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by yajoe 14y ago
A subtle point is that the Spanish royalty funded and helped organize Columbus, but none of the royalty accompanied Columbus. Why? Back then class and "castes" had significant meaning. The decision-makers sent expendable people similar i
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by yajoe 14y ago
I want to believe your story based on strong emotions, but there's two things that bother me to the point that I think this is BS. 1. Stack ranking? Nope. Amazon has no desire for "up and out" like Microsoft. They're happy for a competen
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by yajoe 14y ago
Which part? While I can't speak to the overall population statistics, there were many people upset about healthcare and the new stack ranking. Think devs and testers with cancer in the family. They attributed -- rightly or wrongly -- bot
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by yajoe 14y ago
You're absolutely right. This announcement is all about money more than OS religion. The expectation and Microsoft's fear was that manufacturers would take the marketing money (i.e. the Win8 subsidy) that Microsoft is paying out the wazoo
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by yajoe 14y ago
I've interviewed with Google twice, and both times I was so unhappy with the experiences I declined the offers. Many friends work at Google and are happy, so this seems like an instance of getting unlucky with the loops... but don't dismis
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by yajoe 14y ago
I feel the same way. I like that they are consolidating, but part of this just feels like a new coat of paint. Further, I didn't see how this announcement fits with the Office365 identities. Are those now going to "Microsoft Accounts" as
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by yajoe 15y ago
I don't have a friend. I was that person just 6 months ago. I cannot agree more with MDCore about taking time to rest and decompress. That said, one of the ways you fully rest is having a plan. In my case I was fortunate enough to have
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by yajoe 15y ago
Yes, they seem to look for "fingerprints." Your second cover may have interfered with the fingerprint just enough. I overheard one TSA agent mentoring another on the x-ray machine just a couple days after the iPad 2 was available. The fir
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by yajoe 15y ago
I took a look at skills app -- I like the approach and the clean layout, but a couple thoughts from this hiring manager: * Most of the really good devs I know and hire do not bother with easy metrics like number of tweets, followers, or Sta
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by yajoe 15y ago
Regarding #2 and the affiliate/associates program: Without going into specifics this is generally prevented. For example, pages viewed from iframes include referrer headers and most web browsers will report screen dimensions, etc. You can
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by yajoe 15y ago
I'm more disappointed this was on the front page of HN. This really looks like a PR release from the company rather than a proper editorial. "Over the last few days we've seen Hotmail ads running on Boing Boing and Jezebel, two blogs that
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by yajoe 15y ago
Marketplace purchased the story from another non-profit producer ( http://www.mylifeistrue.org/ ). They assumed the original journalists had done the basic due diligence, so blaming marketplace for failing the obvious background checks is
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by yajoe 15y ago
I don't know about the specifics of this report, but Marketplace last month had another emotional story turn out to be false. Perhaps that is what prompted Rob? Retraction: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/commentary/returni...
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by yajoe 15y ago
There is a lot of gray with this story. One IC vs many middle managers and a VP will never turn out well for the IC, especially at Microsoft. I don't know what I could have done. To whom would I have sounded the alarm? What I did: "I tol
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by yajoe 15y ago
I agree with your point that part of the cause is getting more senior and actually watching the lies. But I don't accept that we should condone that behavior. Full disclosure: I left Micosoft last year after I long debated the trade offs of
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by yajoe 15y ago
I haven't seen a comment espousing the differences between languages since my early days on /. It's refreshing to see such passion, but I feel compelled to offer some advice: languages are just "tools." No one tool is better than another f
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by yajoe 15y ago
One reason for this is that many companies review and reward employees based on their "influence" or "visibility" -- what better way to maximize both than be in the air-traffic controller role? I can attest to this firsthand at both Microso
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by yajoe 15y ago
I did this test as well when I first heard about Prey. The first couple times when I knew the picture was going to be taken I did not see the light. The reason is because we can only focus on one thing at a time. While waiting for the p
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by yajoe 15y ago
Admittedly I haven't paid close attention to the Mozilla Foundation even though I was an early firefox adopter and continue to use it on my macbook air... tl;dr -- Google contract worth about 100 million in 2010 given the latest public numb
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by yajoe 15y ago
This is very creative, but be aware this isn't a Google product. A couple observations: 1) Making the TOS presented so prominently is a bit surprising and imposing. Their placement makes me wonder whether this is a cute, harmless gift or
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by yajoe 15y ago
Fair questions and no details to share :). I don't work for Microsoft, but my path has crossed with the FOPE team a few times where we got into specifics about their platform. Hence my surprise to see this article about how their tech is us
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by yajoe 15y ago
I love reading stories like this, but with a background in fighting spam I'm a bit skeptical. I would love to hear more details. For those of you who don't know, most of Microsoft's anti-spam efforts are from techniques I suspect are hard