medusa666

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by medusa666 14y ago
Will that man please either return to playing serious chess or (better) go away and stop his attention-whoring!?
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by medusa666 14y ago
Nice initiative. The website is cool (assuming that it is original design - new to me), but the content needs work: I see some sucking up to Evernote, lots of praising yourself with adjectives like "rigorous" and "autonomous." (Remove all s
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by medusa666 14y ago
In addition to the good points you make, I've heard that top people within Apple are increasingly assigned to the iPhone and iPad, and there just aren't enough (human) resources left over to design new desktops (to Apple's high standards).
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by medusa666 14y ago
F.lux and Clipboard make my life better.
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by medusa666 14y ago
"Years of experience" is a BS requirement from HR. You need to figure how how to convey to the hiring manager that you understand the work/problem and that you know how to do/solve it in a way that will suit them. Read _Ask The Headhunter
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by medusa666 14y ago
Huh. I thought Instagram had pretty much set a lower bar on the price of a startup with no revenue. Guess I was wrong.
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by medusa666 14y ago
Hey, I (much) prefer urban life. Starting from the ground up, I wish they'd built Palo Alto and Menlo Park to be real cities. I wish I lived in a city with a real subway, and the people density to support it. And women. But all that's not t
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by medusa666 14y ago
I used to love local, independent bookstores. Then, when I wrote and published my own book, and learned a lot more about the industry, I realized that the current book publishing and distribution model makes no economic sense (unlimited ret
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by medusa666 14y ago
Google "urban planning." The "dumb rules" may not be convenient for you or me in the short run, but they exist for a reason: water, sewage, traffic, pollution, supporting a sustainable quality of living for the long term. I don't have the a
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by medusa666 14y ago
This may come as a shock, but some people manage to lead perfectly fulfilling lives without ever visiting the US. About the only inconvenience I can imagine would be the inability to change flights (or refuel his jet) in Miami, but I'm sure
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by medusa666 14y ago
Perhaps your decision to leave will be easier if you realize that if they needed to let you go, for whatever reason, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Not out of malice, and perhaps not without regret, but as a rational business decision.
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by medusa666 15y ago
I'm confident that the vast majority of those who agree with this decision are white, and therefore believe (probably correctly) that it will never happen to them. But if you're a darker-hued, equally law-abiding citizen ...
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by medusa666 15y ago
I'm not sure that STL is a very desirable or interesting location for immigrants, particularly non-white immigrants, who are a backbone of Silicon Valley.
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by medusa666 15y ago
It has been discussed (in chess circles) in excruciating and unambiguous detail how Rajlich blatantly ripped off (Google it) open source code, thereby violating tournament rules, open source licenses, etc. This "debunking" series of article