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by lurker17 15y ago
We can't even get people to leave a copy of the appliance manuals when they move. /waiting for new fridge to be delivered, no thanks to previous owner.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Speaking at events is part of his job.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Is that known to be more effective than "Ask the Docs?"
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by lurker17 15y ago
Interesting. Our CEO makes a point of identifying himself by name when he jumps on a support call or email. I figured he figures it makes people feel special, or he just likes being straightforward.
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by lurker17 15y ago
"eventual consistency" was promoted by Amazon, which seems to run a pretty good business.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Weird, that's the second HN post in a week that included the Radio Yerevan story. What's the likelihood and our posterior probability of that?
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by lurker17 15y ago
I just find video really slow to upload, and the motion capture quality / framerate awful.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Google sold thousands (millions?) of N1 phones at a significant price. Those buyers certainly are Google's customers. Well, they were, until Google blew them off 5 minutes after purchase.
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by lurker17 15y ago
This is the killer. Google keeps piling more junkware apps onto internal storage, and not enabling the SD bit for their apps. I am constantly making calls of which 1MB non-SD app to evict, while Browser and Maps and friends pile on 5-10MB e
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by lurker17 15y ago
"taking". Antagonizing content consumers may be counterproductive to your efforts to convert them into customers.
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by lurker17 15y ago
A 2-year contract costs $20/month more than a comparable month-to-month plan. (T-mobile's Even More /Plus plans make this explicit.) That's where the phone subsidy comes from.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Many people at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and others have retained their souls along with their $80+K new-grad salaries.
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by lurker17 15y ago
That story is not true at all. Bill Gates's mother set him up with IBM years after he dropped out. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_...
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by lurker17 15y ago
If you really need to include your "paper" as part of your presentation and not as a separate document (due to constraints of SlideShare or whatever), you can attach your paper as an appendix at the end of your presentation, so it doesn't i
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by lurker17 15y ago
Well, he is advertising his company. Like HN, it's a marketing activity, but one that also has a value-creation component, not merely an attention-grab.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Everyone at staff level in financial sector has been a VP since as long as I have known the financial sector existed.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Steve Jobs was a (mildly) successful independent businessman before he dropped out. This is key.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Maybe you are a better founder than employee, and everything worked out for the best for both sides, so the transcript policy is optimal.
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by lurker17 15y ago
And yet they require transcripts (or did a few years ago). Maybe they've learned from past mistakes? Or their model can't handle NA values on some features?
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by lurker17 15y ago
Be extremely suspicions of advice that takes the form, "If you want to achieve the position that I have, don't behave like me".
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by lurker17 15y ago
Standard practice at Amazon is to quiet read the materials at the start of the meeting. I think the logic goes that you want to make sure everyone reads the material, so you may as well have everyone read the material at the same time, and
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by lurker17 15y ago
Hmm, as long as you do randomness in the IO monad, it's not any harder to do random numbers than it is to print to the screen. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/random/1.0.0.2/d... getStdRandom :: (StdGen -> (a, StdGen)
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by lurker17 15y ago
johndcook's post is about numerical linear algebra. The recommendations given here so far are for intro/abstract linear algebra texts.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Why does alistapart, which appears to focus on usable web design, have these features?: * A tiny font * huge spacing between lines * excessively wide columns * that cannot be resized
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by lurker17 15y ago
Perpetuates the myth that mattresses carry the statement "Do not remove this label." , when in fact they carry a statement more like "Not to be removed except by consumer." Free yourselves; discard your labels.
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by lurker17 15y ago
You may be interested in the Implicit Association Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ It comes with a disclaimer: "Important disclaimer: In reporting to you results of any IAT that you take, we will mention possible interpre
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by lurker17 15y ago
You can't in a single case, but over time and many cases, pattern of discrimination can be suggest via statistical methods. This is how covert racial discrimination cases are tried.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Matt Welsh left Harvard to go to Google because he wanted more applied science/engineering and less paper research. I think part of his frustration was that, at Harvard, even though Computer Science sits in the School of Engineering and App
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by lurker17 15y ago
Heh-heh. Yesterday I was telling my co-worker that veered off-track in my CS education because I chose a mentor who practiced GOFAI, whereas my peers who worked on ML were much better oriented to a rewarding career in computer intelligence.
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by lurker17 15y ago
This is basically two-factor authentication, without the first factor. Isn't Google Authenticator supposed to have an open API so that any service can give you a secure seed and then let you use your mobile phone to login? https://code.goo

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