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by vijucat 13y ago
What was the age difference between you and the people you interviewed with at Ooyala? Maybe the 20-year old who interviewed you decided you are not a "cultural fit" (read "too old") for the team. I have 10 years+ of exp
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by vijucat 13y ago
Ha ha, thanks for the interesting perspective + play on words; "immutable calm" is a gem. You've got me worried, though; I AM overly excitable! Luckily, that excitement is due to the elegance of my / the solutions to the
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by vijucat 13y ago
What if turns out to be exactly like that in real life, too? :-) I suppose it would cause some cognitive dissonance. One question I had while thinking about the (purely hypothetical) dissonance was : "Is he being overly enthusiastic, o
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by vijucat 13y ago
This may sound "negative" but I would appreciate if you can think about this : by "proud", you merely mean "lucky". You can only be proud of things that you achieve personally. Unless you trained him or helped
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by vijucat 13y ago
Some "distance-metric porn" here : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/proxy/vignettes/overv... proxy::dist() in R in case you want to quickly try some of them. Frechet distance is interesti
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by vijucat 13y ago
Also, my LG TV's WiFi password text box doesn't accept anything other than letters and numbers and not more than 8 chars long. What is this? A 10th grade programming assignment?! Having to change my router's password to somet
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by vijucat 13y ago
> Here is the US, we're allowed to criticize the government. Mostly true, I suppose, but I remember this : "TSA loudspeakers threaten travelers with arrest for making jokes" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by vijucat 13y ago
Just start reading from "Let us consider another demand : I should always be understanding, sympathetic, and helpful": http://www.scribd.com/doc/34058295/Karen-Horney-Neurosis-and... Karen Horney, "
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by vijucat 13y ago
Why should one help society? Is this your thought or is this a thought that arose out of what other people taught you over the years? For example, you may think that you want to be "good". If so, you should first start by defining
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by vijucat 13y ago
Software development is not an easy gig, either: a) those of us who are good at it have spent years and years at it b)the field keeps evolving at a rapid pace. Yesterday, it was Java and XML and SQL. Today, it's Ruby, cloud, and Docker
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by vijucat 13y ago
I suppose remote working is only going to increase. The technology is in place and the only real issue is trust. Here in Hong Kong, thanks to special offers, 1000 Mbps broadband is only slightly more expensive than 30 Mbps, crazy! I collabo
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by vijucat 13y ago
Jump Desktop + ConnectBot for the ssh tunnel works well for me. I use it to bring up the desktop on my TV via an Android "mini PC"; vi on a TV is an interesting experience :-) Also great for reading pdfs.
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by vijucat 13y ago
I wonder what happens if Snowden decides to stick with The Guardian? :-)
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by vijucat 13y ago
I never felt any respect for Mr. Ballmer (, unlike Bill Gates), and I am just thinking aloud as to why: I wonder if, like many other people, Mr. Ballmer found the existence of Google a perfect fit to his personality, which involves finding
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by vijucat 13y ago
I have been using the Scrapbook add-on (see screenshots and manual here : [1]) in Firefox [2] for many years for this; it saves the web page to your local hard disk, and there are several types of annotations that you can perform on the sav
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by vijucat 13y ago
My Android "mini-pc" comes with an app called AirPin (Pro) that apparently does AirPlay. I never had a chance to test it, though. Just FYI.
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by vijucat 13y ago
Yes, this is just one example. To OP, if he has bothered to check this deep into replies, does Safari do text reflow upon zooming in? Should I attach screenshots to explain?
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by vijucat 13y ago
> and they've been netscaped out of mobile. Not sure what you mean. Just FYI : at least on Android phones, among FF, Chrome, Opera (and the default browser), Opera's text flow is the best by far. You can zoom in and read any ar
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by vijucat 13y ago
I tried the online demo. A simple x <- rnorm(1000) was VERY slow (it took a couple of seconds). Any idea why? It did not seem to be initial-class-loading one-time issues; the slowness persisted upon retrying.
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by vijucat 13y ago
Almost everything looks better on my wife's bigger Galaxy Note 2 screen compared to my Galaxy S2 screen. I can see more TODOs in my toodledo.com task manager (my primary usage), you can read more without scrolling in your browser, YouT
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by vijucat 13y ago
Blaming quants for the economic crisis is like blaming programmers for the 2001 tech bubble. In both cases, there's a decision maker to whom the quant/programmer reports, an executive who decides which boat the company wants to fl
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by vijucat 13y ago
A solid amount of suspension of disbelief is necessary to enjoy Christopher Nolan movies. It's quite awkward, actually, but it works because people love a good story more than reality (, which is quite relevant to entrepreneurship &#x2
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by vijucat 13y ago
> I don't think the comparison between callbacks and goto is valid. What is the largest code base you have worked on that used events + callbacks extensively? I worked on a 250,000 lines-of-code Java trading system, and understandin
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by vijucat 13y ago
I moved on to OneNote for personal / confidential notes (trading strategies, mainly) + EverNote for things I would like to sync across all devices. (A negative answer is probably not what you were looking for, but I thought it may be u
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by vijucat 13y ago
The larger the employer, the better the deal they can work out with the insurance provider for their employees. This is definitely one of the reasons why jobs with IBM or UBS, say, are more desirable to most folks than the assured struggle
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by vijucat 13y ago
My thoughts were basically an inspired summary of a couple of Noam Chomsky articles!
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by vijucat 13y ago
There are at least 2 forms of hypocrisy here: a) Big > Small : smaller companies are subject to market forces and are expected to sink or swim as deemed by their own competitive merit, but Apple gets a hand when times are tough! This is
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by vijucat 13y ago
> There is so much more to tell, the FTC SWAT raids, the cocaine addled pornographers, the Israelis and Oprah's lawsuit against 500 affiliates. If this weren't the affiliate marketing industry we're talking about, I would
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by vijucat 13y ago
> Any advice on how you taught yourself to focus on tasks, build willpower, Generally, all your accomplishments are probably being rewarded by societal "strokes" : "Well done, what a great SAT score!", "Wow, you
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by vijucat 13y ago
I have worked with Goldman and UBS. UBS, to it's credit, has taken a liberal stance and explicitly addresses contributions to Open Source : if they are done on your own time, that's fine. Goldman, in contrast, had the usual, &quot

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