mwd_

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by mwd_ 15y ago
What if you worked in some sort of regulated, specialized industry and were unable to set up your own company? What if you worked in one organization for a long time, built up seniority and benefits, and suddenly they changed their rules an
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by mwd_ 15y ago
It isn't very helpful to talk about consciousness without defining it in a concrete way, but I think there might be something to that line of questioning. What about something concrete, like the sensation of pain? I can feel it, and everybo
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by mwd_ 15y ago
I've worked at places with these meetings. I was always talking to people who either already knew the information or didn't need to hear about it every day. In that setting a quick weekly status update would have made more sense. Two other
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by mwd_ 15y ago
Admittedly I am not a very serious gamer, but this is part of why I favour DRM-free games. Humble Bundle has been great. I would feel very uncomfortable investing hundreds of dollars into a Steam account. Customers can vote with their walle
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by mwd_ 15y ago
I wonder how many of these are even real. It would not be hard to generate a big text file of emails and passwords.
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by mwd_ 15y ago
I agree. In any debate it's important to frame the issue carefully and to avoid letting the opposition choose the terms that will be discussed. If most people view this as "rogue sites/thieves vs. legitimate copyright holders" or something
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by mwd_ 15y ago
It's terrible because at the end of the day Canadians have very little say when it comes to what many of their own laws will be. The border and immigration are also horrible. Unfortunately I think that's an area where most Americans are clu
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by mwd_ 15y ago
Is "cajoling" the path to victory? Perhaps you mean something different, but this reminds me of a common, sad type of Craigslist post. Frequently you see ads posted by people with ideas for software who think they ought to be able to get so
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by mwd_ 15y ago
One big difference I have noticed is how much more work seems to matter at a small company. When I've worked for a small company it has always been that the company sells X or desperately needs X, so they hire me to write X. At larger com
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by mwd_ 15y ago
Choosing a good language for your project is all about understanding trade-offs and the overall space of languages. It's hard to do this if you only know C++ and view everything else with suspicion. The comment "...back to programming langu
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by mwd_ 15y ago
This is interesting. I've learned to decode the over-the-top qualifications a little. It's not unheard of to see job listings mentioning 5 years of experience with some form of software development plus ideally a graduate degree with "compe
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by mwd_ 15y ago
For my case it was not as bad as data entry. It was a build system job vs. graphics job (I have a grad degree and the equivalent of a few years of work experience), but they had primed me for something specific. Questions like "how do you f
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by mwd_ 15y ago
I saw tons of "3-5 years iPhone experience" ads back in 2009-2010. They must be up to 7-10 years by now. Perhaps the recruiters are speaking from their own frame of reference and expect people to be experimenting with iOS at near-light spee
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by mwd_ 15y ago
My worst interview went as follows: -I was contacted by a company that found my resume and decided I was a "great fit" to an opportunity they had. They described a great, technically rewarding position. -3 phone interviews and approximately
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by mwd_ 15y ago
One common problem I see is that some people tend to turn every conversation into an adversarial situation because they focus on poking holes in whatever the other person says. A more pleasant and fruitful way to talk to people is to try to
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by mwd_ 15y ago
I've chosen to stay in Vancouver for personal reasons. I like it here but it's not much fun to see friends find only mediocre opportunities locally and then end up in Mountain View making ~six figures. Unfortunately as mentioned above this