mech4bg

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by mech4bg 9y ago
Every time there is an article about SurveyMonkey someone makes this comment. SurveyMonkey has hugely expanded what they offer from their original core product and has also scaled dramatically. It also has many subsidiary offerings (Fluid
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by mech4bg 9y ago
It looks like Sheryl Sandberg and Serena Williams are close: http://time.com/4147487/serena-williams-sheryl-sandberg/
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by mech4bg 10y ago
I remember finding this on the CD as a kid and being blown away - I couldn't understand why all this stuff had been included. Most of it was over my head, but I played around with Deluxe Paint for ages. Would love to know the backsto
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by mech4bg 10y ago
I tried on MEL->AKL. I think my brother was on AKL->SFO.
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by mech4bg 10y ago
I did the minimum bid for me and my family and we got upgraded to business class with AirNZ, my brother had the same experience. It's not even close to retail, it's a nice way of letting you upgrade for cheap if they have the spa
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Interactive real-time electoral map(surveymonkey.com)
2 points by mech4bg 10y ago|0 comments
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by mech4bg 10y ago
Is that true? Most pay-walled newspapers work this way.
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by mech4bg 10y ago
I found this when looking for more info on the "wobble": http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/saturn-copy-protection-a... "I hope this lays the matter to rest, and prevents anyone from wasting more t
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by mech4bg 11y ago
I understand your point, it drives me crazy in interviews as well. But by the same token when I'm interviewing, I want to be able to grok someone's resume as quickly as possible - I don't want to see stuff that they themselv
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by mech4bg 11y ago
I still think you can learn valuable things and become a better coder this way. Preparing for a Google interview was eye-opening for me, I learnt a ton of things that I immediately started applying day-to-day.
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by mech4bg 11y ago
I've seen this plenty of times. I've worked both on a trading platform and a large website, and both times encountered many performance issues that were solved with a more appropriate algorithm or data structure. I've even
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by mech4bg 11y ago
A resume should reflect your current skills and abilities. You should feel free to leave in old positions, and the interviewer can ask about it if they want, but you should not leave in technical things you don't want to be asked abou
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by mech4bg 11y ago
Take out any of that old stuff. It's not necessary. Your resume should fit on one page, two at absolute most, and only include things that you would expect to be grilled on. If you are annoyed about being tested on something on your
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Nginx, gunicorn and repeated requests(cederman.com)
1 points by mech4bg 11y ago|0 comments
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by mech4bg 11y ago
They support a whitelisted research.net domain, but genuinely curious why the name has negative connotations.
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by mech4bg 11y ago
They also support sending out unbranded links from research.net.
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by mech4bg 11y ago
What about the name is so negative for you? Do you feel the same about other companies like MailChimp? In Australia the name is synonymous with online surveys - it wasn't until I moved to the US that I realized that some people think
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Some senior executives are afraid to provide feedback(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
3 points by mech4bg 11y ago|0 comments
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by mech4bg 11y ago
How do you feel when someone badly appropriates a word like this and it gets really big, like Uber? :) I understand why the umlaut gets dropped, but it super bugs me too - especially as it's as easy as dropping an 'e' next to
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by mech4bg 11y ago
Previous discussion about this with some technical details from one of the authors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6314730
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HP’s Veghte Named CEO of SurveyMonkey(recode.net)
1 points by mech4bg 11y ago|0 comments
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by mech4bg 11y ago
There hasn't been time and people are still in shock. A statement has been issued though: https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/dave-goldberg-statement-surv...
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by mech4bg 11y ago
In German it means human being, in Yiddish it's taken to be "a person of integrity and honor" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
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by mech4bg 11y ago
Dave was an excellent CEO and the nicest guy - everyone at SurveyMonkey liked him and liked working for him. This is just devastating news. I saw someone say on Twitter "Dave defined the word 'mensch'" - very true.
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Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died(facebook.com)
468 points by mech4bg 11y ago|189 comments
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by mech4bg 12y ago
My friends and I all upgraded with the ACE version came out, which was meant to be used more as a passthrough - it was great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_Ultrasound#UltraSound_AC... A lot of friends who were d
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A $6 commute with Wi-Fi, USB ports, and coconut water(arstechnica.com)
2 points by mech4bg 12y ago|0 comments
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by mech4bg 12y ago
Yes, but my point was that there is no evidence that is the majority, nor are they really 'forced' to use it - if it's that much of an issue, just don't take the job (as you say). Many, many developers have no issue deve
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by mech4bg 12y ago
I had a lot of WindowServer crashes with my 30" external monitor at work when I upgraded to Yosemite. Found huge discussion threads on it on Apple's forums - it's been fixed in 10.10.2, so if you get on the beta channel for
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by mech4bg 12y ago
Why use a loaded word like 'force'? Developing on Windows was excellent. Microsoft provides great tools and support; it was incredibly productive. The only real negative is the licensing requirements. As of 2011 (I couldn'

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