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by smokinn 15y ago
EDIT: Please disregard the below. I was wrong as pointed out by fpgeek. The poor performance is probably mostly due to the fact that the version of android on the fire is version 2.2. Version 2.3 is the one that got all the performance impr
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by smokinn 15y ago
You're correct. The immediate fix was to just upload the font but the long-term fix was as you pointed out. At first we would only treat urls with certain file types (jpg, png, mp4, etc) as files when found on the server, the rest as pages
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by smokinn 15y ago
Maybe you should wait until you get it and make up your own mind? I haven't used it but I wouldn't put much faith in a "review" by an Apple fanboy who refuses to port his hugely popular instapaper app to Android because he hates it.
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by smokinn 15y ago
And that's why you should always have great analytics. Monitoring is what found a similarly subtle bug at my past job once. In the later afternoon a marketing guy on the traffic team came over and told me there was a problem with our trial
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by smokinn 15y ago
No, it's mainly a question of making sure graduates aren't people who "don't know what they don't know". What I mean by this is that when you come across some common engineering problem, if you've never seen it before, you'll spend a lot of
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by smokinn 15y ago
I wish it were this simple. The school gives this guy a great amount of latitude and it's great that they do because he's truly knowledgeable, does a lot of research and helps his students a lot. But, for every one of him, there are many ot
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by smokinn 15y ago
Amazon was nowhere near immediately viable. It was founded in 1994. It had its IPO in 1997. It posted its first net profit in 2002. It lost money for 8 years. Hardly "something that was viable immediately". On the other hand it didn't take
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by smokinn 15y ago
Neil Stephenson's excellent book cryptonomicon used this as a means to facilitate encrypted communication.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Same here. Getting 1% back on rent is pretty cool.
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by smokinn 15y ago
I think it will be a slow process but they will certainly succeed as a business. The rent payment use case alone should be enough to keep the company afloat indefinitely. Rental companies can very easily say we only accept cheques every mon
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by smokinn 15y ago
Zynga was founded in July 2007 making it 4 years and 3 months old. It's likely that almost no one has fully vested yet unless they hired a lot in their first month.
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by smokinn 15y ago
The difference between a pay cut and a stock restriction is that pay is regular and vesting is not. Let's say you renegotiate down 50% like you suggested. That means from now on you make 50% and before you made 100%. A vesting schedule thou
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by smokinn 15y ago
Wow this should be straight up illegal and yet: "One lawyer said that over the past year, he has heard executives of three social-media sites discuss the possibility of clawing back equity from some employees. Another lawyer, who has handle
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by smokinn 15y ago
William is my uncle, not me. When people struggle I just tell them it's 2 syllables: Gui and Ohm. They go oh! and get it right from then on.
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by smokinn 15y ago
I don't understand either. I fully expected them to add a new circle for me called "Google Reader Friends" or something but they didn't. Even better would've been in that popup saying hey look, something new! to give the option of creating
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by smokinn 15y ago
His point is precisely that the input is awful.
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by smokinn 15y ago
The vast majority of outliers do indeed seem to be data entry errors. There are a lot of cases where the prevailing wage is something like 85k but the person makes 890k. They probably actually make 89k. Also, while I know New York is expens
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by smokinn 15y ago
I took a quick look at the map view of this data and couldn't really come up with anything compelling to show, although a time series of bubble sizes could definitely be interesting.
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by smokinn 15y ago
You're right, that would definitely be interesting stuff to look at. I'll probably delve deeper into this in a couple of days.. For now I just fixed up all my charts and I'm about to start editing the post where my commentary is now off.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Ouch, you're right.. I really screwed up there. There's a wage_rate column and a prevailing_wage_rate and I should have used the former.. I'll try to fix this up asap.
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by smokinn 15y ago
If you mean for example the average of all programmers inside Microsoft compared to the average of those on H1B, no I can't since that data isn't public. The H1B database is public and you're required by law to register every H1B hire in it
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by smokinn 15y ago
Actually, I'm from Canada which is why I don't know much about US cities outside the brand-name ones. Thanks for the clarification though.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Well anecdotally people can get near 90 at Microsoft it seems. So it's not that far off. Of course the offer depends on previous experience such a internships and your job position (I imagine SDEs probably make more than SDETs and some team
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by smokinn 15y ago
If there's anything else you'd like to know I can post a follow-up or you can download the mdb database here: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx and the visualization software I used here: http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/d
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H1B Salaries in the US(smokinn.com)
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by smokinn 15y ago
I'm Canadian so I don't really understand how these "PAC" things works. The article says that by law Facebook the corporation is not allowed to give donations to politicians but they're allowed to collect money from their employees and forw
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by smokinn 15y ago
Facebook is a closed system? I'm not one of their employees and yet I know how their build system works, how they store more photos than the rest of the internet combined (Haystack), how they process their analytics and likes (HBase counter
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by smokinn 15y ago
Don't sue me =)
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by smokinn 15y ago
I don't see what Google has to do with this. Google gets roasted just as well as any other company around here. I've seen several articles get upvoted about google+ being a ghost town, and other critical articles. Just try googling site:new
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by smokinn 15y ago
You can sort of get past that. I didn't want to sign up either until I could see what it was I was signing up for. If you click the "Learn more" link you get brought to the about page but it has the proper header that lets you navigate the

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