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by snorkel 13y ago
The Large Company version is way too small. It should have at least 20 code files and is provided to other departments as a hosted service that no one has access to due to security restrictions, and the only documentation for how to use it
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by snorkel 13y ago
... but ultimately each candidate is weighed against the other candidates, so if it comes down to a recent college grad with good grasp of algorithms vs. another candidate with 5 years of work experience and a rusty working knowledge of alg
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by snorkel 13y ago
For technical roles, hiring managers look for prior experience using directly related technologies. For recent college grads with no prior work experience you can still look through actual job postings in your field of interest, pay special
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by snorkel 13y ago
I feel most users got over the creep factor of cookies back in 1998, and nothing that happened since has demonstrated that cookies need to be severely restricted. In fact, I expect more physical businesses will be installing face recognitio
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by snorkel 13y ago
I can least say that I've used both a large Hadoop+Hive farm and a moderately sized RedShift cluster on the same large data set, and holy smoke, RedShift is orders of magnitude faster. Results vary by how big the nodes are you allocate
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by snorkel 13y ago
... For certain definitions of the word "house" this is a 30k house.
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by snorkel 13y ago
"I got the shit done in a very shitty way."
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by snorkel 13y ago
... And years of work experience to understand organizational dynamics to setup a healthy business helps too. It's more than the idea that matters, but can you build and run the team that will make that idea a reality. I know that when
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by snorkel 13y ago
/dev/null is way too polite. For my services I much prefer to rely on the http://foaas.com/ API
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by snorkel 13y ago
Remember this day when explaining the Bitcoin Bubble to your kids.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Makes sense. People who use irons are the real global power brokers in every modern society. The laundry room is the ultimate prize. Even though it may cost $50 to manufacture an iron that has 200M WiFi range and sophisticated viral payload
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by snorkel 13y ago
Lou Reed fits the hacker zeitgeist. Sad loss.
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by snorkel 13y ago
I don't know how much of this is true, but I bet the truth is no less hilarious. It wouldn't surprise me if this system has no concept of usability and offline processing queues. No matter how complex it is to process an applicati
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by snorkel 13y ago
Agree. Remote works well for teams of developers that can be heads-down for days working on one product or one component with few external dependencies to coordinate, but for teams that have many different responsilities and need to stay in
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by snorkel 13y ago
Don't copy that floppy, grandpa.
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by snorkel 13y ago
But even bankrupting the small shell entity causes enough overhead for the parent company to hesitate before attacking.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Consider a common use case of wanting to mix SQL structured data and JSON structured data: You want a logging service that records events in an SQL table. Each event has base attributes common to all events such as date, event name, compone
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by snorkel 13y ago
True. In the 1970's back when boarding a plane was as casual as boarding a metro bus, commercial flights were routinely hijacked by amateurs so often it became a joke. Passenger screening was started in response to that, and it was rea
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by snorkel 13y ago
It's not so much manager doesn't want to promote you as manager has no role to promote you into. Sometimes you can create a role and demonstrate to your manager that you are willing and responsible to manage that topic, and perhap
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by snorkel 13y ago
Non-Amazonian here but I can tell you this so-called OLR process is same as how most companies with more than 100 employees deal with the promotions process. In most companies your line manager does not solely decide your performance rating
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by snorkel 13y ago
Creativity coaching is every bit a huckster cottage industry as insight porn, and TED is their promotional stage. Honest creativity books would focus on failures more than hits. Before famous musicians made their big hit they made a lot of
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by snorkel 13y ago
Yes, this exactly. This is partly why engineers have trouble learning the art of management because in management you have to sometimes put on the business hat that says do the most expedient thing rather then the craftsmanship hat that say
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by snorkel 13y ago
" ... others are hard at work ever so humbly providing real value through their—at times—loveless toil." ... and those people are suckers. Honestly. If you are working long hours, jeopardizing your personal relationships, and de
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by snorkel 13y ago
Well I only eat Artisan Tostitos because I like to support small businesses like FritoLay.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Another disconnect is start ups tend to advertise "team lead" roles where you have the responsibilities of a manager, developer, and operations all at once while paid entry level salary. No thanks, but nice try.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Most wifi password entry fields on various platforms now offer the sensible approach: mask the password by default while offering the option to toggle the masking in that field.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Cyanogen could potentially sell this to device manufacturers if they can make it truly Android-compatible (including Google Play compatibility) without requiring license fees paid to Google, and that would reduce cost per device, thus give
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by snorkel 13y ago
Google does lock down the Google Play services, and their incentive for doing is the license fee$$$ they can charge to the compliant device manufacturers.
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by snorkel 13y ago
The way social marketing works in the real world is a marketing team assigns a budget of X to give to celebrity Y to mention product Z in their Twitter feed. The only measures of interest are how many followers does that celebrity have, how
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by snorkel 13y ago
It is a truth of business that contracts are mostly for defining expectations and escape routes, but as long as the client is satisfied none of those clauses will be enacted, especially because most businesses have more important things to

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