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The most popular email client is Outlook with iOS devices in second place (as of June 2011). Although if you combine Hotmail + Yahoo Mail + GMail the total marketshare beats Outlook.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...
"The FDA advisory committee voted 12 to 1 against approval, citing concerns about a number of reported cases of skin rash reactions in a trial that included 933 patients on modafinil, including two severe cases which appeared to be "definite" erythema multiforme or Stevens–Johnson syndrome. One of the two severe cases involved hospitalization."
The ways I've heard it are, "never let it happen again" and "learn from your mistakes", in other words don't make the same mistake again. Sure one refuses to try the exact same strategy again... because it didn't work the first time. That doesn't mean one stops trying altogether. Refactor/pivot and give it another go.
This is key. You might need to add another word to cloud... something like "cloud redundancy" or "cloud backup" or "distributed cloud"... if customers will pay for it, sell it.
Didn't read the article, so commenting out of context, however it needs to be said that in sample-based music genres the distributed music gets used as if it were a recording. Maybe then it could be argued that higher sampling/bit rates should be available, if only for those who are sampling.
He was rejecting the hoity-toity New Englanders and their fancy tea served in fancy porcelain teacups. However yes I'd agree that wasn't sufficient explanation. Maybe there are more details in the book?
Things seem to have turned on a dime. Around the subprime mortgage crisis (Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September 2008) things were looking dire. However around now (December 2011) things are looking much better. Experienced devs in New York / Seattle / Silicon Valley / Los Angeles are making more than you think. I've even heard that devs fresh out of school in Boston can make $140K.
This. In my experience, especially applies to H1-B employees or any employees who are perceived to be unlikely to leave. One downside is that, lowering the average salary of all employees makes hiring new employees (at current market rates) difficult. Thus begins (or continues) the downward spiral.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1920031/strassens-algorit...
Would you rather work for a company where the investors can't even convince their portfolio companies to use the product? Sure I get the humor. Maybe a solution would be to actually name one of the (hopefully big/famous) companies that use the product, instead of being vague. "Some great places have employed our solution! But we can't reveal any of their names!" Um. Yeah.
I thought the 10x productivity claim was originally from a study of comp sci students working on some algorithm (maybe compression algorithm) homework. In which case the "I think I've seen this before" example from the article probably factors in most.
Anecdotally, this is the case. I've heard of or worked for three 400+ person companies that outsourced. Two of these companies had metrics/standards where they could actually measure code/work quality. One of these companies did not. The two that were able to judge were not happy with outsourcing and stopped outsourcing after a 1-2 year trial period. The one that seemed to only be aware of the short-term cost savings without being aware of the long-term code debt, they were perfectly happy. Different strokes for different folks, whatever floats your boat.
https://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/_/rsrc/1318535062...
There's a reason photographers prefer certain lenses for sharpness, which can be measured in lp/mm and I wonder how the Lytro compares there. The f/2 glass is probably decent for portraits and exhibits high levels of diffraction when shooting landscape images at f/22. If light field photography solves these problems then that would be very interesting to me. For $399 and shooting at 3-4 megapixels now, it will be a few years before this reaches the 18+ megapixel pro-am level and deals with pro-am criticism.
Because corporations want to pay 60% of the population to work 50 hours a week on salary. This is why everyone should be hourly. That's the first step. Then, yeah sure, hourly with overtime pay for anyone working more than 30 hours a week.
Agreed, although in my case it's more "Will be checking reviews on Glassdoor.com before working at any company, large or small." Unfortunately the "players" have infiltrated Glassdoor as well and you have to suss out the "real" reviews from the "player" reviews.
A short explanation might be, socially skilled people are slow (lazy) to understand anything technical and are impatient (holier-than-thou) with unskilled people. Technically skilled people are slow (lazy) to understand anything social/political and are impatient (holier-than-thou) with unskilled people. I think it's possible, though slow, to teach any skill to anyone. To really fix the problem, maybe start by convincing companies that teaching skills outside your area of expertise is worthwhile. I can get technical training paid for by my company. Social/managerial training, not so much. Likewise project managers can't get reimbursed for technical training. The assumption seems to be "Oh well they don't really need it and what they do need they'll pick up on the job or on their own time."