nickbarnwell

If you're interested in a more narrative take on Caracas' slums and how Chavez's policies contributed to their rise, the New Yorker carried a fantastic essay on the topic a few months back [1]

1: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/28/130128fa_fact_...

To expand on that, OneDrive for Business (a product formerly known as: SkyDrive Pro, Live Mesh, Grove Workspace etc.) shares the OneDrive branding (and some? interface components) but otherwise bears little resemblance to its consumer counterpart.

IIRC the Office Org owns the SharePoint client while OneDrive proper is handled by the Windows Services team.

"Get 'em while they're young" is as valid for recruiting as it is brand preferences ;)

Those interns will turn into salaried FTEs whose first three year's annual compensation – amortised signing bonus, stock grants, and performance bonus included – will be ~150k. Compared to new graduate FTEs, interns are positively cheap!

The ~6.5k, housing inclusive, perks out the wazoo also all come from highly profitable, competitive companies falling over each other to recruit from a highly constrained pool. There are only so many Stanford, MIT, and CMU graduates a year, and an even smaller number of hackathon winners, open source contributors, inveterate interns, etc. For many, this is the last time they'll ever openly be on the job market.

Jane St and a few other finance firms are paying interns ~100k/y annualised. That's the highest I've heard barring grad students with sweetheart deals.

As covi mentioned, Palantir, Quora, Dropbox all pay about roughly the same but are very willing to negotiate and pay more if necessary.

I don't know for certain what you may be working on, but I'd be happy to help you figure it out. Just shoot me an email (in my profile) :)

The OneNote Service & OneNote teams are both part of Office.

The lack of emacs keybinds is because they don't use standard Cocoa controls; unfortunately it's endemic to the entire Office suite on Mac.

I interned on the API team this summer and it was as close to a startup as you'll find inside a company the size of Microsoft.

OneNote itself was launched over ten years ago as part of the Office suite, while the OneNote service is just launching and has been developed completely internally.

Within the range of very high scores (I'm assuming you mean 1500+ excluding the W section) there is so little differentiation between candidates that anything outside of a perfect score is unworthy of comment. I would wager that the majority of students scoring in the 95th+ percentile are not who the College Board is targeting with this reworking of the exam. The difference between a 2200 and 2400 is insignificant on an application also sporting four years of perfect grades (or the stereotypical entrepreneur's report card of F's and A's) and voluntourism in sub-Saharan African.

What they seem to be aiming at is limiting the benefit of tutoring in the middle of the bell curve. The SAT is not a difficult test – there is no vocabulary in the CR section foreign to the average middle-brow New Yorker reader and the Maths section is as near a verbatim review of Massachusetts' 8th Grade Algebra I curriculum as you can find. Lazy but capable students who have otherwise been well-educated are enjoying the greatest boon from test practice, and this seems aimed at creating a more level playing field for those who are unable to afford such specialised tutoring.

Whether it will have much effect is anyone's guess...for those most affected by the inequity of US public schooling, I doubt a few months practising process of elimination and test taking strategies is going to rectify years of substandard tuition

They're at a few buildings in Bellevue about that range. I've not looked into the Seattle-side

I'd hazard a guess that it's the effort they've invested in the Matsano Challenges or their collaboration with Stripe during their last CTF

I don't believe the OneNote Metro app supports indexing handwritten notes.

If you open the same notebook in the Win32 client and allow it to index and sync back to Sky/One/WhateverIt'sCalledThisWeekDrive you should be able to search through previously handwritten and Win32-client-OCRd notes in the Metro app.

Android 4.3 brought about much improved BLE support [1]. Unfortunately, driver support from manufacturers is still fairly limited, and hasn't been appearing very quickly.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19717902/does-android-kit...

Threads.

Apparently there's an 'Express' RT version of Photoshop, might be what they're referring to?

He may be talking about the RT models, which lack the digitizer of the Pro but still have the ability to run RT versions of apps like Sketchbook Pro

Very similar to the Linked List news parody [1] which was on HN a few months ago.

[1]: http://www.linkedlistnyc.org/archive/issue_081.html

If they're attending Stanford, they've not spent 50-100k on their education. The school's endowment is sufficiently large that significant financial aid is granted even to individuals from (relatively) wealthy families.

I have friends for whom UConn in-state tuition was more than attending Stanford, even when accounting for Cost of Living and frequent flights to and from California.

The greatly increased CoL in Denmark also somewhat necessitates the prevalence of larger denominations.

If that's inclusive of signing bonuses, stock grants, etc. $120k is materially less than the major companies are offering these days.

Their Vancouver offices (certainly for FB, unsure of others) are visa holding tanks to hold graduates before they can be moved down to the SF offices. I would expect them to be receiving virtually equivalent offers.

QL uses a native binary that you install, no? Like BF3, the only components handled in the web browser are matchmaking, clan management, etc. For the actual matches/gameplay, it invokes the native client

and when I replied the parent lacked that qualifier; it was edited in.

Pretty well: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/6tag/7d795cdf-fb...

That's Hedi Slimane's Saint Laurent Paris, essentially a reboot of his earlier work at Dior Homme, and still irrelevant to the discussion at hand either way. The CEO at a fashion house is hardly directly involved in the creative process, at least at one as large as YSL.

I'm curious where you're applying that this is the case; I'm pursuing an undergraduate degree in Literature, one of the most oft maligned fields by STEM-types, and not once (to my knowledge) has it been looked down upon. Most people I interview with seem to place a value on having teams with diverse backgrounds.

Embed.ly has, in part, built a business of this

I'll prefix my question by saying I'm unfamiliar with QC beyond knowing of its existence and roughly what it does in terms of generating test values:

Am I misunderstanding, or is this akin to QuickCheck for C#?

Anyone who's gone through a holistic CS curriculum should be able to fairly easily pass the Google/Facebook/MS/Palantir-esque interview process (for new grad positions) with flying colours. The typical algorithmic questions they give are things likely seen verbatim in second year maths and algorithm/data-structure courses, while the system design stuff is fairly pedestrian. Specific knowledge of any language was unnecessary, and they really honed in on CS fundamentals.

I do think they probably miss out on some smart people who scraped by in classes to pursue personal interests and could easily learn the material, but given the state of most new graduates it's probably a fair trade-off.

(Disclaimer: I interned at Google after my Freshman year. I'm an English Lit. major and completely self-taught; I did not think the interviews were particularly difficult)

90k is by no means optimistic; new grads at any of the BigCos start at 100k base not including bonuses, stock grants/RSUs, or relocation. If you're highly marketable due to internships, personal projects, etc. and have multiple offers, that can be easily bumped up by a significant margin. Additionally, if you're capable of making it into one of those top schools and then, again, into the CS department, you're more than likely eligible for numerous scholarships and other merit-based financial aid. To end up with 250k in tuition would require you to come from an extremely wealthy family who refuses to pay any of the cost of your education, and likely spending more than four years at university as well.

Internship pay (assuming one position as a rising Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior) will add up to 60-70k, and contracting could be another 5-10k for only a few hours of work every few months. The benefits are, as you yourself mentioned, being able to indulge your passions and dive into esoteric areas without the pressures of the real world. Had I dropped out of university I never would've been able to pursue my interest in quantitative literature, my ex-roommate would never have taken the dive into distributed systems, both decisions which have had a net return over not going, even accounting for lost salary.

Are you including corp housing/stipend in that amount?