I think this was from Le Journal de Paris. "Journal" in this case actually means "newspaper" -- it was a daily that ran from the 1770's to the 1840's. I have a copy, but sadly it has no Benjamin Franklin essays in it.
I think the search function is biased pretty heavily toward more popular titles. Even if you put an obscure word in your app's description, if it is not very popular it will be behind pages of approximate matches.
I try to ignore this stuff. It doesn't really matter if he committed suicide or not, and the folk mythology is just silly. If you want to learn more about Turing and the Entscheidungsproblem I recommend Charles…
This is what I do for Android games -- design things to be mutable and pre-allocate however many I'll need during a level. You also have to avoid foreach because it creates objects. This is an area where C# is better.…
It's possible, but if I were a cash-obsessed Craigslist founder I think I would have sold the company a while ago and moved on to something else.
Realistically, chances are that if you could come up with a good idea for a startup and successfully follow through before university, you will still be able to do it a few years later. Even if the startup world…
These articles typically throw the ratio of female to male employees out there as a statistic. How do we know that gender discrimination is the biggest factor in the gender gap? It's not hard to imagine that men and…
Paul Buchheit wrote a good essay on identity called "I am nothing" which is closely related to "don't become anything": http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.ca/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html I think that's the best part of this…
The drive up to Eureka may not even hurt your chances at coming up with one of those key insights if you've been working a lot. Sometimes breaks are good, and as others have pointed out looking at opportunity cost in…
I only did a master's degree, but the consensus among grad student friends is that graduate degrees are not worth it for money (maybe it's different if you go somewhere like MIT or Stanford -- I am talking about second…
This is particularly interesting because it is common to hear complaints that (A) it is hard to find "good" people, and (B) it is hard to go through huge quantities of resumes. If those are both true then clearly it's…
Just the other day I saw a job requiring "3+ years iPad experience". I understand the appeal of hiring somebody who needs minimal training, but they may still not be the best pick. When it comes to a long-term position,…
I've worked at places with these meetings. I was always talking to people who either already knew the information or didn't need to hear about it every day. In that setting a quick weekly status update would have made…
I agree. In any debate it's important to frame the issue carefully and to avoid letting the opposition choose the terms that will be discussed. If most people view this as "rogue sites/thieves vs. legitimate copyright…
It's terrible because at the end of the day Canadians have very little say when it comes to what many of their own laws will be. The border and immigration are also horrible. Unfortunately I think that's an area where…
This is interesting. I've learned to decode the over-the-top qualifications a little. It's not unheard of to see job listings mentioning 5 years of experience with some form of software development plus ideally a…
For my case it was not as bad as data entry. It was a build system job vs. graphics job (I have a grad degree and the equivalent of a few years of work experience), but they had primed me for something specific.…
My worst interview went as follows: -I was contacted by a company that found my resume and decided I was a "great fit" to an opportunity they had. They described a great, technically rewarding position. -3 phone…
One common problem I see is that some people tend to turn every conversation into an adversarial situation because they focus on poking holes in whatever the other person says. A more pleasant and fruitful way to talk…
I think this was from Le Journal de Paris. "Journal" in this case actually means "newspaper" -- it was a daily that ran from the 1770's to the 1840's. I have a copy, but sadly it has no Benjamin Franklin essays in it.
I think the search function is biased pretty heavily toward more popular titles. Even if you put an obscure word in your app's description, if it is not very popular it will be behind pages of approximate matches.
I try to ignore this stuff. It doesn't really matter if he committed suicide or not, and the folk mythology is just silly. If you want to learn more about Turing and the Entscheidungsproblem I recommend Charles…
This is what I do for Android games -- design things to be mutable and pre-allocate however many I'll need during a level. You also have to avoid foreach because it creates objects. This is an area where C# is better.…
It's possible, but if I were a cash-obsessed Craigslist founder I think I would have sold the company a while ago and moved on to something else.
Realistically, chances are that if you could come up with a good idea for a startup and successfully follow through before university, you will still be able to do it a few years later. Even if the startup world…
These articles typically throw the ratio of female to male employees out there as a statistic. How do we know that gender discrimination is the biggest factor in the gender gap? It's not hard to imagine that men and…
Paul Buchheit wrote a good essay on identity called "I am nothing" which is closely related to "don't become anything": http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.ca/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html I think that's the best part of this…
The drive up to Eureka may not even hurt your chances at coming up with one of those key insights if you've been working a lot. Sometimes breaks are good, and as others have pointed out looking at opportunity cost in…
I only did a master's degree, but the consensus among grad student friends is that graduate degrees are not worth it for money (maybe it's different if you go somewhere like MIT or Stanford -- I am talking about second…
This is particularly interesting because it is common to hear complaints that (A) it is hard to find "good" people, and (B) it is hard to go through huge quantities of resumes. If those are both true then clearly it's…
Just the other day I saw a job requiring "3+ years iPad experience". I understand the appeal of hiring somebody who needs minimal training, but they may still not be the best pick. When it comes to a long-term position,…
I've worked at places with these meetings. I was always talking to people who either already knew the information or didn't need to hear about it every day. In that setting a quick weekly status update would have made…
I agree. In any debate it's important to frame the issue carefully and to avoid letting the opposition choose the terms that will be discussed. If most people view this as "rogue sites/thieves vs. legitimate copyright…
It's terrible because at the end of the day Canadians have very little say when it comes to what many of their own laws will be. The border and immigration are also horrible. Unfortunately I think that's an area where…
This is interesting. I've learned to decode the over-the-top qualifications a little. It's not unheard of to see job listings mentioning 5 years of experience with some form of software development plus ideally a…
For my case it was not as bad as data entry. It was a build system job vs. graphics job (I have a grad degree and the equivalent of a few years of work experience), but they had primed me for something specific.…
My worst interview went as follows: -I was contacted by a company that found my resume and decided I was a "great fit" to an opportunity they had. They described a great, technically rewarding position. -3 phone…
One common problem I see is that some people tend to turn every conversation into an adversarial situation because they focus on poking holes in whatever the other person says. A more pleasant and fruitful way to talk…