madrox

I'm not sure he's either liberal or conservative. I've never seen him stand for anything.

Has Facebook ever had anything close to cultural principles? At least Google had "don't be evil" for a while. This is such a clear mirror for what Facebook is going through itself. As a…

My hypothesis is that the measurable difference between skim reading and deep reading is small if even statistically significant. The difference between reading at all vs not reading is large. If I ha…

Based on the description I’m 99% sure I live in the apartment complex described in the article. I can confirm there are a few illegal Airbnbs operating here. The complex has even been trying to combat…

I worked on an app that is in the same category as Netflix. A week before launch, Apple chose to reject us in spite of months of meetings and reviews with their app teams and assurances we were in-bou…

I once had a discussion with someone who does brand auditing for a living, and they said the brand perception of social media in general (and FB specifically) is very similar to the IRS. Whether FB is…

Steam is also adding a lot of value for that rev-share. A social network...kickstart-esque backing of projects...cloud saves...great search and discoverability. There is a reason why developers choose…

You’re on the right track, but there is an objective way to measure this stuff: views and retention. Netflix is a retention machine, not a quality content machine. According to their models, the conte…

> Then I realize how disturbing it is that these attempts at clarity would seem quaint and surprising, and how any sniff of earnestness from a tech company can feel like a sign of deceit. This is t…

You're absolutely right. Not only that, but it's impossible to distinguish a bad result like 1/0 vs a good result like 0/1. Even Javascript is better with "NaN"

Asking someone with your amount of experience a coding exercise is silly. You wouldn't have lasted 15+ years if you didn't know how to code. Spend more time evaluating the "softer skill…

I've always been in the camp of not doing coding interviews...whiteboard or otherwise. Overall, that's worked well when hiring engineers with 3-4 years of experience or more. Less experience…

Online discourse has been the wild west since Usenet. This was alright 10 years ago, back when it only mostly a certain kind of person accessing the internet. Now social media more accurately reflects…

On the one hand, the challenges of being a public company cited here are the same ones facing all public companies, and they do quite well. On the other hand, there's a ton of negative attention …

In my childhood, it was television that should be avoided. I arguably learned more about nature by watching Lorne Greene's New Wilderness than I did in my semi-rural home town. Argumentum ad anti…

The best SCRUM master I ever worked with had strong opinions about standups. Standups, he said, were an attempt to address the principle of constant communication. He said most places held to standups…

I've never heard of John Taylor Gatto before, but I just read the article you link, and it's a brutal takedown of public schools. One that I connect with.

Ah you’re right. It was buried and non-obvious (to me).

I was really excited at first, but it's worth noting this does nothing for App Engine users. If you want CI there you still need to go to a third party. Disappointing considering how they're…

I take it as a sign that the value bar keeps getting raised for small players to exist. CI is becoming so commodity that it doesn't really matter if you get it from Google or Codeship. If a slow-…

There are always project management and product/program management roles. Having a CS background can be really advantageous without all the coding. However, it sounds like you may be dealing with…

I had already closed the tab since it didn't seem like there was a way to get more info. I discovered I could scroll by reading this comment. So I don't think it's a good design choice,…

> What kind of writing system allows people to change your words after you've written them? East of Eden's third act is a whole debate about how to interpret "timshel" from the …

There's a lot of unknowns here, but here's what I'd do. It reflects some of the top comments: 1. Know your goal. If it's to meet a deadline, then documentation, refactoring, or any…

I'm curious if this kind of thing would be prohibited in the US on fourth amendment grounds or not, or would be considered probable cause for a warrant.

You've basically described the streaming business these days. Listening to talks from Netflix, they optimize for this kind of behavior. While they're interested in retention, they have a pre…

I wonder how much of the desire for kids to stream has to do with the potential scale. The bar to entry is low, but if you take off, then you're making six figures a month. Once upon a time, mobi…

I'm in my late 30s, and my girlfriend and I are currently streaming more Twitch than Netflix. There's a use case where sometimes you want something on in the background while you're doi…