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1. 7711.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   I'm nerdly (and old?) enough to have played many of those games, and appreciate the history lesson. Thanks for sharing!
2. 7712.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   DJB - I greatly respect what your company is doing, but I think your firm is in the minority. This is why most college placement offices suspend campus recruiting for people who reneg on offers. I cite MIT Sloan only because I found their
3. 7713.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   Bayouborne- I respectfully disagree. I don't want to beat a dead horse too much since I usually protect my wallet when I hear folks preaching about ethics. (Why is it that ethics discussions usually follow people's economic position?) Tha
4. 7714.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   Wavephorm, I respectfully disagree. He may legally entertain other offers, but that doesn't make it ethical. If it was ethical, and wouldn't cause residual harm to his reputation, there would be no issue telling the world he was doing it.
5. 7715.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   I can't imagine anyone on this board taking this article seriously. The journalist positions "Work for someone else, or get your idea funded" as a serious decision. There is no decision. You'll learn 10X more doing everything on your own
6. 7716.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   Bayouborne- Relevant points, but a couple thoughts: - For better or worse, work is like the prisoner's dilemma game. Some people assume, "Screw everyone else" because they view the game as just one play. In the reality, we have long caree
7. 7717.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   Completely unethical, and may come back to bite you. Unethical because you are presenting yourself under false pretenses, taking interview slots from people who don't have jobs yet, and are possibly breaking the rules of your placement offi
8. 7718.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   I think it'll be both faster and slower than he says. Faster: Cloud adoption will be huge. Slower: Cloud technology will increase the amount of apps and data used. Low end jobs will exist helping firms get on the cloud. High end jobs (f
9. 7719.▲
   by mathattack 15y ago

   I agree. Most books and articles on Fibonacci love don't provide enough data to verify the claims. I find the sequence fascinating, but I hold my wallet when someone claims they use it to predict the stock market.
10. 7720.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Which came first? Quake 3 or the papers? This defines how interesting it is. I've seen a lot of folks working through Quake's code lately. Hard to tell if they are originators or appliers, but either way it's much more interesting than
11. 7721.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    I am frequently the crotchety old man in these situations but video (and sound) are ripe for digital technology. New technologies in these fields won't replace good stories, but they will replace old technologies.
12. 7722.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Good points. As an occasional buyer of consulting services, nothing bothers me more than an introductory meeting far away, or someone who turns a 30 minute intro into a 60 minute brag session. Respect people's time.
13. 7723.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Great post but I don't follow the connection to the Mythical Man Month which is about having the wisdom to avoid tossing bodies at a late project. The article seems to be more about making sure you have experience on the GUI. All this said,
14. 7724.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Will it get solved when we straighten out this whole P NP business?
15. 7725.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    I appreciate hearing a story that doesn't involve, "Look at how quickly I got rich!" :-)
16. 7726.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    If a sock has a hole, it gets tossed. Now that I think of it, the mixed sock problem can actually be worse than O(n^2). For instance, if I decide that I want to wear my Marvin the Martian socks, and can only find one in the sock drawer, th
17. 7727.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    I find it very strange that non-conformist Jobs who hated 1984ish IBM would be pro-uniform. It's a good story in the overload of Jobsian mythology. It shows a different side of him - that he worried about culture in addition to product, t
18. 7728.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    I do too. One pool of identical whites and one of blacks. Moves the matching problem from O(n) to O(1) and it's ok if you lose an odd one here or there. Unlike Jobs, nobody notices.
19. 7729.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Gamification has always existing in large companies, though historically it's been more subtle. At 5 years you get a nice pen. At 10 years you get a larger carpet in your office. At 20 years you get a silver picture frame. At 30 years you g
20. 7730.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    I abhor commutes. Walking to work is the greatest thing in the world. That said, I think he's stretching when he says: "But this misconception about what is a reasonable commute is probably the biggest thing that is keeping most people i
21. 7731.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    If you are getting mocked by the Onion - then yes indeed, there was some damage. :-) http://www.theonion.com/articles/netflix-switches-over-to-co...
22. 7732.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    It seems like a linear argument isn't valid here. It shouldn't be X years for Y dollars. Once you rob enough to steal away someone's retirement (As cypherpunks2 alludes elsewhere) it is hard to justify leniency. That said, taken to extre
23. 7733.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Great companies can overcome Marketing mistakes. Coca-Cola was one of the world's great marketers. How else can they get you to pay so much for water + sugar + a jolt? (And how do they charge more for water than Exxon charges for gasoline
24. 7734.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    I can't open the website on my iPhone. I hope that's not a karmic hint on the interoperability of the language.
25. 7735.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Great points. Lately I've been cramming workouts right before work or lunchtime. Lots of general health ane energy benefits. For boring married folks like me, I would add family time every day is important.
26. 7736.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    The beauty of jiu jitsu is you can visit new academies on business trips. It's a social sport.
27. 7737.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    You said what I meant to say, but much more concisely, or dare I say productively? :-)
28. 7738.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Everything we do that duhumanizes war comes with good ethical concerns (less loss of human life) but this doesn't make war any better. Drones - save our lives. Cruise missiles - save our lives. An A-bomb saved our lives. Not getting into
29. 7739.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    This may be very nerdly, but.... Look up the addresses of 3 or 4 iconic firms (Google, Apple, Oracle, etc.) and just drive by. Pick big ones so they'll have visible buildings. I don't know why, but just seeing the buildings gives an imp
30. 7740.▲
    by mathattack 15y ago

    Interesting. Seems like a rare instance of increased computing power hurting individual programmer productivity. Then again increased computing power in general enables more complex software with more specializes software. I have heard th