mrowland

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by mrowland 2y ago
> no matter the project goal, your leadership team (the people in your reporting chain who care about the project) will always have basically zero technical context about the project compared to you. This is not universally the case, and
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Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?(paygo.media)
825 points by mrowland 6y ago|806 comments
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The Moving Middle(mikerowland.io)
1 points by mrowland 6y ago|0 comments
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What I miss about working at Google(mikerowland.io)
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by mrowland 7y ago
"Weeks of coding can save hours of design"
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by mrowland 8y ago
On a personal level, children are optional; on a societal level they really aren't.
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by mrowland 11y ago
There's evidence[1] that there's no difference in intelligence between races at a very young age, and that tested differences only emerge later. This suggests that the IQ differences seen later are a result of societal factors and
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by mrowland 12y ago
Here's my math: 15 weeks / semester * 2 semesters = 30 weeks. $5000 / 30 weeks = $166 / week. At $8 an hour, that's 20 hours a week; at $10 an hour it's 16 hours. (Ignoring taxes, which are low but still push
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by mrowland 12y ago
I've had on-campus jobs throughout college, and making $5000 from those jobs alone would require working somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 hours a week. Certainly possible (and many do it), but at that point it starts to have a pr
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by mrowland 12y ago
Agreed. Student earnings requirements aren't much of a problem for CS/engineering students (who can get paid summer jobs related to their field), but they are difficult for students trying to get into industries where unpaid inter
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by mrowland 12y ago
For what it's worth, the solution to that question was an open question in computer science for over ten years, so I would guess that people who get it quickly in an interview are more likely to have heard the answer before than succes
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Show HN: “Black and White”-style Game Prototype for the Leap Motion(youtube.com)
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