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by shazow 15y ago
pg is certainly not the best speaker I've seen but is one of my favourites to listen to. Every word has so much value behind it, and the honesty of his thoughts comes across much better in-person than in-essay. I notice pg uses footnotes ve
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by shazow 15y ago
Here is a very petty point that isn't mentioned in the guidelines, but implied by example: Is there a good reason why people don't like putting a space after a colon? Such as... margin:0; Instead of... margin: 0; The latte
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by shazow 15y ago
http://code.google.com/apis/latitude/ I haven't looked at it super closely, but could the interested parties let me know what's missing? I'll forward your feedback to the right people.
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by shazow 15y ago
Smallest grammatical change to get the correct result: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+movie+where+babies+cant+... "the movie where no babies can be born anymore" -> "the movie where babies can't be born anymore" There is definite
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by shazow 15y ago
Question: What was the conversion rate—how many users were asked to leave a review vs many actually did it? I wonder if you could compare the quality of different cohorts of users based on how willing they are to go say nice things about yo
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by shazow 15y ago
Perhaps people affected by the many Bitcoin Exchange password leaks were reusing their passwords on Linode?
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by shazow 15y ago
cletus, eta_carinae, and everyone else already gave great points, but I want to add one more to the pile: Google really cares about culture fit. From the way I understand it, there are two main goals for hiring: 1. Always raising the bar by
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by shazow 15y ago
Have a look at IPython for a more code-exploration oriented experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipython (Sadly the homepage doesn't quite get the simpler sell points across as well. http://ipython.org/ )
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by shazow 15y ago
It varies. When I was helping @limedaring learn Python, I'd read source with her and explain what it does. Quite often I'd feel somewhat embarrassed when explaining what a line does by verbatim reading what it says. "for user in users: ..."
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by shazow 15y ago
Thanks for making the effort! Unfortunately I don't think there's anything we can do about Safari crashing while taking a screenshot at an inopportune time. Perhaps we can try to find someone on HN who works on at Apple?
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by shazow 15y ago
It doesn't seem to me that the father of the 18-month old son is trading the chance to spend time with his offspring for cold hard work, but rather trading it for salsa dancing classes, a couple of pints at the bar with his friends, and wha
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by shazow 15y ago
Could you post or email me a screenshot of this? I don't have my iPhone handy to reproduce it but I'll point the right people to this if I can explain it well enough. My handle at google.com.
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by shazow 15y ago
The salary is scaled to the cost of living. Even Google doesn't pay the same if you're working in Mountain View or Waterloo or Australia. $100k base salary in Waterloo adjusted for cost of living would be like an $180k base salary in Mounta
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by shazow 15y ago
Alright, I am convinced that Waterloo students get more joy out of doing four four-month jobs than Toronto students get out of doing one eighteen-month job. What I'm not convinced of is the resulting value-add to the student's career. The w
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by shazow 15y ago
Agreed, and I worked on some really cool large-scale projects when I got my first job right out of school. I didn't have great grades, I didn't have the top scores on coding sites, but I did have some personal projects and I networked, inte
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by shazow 15y ago
See the response I gave to potatolicious. Because you didn't know what you wanted to pursue and wanted to sample around, I'd say you're within one of the cases where coop is a good value.
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by shazow 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is no employment obligation for 18 months. You go through the same interview process and you can get fired just like any other employee. This is no different than hiring any other employee. > Long terms
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by shazow 15y ago
Mhmm, though I'm certain this is not a complete list, and SocialGrapple was listed under USA until I corrected it. :P
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by shazow 15y ago
Funny, I came here to say the exact opposite--how the four-months-at-a-time thing doesn't make any sense to me because I've always experienced the vast majority of learning during the 4-12 month range of my employment periods. University of
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by shazow 15y ago
Perhaps a better competing use for a $25 Raspberry Pi is Apple's Airport Express ($99 retail). I would love to make every one of my USB peripherals be decoupled from my computer. Printer, scanner, external hard drive, etc. All you'd need to
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by shazow 15y ago
But today we live in the age of personalization; I think we can do better.
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by shazow 15y ago
Are we counting Google Account Managers hiring third-party contractors to do ad-hoc work for major clients? https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pylons-discuss/asqBrrEEhNo...
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by shazow 15y ago
Very true. Not to mention that the inhibition to purchase drops significantly. Before activating Prime I knew there was an invisible $25 Super Saver free shipping barrier that I had to break before I would complete an order on Amazon. Now w
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by shazow 15y ago
I'd argue that Anonymous by nature cannot gain de facto legitimacy because it is not one persistent entity. Anonymous is a mask that anyone can present themselves behind. The very targets that Anonymous is attacking could claim to be Anonym
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by shazow 15y ago
That's very fancy and a great start! I hope more social graph networks release contextualized data like this. Despite the impressive visualization, I still find myself struggling to find the answers I really want: 1. Path (and distance) tha
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by shazow 15y ago
Another warning sign I've found: They start doing other things, like checking their phone, while you're answering their question. Even if you disregard that it's a disrespectful and rude thing to do during a conversation, this person is try
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by shazow 15y ago
I didn't have anything to do with any of the Steve Jobs Apple logo tributes, but here's my take on a Dennis one: https://plus.google.com/109834643338395014064/posts/CWHKvH7d...
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by shazow 15y ago
Thanks! :) Once upon a time, 234 days ago, I posted SocialGrapple on Show HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232656
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by shazow 15y ago
You can also do :set fu! :set paste! Instead of nofu or nopaste.
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by shazow 15y ago
Why not? As always, this is a huge "it depends". Take game development for example, it's very common for huge overlap between client code and server code, both often written in the same language for this reason.

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