There's been a lot of talk about technical interview questions and such on the interwebs. Google has concluded that brainteasers don't work. There are libraries of interview questions out there, Glassdoor keeps a record of interview questions, etc. etc. You know what? Technical prowess matters, but ……
Read more »Since we announced our funding at Radius on Wednesday, just about every recruiter and recruiting website in the Bay Area has spammed me because we're hiring engineers (yes, we are hiring). When negotiating terms with them, I'm being fairly aggressive though. I'm only offering about half of what ……
Read more »Oh crikey, now @kunikos as asked me to explain what's wrong with Windows 8 . No way would that fit into 140 characters so here goes... I've given this a lot of thought, and have already outlined how to profit off of the Windows 8 disaster . After all of this thought, I've come up with one word ……
Read more »Windows 8 is a usability disaster by most accounts. Most recently, I read this article that details some of this from a study of a dozen users. Read it, it's very comprehensive. I've been using Windows 8 since the day it released and it's obvious to me that Microsoft misstepped by trying to merge ……
Read more »One of the bittersweet things about using Java is that there's a library for everything. The good is that if you need to do something, there's a library. The bad is that the documentation is typically terrible, and it can take hours (or days!) to figure out how the hell to make ……
Read more »Download Pentaho, unpack it. You double click "Data Integration 64-bit" and nothing happens. When you try it on the commandline, it gives you: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/trimbo/Downloads/data-integration/Data Integration 64-bit.app. The solution is to give ……
Read more »Many people were surprised when I left the games industry last year and moved over to a completely different kind of ecommerce engineering position. Some background. I started out of college working on computer graphics (CG) for commercials. At the time, the industry had a lot of money flowing in. … …
Read more »My wife has a Volkswagen Passat and we just moved into a place with a Chamberlain garage door opener that uses a rolling code. The normal VW instructions don't help you figure out how to program these types of garage door openers. I found some instructions on VW vortex which describe how to do ……
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