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by larsberg 14y ago
Indeed, glassdoor is bad (estimates low), at least at Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Facebook. I saw it on two fronts; as a manager, the salary ranges are fixed for each of the title/pay grads. As a hiring manager, human resources also paid
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by larsberg 14y ago
My takeaway --- from the fact that Matt Might's domain is second only to pg's --- is that you should write up easy to understand lecture notes on deep PL-related topics.
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Yeah, I had a similar reaction. I had been using the dual Office/VS clipboard ring since back in ~2002, but I forgot that it was only for applications with Office integration and not OS-wide.
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Did you manage to hit the Yodobashi in Akiba? That's really the place to see both some more Japanese products and get a wonderfully overwhelming "this is what it'd be like if you put a Fry's inside a Fry's, added a Best Buy, and threw in an
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by larsberg 14y ago
Yes, and it also lacks something more important - the original versions of the papers that were rejected! While I certainly have my quibbles with my peer reviewers from time to time, in every case that I've had a paper reviewed, whether rej
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by larsberg 14y ago
> A calculated decision to "stay on iOS" or "switch to android" is about the 6219th most important thing in most people's lives So true. I'm a tech person, and even I get overwhelmed. I look to see what the "correct" new Android phone t
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by larsberg 14y ago
I'd assume it's because controlling the adapter means controlling the device ecosystem and therefore both less testing they have to perform and less support issues from the random stuff people try to connect up to the device.
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> but far more capable and powerful Also, since they're full versions of Windows, they should just be able to access Hulu, Evernote, and all the other services that expect you to pay extra if you choose to use them on an anemic mobile d
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by larsberg 14y ago
The articles almost write themselves. "New silicon valley incubator 'Lambda Lifter' incubates new incubators"; "In profit maximization move, VC firm branches into Private Equity to buy out, load with debt, and bankrupt own portfolio compani
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by larsberg 14y ago
> When you outgrow your current company, move to a better one Preferably one with a formal, rewarded mentoring system in place that is outside the management structure. I'm sure they have this sort of thing at Google/Facebook/Apple, etc
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That poor guy will never be able to go out for Korean food again...
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I don't know how it is today, but OneNote on tablet pc was doing pretty fantastic search of handwritten notes in ~2004 (back when I last used it). When I worked at MSFT, I took basically all of my notes in it.
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The better question is who failed to keep the As engaged? For a variety of reasons, people stop growing and sometimes even move backwards. There are few things more destructive to a team than smart people who've completely checked out.
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The old hiring slogan, which they used in the MSFT hiring and hammered even harder in hiring manager training was, "As hire As; Bs hire Cs."
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Yeah, I don't understand either the story or the threat. It's as if the author was never _really_ a manager before. I found that, unless I worded things very carefully, my directs tended to take honest questions as statements of decisions m
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IIRC, big companies used to claim they were gathering these patents to _prevent_ this situation from happening, using a similar logic to that of hoarding nuclear weapons to mutually assured destruction. But it appears that something in the
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by larsberg 14y ago
The NSF CISE guidelines (which apply to much of the funded CS research that folks on HN care about) currently require you to retain all data required to reproduce your experiment and make them available to any reasonable request: http://ww
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by larsberg 14y ago
Depends on the location. For example, wikitravel is much better for Tokyo or Kyoto than the modern version of the Frommer's or Lonely Planet guidebooks. Having recently been, the Frommer's and LP ones read more like a coffee table book for
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by larsberg 14y ago
Your numbers are in line with what I see from my advisor. The original also failed to break down paper writing. For a top-tier conference, you're going to spend several weeks worth of full days working on a paper, and you're probably going
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by larsberg 14y ago
I was just in Tokyo. Even during the daytime, the Taito Stations (at least in Akiba and Shinjuku) were over 20% capacity. And on weekenights and weekend evenings, particularly in Sinjuku, it was well over 50% of the machines in use. It felt
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by larsberg 14y ago
It seems to work well with Firefox and Safari, but I've found that two-factor auth doesn't work well with Chrome if you've set it to clear cached files (not cookies) on exit. For some reason, that setting causes Chrome to lose the 30-day pe
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What would be utterly hilarious is if the people internally at Microsoft were all using it with the "boot to desktop" setting turned on right up until RTM, ensuring they got no dogfooding of the Metro experience. Because that's exactly what
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Speaking from personal experience, once it becomes clear you and the reviewers are at an impasse but you are still submitting, somebody higher up the app store review chain will give a call to the phone number listed on your developer accou
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I agree on the app store. We cut the netflix subscription for Amazon Instant Video (the wife and I just don't watch enough videos in a month for $8/month), and the lack of that app makes Apple TV basically just a better way of screen sharin
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by larsberg 14y ago
Not terribly surprising. Back when I worked at MSFT, I spent ~3 months (and had two other developers and a couple of build engineers working with me) taking our 3 _day_ build and getting it down to ~12 hours. But, that was several times lar
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In Chicago, the Adler Planetarium is having a 9pm-2am viewing party as well ( http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/curiosityparty ).
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Yes it was; Yelp is recruiting. Yelp's stupidity can teach your whole class about the importance of working for conscientious, thoughtful corporations. Arguably, that's a more valuable lesson than whatever tricks pinterest used to scale (bu
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I realize these decisions are hard to make on the spot, but it's important to grab everybody and pull them out on the spot. As a teacher (or me in a previous life, as a manager --- also of adults), when you disagree very strongly with the e
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The GC book by Jones is the place to start to understand GC in general. He also has a new "GC Handbook," but I haven't looked through it yet to see how well it covers modern parallel and concurrent collectors, particularly for NUMA machines
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> Functional languages require infrastructure that > inevitably adds overheads over what can theoretically > be attained using assembler by hand. In particular, > first-class lexical closures only work well with > ga

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