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When the Steve Jobs movie came calling(scottknaster.blogspot.com)
110 points by timdierks 11y ago|50 comments
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When the Steve Jobs movie came calling(scottknaster.blogspot.com)
1 points by timdierks 11y ago|0 comments
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by timdierks 11y ago
It is, in fact, really hard to be ablet to delete data from an online service, while also not raising the chance of losing it accidentally. But if you treat it as an engineering goal from the start, it's possible. (Disclaimer: I work f
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by timdierks 11y ago
In extremely illiquid markets, you'll see failures of the ability of the markets to converge on clearing prices. Doesn't mean anything in particular.
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by timdierks 11y ago
How does Amazon claime 11 9's of durability when the chance of an asteroid extinction event is roughly 1000x as high? This isn't a joke: I can't find any documentation on the risk model that lets them estimate 11 9's and
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by timdierks 11y ago
In NYC, it takes 87 years and $4.5 billion to build 1.5 miles of transit: the 2nd Ave subway was originally approved in 1929 and the first phase won't open until 2016 at the earliest.
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by timdierks 11y ago
I guess at some point, I agree, but this is so far from the problems of forced ranking and application of curves to small numbers of staff that I think it's incommensurate.
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by timdierks 11y ago
I've never seen people pushed like that to make the curve line up, that I can recall. There's a belief that if you have a large enough sample, that the distribution will have a certain shape (that is, it's unlikely that if yo
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by timdierks 11y ago
In my experience, Google didn't have a forced curve ranking then, either. I've been a manager at Google since 2007 or so (with a 3-year gap when I went walkabout 2011-2014), I've probably participated in calibration of many t
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by timdierks 11y ago
Well, yes, but you cannot do any useful math on months with that fact. Late in January, plus one "month", gives you early in March; early in July, plus one "month", gives you late in July. I can't imagine what usefu
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by timdierks 11y ago
Some of this code is just... WTF? For example, https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/blob/106d8b2738101872a1... ; even setting aside the fact that some minutes don't have 60 seconds, 30.42 days per month?
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by timdierks 11y ago
From a first-law standpoint, how can it fundamentally require more energy than is released by mixing them?
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by timdierks 11y ago
I've always wondered why desalination is so hard. From a thermodynamics perspective, dissolving salt into water isn't particularly enthalpic (the water doesn't get warmer when you do it), so it's never been clear what th
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by timdierks 11y ago
Can you provide a cite for the unwritten rule (e.g. 15 points)? Just want to know what expectations are and how they are grounded. I couldn't find any relevant cites or discussion with a search. The FAQ entry sounds like a moderator po
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by timdierks 11y ago
While that's sometimes an element at Google (we tend to be better at building things that engineers love to build and it's harder to do things that engineers don't care for), people are somewhat more enlightened than you fear
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by timdierks 11y ago
Everyone is a volunteer. Not just at Google, but in many other situations as well. At Google, pretty much any of the engineers can go and get a job at another company whenever they want. So they tend to have access to internal mobility; Goo
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by timdierks 11y ago
Yes, I saw. But I'd never seen it before, found it to be fascinating reading, and there hadn't been a submission in months, so I thought I'd share it again. Evergreen!
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by timdierks 11y ago
I really don't understand the classification. Most of Manhattan appears to be predominantly green. And while there's plenty of government/education/healthcare workers here, I don't think that's a reasonable cla
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The magic of the fast inverse square root (2012)(h14s.p5r.org)
41 points by timdierks 11y ago|7 comments
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by timdierks 11y ago
In what fashion is GCS not a distributed file system?
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by timdierks 11y ago
All that will prove is that someone was willing to burn less than a half an hour of CPU time.
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by timdierks 11y ago
http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-precheckR-application-program ; but consider Global Entry instead: it's another $15 but also gives benefits at immigration.
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by timdierks 11y ago
Zappos doesn't; it's a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon. They could all just be subordinate to Jeff Bezos.
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by timdierks 11y ago
Websites absolutely do lose money when you block their ads. Regardless of what one chooses to do, you should be aware of the facts.
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by timdierks 11y ago
If you don't value what the website is giving you, why are you visiting it?
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by timdierks 11y ago
Are there really CAs that copy the hash used for the CSR to the hash used for the cert? If not, the hash used in the CSR has nothing to do with Chrome warnings (as the browser will never see it).
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Demographics of Mechanical Turk: Now Live(behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
1 points by timdierks 12y ago|0 comments
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Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works(blog.asmartbear.com)
1 points by timdierks 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple Pay: Bridging Online and Big Box Fraud(krebsonsecurity.com)
4 points by timdierks 12y ago|0 comments
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by timdierks 12y ago
I believe the issue is less that advertisers are unwilling to buy display web ads; it's more that they no longer place a premium value on buying them from branded publishers when they can reach the same users on many different websites

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