mdwrigh2

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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Making the browser window smaller after closing the downloads bar is actually a bug, it doesn't do this on other platforms. I think this is fixed in the newest dev builds.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
While I'm loathe to dig up the memories, they did at one point release on someone else's console: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i_games_from_The_Legend_of_Z...
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I mean, if you follow the money trail, it's just as important to Mozilla that Google does given that's where a large chunk of their funding comes from.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Oh, I don't think their intent was to steal users from Rapportive, I was just speculating on how this feature would affect Rapportive.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Obviously this is competing at least somewhat with Rapportive. I wonder if this will actually consume users of Rapportive because it's good enough, or if it will boost Rapportive's coverage and use because of the competition. If I were to m
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I'm curious where you got the idea that Google has "abandoned" QR codes.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I find it interesting (but not all that surprising) that so many people developed a similar concept. The research professor I was working with this past year actually published a similar system: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/pubs/T
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I always just wanted the ycombinator on a shirt, and spreadshirt looked easy enough to use so I gave it a shot. Here's what turned out: http://wright.spreadshirt.com/men-s-heavyweight-t-shirt-A757... I'd highly recommend spreadshirt by th
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Its not X years of experience in language Y, but rather rate your self from 1-10 on these 14 languages. They'll then pair you up with someone who knows the language you're working with well enough to understand the code in your interview. A
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
"Piracy concerns were raised because Music users may be able to upload music they'd "stolen" to Google's servers in the same way as legally bought tunes, and the labels wanted to prevent this and also persuade Google to unlink piracy sites
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Joel addresses why he titles that in the book. People that aren't smart and get things done usually do "stupid" things, that someone else will have to come along and clean up. Here's a link to the post that discusses it: http://www.joelons
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I'll actually be at Google this summer for an internship and would love access to the EE shop. Do you know if there are restrictions for interns? Also, most of my work has been tinkering by myself rather than formal training. Is there anyth
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I had kind of figured he wasn't American, but also misunderstood what he meant by "take it off the table". He's since updated it saying he meant to pay market rates, which is absolutely correct. I think you just need to pay enough to take t
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I'm not saying they don't exist, I'm sure there's probably a few of them, but you have to hope they're in your town. And don't have other interesting offers. Furthermore, Chris Dixon's quote wasn't (as far as I can tell) talking about recru
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
While I agree that that solving an interesting problem is number one on the requirements for hiring a hacker, the last point is way off the mark. "Take the money off the table"? You can't match $5k for three months of work? I'm sorry, but e
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
Perhaps point values should be shown for your post and all of your children, so you can see what people think of the responses to your post (and the submission author can see points for everything since he's the essentially the root node).
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I'm using the vim syntax file and plugins from vim-coffee-script and really like it so far. It even will mark trailing whitespace by highlighting it red (this is configurable as well).
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
Making the switch from synchronous execution to asynchronous is the biggest switch for me so far. There doesn't seem to be many best practices yet and so I'm trying to figure out how to do things like ensure database access is available wit
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
It's a directive for VIM to set the tabstop to 2, the shiftwidth to 2 and to enable the expandtab option. The tabstop variable sets the ratio of tabs to spaces (in this case, one tab is equivalent to two spaces). The shiftwidth variable con
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I don't know if I'd consider it life-changing for the world of client-side javascript (I have yet to use it there), but using it in the callback-filled universe that is Node.js, its simplified and clean syntax is worlds better.
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I interviewed at Fog Creek recently (and I don't think it was with Ben, the post's author), and I actually didn't code in C. I answered my questions in Python, just because I'm more comfortable with it these days. So I don't know if this is
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
The minimum is 4 people I believe.
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I have to say, I think this is really unfortunately timed. Just about everyone I know has already selected where they're going to be for the summer. I'll be curious to know if this works out for any of the companies involved.
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
No, it is entirely filled up when I click on it, but the text is >30px and each icon is gigantic. I'm not talking about filling whitespace, I'm talking about making items reasonable sizes. I've already set my font sizes, just adhere to
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
No, I've used it for more than a week, and I don't love it. In fact, it's my biggest complaint about 11.04... like I said above. I didn't come in with any preconceived notions about Unity. In fact, coming in, I thought it might be an intere
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I'm an NCSU student, so I'm in the same area, looking at mostly the same jobs. What I found is that most students just aren't willing to go through the work to find a job. They want the jobs to be posted somewhere online, so they can fire o
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
Clicking on the "lens" button (the ubuntu symbol in the upper left hand corner) takes up ~25% of my 24" monitor to show me six icons. Six. That's great for a netbook or even a touch friendly device (easier to touch!), but on a desktop monit
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
I think Google has a bit of an upper hand here. They already have search data, so if they can combine that with the social data... Plus, I don't necessarily have all that much in common with my friends, but if Google can categorize me and
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
That's awesome! I'll have to play with this, and suggest it whenever I hear the topic of coding interviews come up. As a side note, if there's any chance of you being in the bay area this summer (Mtn. View specifically), I'd love to grab lu
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by mdwrigh2 16y ago
Strangely, I've had a different experience. I've heard promptly from Google, but nothing from Facebook. Perhaps they just aren't interested in me, however.

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