white_eskimo

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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Reminds me of the importance of a good product manager. So many big software shops develop product today on the "feature level". As a result, developers and "managers" lose sight of the customer's workflow. Understanding the product from en
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Memo From the Monastery(steveblank.com)
21 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|4 comments
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Macy's stores passwords in cleartext(twitter.com)
2 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|1 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
@jpluscplusm thanks for the feedback and good questions. Regarding the "what state is the codebase in" question, I can't imagine them telling me its "poor". What questions do you think would help me to gauge the quality of the code base? Ob
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Ask HN: What key question would you ask a software engineering hiring manager?
5 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|8 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Fixed link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126092289275692825.html
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Looks like the issue is pretty widespread http://search.twitter.com/search?q=sparkfun Seemed like a good idea at the time... Back to bed for me
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Sparkfun down under load of SparkFun Free Day(sparkfun.com)
1 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|2 comments
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Making Things Move with Clojure + Arduino(nakkaya.com)
3 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft offering 50% upgrade discount to Windows XP and Office XP users(blogs.zdnet.com)
3 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|0 comments
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Longest Common Subsequence algorithm in Python(wordaligned.org)
41 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|1 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Hmm interesting. Back in October, I reported a dead sea lion outside my house (I live on the Bay) to the department of Ornithology and Mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences. They came out and removed the animal's carcass, and told
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Dumbo -- Python module to easily write and run Hadoop programs(github.com)
5 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|0 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
this will definitely be interesting to see how it unfolds. Does anyone know if the SMS messaging infrastructure is still working? Is this just limited to the Web interface? Is api.twitter.com still up? I'll be watching http://groups.google
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Congrats Savraj! Out of curiosity, how are you powering the WiFi sensor?
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Google PowerMeter works with TED ( http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000-overview.html )
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Wish they made the source code downloadable... It would be helpful for students who want to step through the code and actually see what is going on. http://algowiki.com offers some code, but it isn't all necessarily in Python.
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Google Letting Gears Go – Declares HTML5 As The Future(thenextweb.com)
17 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|3 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Some interesting statistics from the article: - Private-equity owned companies employ 10% of the private sector work force - 9 of the 10 biggest PE buyouts ever occurred between 2006 and 2008 - University of Chicago study showed that, for t
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The Buyout Of America -- How PE will cause the next great credit crisis(online.wsj.com)
18 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|6 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
thanks for sharing. Those jokes also seem to apply to some of the homework problems encountered in the 2nd edition. I had no clue that Professor Bunyan was a reference to Paul Bunyan ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan ).
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Its great to see such a large-scale site offering streaming video at such a high resolution, but people seem to be forgetting about bit rates. As a result, the "HD" nomenclature loses its meaning.
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YouTube playback in 1080p HD(youtube-global.blogspot.com)
3 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|1 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
still works. Jeez that is pretty bad. How does one go about reporting something like this? Wonder how long it will take to fix...
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Slow food software for tracking from farm-to-fork(economist.com)
7 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|0 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
I really enjoyed recently reading Snow Crash. Watership Down was great back in the day
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
You are absolutely right in pointing out the lack of uniform probability distribution across the different pieces in McDonald's Monopoly game. My goal in sharing the link above was to show that McDonald's Monopoly game is significantly more
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Why I don't play McDonald's Monopoly(www-stat.stanford.edu)
3 points by white_eskimo 17y ago|3 comments
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
Server side re-rendering of websites?? Sounds like wide-spread support for that would be lacking... I'm sure as the Sidekick gained traction, more web sites adopted its special rendering requirements as you mention, but in the beginning, th
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by white_eskimo 17y ago
I suggest taking your time when you implement the first version of your API. Nothing is worst than developing based on a rushed v1 API, which later gets modified without you knowing. No one wants to be caught calling a deprecated function t

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