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by trelane 4y ago
Sounds like classic Innovator's Dilemma: The money was in the old tech, the market was moving to new tech. They listened to where they money was instead of where it was going. I had an early Nokia Linux tablet (770, I think?), and
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by trelane 4y ago
TFA said > The filter for this is a simple review exercise. We present a small chunk of code and ask them to review it over 15 minutes pointing out any issues they see. The idea is to respect their and our time. It works pretty well and
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by trelane 4y ago
I had a long answer, but my phone eated it. (thanks, bus jounce + accidental swipe down + hn forgetting the post between reloads) How about: why is finding increasingly esoteric bugs in an interviewer-specified language a great way of hirin
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by trelane 4y ago
The benchmarks are interesting, but that's not what caught my attention. I'm not convinced finding increasingly esoteric bugs in an interviewer-selected language is an effective gauge of coding ability. I expect this is actually
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by trelane 4y ago
> No idea why Windows doesn't support something like that natively I think the answer is right at hand. Or maybe I'm just too cynical.
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by trelane 4y ago
Ah, yes. this old chestnut.
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by trelane 4y ago
> A large starfish rolls along the sea floor, leaving the dashed line Sounds like they found Bikini Bottom.
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by trelane 4y ago
> Personal experience with Ubuntu on a recent Thinkpad: Well, that's your first problem. How does FreeBSD or OSX do on it? Maybe you should buy a Linux laptop to run Linux instead of slapping Linux on a Windows laptop and expecting
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by trelane 4y ago
He should try putting OSX on the hardware. Wouldn't even start to work. Clearly OSX is not ready for the desktop yet.
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by trelane 4y ago
RTW8852 based wifi, sure. You can get Linux preinstalled, and with full support from some places. I highly recommend doing that if you're going to run Linux. They'll not have that chip though. They'll have one that works.
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by trelane 4y ago
must be new here .. :)
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by trelane 4y ago
Earlier revision discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22852316
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by trelane 4y ago
> So they banned a wildly popular OS because it does not satisfy their security guidelines. I think banning Linux and Mac for those reasons is much more common, really.
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by trelane 4y ago
Allowing (especially encouraging?) Linux is a huge green flag for me. I personally don't care if they also allow others to use other OSes. If the company can support the systems and they can interoperate with me, it's fine with me
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by trelane 4y ago
in what way is excel on Mac a joke? I don't use Excel (greatly prefer to own my data, so use LibreOffice) so I really have no idea. :)
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by trelane 4y ago
The more I read of Microsoft licensing, the more it feels like a scam.
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by trelane 4y ago
Wait, they buy a second license to save money ? How does that work and, more importantly, how can I convince lots of folks to buy my product twice to save money?!
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by trelane 4y ago
Yep. I find it kind of surprising that this is news. There are so many companies where nothing but Windows is allowed, but not allowing Windows in one corporation with a major Microsoft-owned competitor is the issue?
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by trelane 4y ago
Also the always-looming threat of Microsoft telemetry and BSA audit. You can do everything right as far as you can tell, abd they can still come in and make your life miserable.
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by trelane 4y ago
This is exactly how I used to operate. I'd develop on Linux then ensure it works on Windows in a VM.
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by trelane 4y ago
Having such a supermajority of desktop operating systems in use means you get most of the developer attention. Unfortunately, it seems to surprise folks that malware also has developers responding to the overall market conditions. Microso
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by trelane 4y ago
> Where I work, it seems this trend is hitting commercial labs too, researchers are slowly being forced to "produce". Even better, this is often the same productivity metric: papers. Though papers can be good, I'd much pre
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by trelane 4y ago
Also, nobody got fired for buying IBM. Or Microsoft, these days.
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by trelane 4y ago
Nah, there's not really responsibility when your parachute is golden.
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by trelane 4y ago
I think it's high time to see if there aren't better ways to track the macro level stuff than hiring overlords. It seems to keep not working well.
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by trelane 4y ago
I still don't understand what executives are actually for.
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No Soap, Radio(en.wikipedia.org)
44 points by trelane 4y ago|34 comments
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by trelane 4y ago
I'd be surprised if that's not one of the bits of firmware that's checked on boot. So yeah, probably not possible, and not possible to downgrade.
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by trelane 4y ago
Levels are another thing that are management done poorly, like management by stack ranking. "Levels" are usually made up with little concern for actually creating value or helping employees be awesome. Rather, they serve as a form
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by trelane 4y ago
TLA was one of my first too, if not the first foray outside CVS.

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