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by marcusf 14y ago
I don't necessarily know that that is an insult, but sure, if you're short on cash then free is always better and certainly beats piracy. I was thinking in terms of professional tools, and the output value delta of something you know well (
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by marcusf 14y ago
I must've completely missed that. Thanks!
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by marcusf 14y ago
Yeah the housing market is a bit of a pain, though I live (just) outside the city and the subway always runs on time. Got a 20 minute commute to work. Worse when you get to the commuter trains (especially in winter) I guess. But even with l
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by marcusf 14y ago
I think I miss the part where Pinterest got burned by Facebook? Seems like engagement just dropped off (and to far higher levels than pre-FB). How's that Facebook's fault in any way?
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by marcusf 14y ago
This might be something I've conjured up in the back of my head, but I'm certain I've seen people talking about $100k+ as a salary for an MIT grad. It's always seemed crazy exuberant to me so I'm glad to hear different. In the comparison wi
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by marcusf 14y ago
True, just wanted to hammer home the point.
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by marcusf 14y ago
$40k entry level is competitive? That's a whole factor of three away from the $120k people volley around here for entry level jobs in the valley. It's really that much of a difference?
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by marcusf 14y ago
For non-EU peeps, it's a bit harder. First, there's always the love visa -- find yourself a swedish girl and move here (you don't need to marry). On a more serious note, the easiest thing is to get a job at a Swedish company with a US prese
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by marcusf 14y ago
Not sure where I bashed the people working hard with GIMP/Blender/Inkscape. If I've offended anyone, sorry about that. I was merely trying to convey that ~13 year ago and a few times after that, I've been confused by the Gimp UI. Sorry if t
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by marcusf 14y ago
If you're willing to move, come to Sweden. Stockholm is screaming for IT talent, we're open to immigration and the pay for someone with a few years of developer experience is quite a bit beyond that.
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by marcusf 14y ago
It's more of an indicator of negatives rather than positives; A company that pays comparatively shit (€2200/month comes out to about $35000, seriously!?) will probably not be a place that respects developers and attracts talent.
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by marcusf 14y ago
I first ran in to Gimp in what would have had to been the late 90's or early 00's, and ever since it's always befuddled me completely. I've always turned back to Photoshop, if slightly begrudgingly, because the productivity enhancements of
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by marcusf 14y ago
The point he's trying to make isn't really served by the slightly derogatory tone. I've known two-three really great engineers in my day, people that could carry a company, and I doubt any of them would take the link as a compliment though
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by marcusf 14y ago
I must say I love the marketing focus of this announcement together with the one last week (or so) about just having three versions of Windows 8. Feels like a new kind of Microsoft.
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by marcusf 14y ago
I don't believe what he's saying about responsive design at the bottom of the article, and certainly the motivation about context and device seems trite. It's entirely unobvious to me that my intent is correlated with my device. Often as no
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by marcusf 14y ago
For any other europeans, 169,000 sq ft = 15 700 m^2 (or slightly bigger than two football pitches joined up). I don't know enough about retail space to say if this is ambitious or not? On the one hand, a ten year lease is a big commitment,
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by marcusf 14y ago
Run time or development time? Runtime is mostly negligible except for places with heavy congestion (caches + rendering) where you can turn the heaviest operations on and off as needed -- in our case the call to `System.getCurrentTimeMillis(
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by marcusf 14y ago
Sounds cool. Are you working on anything in particular where you use a mobile projector today?
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by marcusf 14y ago
This does carry the hallmarks of disruption (in the true Christensen sense of the word). If I were a projector company, I'd invest heavily in designing low power projection chips to sell to handset makers / make phone-sized projects to inte
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by marcusf 14y ago
I guess this goes without saying, but view them in Firefox. At least the OS X one looked thoroughly screwed in Chrome.
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by marcusf 14y ago
Slide 54 is insanely important. At my current place we've invested tons in instrumentation and metrics. Every IO operation is guarded with a semaphore and access is monitored and exposed. Every cache in the system logs everything from hit a
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by marcusf 14y ago
I'd hope it'd help to further flame innovation in Europe and Asia. Crippling US innovation with onerous IP laws (like this might lead to) would probably lead short-term to a dip in global tech innovation (and a correlated rise in IP law exp
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by marcusf 14y ago
I think it's a very positive thing that people invest this much time in nurturing staff; That said, there seems to be some companies whose sole purpose is to convert VC money in to full stomaches? I'm not knocking on Ridejoy specifically (I
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by marcusf 14y ago
With the Fernsehturm at Alexanderplatz in the background, I'd rather wager Berlin?
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by marcusf 14y ago
I would like to meet one of these fantastical java-only OO-proponents that are often brought up in posts like this, claiming that Java and OO are the end-all of programming. To be honest, I never have. Some people seem to have a disposition
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by marcusf 14y ago
I'm sorry to be skeptical, but this seems both redundant and pie-in-the-sky. In the presentation they say they're looking for "Computer Science Engineers" make me think this is a bunch of aggravated designers. On the other hand, there is
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by marcusf 14y ago
I predict several Techcrunch headlines on this newfound "payment" option disrupting ad-financed services across the globe.
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by marcusf 14y ago
Well, there's always the pricing: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage?hl=en_US
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by marcusf 14y ago
"You can't fake passion" Honestly though, this gives a decent three step template for how to get yourself on the top of the pile in about ~1-5h worth of work: 1. Register a GitHub account, fork some projects that look cool 2. Register a dom
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by marcusf 14y ago
I agree that feedback is massively valuable. However, there are different ways to express said feedback. In general I find the tone at HN quite colloquial, and calling something "really useless" felt unnecessarily harsh.

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