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by varelse 9y ago
Yeah... Nope... Wake me when I can buy a zeppelin (no, not a blimp, a zeppelin, and throw in a monocle too) for that price because zeppelins.
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by varelse 9y ago
Kraken, Leviathan, Cthulhu, no?
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by varelse 9y ago
What's scarier? The price or the belief that there's a large enough market for this at that price?
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by varelse 9y ago
You should interview defensively at least a couple times a year IMO. It is good to know your market value. HR knows your market value. When your pay and your market value go wildly out of line, it's time to step up. This happens di
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by varelse 9y ago
I would get the data first before approaching you and then lie about whether I had already done so. It's the sort of white lie that protects both parties. If your dog died that day, you might just fire me on the spot. Or if I'm
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by varelse 9y ago
True. And although I wouldn't do this every 6-12 months myself, I do interview a couple times a year just to keep my interviewing skills sharp because you're right, everyone is an expendable at-will employee. I only escalate if I
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by varelse 9y ago
I suspect what's great about assistants like Siri, Alexa, and even Google Now is less that they have voice interfaces and more that they have well-funded support teams behind them to deliver exponentially more efficient routing of quer
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by varelse 9y ago
OSSed last year, silly example... https://github.com/amzn/amazon-dsstne
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by varelse 9y ago
I really like the idea of a mobile phone that just works with a suite of consistent apps for photos, SMS, email, navigation, and whatever. I really like maximizing local computation over cloud services. And at first I thought this might b
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by varelse 9y ago
So can I assume that the perks, the projects, and the pay outweigh the annoyance of the floor plan?
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by varelse 9y ago
Disagreed (reasonably politely but persistently with lots of data) with upper management about what became a key technology to Google a year after I left. Got told to shut up about that technology or leave. Chose the latter and made a suc
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by varelse 9y ago
Except that's not how it played out. The Tesla GPU all the way through Maxwell was just a different binning of the GeForce GPU, usually clocked lower for passive cooling and improved stability (sure, K80 is an exception, but K80 is a
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by varelse 9y ago
There's a real opportunity for AMD here if NVIDIA doesn't release a consumer variant of Volta because Titan X Pascal intentionally cripples FP16 performance to drive P100 adoption. It's the same sort of nonsense they pulled
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by varelse 9y ago
Really? Because one fantastically productive team I was once on implemented this practice by eating lunch together most of the time. I have never seen a more effective way of keeping everyone up to date and synced. Sure, they mostly talke
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by varelse 9y ago
Used, not new... If someone were to lend me this combo for a couple weeks, I'd be happy to evaluate it, and if it worked, I'd buy a bunch of them. But I have a working solution right now so I'm not really in the market for a
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by varelse 9y ago
An infinite ala carte menu of subsets of the parts you like about Agile, Waterfall, or any other methodology as long as you ship working code roughly on schedule. When I hear the above argument, I'm reminded of the Protestants versus C
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by varelse 9y ago
To be fair (and probably downvoted), _The Agile Manifesto_ is a great read IMO. None of its 12 principles mandate open floor plans, scrum or daily standups. https://www.smartsheet.com/comprehensive-guide-values-princi... C
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by varelse 9y ago
Its predecessors, yes, many times. The brand new shiny $100 Sculpt? No.
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by varelse 9y ago
Growing companies are adding new space all the time. That's when to schedule a transition like this.
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by varelse 9y ago
Yeah, I've got one of those "non-regretted depature" notes on my record at Google. So what? Google lost out, not me. Jobs aren't scarce, but talent is. I've never gone for want of employment and Google blind-alloca
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by varelse 9y ago
I've been down this route many times. And after Dvorak, Kinesis, and a wide assortment of supposedly ergonomic keyboards, El-cheapo $15 Kensington USB keyboards and $20 Logitech trac-balls turn out to work best with my wrists, occasio
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by varelse 9y ago
HR is driven by data. To kill open floor plans, start citing the floor plan as the primary reason for leaving. If that becomes a theme, IMO open floor plans will become cancer. It just takes time.
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by varelse 9y ago
I'm not seeing anywhere near the $h!+storm of pointless standups I used to see every morning. I'm also seeing the return of the weekly status meeting. Give it time. Then again, I'm someone who's threatened to enact the 6
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by varelse 9y ago
So you would prefer your coworkers develop RSI symptoms from straining to use a laptop keyboard? Not all of us can use laptops for extended periods of time. Now if I could type with my brain (and I don't mean by smashing my head repe
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by varelse 9y ago
Just like the cargo cult Agile pandemic peaked a few years ago, I suspect we're reaching peak open floor plans right now. The overall negative effects of an open floor plan for a significant fraction of engineers (though not all) is s
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by varelse 9y ago
And yet taught so well by Gilbert Strang and Peter Sheridan Dodds or Math The Beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7DDD91010BC51F8 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX5cCY3jYXJSDzX_lszck.
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by varelse 10y ago
As a long-time fan of his, his early life IMO (I've read and loved Kitchen Confidential) was shortsighted hedonism that came to a crashing halt when he became famous. He has since settled for dating/marrying beautiful women, notic
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by varelse 10y ago
The problem (IMO of course) is that there is no better and attainable option. For in the current system, you broadly have the choice of: 1. Wasting your money on exotic weaponry and wars of expansion whilst starving the populace and enablin
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by varelse 10y ago
Engineers have a way of falling on their swords when they #$%^ up that (at least in my experience) tech bros don't... http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article42065382.html
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by varelse 10y ago
Yes, it is. For example, in my own experience, Maxwell GPUs frequently do not post with SandyBridge CPUs on some X79 motherboards (Asus P9X79E-WS is one). There are BIOS fixes for this, but many of those motherboards were discontinued bef

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