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I'm not the person you responded to, but I did also recently make a transition from an individual contributor role into a management role and can share some experiences. In additio…

The fact here isn't quite right. (I'm an employee at Dropbox) Primarily, until 2 years ago we did lean on S3 for all block storage, but most of the rest of the infrastructure (meta…

I think a few visits to a therapist may help you discover more about yourself. (Though I do think some people associate 'going to therapy' as 'having problems', I see it also just …

I would recommend trying to learn whatever tools they use, so that when you start you can focus your mind on the projects and less so on the environment. Once you start, you will b…

That's only in regard to a phishing attack, but two factor authentication protects you in the case that you lose your password to an adversary who tries to log in themselves. If sa…

Hashing passwords for storage is standard practice in all systems that involve password based authentication. Even then, the password must reside in memory at some point in order t…

If you're interested becoming afraid around your cars, some of my security friends at the University of Washington have been busting up cars for research: http://www.autosec.org/fa…

I'm a CS student at the University of Washington. We do something [that I consider] interesting here to staff TAs for courses, which is hire undergraduate teaching assistants. Gene…

An additional thought on this is that not only my own time went into games, but my competitive spirit did too. After dropping games, my hunger for being competitive and becoming mo…

Most of the mainstream tech companies that the other students are going after don't ask for GPA. The only company who did go out of their way to ask for it is Google. I don't list …

Do you have any resources for studying up on design concerns? It's easy to find software examples and instructions online, but I really have no idea where to start with building my…

This reads like a post that exists just so that people pirating music can give themselves an excuse to keep doing so. I'd be interested in seeing the process that Hammond took to e…

You might consider looking for companies that really interest you, and you can directly email their recruiters. As a student who has had my fair share of internship hunting, I find…

His discussion pertains to actual sources of randomness(not just the notion of randomness). Even randomness in our technology is generated from deterministic models. It's sort of s…

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html Really liked this one since we all try to multitask all the time(and fail context switching)

I wouldn't worry about it since you have so much time. Seems like you're in a pretty good spot. I'd consider getting into internships while you're in University(If you go to Waterl…

I wonder if finding sketchiness in those image results could be automated. Everyone through the machine stands in the same position, they're just of sort of various statures. I mea…

I'd say that the point is more on the company's perspective. Even if some people realize and know to just go for it, the job description scares away some people who could otherwise…

He's only saying that a copy of a brain would create a separate entity, and that separate entities won't share experiences. Like how identical twins have different experiences. The…

Putting myself in positions where I have to pull through. Like signing up to be a TA at the university -- now I know that I have to really master the course content. Or telling peo…

I feel like reading this article may make me react in the same way that the sample groups of the tests did. Hopefully in the much greater long term, that'd be nice. Good thing I re…

Some cool stuff here: http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/ The real challenge behind Watson is the natural language parsing. Instead of abstracting information away from th…

>But I’m convinced that almost anyone can be drawn into maths if they are presented with something intriguing or surprising which prompts them to want to investigate That's what I …

This reminds me of that 'troll math' post some time back. There was a square of edge length 1, but the corners were bent such that the total length(4) around the shape would stay t…

This reminds me of when Heroku was acquired... I call it Cloud 2