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by tytso 14y ago
1) Facebook might be able to distinguish real friends from social gaming faux friends, but advertisers aren't given that information today. They can target "friends of friends" of people who appear to have a particular target interest (for
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At least at the hiring committees meetings that I've been at, people who advance that point are told, "so let them get more experience, and they can try again in a year or two". Hiring the untalented can seriously demotivate the rest of the
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by tytso 14y ago
In order to be the leader of a successful project, there are two key skills that you need to have: (a) you need to set very high standards for you and your development team, (b) you need to be able to rally talented developers to want to wo
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by tytso 14y ago
We do have a ring of trust which we established recently, which is rooted in cross-signed keys belonging to Linus Torvalds, Dirk Hohndel, Peter Anvin, and myself. We all know each other quite well, both in person and via conference calls,
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by tytso 14y ago
One of the reasons why it happens is because it's all too easy for someone to "make their bones" by criticizing someone famous. If you're a blogger, and you're trying to get attention (or trying to get karma points on Hacker News :-), wha
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by tytso 14y ago
No, there's no need to consult the mailing list, except if you want to see the "legislative history" of the review process. The person requesting the pull signs the pull request by signing the git tag. The GPG signature on the git tag cove
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by tytso 14y ago
Even if Facebook collapses, it doesn't mean it will take the rest of the web down with it. It just means that perhaps a place where you are shooting the breeze with your beer-drinking buddies isn't the best place to sell some, perhaps even
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by tytso 14y ago
The article puts forward a false dilemma by implying your only choices are (a) squashing all of the commits into a single patch, (b) examining the end point and then only signing the end point (with the risk that there might be some bad stu
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by tytso 14y ago
Perhaps it would be fairer and more accurate to say that startups that require relatively smaller amount of capital (i.e., software based startups that can use Amazon EC2) are killing startups that are much more hardware intensive and thus
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by tytso 14y ago
Open source used to be used as a marketing tool --- people believed that software was automatically better if it was Open Source. Today, people have learned how to be more nuanced; just because it is better in some FSF sense (if it is "fr
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by tytso 14y ago
>Still, I cannot resist making one final farewell appeal. Consider carefully the near future, when prof. Kelly will have produced a flood of busy graduates, all experts at disinformation. As others have pointed out, masters of disinform
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I really don't see it as him being a prima donna. Some of the deleted comments from the github forom removed the truly trollish comments that he was responding to, such as "Linus's shit doesn't stink." My take on it is that there are a ver
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by tytso 14y ago
Contrary views like "Linus's shit doesn't stink"? Actually, I think Linus was factually correct. The persons involved were morons. :-)
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I don't understand why people are upset with Linus's writing style. I considered what he wrote to be quite polite. He was merely stating his standards in terms of what he would and wouldn't accept (and github pull requests are on the "won
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by tytso 14y ago
I really like Colin McMillen's comments on this matter: https://plus.google.com/107814003053721091970/posts/6sPpxMo6... Some choice quotes from his Google+ post: "The lottery is not a tax on people who are bad at math. It's trading a lit
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by tytso 14y ago
- users always want faster, more direct answers (rather than controlling the filtering/categorization of their searches) That's a very power-user centric attitude, don't you think? As a power user I preferred to type long, complicated Sab
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by tytso 15y ago
That's not correct. You can stay on the old plan for as long as you don't try to upgrade and your Google Wallet has a valid, up-to-date credit card: http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
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by tytso 15y ago
Or making a comment on a web site that uses Facebook as their comment engine. That doesn't mean anything about whether they are visiting the Facebook site itself....
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by tytso 15y ago
Try it on Facebook; I guess that means HipHop must not be 100% real PHP. :-)
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Rob Pike was specifically talking about binary streams. There are many cases where you can make simplifying assumptions in the name of speed; this is quite common in the Linux Kernel, where (a) lots of code uses it, so optimizing for ever
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by tytso 15y ago
Suffice it to say that I would recommend that someone who is a junior engineer and new to any company _not_ try to tell everyone on a company-wide engineering list that he or she knows more than the all of the other engineers in the company
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It doesn't matter if it's a better example for why patents suck. They are spending more than we are lobbying congress to keep the current patent regime in place.
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The more we have companies blatantly showing how unproductive and how software patents are actually hurting innovation, the more likely it is that change will happen. Just remember though that right now the pharmaceutical companies are mass
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The fact that people are willing to pirate instead of purchasing $x for product type y is the market speaking. Given that the fundamental premise is DRM is flawed from a technological point of view, it's at best a polite request. Governme
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NT puts third-party written graphics drivers into Ring 0. That's definitely not a microkernel. As for whether or not hybrid is another word for Macro, whatever. If that's a face-saving way for microkernel advocates to avoid admitting tha
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by tytso 15y ago
Stratfor subscriptions do are _not_ $40k a year. The article was being very misleading on that point, saying that this was what the price was in 2001. Perhaps that was because the subscrition page on Startfor was still down, but when I s
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by tytso 15y ago
I am a subscriber to Stratfor, because of their insightful analysis. It feeds my curiousity about why things they way the are, not not just what is happening (which is what you get from most news sources, if you're lucky). I haven't seen
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Let me ask you this? How much time did you spend coding the sub-optimal solution? For many of the questions I use during the interview process, I have a pretty good calibration level regarding how long it should take someone to answer a q
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For legal reasons, most employers will tell interviewers not to reveal any information at all about how you did. Unfortunately, the US is a highly litigious society, with lots and lots of lawyers egging people to sue over just about anyth
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This is not completely true. There are other questions that will probe the candidates design skills, and ability to think about more complex problems. One of the things that gets passed between interviewers is sheet of paper listing the q

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