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by melted 11y ago
20% doesn't even work at Google. The reason being, if you care about your career, it ends up being 20% _on top of_ 120% you're already putting in. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather the company did not know about
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by melted 11y ago
Don't threaten. Get them engaged, get them to set their own team goals (with your guidance) and get them to agree to the goals. Divide pleasant and unpleasant tasks visibly and fairly. Get rid of people with poisonous attitudes who sab
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by melted 11y ago
I'm not even going to dignify this with a proper response.
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by melted 11y ago
Getting shit done is valuable. Tolerating bullshit is absolutely not.
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by melted 11y ago
Compared to what, though? To paying tens (up to over a hundred for top schools) of thousands of dollars for the same thing but without practical skills? Ideally, people would be leaving school with something to show for it: open source code
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by melted 11y ago
Not really. I would argue that today college is little more than a weeding out process that weeds out far too many. You sit in classes and solve bullshit problems with known answers that will have very little bearing on the realities of you
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by melted 11y ago
I would argue even if they do rent "slave labor", if the tasks are appropriate to the chosen specialization, and the cost to the student is lower overall (ideally zero for tuition), it'd be an improvement over the status quo.
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by melted 11y ago
This would be similar to internships in research labs (for the academically inclined) or startups (for product inclined). This is not at all similar to an internship at a traditional company, where you're given some kind of a bullshit
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by melted 11y ago
Another thing that could be helpful is not forcing kids to go to school when they're 18. They have no clue whatsoever what they want to do with their lives and by and large motivation to truly learn something is very much lacking. Or a
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by melted 11y ago
I think what we need are apprenticeships. I.e. a prominent research group hires kids after the remedial first two years of traditional college curriculum (or something like it plus a couple of years in an entry level job), and has them work
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by melted 11y ago
>> My iPhone 6 Plus became unstable in its 6th month of life Take it to the store, you dummy. People are so used to the complete lack of customer service from everybody else that this doesn't occur to them. The whole point of pay
162.
by melted 11y ago
Where do people find these jobs? Every time I look for one I only see complete bullshit jobs from companies that don't really pay all that well.
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by melted 11y ago
Someone should make a Minecraft clone out of this.
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by melted 11y ago
At Google most in-house projects are infrastructural, and if you look at the scale at which they run and the fact that there's basically nothing that even comes close, they are wildly successful. You could also say Android was in-house
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by melted 11y ago
Research, yes. But Research alone can't pull this off. And most of the rest of the company can't tell logistic regression from a hole in the ground.
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by melted 11y ago
WinFS failed not because .NET was too slow, but because no one, not even the people in charge of WinFS, could explain why the fuck anyone would want something like this. I also don't get what's so great about Photosynth. Last I ch
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by melted 11y ago
Microsoft has suffered a heck of a brain drain in the past decade. I don't believe they can recover from it in the long term. I also don't believe in innovation by executive edict. Google and FB models work because executive edict
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by melted 11y ago
Sure, in lucky situations I've been able to speed things up by an order of magnitude by just changing memory layout and using SSE. But 46% in a tight spot is worthwhile change. Basically, when dealing with a highly performance intensiv
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by melted 11y ago
Android tablets are still not up to par after _many_ point releases.
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by melted 11y ago
Given the same radio power (it's capped for all cell phones) the faster your wireless data, the less battery it will chew up. Why? Because it consumes the most energy when radio is on, and if you transmit at higher speeds, radio doesn&
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by melted 11y ago
Because the worst thing you can do for morale is move the cheese. People probably were building up their reputations, review histories, etc, angling for a promo which would net them more responsibility and money, and now Tony comes along an
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by melted 11y ago
You should probably change your lightbulb to something like Philips Hue, and make _it_ more red.
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by melted 11y ago
Sure, if it's just 1% it probably wasn't worth optimizing even that plain C code. But you don't know that. And you especially don't know that if it's a part of a library or the like.
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by melted 11y ago
I like how getting 46% gain over already optimized C code is considered "insignificant". Moore's law is over, folks, 46% is a pretty decent gain in my book, especially in GCC where facilities are available to you to keep your
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by melted 11y ago
Seems like a hundred dollars should have been sufficient. It's a simple lab test. Lead in the water == bad news.
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by melted 11y ago
That's not what it's for, though. For graphics you need D6500, there's no way around it, circadian rhythm be damned. This is mostly for reading things late at night.
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by melted 11y ago
Give it time. You'll get used to it after a while, to the point where a couple of weeks later you won't perceive the colors as "wrong" (assuming no other light source in the room). You'll just perceive them as sligh
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by melted 11y ago
Surface Pro is a joke. It's just plain unstable, and high maintenance. iPad is zero maintenance, which is about the right amount a regular user should be required to do in year 2016.
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by melted 11y ago
Pretty much. And Apple had to roll its own maps because Google would not allow Siri to use maps. Apple Maps are pretty darn good by now, so I think it's safe to assume that Apple started building their own search engine for Siri well b
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by melted 11y ago
To me it's not so much Java that's the problem, it's the kind of programmer it seems to foster. The language itself is simple enough, so people invent all kinds of architectural bullshit and overengineer everything to hell to

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