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by wsetchell 9y ago
Can someone explain what makes "corporate" applications so different. Why does my corporate bug tracker need different security from Gmail? Does that different security do anything?
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by wsetchell 9y ago
Some roles have regulations requiring a credit checks (IRCC). I think this is most relevant for government jobs with security clearance. If a person has serious money issues, they might be more easily influenced or bribed.
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by wsetchell 9y ago
What you describe sounds exactly like a "search" problem. Employers need a way to search through the many applicants for people worth interviewing. Today they use heuristics (like referrals) to make filtering easier. There might b
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by wsetchell 9y ago
On my team (and most other teams) it is cool to work from home or a different office occasionally.
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by wsetchell 9y ago
I think you're talking about two different things: "will Google drop support" and "will Google invent something better" Map Reduce is still supported today. Most teams have chosen to move to newer infrastructure bec
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by wsetchell 9y ago
thanks :)
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by wsetchell 9y ago
I'm probably in your target market. I host/organize pickup games in several sports. I attend lots of other pickup sports. Finding other games, and getting people to come to my games is a constant struggle. Kudos for shipping somet
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by wsetchell 10y ago
Think about the job hunt as an funnel to be optimized. You want more stuff (jobs) out the end of the funnel. To do that, you can: A) Get more things into the top of the funnel -- fill out more applications. B) Fix the leaks parts of the fun
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by wsetchell 10y ago
https://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/bluez-intro/c54.html is a great intro. Reading the code here is a good second step. https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble After you've gone through t
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by wsetchell 10y ago
HR can create a policy like this to prevent managers from locally optimizing. Firing someone is a lot of work for a manager. It is easier for the manager to transfer that person, than to deal with the problem themselves (even if they really
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by wsetchell 10y ago
They are publicly working on medicine and energy problems. Games just happen to be a convenient place to do research. https://deepmind.com/blog/putting-patients-heart-deepmind-he... https://deepmind.com&#x2F
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by wsetchell 10y ago
This article was really hard to read. Here's my attempt at a summary: * The author expects new cars to be networked and to have beefy CPUs. * There are lots of cars, and each car will use lots of data. To network all these cars, you&#x
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Google Hands Free Payments(techcrunch.com)
1 points by wsetchell 11y ago|0 comments
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by wsetchell 11y ago
I can see this market playing out to be an oligopoly not a monopoly. - Very high barrier to entry. You need $X of development costs, and $Y on traffic/mapping data. Anyone with money can get those. - Self driving cars have limited econ
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by wsetchell 11y ago
I don't think liability is that key here. cost of damages = # of accidents * cost per accident - Self driving cars should reduce the number of accidents - Cost per accident seems independent of the kind of car you drive. If a human dri
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by wsetchell 11y ago
YC research brings (a little) money and hackers. You should focus on stuff not being worked on by hackers, or that is un-fundable by others. Politics and incentives: The FDA was invented to keep people safe from bad food and drugs. How do y
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by wsetchell 11y ago
In theory: Everyone works from head, so there is only one version of everything. When you write a feature, you follow these steps. 1. Write code and submit to the main (and only) branch. Hide your feature behind a flag. 2. Releases happen f
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by wsetchell 12y ago
From the way you ask this question, it sounds like you already know the answer.
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by wsetchell 13y ago
I don't think autonomous 'corporations' are anything new. If you replace Bitcoin with the gold market , most of the statements in the article still apply. """ Gold can be thought of as the first real autonomous
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by wsetchell 14y ago
+1, live streaming with hangouts on air would be amazing! http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html
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by wsetchell 14y ago
Idea : make newspapers more like collaborative blogs with some extra payment options. http://wsetchell.blogspot.com/2012/07/local-newspapers.html
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by wsetchell 14y ago
You are assuming that mainstream consumers are the target audience. I think the audience is actually A) Businesses B) tech savy users. I suspect both of those users care a little bit more about the tech specs than an average user.
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by wsetchell 15y ago
This sounds like we're tackling a symptom not the disease. Instead of figuring out how to stop bankers from being paid so much in bonuses, we should answer ask why a few times. "Why can banks pay their employees so much?" - because they ma
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Navigating the switch between being a backend dev to frontend work
2 points by wsetchell 15y ago|1 comments