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by msg 16y ago
The nudge, the debate, and the mandate: three discussion speeds to address problems in your team. Rather than picking one style per person receiving the message, you need to pick one per situation. Mentoring and long term conversion experie
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by msg 16y ago
Grubers gonna grube :( Talk about burying the lede! "But leaving aside the revenue split, there are technical limitations as well. The existing in-app purchasing system in iOS has a technical limit of 3,500 catalog items. I.e. any single ap
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by msg 16y ago
I just had my two year anniversary at Amazon. I've written many more than 700 lines but I bet less than 160K. And yes, deleting code is the best. I don't know the GP but their post is believable. Some parts of Amazon are mired in cross-team
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by msg 16y ago
reddit.com/r/minecraft, that's pretty much it for me.
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by msg 16y ago
Wrong. Why would I need a dedicated app when I have a smartphone? Just make a great mobile site. I check Amazon all the time when I'm out and about, no app required.
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by msg 16y ago
You might not want "customers" but nothing will help you innovate like users. Where I work we get mountains of feedback and use it to justify new features and to prioritize bug fixes.
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by msg 16y ago
You are overloading "free" too. You exist. You can make choices. You can act. In that sense, you are free, until you're dead. You can do whatever you want with software. In a more practical sense, if you want to redistribute GPL-licensed so
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by msg 16y ago
Read Dan Ariely's chapter 1 in Predictably Irrational. It is about relativity and the decoy effect. If you have a choice between A and B, then adding a third choice that looks like a defective version of A (the decoy) tends to nudge people
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by msg 16y ago
I deduce from this that the fault was not in the language, but in the company, specifically in the resume filter that asks for 3+ years of production Clojure. A programmer who learns languages can learn Clojure for production work. That's b
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by msg 16y ago
It is about whether minority viewpoints get a fair shake on Wikipedia. As it turns out, no. And it turns out minority means "outside the male, machismo-dominated world of the alpha techno-geek." It also turns out that even esoteric technoge
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by msg 16y ago
Sony's private key is, essentially, a random number. As for copyright protection, you should reflect on this page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/index.html And then this one: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/GeoHot/ To the point wi
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by msg 16y ago
That is what copyright is for, not patenting. If someone doesn't have a license to distribute your code, you can collect damages for copyright infringement. But patenting covers independent inventions of the same algorithms. And it's freque
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by msg 16y ago
When I used it Qt was dual licensed, one way for commercial closed source, and GPL for open source. It can just be forked right?
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by msg 16y ago
Outlook for Mac 2011 came out. It has some major missing features (won't run rules on the Exchange server, no auto-archive), but the calendar works and it's a serviceable mail reader. Better than Entourage by far, I would say.
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by msg 16y ago
Google's spam filter is training the internet to produce better and better content. Over time a rising tide lifts all boats. In 2000 they were working on not returning results from various subdomains off the same base domain. This year they
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by msg 16y ago
When you're on your deathbed, you're not going to tell your grandchildren "I sure wish I had upheld the strict letter of copyright law on the internet more." But you might say "remember that time I saved the BBC from itself?" And like Big F
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by msg 16y ago
Unless Bing weighs clicks on Google SERPs more strongly than clicks on Bing SERPs! After all, Google is the market leader... This is the problem, we really don't know how hollow Bing is any more. If it's a thin UI over results that grow clo
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by msg 16y ago
I work for one of those big companies. After going over trouble spots in the resume and asking why they want to work here, I tend to ask one or two very similar questions that 1) force candidates to do nontrivial coding, algorithms, and des
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by msg 16y ago
I thought he was saying something about tankers.
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by msg 16y ago
They're not just susceptible to Google bombing. They are at the mercy of some easy to automate SEO with the bing toolbar installed. If I were a black hat I'd install the bing toolbar, craft some perhaps human looking Selenium code, and star
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by msg 16y ago
Look at it like a machine learning problem. If you slavishly match the test set you are doing something called overfitting. Your performance on the rest of the web will decrease, because you inherit bias from the test set.
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by msg 16y ago
I agree we should stamp out racial prejudice everywhere it appears, like that well-known racist Mel Brooks and his Canadian caricature, Dark Helmet. Neo-colonialist interpretation: inside every big black man is a whiny white man who can't b
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by msg 16y ago
When is knowledge more than mere facts? When it's taken for truth and lived. The war between science and religion is only real for people who believe that science precludes a religious outlook, and vice versa. Science is about pattern recog
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by msg 16y ago
The first one I bought was the hardware accelerated version of my guitar tuner, gstrings. I also bought a cool sequencer/composer called Loops. Over time the barrier has gone down significantly and I've bought more. My price level for no-br
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by msg 16y ago
It is ambiguous: "a lost (life's work)" is the intended interpretation. "rediscovered" is more like it. Of course you could talk about "a (rediscovered life)'s work" in an interesting way too...
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by msg 16y ago
And where you are driving to!
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by msg 16y ago
I clicked through to the Click Forensics site to try to understand where they got the 20% fraud number from. It is not there. There is a press release but no methodology or anything else but the bare number. Understand I do think they are d
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by msg 16y ago
An important point appearing elsewhere in the comments: who is a programmer anyway? If you can write Hello World in C, are you a programmer? If you can't write your own compiler are you a non-programmer? This is an unanswerable question. Ma
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by msg 16y ago
I don't find interleaving natural. It would be natural if we were using old school hypertext and reading from anchor in the original text to response in the new text. But as it is, I have to skim a whole email again to find the small portio
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by msg 16y ago
About those big-box bookstores... Barnes and Noble is doing just fine. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/barnes-nobl...

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