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by melted 11y ago
You're reaching, but I'll oblige. It'd be like Berkshire Hathaway told Dairy Queen or GEICO to build a commercially viable robot. Google basically runs two things profitably: Ads and Android (the latter in part because of ads
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by melted 11y ago
No, it would be like expecting PayPal to build a spaceship or an electric car.
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by melted 11y ago
I'm confused. Why would anyone expect that an advertising company would actually have a clue what they want to do with robotics? I think the main idea with acquisitions in robotics space was to keep Andy around, and to create yet anoth
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by melted 11y ago
Seems like a good idea for all men, regardless of race, ethnicity, or minority status. When your reputation can be irretrievably destroyed based on nothing but hearsay and someone's perceptions and preconceived notions, this course of
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by melted 11y ago
Yup. As a white heterosexual male with a lot to lose, I avoid any kind of controversy involving women at all costs. Does this harm collaboration? You bet! But I don't feel safe otherwise.
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by melted 11y ago
No, in the "share on Google+" buttons and in "login with Google" buttons, and with captchas, and who knows what else. There are dozens of companies tracking your every move, Google is just one example.
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by melted 11y ago
How about not singling out FB and forbid the same to Google and others as well?
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by melted 11y ago
A lot of Japanese cars are made in the USA. A lot of US cars, on the other hand, are made in Mexico.
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by melted 11y ago
You people crack me up. Self driving car was never anything other than an elaborate PR ploy for Google, the company which derives the vast majority of its income from its advertising business. Who would you rather work for: a company that i
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by melted 11y ago
$140K and "falcon wing" doors only in the back. Epic fail. They seem like an afterthought that way. Sure, you can open them in tight spaces, but you won't be able to get into the car because the front door is basically the sa
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by melted 11y ago
What's so "awesome" about Github? It doesn't even have proper codesearch like Google used to have before they shut their code hosting down. I seriously don't get it. For my own needs I just host my own Mercurial and
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by melted 11y ago
Backwards compatibility could easily be maintained. .bat/ .cmd files could be executed by an interpreter called from this shell. It's just another userland, and compared to Windows userland, a very small one.
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by melted 11y ago
Joel might be authority on spinning up a business out of nothing, or writing blog posts that are appealing to junior devs, but he is not, and never was, an authority on software development. Let's face it, any idiot can write a bug tra
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by melted 11y ago
You've misunderstood. I'm not talking about bolting on a UNIX-like abomination on the side. I'm saying Microsoft needs to replace Windows userland with UNIX userland, much like Apple did well over a decade ago. That's wh
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by melted 11y ago
Funny, I'd rather "the UI for a feature" was designed by actual designers if I'm paying for it.
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by melted 11y ago
This could be because you're not getting enough sleep (or aren't sleeping well due to e.g. apnea or something). Set up a simple experiment: go to bed 1-1.5 hours earlier than you usually do for a couple of weeks and see if your &q
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by melted 11y ago
I like it. It just looks "right" somehow, and it's more optically dense, so it'll look good on all kinds of screens as well. Picking Helvetica Neue was a bit of a brain fart on Jony's part.
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by melted 11y ago
PMs at Microsoft by definition do not build anything. Nor do they really "design" anything. You can't design a piece of software unless you're an engineer. At best, they will give you some user scenarios to handle, and h
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by melted 11y ago
That's exactly how Microsoft managers used to do it. They would hire (and keep) deadwood on the teams specifically for this purpose. Honestly, that's the trick any reasonably bright manager learns after having to let go of someone
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by melted 11y ago
I'm not saying there isn't more in a job. I'm just saying that setting things up so that "more" is mutually exclusive with "money" is a piss poor way of doing it. These things can and should coincide. Once
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by melted 11y ago
Cygwin is not a valid replacement for a shell, sorry. It's a crutch. If you want a proper scripting language, literally dozens are available on *NIX-like OSs, and some are preinstalled with most distributions. Tens of thousands of libr
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by melted 11y ago
I bet plenty of PMs got a promo, though.
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by melted 11y ago
LOL. phamilton thinks Joel is some kind of authority on software engineering. What's next, links to Coding Horror? If you want to appeal to authority figures, I got one for you, too: "Encoding the type of a function into the name
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by melted 11y ago
>> if you can care more about your customer than >> having your job or being promoted The honest answer to that is "no" 100% of the time, for any rational person. Anyone who says otherwise is either stupid, or trying
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by melted 11y ago
It doesn't matter what Powershell does and doesn't do. People aren't going to learn yet another shell scripting language just because someone at Microsoft wanted to get promoted and rolled a new one. I want Windows shell to l
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by melted 11y ago
People who downvote this: you should turn in your hacker card, and log out from this site. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
The trouble with PMs is that being the most political of the bunch, they also tend to get promoted into management in much greater quantities. Once promoted, guess what, they promote their own (because that's their social circle), and
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by melted 11y ago
He also invented the Hungarian notation, much to the dismay of programmers worldwide.
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by melted 11y ago
From what I heard, there really IS no stack rank or numeric ratings this time. Managers do get discretion wrt pay and equity, but not much of it. The only score you can give to someone consists of a checkbox that basically says "this p
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by melted 11y ago
To give you some perspective from an ex-softie (been on the outside for 7 years now, so my experience is not recent). PMs are the hated super-political, credit grabbing ruling class of Microsoft. She was a junior PM. It's not clear wha

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