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by rlu 13y ago
To be fair, in retrospect everything seems obvious. At the time I'm sure the Dropbox team had to make a bunch of hard decisions. For example, without knowing the success they would later have, it doesn't seem super obvious to have
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by rlu 13y ago
The real vision though for Windows I think is probably summarized with Surface Pro + Surface dock. I'm way too tired to explain why Windows 8 is a good idea - in the long run . But if you browse through my comment history I think I&#x
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by rlu 13y ago
As a multi monitor user doesn't Win8 provide a much better experience over Win7? Not saying this alone is worth an upgrade, but IIRC it's definitely better in a "would make you more productive" way
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by rlu 13y ago
Young people are trying something other than Windows. It goes by the name OSX. For most people, there is also very little reason to make the effort of switching from Windows (or OSX - whichever they're on) to a Linux distro. Do you
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by rlu 13y ago
It's funny reading this and then remembering that on top of all this, there's paging (i.e. fetching from hard drive). It's like registers are refrigerators, RAM is like the grocery store around the corner, and Page faults are
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by rlu 13y ago
I laughed at that part too
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by rlu 13y ago
Here's me "blindly" picking Bing 5 times: http://i.imgur.com/NAuhhhV.png This is why I'm skeptical of anyone here saying "I got Bing 100%" or "I got Google 100%". It's extremely
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by rlu 13y ago
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that most of us/the HN crowd can't fairly do the bingiton challenge. At least for me, it's really quite easy to tell them apart just based on subtleties. I.E. Not the quality of
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by rlu 13y ago
I don't know. I went to Europe for all of June and saw a lot more Windows Phones than I do in the U.S. Particularly in Italy.
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by rlu 13y ago
What I'm curious of is most of Steam's users are probably avid PC gaming fans that prefer PC gaming over console gaming At least that's true for me and various of my 'internet friends'
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by rlu 13y ago
His name is Panos Panay and he's VP of Surface. I agree he isn't very photogenic but if you actually watch him present....it's a whole different story. You can probably find his part of the Surface 1 announcement on youtube a
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by rlu 13y ago
I never got to interview for a startup. Is it common to have a 1:n interview? At every single big company I've interviewed with, interviews were always 1:1. He threw out 1:n interviews being bad as if it were the norm. I also have no i
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by rlu 13y ago
One thing is wanting to get users to use Metro more. It's another thing entirely to force them to use it exclusively by removing any other option. Desktop apps can do many more things than WinRT apps are allowed to do. There are thousa
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by rlu 13y ago
What are you talking about? I run Windows 8 at home and install non-App store software all the time.
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by rlu 13y ago
I sort of got bored of the presentation 15 minutes in (and was only half paying attention, truth be told) but it seems to me that Gabe is operating under the (gigantic) assumption that Microsoft would remove the Desktop and move Windows int
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by rlu 13y ago
FYI (only tangentially related to the presentation), here are the latest hardware survey results for Steam users. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey You'll notice Windows 7 is still #1 (not surprising) but Windows
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by rlu 13y ago
If that is what was meant, then I'd argue it should not read as "not viable for games" but instead "not viable for the Steam business"
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by rlu 13y ago
Maybe you're right and maybe you're wrong - but I certainly hope that this thought hasn't prevented you from applying. Can't win if you don't play :)
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by rlu 13y ago
Out of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, Google was the only company that straight up declined to interview me because I did not meet GPA requirements (3.0 cumulative - I had a 3.4 at the time in CS but I hadn't done well in fres
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by rlu 13y ago
How many employees does Square have?
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by rlu 13y ago
It would have been nice if he included a video/sound clip of how it sounds.
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by rlu 13y ago
Well I personally like the fact that it's backlit and the media keys are more intelligently placed in my opinion. With that said, I wish you could choose the cherry mx switches. I prefer blue. So, yeah, definitely not enough to make me
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Welcoming Steven Sinofsky as a Box Advisor(blog.box.com)
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by rlu 13y ago
Fair enough. In that case, my last 'paragraph' is definitely what the takeaway from my comment should be.
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by rlu 13y ago
While this is pretty shitty, and overall I completely agree that personality tests should not decide a hiring decision, I certainly don't think that we should lose sight of one thing: It is 100% legitimate to not hire someone because t
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by rlu 13y ago
What is "Big Corp" though? I work at MS and they certainly don't do tests like this - and from my understanding neither does Google, Amazon, Facebook (is fb a "bigcorp"? perhaps not yet..). Dunno about IBM - wouldn&
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by rlu 13y ago
For the sake of argument though, if the point of the test (in OP's case anyways) is to determine culture fit, should it matter what the "right" answer is if the rest of the team got it "wrong"?
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by rlu 13y ago
Did you ever consider changing teams or org? The review process is of course standard throughout all of MS but a lot of your complaints seemed to be local to your team (e.g. status report noise) or Org ("Office needs robots"). Bug
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by rlu 13y ago
Not that I know of. The real culprit of my misfortune though was that my trusted devices (which wouldn't require 2nd auth) got erased because when I got asked to do two factor authentication in the hostel's computer I clicked on t
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by rlu 13y ago
This reminds me of a rather interesting design decision I encountered with Windows Phone this summer. I'm still undecided as to whether it is a good design or not. So, over the summer I was traveling through Europe and lost my phone in

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