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by seiji 12y ago
You unequivocally do not use the creator's project name. Look at the MySQL bifurcation. We don't have "MySQL++" by Percona and "MySQL Redux" by Monty — we have entirely new names. We don't see companies
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suicide tuesdays
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Technical interviews are a glaring example of a problem we don't really recognize: being stereotypically "male technical smart" is a disability. Having smart people try to determine if another person matches their same defini
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by seiji 12y ago
Freedom of speech means the government (notably: federal government, though most states have similar rights) can't stop you from saying things or shut you down just because they don't like what you have to say. Freedom of speech h
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by seiji 12y ago
This is hindsight bias. Except Prop 8 was five years ago and not 200 years ago? I know I'm sure not absolved of my mistakes (or even debt) from five years ago. Public activism during one's lifetime is on the table as a factor
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by seiji 12y ago
having a judicial activist issue a fiat. legislative process and in those states, In 2004, Karl Rove maneuvered "anti-marriage" amendments to voted on in many states during the presidential election season. So, the republican
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by seiji 12y ago
Except by way of überadmin USB drives?
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his support of a political position The problem is his support was for an anti-human rights issue, not just another "either side has valid points" political argument.
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They updated it last year: "Starting December 2013, boarding card reissue fees will be cut from €70 or £70 to €15 or £15." You can see their fee schedule at: http://www.ryanair.com/en/fees/ — yes, they c
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The Company doesn't exactly encourage recruits to advertise their new position. You mostly see people just vanish for a while. Young recruitment is largely done through direct faculty recommendations at schools, so it's more of
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by seiji 12y ago
Also notice the entire screen shot. Netscape on Windows XP in, best we can tell, sometime after March 2006. Netscape. With an AIM launcher in the status bar. Accessing TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN resources.
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by seiji 12y ago
The mental model of web browsing and bookmarking is: "If I see it, I can get to it again." There's a partial feeling of ownership. "I've read it, so I should be able to refer back to it later." Nobody (at lea
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by seiji 12y ago
> It'll be much tougher to track user behavior to improve user experience. That sounds tragically Orwellian. "We do [BAD THING] to help you! [and it also, just by chance, makes us more money too by exploiting you, but never yo
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by seiji 12y ago
I was looking for a job last year and interviewed at multiple places ( https://matt.sh/searching-2013 ), so I think I have a recent multi-employer perspective here. The biggest flaw in the entire current "standard accept
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by seiji 12y ago
AGPL is essentially the "corporate coward" license. They want to capture all of your private changes to basically get free (legally mandated, zero "community good will") development resources. Companies think it's
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by seiji 12y ago
Fun fact: When Fusion-io first released their hardware, the NSA purchased every production run for six months. Regular customers could get evaluation cards, but they had to wait a long time for production purchases due to the complete high
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by seiji 12y ago
The name is intimidating, but the operations are simple. Basically, your storage has container types ("T"). A list, a set, a dictionary, etc. Container types can be split and added together in a distributed fashion ("R&quot
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credits Amazon with inventing a button that connects you to live customer service. oh my glob. Willfully misunderstand the world much? He's talking about consumer devices. How many devices in your home that aren't $10,000&
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To march out some old tropes: Apple makes money by delighting users so they will continue to buy products. Google makes money by tracking users, forcefully if necessary, and abusing their advertisers. Microsoft makes money out of legacy t
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by seiji 12y ago
I don't get what the significance of this post is, and why it is at the top of HN. It's a thoughtful and timely analysis about the most important company currently in existence which many people routinely fail to understand or s
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by seiji 12y ago
If you make something and nobody knows about it, did you actually make it? Richard Hamming, May 1986: you should spend at least as much time in the polish and presentation as you did in the original research. Now at least 50% of the time m
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by seiji 12y ago
Marketing has always been as important as making things. These days, someone launches a new open source product with an insanely well designed web presence . This open source project has a better visual design than I could make in two mon
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by seiji 12y ago
Gripe: OTP should be renamed. The name serves no purpose these days. Rename it "Erlang Design Patterns" and be done with it. Ever try to tell someone about "Erlang/OTP?" They ask "What's OTP?" Then
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by seiji 12y ago
Towards the beginning of the article: No other fundamental particles do this. “Only the neutrinos can change from one type to another,” says André de Gouvêa of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. More than a quirk of nature, thi
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Related required watching/listening/caption reading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBxcC8zV46E (lyrics start around 1:20)
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It can be difficult to gauge presentation tone for completely unknown audiences. If the audience for the presentation was mostly a group of "corporate friends" with unknown common technical background, it probably went well. If
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strong AI would "render the question of consciousness meaningless"; that's a far stronger claim, and in my opinion, unrealistic. That's actually a great point many people misunderstand, largely due to nobody pinning do
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to have a first-person subjective experience You actually can't prove _anybody else in the world_ besides you has a first person subjective experience. Trying to prove a magic talking box has experience when you can't prove ano
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by seiji 12y ago
I imagine he's done some noteworthy things since? That's like introducing Elon Musk as "Founder of X.com." Essentially it comes across as "I'm a fan of your early work, but nothing you've done since matte

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