paulrademacher

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by paulrademacher 11y ago
Here is a much better proposal, with the added benefit of keeping our planet safe: http://traipse.com/upgrade/
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
You're free to ask people who come in to interview at your company, "why did you leave your last job?" and apply your own judgement. Or if you truly want to help improve Github, you should join them! :-)
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
> On Monday, a judge set bail at $100,000 for Robert Malsch, accused of drinking and of driving more than 100 mph before rear-ending a car and killing the driver inside.
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
Code review could have been another set of eyes to predict the problem of reusing a flag.
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
Redundant/distributed/crowd-sourced diagnoses? Instead of a single radiologist, fan it out to many.
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
> If you are offered little equity as compared to the founders, don't join. There is no "if". Employee equity is always a small fraction of founders'. This won't change until people realize the discrepancy, or
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
> there was at least one TRON arcade game... that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten I can barely express how amazing and influential Discs of Tron was to me as a kid. The concept, the animation
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
Civilian, you probably signed an agreement with Google to not disclose information about their internal operations, as you're doing here and below.
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
P(startup) = c * P(pivot), for some constant c
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
The 3 second audio loop while loading from disk is seared into my brain!
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
TLDR: Market share > Principles > We have come to the point where Mozilla not implementing the W3C EME specification means that Firefox users have to switch to other browsers to watch content restricted by DRM.
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
"Woman with bangs." I cringe any time I see a writeup of a female engineer or executive where attention is drawn to her hairstyle, clothes, or shoes. It's unnecessary and undignified.
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by paulrademacher 12y ago
Any suggestions for smaller codebases? A lot of these are great and you'll pick up idioms here and there, but they're massive .
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Is there a follow-up poll showing that it's "decidedly a positive change"? :-)
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
To read the atom.io threads. Plenty of positivity around here when a new product strikes a chord.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I think I will nominate myself to be the single person on Hacker News, who after an announcement of a huge mega-acquisition, will skip all the high-minded analysis and discussion of business models and ROI, and simply say: Wow, I wish I had
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
What's really hard is not mastering the language, but software development. That's the reason top, super-productive coders can jump between langs.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
She's been with the company since the beginning.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
True bugs wait in haunted attics.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that was fake.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
You could have just solved the problem by taking a job at Apple, Adobe, Intuit, Lucasfilm, or Pixar!
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I'm not sure how anyone could question Gates, Zuckerberg, or Sandberg on their sincere and informed interest in young people studying computer science. The criticism on that page is so infantile, I can't even think of a proper re
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Where do you see this "direct line"? I've seen no sign of that.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Why do you think they negotiated at all?
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
> the mythical "(top) 10% or (top) 1% programmer" is not so much a real thing And yet every place I've worked has had 1-3 programmers who wrote >90% of the code...
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
It was accidentally erased during routine maintenance. We do not expect this to materially affect the ongoing investigation.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
DO? YOU? SPEAK? ENGLISH?
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
You didn't fire him publicly. You only belittled him in public. > If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him. [Edit: See comment below. This is not meant literally.] Your correction doesn't make the statement much better. This whole
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I applaud Joyent for their brave stand in theoretically firing someone who does not work for them. The legal issues they would theoretically face are daunting.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
There's a good chance "internal politics" was a made up excuse when they decided that the acquisition simply wasn't worth the $$$. Then your corpdev or VP contacts don't look like assholes for backing out, because,

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