPA in
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by larsberg 14y ago
The two biggest bugs/issues I've had with Evernote are: 1) The sync/merge sucks. Despite having a common baseline, if there's any sort of conflict (usually due to one of my machines "forgetting" to sync every 5 minutes), you just get two co
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> what they are actually asking is, "Do people want to hire a 50 year old programmer?" Is that really true? When I was a hiring manager, we went out of our way to try and attract and hire very senior, experienced people, especially thos
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They render fine, but the page speed update is just a bit too slow, particularly if you read PDFs that have frequent references to figures that are 2-3 pages distant from the referencing text.
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by larsberg 14y ago
Get the Paperwhite. It's wonderful to read on, in any light. I've had a Kindle Keyboard, Kindle DX, iPad, Nexus 7, and Kindle Fire (original and HD), and the Paperwhite is far and away the best device. It also fixes a ton of the refresh-rel

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