mkozlows

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by mkozlows 12y ago
Q3 2013 is a long time ago. According to NPD, Chromebooks had 14% market share in 2014, counting retail and commercial (read: education) channels. Growth was up 85% year over year, too, which is amazing in the context of a stagnant/dec
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by mkozlows 12y ago
The offline experience is going to be pretty much what you'd get with the offline experience of those apps in Chrome on a Windows or OSX computer, so you can try it out pretty easily.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Depends what you're doing. It doesn't have the depth of libraries of the JVM or JS, so there'll be lots of "oh, can't use that technology" or "is this 3-year-old unmaintained library still going to work wi
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Racket was PLT Scheme before they renamed it, so it's got a very academic focus, documentation focuses on the DrRacket (formerly DrScheme) IDE, and it's got a kind of old-school Lisp feel. Their documentation is great, though, so
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Exactly what you said. The other part that got me was his "as an entry-level programmer, be prepared for grinding, endless tedium." Maybe that's how his workplace treats junior devs, but the reality is that a developer with v
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Look at what the Project Sputnik people are saying about getting Linux working on the current XPS 13 -- they're working on drivers for various portions of it that don't currently work currently on Linux. (If you install Ubuntu on
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by mkozlows 12y ago
As someone who runs Linux and ChromeOS on my personal laptops, was looking at the XPS, and just ordered a Pixel, I can answer that: 1. Chromebook is zero-hassle. It's great that Dell is putting native Ubuntu on their laptops, but funda
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by mkozlows 12y ago
That's a fine perspective to have, if you are a corporation trying to own an ecosystem. Me, I don't like walled gardens, and ChromeOS's true platform isn't the Chrome App Store, it's the web. I'm good with that
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Computer World says it no longer gets hot, and the fans are quieter: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2895014/new-chromebook-...
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Congratulations, you are now better than 2/3 of applicants I saw. I'd follow up by asking whether there's another way you could have done this (the obvious loop and store method); if you didn't come up with it, I'd
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by mkozlows 12y ago
No, I mean it literally, as in can't do do a loop/if/assignment level operation. ("Write a function that returns the sum of the two largest numbers in an array" is the literal question I would ask that the majority
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Many, many dev candidates do not have a Github account with any code on it, nor do they have an SO account with any answers on it. And past work often belongs to the employer (and was written by a team anyway), so. If you want to say "
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by mkozlows 12y ago
That's great, but if I'm hiring a person with ten years of experience whose resume is full of "senior developer" stuff, I don't think that either of us is interested in them doing an unpaid internship while we teach
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Virtually no teams are made of 100% incompetent people. If you've got a 20 person team with two worthless people on it, it's barely even noticeable from the outside.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
It's notable, and obvious, that this guy has never actually tried to hire a developer. He has the luxury of thinking that these "secretly terrible" people are rare and misjudged. He's wrong, though. (That's not to s
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by mkozlows 12y ago
The whole point of that Tidbits article was "the WSJ is probably wrong, because the idea that Apple would use 1/3 of the world's gold is an absurdity." Treating a reductio as if it were a proof is just deeply silly.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
You can't see the rendered-on-the-user's-screen result, is the thing, and dynamic layouts mean that it might appear differently in different places.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
I'm more skeptical of the benefit of auto-hyphenation than the author is; it's been my experience that even with a proper hyphenation dictionary, you get some weird hyphenations that you want to manually undo (or force). Which mea
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by mkozlows 12y ago
See also the recent "Safari is holding back the web" articles. IE is historically awful, but modern IE is generally better than modern Safari.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
People are getting really bogged down in specific standards, but you don't need to talk about pointer events or flexbox or indexeddb or whatever, you can look at this at a macro level. Here's the ES6 support table: http:/&#x
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by mkozlows 12y ago
The core of the outrage about Privdog is that it's created by the founder of Comodo, and distributed with Comodo products, and therefore Comodo doesn't really seem like a company you should trust, but you don't have a choice,
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by mkozlows 12y ago
"IBM said there would be thousands of layoffs. We believe there have been 5,000 layoffs. Clearly IBM was lying." Um.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Yes, but this is the diff that is going to happen if it's merged, so it's what reviewers should be looking at.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Seriously, that looks like a developer zoo, and would make me twitchy and paranoid all the time.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Re "whether this is important in real world scenarios", in the context of high-end audio, there are four types of products: 1. Those that make clearly audible and measurable differences. Speakers, headphones, and upgrading from to
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Your tenses are wrong. They used to have that problem, but they fixed it (including a retro-fix for previously sold units), and no current models have that issue.
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Put it in the ad. It's not common, but it's not super-rare, either. And the main reason you don't do it is that you don't want to eliminate your chance at hiring someone at a below-market rate (or of alerting your below-
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by mkozlows 12y ago
So the thing is, I share your general opinion -- there is a legit shortage of talented developers, and it's hard to find them. BUT: I guarantee you that there is in fact a wage and benefits package you can offer that would get you more
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by mkozlows 12y ago
I find it impossible to take seriously any argument that claims to be true in general, but where the only example given is logging. Logging is weird and special, running at unusual times in unusual states, and therefore has unusual requirem
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by mkozlows 12y ago
Depends on where you were. If you were in San Francisco, I can't speak to it; but if you were in your standard middle American city, it was fine. I graduated with a CS degree in 1999. In 2000, I got a job doing Java dev with no Java ex

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