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by locacorten 14y ago
Agreed. For me however I push myself to talk to others I respect about my work. This forces me to articulate what it is that I'm doing and why I'm doing it the way I am. I found this technique priceless.
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by locacorten 14y ago
Although Sinofsky's accomplishments are clear, he also has managed to do a great job of alienating everyone else. If Sinofsky were a little wiser, he could've done the exact same thing while trying to be nice to the rest of Microsoft. Inste
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by locacorten 14y ago
Reading throught the comments, it's amazing to see how much damage the cowboy culture of our community has produced. "Every engineer should be an architect." Ha, ha, ha... This also goes hand-in-hand with "Everyone can be a programmer" mant
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by locacorten 15y ago
David Cheriton and humble in the same sentence? What a joke! You realize that the Waterloo CS school is called the "David Cheriton CS School", yeah? Take that for "humble" :-)
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by locacorten 15y ago
What a bad choice for a paper title.
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by locacorten 15y ago
Can someone explain to me how one can use the "iterate faster" method to build highly reliable systems? How would Google look like if they were to release GMail using an "iterate faster" mentality? Your INBOX just got accidentally erased be
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by locacorten 15y ago
There is one thing that Google has done well that no other company (Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) seems to understand. Hire experts. They call this hire Ph.D.'s, but that's slightly inaccurate because having a Ph.D. does not make you an expe
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by locacorten 16y ago
Here's what's going on at a high-level. 1. Somebody discovered a security vulnerability in the implementation of a network protocol (i.e., a bug). The bug can be exploited remotely apparently. Which means that somebody from far away can bre
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by locacorten 17y ago
Just to clear the record: there is technology out there that can obfuscate data (anonymization) and offer protection against unauthorized access (it is even possible to store data in tamper-proof systems to which nobody has access, includin
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by locacorten 17y ago
I think Bill G. should be on the white list. Even though many people don't like him.
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by locacorten 18y ago
In my opinion, what is wrong with Canada is Canadians. Nobody cares. The government, the companies, the unions, everybody is f *-ing up that country, yet, people could care less. It's even worse, ask any Canadian, and chances are they woul
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by locacorten 18y ago
After three years of living in Toronto, I'm still shocked as why people rank Toronto so high. Go live in Toronto for awhile and then tell me what you think about: 1. Pollution 2. Traffic 3. Taxes I'll stop here since I don't want to get all