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by tytso 16y ago
Hi Joshua, I examined the repositories you have on github, looked at your linked-in registry, and then followed a link to your blog at http://solarmist.blogspot.com There wasn't a lot to go on, but the main thing which I noticed was I did
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Me, I always liked to say, "Write once, run screaming."
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One of the problems that I see is that perhaps "Computer Science" is too broad. MIT has been mocked by some for having a "humanities" department, where Theater, Foreign Languages, Literature, etc., are all combined together, but given how
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One of the most annoying thing is getting timezones right when you try to exchange calendar invites across systems. (i.e., sending a Lotus Notes invite to Google Calendar, or an Evolution invite to Novell's Groupwise, etc.) There is an IET
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There are certainly plenty of native desktop applications which have not been supplanted by web applications. But the bigger problem is that desktop machines typically have high speed, almost unlimited data connections. This is not necessa
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A lot of this is relative. If you are used to a 30 person company, yes, there's more politics. Compared to where I came from (a 300,000 person company), Google is much, much better. (And if you think the politics are bad in companies, its
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It really depends on what project you're working on at Google. Some are so secret you can't even reveal their name, or even what general area that they are in. Others are done completely in the open. For example, if you work on Chrome
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The key problem is that the desktop community desperately needs one or more architects who can act as a sheepdog and keep the sheep marching in roughly the same direction. It's far more critical in the Desktop world than in the Linux kernel
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At least for computer scientists, one alternative is to publish at conferences which are either run by Usenix, or where Usenix is a co-sponsor, since at least Usenix requires that the papers be released on the Usenix website w/o any kind of
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Obvious question --- are there any java web services running at Oracle that take a string input from a form or a URL, and tries to convert said stirng to a floating point variable?
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If you look closely at the Places results, you'll see that many of them have not yet been claimed by their owners. It was automatically generated from public information such as Yellow Pages. What it means is that Chiropractors who don't h
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Not everyone who participates in an IPO makes millions you know. Especially those who join in the later stages of a startup's lifecycle, the combined effects of (a) dilution, and (b) increasing stock valuation means the lottery payout dim