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by tytso 14y ago
I work at Google, and I think it's great. Keep in mind that there are many, many different projects and groups at Google, and so the explicit set of things that you might work on will vary a lot. However, people can also transfer between
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Everything you know about China is wrong(foreignpolicy.com)
56 points by tytso 14y ago|54 comments
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Here's an example of why dpkg (and its associated tools) is more sophisticated than rpm (and its associated tools): While building a debian packakge, there are tools which will scan all of the binaries, determine which symbols they are usin
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by tytso 14y ago
The title of the article is not accurate. He is not a Linux developer; for those who don't know who he is, Ken is the founder of the Helios project, which is a non-profit which refurbishes old computers and distributes them to children who
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The original poster wrote: > The other is their hiring process (full disclosure; I’ve looked at Google a couple of times and it never worked) which has gotten pretty process-bound and odd. The last time I went through it, the site manag
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Yes. This. It's also a matter of what people are willing to pay for. Even (or perhaps especially) in commercially supported software, cleanups only happen if there is a strong business case for the cleanups. And if the cost of buying an
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Financial Markets, Politics and the New Reality(stratfor.com)
2 points by tytso 14y ago|0 comments
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Has Linus ever said why he disregarded Darcs and the other OSS options (wasn't Mercurial already starting to get somewhere at that time?). Here are Linus's comments about Darcs: http://markmail.org/message/vk3gf7ap5auxcxnb As far as why n
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Taking complex things and making them simple is not the mark of a "super programmer". Or, at least, it's not enough. A highly skilled programmer needs to be able to deeply understand multiple layers of abstraction at the same time. He or
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ZFS has a lot of cool features. Granted. But the question is whether or not you need those features, and are they worth the cost that they incur. Especially in the days of VM's, memory is often at a huge premium --- consider how much you
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> So yes, if someone gets my phone, they can then gain access to my Google account. Grrrrr... Only if they also know your password. That's why it's called "two factor authentication". Simply compromising your password is not enough.
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Lastpass also uses Google Authenticator. You can get server-side code so you can use Google Authenticator on your own server, or use it to offer two-factor authentication to a web service you are running. It's an open protocol, with an
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It's weird. I normally am very much more sympathetic to the policy positions of the Democrats (i.e., in terms of gay marriage, taxes, health care, etc.). However, the Democrats have allied themselves far too deeply with Hollywood, and si
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That's incorrect. You're confusing the Limited Run / Limited Pressing story with the Wahanegi story, both of which hit HN very recently. I find the Wahanegi story more interesting since the OP has a much more concrete analysis about what
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by tytso 14y ago
I don't want XFCE to transition to GTK+3. As near as I can tell it's a nightmare, since it's so tightly tied to GNOME (fair enough, but I switched to Xfce to escape the tyranny of the GNOME UI designers).
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I'd love to hear how you think you're going to regain the enthusiasts' market. Care to say more? In particular, which enthusiasts? The ones who have already (like me) switched to Xfce? Or some other set of enthusiasts? Defining your
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The reason why he thought it would be a business catastrophe is because Windows 8 is moving to be a closed ecosystem, instead of the traditional open ecosystem of the Wintel duopoly. (Which is what allowed Linux to flourish, and allowed an
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You should read the Joel on Software article you referenced very carefully, specifically, the bit which says: "Astute readers, I expect, will point out that I’m leaving out the largest group yet, the solid, competent people. They’re on the
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by tytso 14y ago
The articles you quoted about people being courted, as opposed to needing to find a job, apply to very few college Juniors. It doesn't matter whether you're at an Ivy League school or somewhat lower tier school. You're going to have a muc
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Why should an employer consider context and circumstances? They want to hire a best programmer they can for the money available to them. A sob story about how someone hasn't had the luck to get the experience to achieve rockstar status
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"Tell me what it's lacking, I want to improve it." What's missing is experience, or at least evidence of experience. That's OK; it's not your fault. There are design decisions I made in my first major large-scale programming project (and
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"Life is unfair. Deal with it." There is no doubt that if someone's parents had the means to give them a computer, and that grade school student or high school students was able to start practicing the craft of programming early, they will
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I did say that there were other possibilities, including government funding of research. However, it is a strong article of faith amongst the American right-wing politicians that the marketplace is always more efficient at directing money
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The flip side of patent protection is this is what encourages drug companies to spend the multiple years of drug research and drug approval to develop new antibiotics. I certainly agree that the patent system is non-optimal and should overh
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One of the big problems is that there is such a huge range of ability for people who are otherwise, say, in the entering freshman class. A quarter of a century ago (that makes me feel old!) one of the ways which MIT solved the problem was
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by tytso 14y ago
I wouldn't have used the words "messianic language". I'd use the words "black and white thinking". While dividing the world into a rigid good versus evil certainly has its place: "Thou shalt not kill", for example --- although even there
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The website's bandwidth has been maxed out. Google webcache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wQU2TYM...
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Actually, I wouldn't have been surprised if IBM (if it had purchased Sun) had dumped Sun's hardware division. It was losing money hand over first, and IBM was doing a pretty good beating Sun with its hardware offerings. Between IBM's x86
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So break the DRM. Amazon actually has one of the easier systems to break; actually at this point they are all easy with the exception of Apple's. One of the things which hasn't been talked about as much is that the vendors who providing DR
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I assume it goes to a URL which is only valid between noon and 1pm. The QR code is probably scannable during a time period slightly wider than that, depending on the time of year. It looks like the QR "statue" pivots to correct for the ch

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