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by neilk 12y ago
My information is way out of date, but I believe most Google products are still tested that way. There's a long Googler-only incubation period for everything. And Robert Scoble was probably on Google+ months before you knew about it.
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by neilk 12y ago
Especially at Google. Everything has to be ready for a billion customers on day one. While this works great for a lot of products, I contend this is one of the big reasons why they have a lot of problems with social. The great social netw
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by neilk 12y ago
> There can be other more innocent things as well such as buddies of the founders getting paid more not because they are men but because they are friends. That is far from innocent.
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by neilk 12y ago
Acclimation anecdote: I'm from Montreal, so it took some time for me to get used to shirt-sleeve weather the day after Christmas. In Vancouver, there are a few days a year where there is snow, and everyone is almost as surprised as you
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by neilk 12y ago
Nice idea. I could imagine playing this against friends who are in the same Twitter clique. Asking me the Twitter client or banner was a turn-off. I may have an incentive to say I know what so-and-so said or would say, but asking about the
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by neilk 12y ago
Another example of Betteridge's Law (all question headlines can be answered with "no"), but for a different reason than usual. This event is about self-sufficiency, not skill at defrauding. Can't pay for, borrow, or othe
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by neilk 12y ago
I've lived in Montreal (born & raised), Silicon Valley, and currently Vancouver. You're right that in Montreal, investment dollars will go much further, and it is a more interesting city for a young person. If you are looking
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by neilk 12y ago
Slides from presentation at Wikimania 2014: "Free video in a locked down world: Making Ogg Vorbis and Theora 'just work'" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2014/9/9d/Vi..
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Ogv.js: decoding Theora video in JavaScript(brionv.com)
1 points by neilk 12y ago|1 comments
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by neilk 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Vancouver, Canada or remote. Travelling/relocating to San Francisco Bay Area or Pacific Northwest is possible. Full-stack guy, has worked at highest scale possible. Can get obsessed both with pretty frontends and server
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by neilk 12y ago
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: maybe - I lived for 7 years in the San Francisco Bay Area Technologies: I've done websites in every way you can imagine and at the largest scale possible, solo or part of a t
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by neilk 12y ago
And yet it retains the informality you want from an AirBnB. It's almost perfect. IMO the design process seems way over the top, but it seems to have produced results.
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by neilk 12y ago
I don't understand your logic. Just because countermeasures could exist, it doesn't mean that the original offenders aren't so bad. Nor does that place any new responsibilities on the restaurant, to piss off their customers w
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by neilk 12y ago
You're paralyzed because you now believe that you are 'ahugefool'. Step one would be to try to find some way out of that pattern of thinking. No wait - step zero is to not give yourself usernames like that. If you're an
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by neilk 12y ago
You know we're in trouble when anyone is giving you stock tips. There is zero evidence that brokers and analysts (in general) can pick stocks better than UPS drivers. Except that they are in a position to profit from others' gre
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by neilk 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by neilk 12y ago
Uncertain why you got downvoted - perhaps "fraud" is a bit too strong but you are mostly correct. Even if you had a device and protocol that was perfectly secure, if you vote from home, someone else can demand to see you cast it.
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by neilk 12y ago
After I made this comment this I realized that the best thing might be to connect you with the people who do bizdev at the WMF. ;) I've already sent them an email, I'll be in touch soon. Also, the 'full disclosure agreement&#
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by neilk 12y ago
> there's a reason that Linux has succeeded I think you mean GNU/Linux? ;) You are asserting that the real goal of Gittip is to create a new economy, but that's not Chad's goal. You say that this makes him like Stallm
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by neilk 12y ago
I'm not an anthropologist, but I have a hard time believing that different peoples have significantly different conceptions of time. Americans are a lot heavier than other peoples, but nobody suggests they have a different concept of m
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Is Wikipedia really 90% wrong?(lists.wikimedia.org)
2 points by neilk 12y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 12y ago
I see what you're saying, but the article was not about "cheap and dirty" at all. They describe a precisely tuned system, riding on the controlled application of brute force. Like a rocket to Mars. It reminds me a lot of the
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by neilk 12y ago
It's been 10 years since Upcoming was created, and the site is dead right now, so, obviously one answer is "nothing". However, let's timewarp to 2004-2007 or so. Upcoming created the model for an events site tied to a so
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by neilk 12y ago
Ex-Upcoming employee here. I have no expertise to suggest that a cooperative model can work on the internet, but I agree. Personally, the experience of watching Upcoming wither and die is what got me first interested in alternative ways to
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by neilk 12y ago
Thanks. But why isn't this linked from http://famo.us/ ? Their "demos" link is disabled.
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by neilk 12y ago
Could you link to some demos we could try? Two years of hype without any demos isn't helping me believe in it. When they had some demos up (briefly) during their launch, they didn't work that well for me.
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by neilk 12y ago
Yeah. To be honest, there are cases where I've been that guy. But past a certain level, it's your job to explain your own weaknesses too. I just had a technical interview the other week and they relied way too much on definitions
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by neilk 12y ago
Yeah. I didn't want to get into that, because it's a deeper question. But I think you can eliminate complete bozos.
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by neilk 12y ago
OP has the wrong assumptions. The live technical interview is already well-known to be flawed, because qualified people often fail. However, only qualified people can pass. However, it's true that coding exercises that can be complet
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by neilk 13y ago
Theoretical objections aside, I have seen preview demos of Velocity on mobile devices, and it is surprisingly quick compared to its competitors. Even with demos involving many, many, particles. I haven't delved deeply into all the trad

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