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by mapgrep 15y ago
"I've deliberately hired non-Indian people to run the tech support stuff as to buck stereotypes" http://azizansari.com/faq
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Re #2, I heard ~November that Python was deprecated in production at Google. No idea what the details/caveats on that are (I presume it applies mainly to new code?).
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by mapgrep 15y ago
> The Wikipedia article you link to doesn't support that claim anyway "As a student, Kahn developed software for the MICRAL, the earliest non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor."
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Hindsight won't fix old mistakes, but looking at the past helps avoid new ones. If there are lessons in the success of Borland and Facebook, surely there are lessons in their failures , too. Or maybe we disagree on that.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I actually blamed the "hacker ethos," not the rank and file programmers, but the CEO of Borland was very much a coder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Here's what's funny: Rands begins with a story about Borland, and how it was this amazing software company run by hacker barbarians who by 1992 were converting their products with "complete object-oriented rewrites." What he doesn't say is
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Important considerations. Let's not forget the vb.ly debacle, in which Violet Blue's adult link shortener was turned off by the Libyan government. http://techyum.com/2010/10/official-vb-ly-link-shortener-sei...
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Hotel concierges often have more glaring conflicts of interest than Yelp. They are often provided by outside companies that receive kickbacks from various vendors, though they dress like regular hotel staff. See http://online.wsj.com/artic
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I hope one of the top two Stackoverflow answers steals this example and appends it. It is better than any of the examples in the thread.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
While it's nice that someone is raising this genuine security issue, for most people the bigger issue is going to be unencrypted swap. Unencrypted swap means ANY sensitive data in memory may well end up on disk (including a term buffer that
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by mapgrep 15y ago
DHH seems shy about mentioning this so I will: 37signals has been thinking about killing time tracking. See the "Goodbye" list here. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3110-basecamp-next-the-goodby... There is a disclaimer, "Some stuff on the
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Income tax + payroll taxes + state income tax can easily total 40 percent, so a 12 point bump in tips is not a big disincentive to tax avoidance. And in NYC they have to pay city income tax on top of all that. (If the cabbie incorporates an
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Interesting. Do you know (honest question) why they didn't just make find(:all) work that way? In my imagined perfect world they'd have never got rid of find_all in the first place, and they'd have just added the lazy eval to it later. Or,
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by mapgrep 15y ago
The nice thing about negative posts like this — or, somewhat negative, in this case — is that they validate the bottled up frustrations of developers who thought the same thing. For example, I always wondered if I was crazy to be frustrated
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Good point about SQL not having a lock on ACID. CouchDB in particular is very proud of its out-of-the-box ACID compliance. People sometimes conflate the DB access approach (document vs relational) with the storage approach (transactional v
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I should revise my phrasing: The computer locks behind an OS X password, the drive, while fully encrypted, remains available as far as the OS is concerned. Something like you describe would be much better. (An attacker in possession of a sl
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People who worked at Google a few years ago(bijansabet.com)
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I confess, I hadn't thought of that threat. It's an interesting thing to think about. My initial reaction is this: Couldn't malware on my laptop also monitor my keystrokes when I unlock the key? Or when I log in to my VPS web interface? I m
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by mapgrep 15y ago
This would seem contradictory: " Don’t Use a Blank Passphrase on Your Key This is basic security, plus allows you to “safely” move your keys between hosts..." Then: " Don’t Copy Your Private Key Around Remember this is your identity... I
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by mapgrep 15y ago
The start of the agreement says it defines "the terms that govern your participation as a registered Apple developer." This "participation" presumably includes downloads of the OP software, since this software is presently firewalled off fo
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Not true. In addition to keeping pre-release software confidential, you are obligated "not to disclose, publish, or disseminate any Apple Confidential Information" and "not to use Apple Confidential Information in any way." Apple Confidenti
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Thanks, but, what do you mean? Won't what? Won't require an Apple developer account?
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by mapgrep 15y ago
While this is a nice convenience for registered Apple developers, I noticed that this download requires me to sign a confidentiality agreement and an NDA as part of the registration process (since I am NOT a registered Apple developer). The
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Is it better for your "Instant Millionaire" to spend a. 30 days or b. 2+ months ...learning that his idea "turns out to be crap?" It is better for the "legit hacker" to spend a. 30 days or b. 2+ months ...to learn that "there's a lot more t
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Fire the employee. "Doesn't work well with everyone else" is more grounds for termination than you even need in California. Without a contract, you need none — employment is at-will. What you can't have is the wrong reason for termination
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I thought this was his example of lambda: l.eval [:label, :second, [:quote, [:lambda, [:x], [:car, [:cdr, :x]]]]] No?
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Editorials are, as a rule, unsigned. That's what makes them editorials as opposed to op-eds or columns. They represent, ostensibly, the opinion of the newspaper itself rather than any individual staffer. The NY Times does the same thing. (T
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by mapgrep 15y ago
"if Google wanted to, they could parse the external links from a Twitter stream without actually following them" The problem is that there are no external links in the tweets. All tweets point to t.co, which is run by Twitter. You can't fin
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by mapgrep 15y ago
"who are you to tell Google they can't index a third party domain?" No tweets link to third-party domains, since Twitter wraps all links in their own URL shortener (t.co). Even if you use an independent URL shortener, it will be wrapped by
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by mapgrep 15y ago
If you're afraid of turning people away with a "wall of text" or a "big block of text," avoid walls and big blocks. Keep your introductory paragraphs short. In the rest of the text, put plenty of whitespace, and add internal headers and/or

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