tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 13y ago
You're kidding, right? We could also just keep using lynx for web browsing. It worked fine.
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By that logic, we should freeze all Software UI where it is. Any UI change is going to run into some level of change aversion, no matter how brilliant it is. Software makers have to balance that with the need to keep innovating on a piece o
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Management is itself a field, with its own jargon. You can have good management and poor management (just as you can have good engineering or poor management) but don't pretend that the use or absence of "management jargon" i
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I'm saying that regardless of whether you know the number or not, you're probably unable to assess the impact of the system simply via personal trial. E.g., one person can't test reading speed or comprehension on the exact s
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I think you're right. It's been a few years since I saw one of these in person.
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Valuation is based on growth and expected future profit more than current revenue or processing volume. If two companies both process $10bn, but one makes 3% and is growing 25% YoY while the other makes 1% and is growing 5%, they should hav
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
There's an existing, broadly used method for solving the line transition errors - you background color every two lines in an alternating set of colors. There used to be ribbon-feed printer paper pre-colored with this for certain applic
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's not that clear-cut. There's a real reason to ask if there's studies here, because it's not easy to self-assess if this actually works. Reading is more than just "how fast can I scan the lines in order" - i
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
No, it can be a long time between a verbal and a written, because the verbal offer doesn't contain all the compensation details and requires final sign off from whoever makes those decisions. In almost all the corporate jobs I've
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
You don't want to ask the actual question about the specific application, because it gives a strong advantage to a candidate who has worked on that very specific situation in the past (and they may be able to sneak through just by regu
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Yes, but we don't expect someone to use actual numbers in response to a hypothetical question in an interview. The question is intended to see if you could figure out which numbers you'd really need to figure out the right estim
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's not really slow if the "time to hire" is the time from an inbound resume, to an outbound written offer (or even longer, an accepted offer). (A verbal offer is great, but nobody generally accepts a verbal offer, they have
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
When you're trying to build services for hundreds of millions of people, optimizing gets pretty key, and it's often the harder part than building a MVP or "getting shit done". Ask Twitter.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Sorry, I thought you were specifically responding to "It's google award for KitKat for being very active on G+."
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Is the deal with Nestle, or Hershey's (which represents KitKat in the USA.) The Android.com/KitKat page points to http://www.hersheys.com/kitkat.aspx , at least for me in the US.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Err, no. What he described is not a quid-pro-quo, unless they knew that being active on G+ would result in this. From wikipedia: Quid pro quo ("this for that" in Latin) means an exchange of goods or services, where one transfer is
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's inaccurate. Location services doesn't just use GPS - it depends on data from Google when determining location via wifi, which is more battery efficient. So there are definitely Google-specific elements in there.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
There are upper limits to global optimization. We all don't want the same results for a given query; to get beyond some particular bound, you can't treat all users the same.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's not bold at all, since there are lots of enterprise tablet deployments today and products in the market specifically to serve such uses: http://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsung-for-enterprise/in
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I thought Texas was all about reducing regulations and welcoming new businesses.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Ten years ago, were you saying the same about laptops? Given that there are already enterprise users out there today on Android and iOS devices, this is a pretty bold claim. (And you can, in fact, plug things into tablets with both operatin
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The OP leaves out two major subgroups: People who wear the shirt because they (or their friend / partner) is associated with the company, and folks who think the t-shirt is cool or nice. I don't wear t-shirts every day, but if I&#
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Amazon does things this way (the hiring team does the interviewing) but there are some major drawbacks to it as well. If your team is grossly shorthanded (say, 30% of seats open), you have your team doing a ton of interviews rather than cov
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Also, VCs don't fund public utilities / infrastructure, which are (at best) generally capital-intense, low-risk but low-return projects. If a project like the Hyperloop had to depend on private funding, it would need to return hun
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I'm sure manufacturers keep an eye on some minimum standards for battery life over product life - they do have a financial incentive to do so, both from a brand quality perspective and in terms of the cost of each visit to the Genius B
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Can you point to data showing competitors that are doing it better? Seems like the battery life problem impacts everyone pretty equally, and the batteries being used inside Macbooks are pretty similar to those used by every other manufactur
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This is a story about Google, which is still led by its technical founders (who are also huge equity holders with a long-term interest) and who don't have MBAs? If 20% is getting killed, it's getting killed because Larry Page want
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The more precisely the server provider defines it, the more they are giving folks a playbook for skirting the rules, and as a result potentially encouraging more overall abuse. You're assuming they'll be "screwing people le
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There's two big problems with that: 1.) Consumers like the amount they pay to be predictable - they will pay more to avoid surprises. Your scheme sets them up for surprise bills. 2.) There is a material cost for every customer who is s
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
You can buy underwater / splash bags for cameras that are basically very thick zip-lock bags. They're much cheaper and lighter than a true (rigid) underwater photography enclosure, but they're basically airtight above water a

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