I would assume that a Titan card is just as horrible for mining as any other NVIDIA card, both in terms of hardware cost and power usage.
Office is, I think, one of the big revenue earners for Microsoft, so it does kinda make sense for them to make sure they can try to sell it to everybody regardless of which OS they run.
I'd probably just say, "I'm sorry to have wasted your time--I'm not interested in the position after all," and then get up and leave the interview.
I tried scanning the article to find out what made it illegal, and was fairly disappointed to find that (once again) I'd been lured by a sensationalist headline.
My true story of the door-desk is that it made me think, "Wow, they're making everybody use desks that look like they were built from things they swiped from a dumpster behind Home Depot...how much are they going to…
> He crewed on a sub (initially im sure it said commanded) yet doesn't get on with computers... This should be no more surprising than running across a CEO that doesn't get on with computers (if he actually…
...even with the wealth of information developers tend to make public about themselves. I guess I'm gonna be a negative Nancy here, but I know some very good developers that don't make anything about themselves public.…
Of course, for most programmers(let alone people in general) this is nearly useless information today. It's obsolete. And that's good. Damn right it's good--for me--that most programmers think low-level…
Oil would last a lot longer if car makers would provide the 60mpg cars they have in Europe, here in the USA too. Toyota's Prius C will do 55-60mpg if you're not out on the highway a lot, provided you adjust your driving…
"In this and the next decade, we will begin to make energy and food abundant, inexpensively purify and sanitize water from any source, cure disease, and educate the world’s masses." I may just be cynical, but I don't…
"John only started programming in college. He has 3 years of “experience” – much of it spent working on school assignments, not projects – and Norman has 10. John’s not as experienced or capable, but he may well be just…
>In-state tuition has increased about 275%. I was thinking about going to graduate school there in 2008, but somehow it was cheaper to take 3 classes remotely at out-of-state rates (at a higher-ranked school, mind…
>you would have to believe that the average person would pick a passphrase like "gastroenteritis jurisprudence algorithm aberration", which is clearly ridiculous. Oh how I wish my bank and mortgage lender would let…
Gow appears to automatically make all those Unix utilities available right inside the normal Windows command line without having to manually kludge them in there like you do in Cygwin. I usually just find myself missing…
And, of course, the other question: why don't we figure out how to get them to stay once they're marketable?
Your 1, 2, and 3 would have saved me (and others) quite a lot of time in some places I've worked. It helps for new hires and (in a large company) transfers from other parts of the company. Sometimes it even saves…
As mistercow says, it would have been a good idea to explain that. That detail just hanging there with no explanation caused me to pause as well, because I've encountered some mathematicians (not people I've worked…
I'm going to guess that a non-trivial fraction of people that get things done don't bother tweeting about it.
Don't be silly--we won't be eliminating standardized tests any time soon. You can't easily produce huge reports full of meaningless charts or fluff up politicians' resumes with rockets and robots. Standardized tests…
...it's worth noting that New York's rise is tilted in the direction of a specific area: internet/mobile startups. I thought that was the tilt of the entire blog/reddit/HN-osphere.
Sure, but that shouldn't get in the way of making more advanced topics available to kids in late grade school and early high school if they show aptitude for it. I might not have been ready to choose a career in 9th…
I power through as quickly as possible using keyboard shortcuts, making quick decisions about whether each item is important enough to devote some small fraction of my life to. Will it help me work faster, understand…
Same here--I think it was a good 9 months before I actually felt like I could do anything other than just get through an 8-hour day and go to bed.
I hope he got paid well for it--that kind of thing can leave you wiped out for a long time.
If you take the general idea a bit further than glucose-monitoring phone attachments (which already seems fairly good to me if it means people are more likely to have a meter with them and monitor their condition),…
I would assume that a Titan card is just as horrible for mining as any other NVIDIA card, both in terms of hardware cost and power usage.
Office is, I think, one of the big revenue earners for Microsoft, so it does kinda make sense for them to make sure they can try to sell it to everybody regardless of which OS they run.
I'd probably just say, "I'm sorry to have wasted your time--I'm not interested in the position after all," and then get up and leave the interview.
I tried scanning the article to find out what made it illegal, and was fairly disappointed to find that (once again) I'd been lured by a sensationalist headline.
My true story of the door-desk is that it made me think, "Wow, they're making everybody use desks that look like they were built from things they swiped from a dumpster behind Home Depot...how much are they going to…
> He crewed on a sub (initially im sure it said commanded) yet doesn't get on with computers... This should be no more surprising than running across a CEO that doesn't get on with computers (if he actually…
...even with the wealth of information developers tend to make public about themselves. I guess I'm gonna be a negative Nancy here, but I know some very good developers that don't make anything about themselves public.…
Of course, for most programmers(let alone people in general) this is nearly useless information today. It's obsolete. And that's good. Damn right it's good--for me--that most programmers think low-level…
Oil would last a lot longer if car makers would provide the 60mpg cars they have in Europe, here in the USA too. Toyota's Prius C will do 55-60mpg if you're not out on the highway a lot, provided you adjust your driving…
"In this and the next decade, we will begin to make energy and food abundant, inexpensively purify and sanitize water from any source, cure disease, and educate the world’s masses." I may just be cynical, but I don't…
"John only started programming in college. He has 3 years of “experience” – much of it spent working on school assignments, not projects – and Norman has 10. John’s not as experienced or capable, but he may well be just…
>In-state tuition has increased about 275%. I was thinking about going to graduate school there in 2008, but somehow it was cheaper to take 3 classes remotely at out-of-state rates (at a higher-ranked school, mind…
>you would have to believe that the average person would pick a passphrase like "gastroenteritis jurisprudence algorithm aberration", which is clearly ridiculous. Oh how I wish my bank and mortgage lender would let…
Gow appears to automatically make all those Unix utilities available right inside the normal Windows command line without having to manually kludge them in there like you do in Cygwin. I usually just find myself missing…
And, of course, the other question: why don't we figure out how to get them to stay once they're marketable?
Your 1, 2, and 3 would have saved me (and others) quite a lot of time in some places I've worked. It helps for new hires and (in a large company) transfers from other parts of the company. Sometimes it even saves…
As mistercow says, it would have been a good idea to explain that. That detail just hanging there with no explanation caused me to pause as well, because I've encountered some mathematicians (not people I've worked…
I'm going to guess that a non-trivial fraction of people that get things done don't bother tweeting about it.
Don't be silly--we won't be eliminating standardized tests any time soon. You can't easily produce huge reports full of meaningless charts or fluff up politicians' resumes with rockets and robots. Standardized tests…
...it's worth noting that New York's rise is tilted in the direction of a specific area: internet/mobile startups. I thought that was the tilt of the entire blog/reddit/HN-osphere.
Sure, but that shouldn't get in the way of making more advanced topics available to kids in late grade school and early high school if they show aptitude for it. I might not have been ready to choose a career in 9th…
I power through as quickly as possible using keyboard shortcuts, making quick decisions about whether each item is important enough to devote some small fraction of my life to. Will it help me work faster, understand…
Same here--I think it was a good 9 months before I actually felt like I could do anything other than just get through an 8-hour day and go to bed.
I hope he got paid well for it--that kind of thing can leave you wiped out for a long time.
If you take the general idea a bit further than glucose-monitoring phone attachments (which already seems fairly good to me if it means people are more likely to have a meter with them and monitor their condition),…