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by adgar2 14y ago
Never spending is at odds with mainstream economic theories. You are proposing reducing spending without any particular bound beyond "necessity." If you want our economy to be based on food, water, and shelter, just say so. But it will conf
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by adgar2 14y ago
Saving is a good thing. Never spending is a bad thing. My parent poster was questioning the latter. Not the former.
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by adgar2 14y ago
Do you use Google+ at an enterprise? If not, you seem to have missed the point of this article.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> A deflating currency might disincentivize spending, but it won't halt it. And what's so great about incentivizing spending? When you find yourself challenging the basis of nearly all economic theories, it might be time to step back fr
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by adgar2 14y ago
My favorite: > 30. A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post > 3 points by happy4crazy 5 hours ago | flag | discuss
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by adgar2 14y ago
You're right about Google and Amazon, early posting on my part. But I'd say the iPhone was easily a multi-billion dollar project.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> Spotify need the record companies, but the record companies don't need Spotify. For now the record companies are squeezing Spotify for all their revenue, but it's no trouble to them if Spotify goes out of business. I suspect Spotify k
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by adgar2 14y ago
I'm being constructive to zacharyvoase. You can't please everybody with every statement you make without being a sycophant.
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by adgar2 14y ago
They provide value to the owners of the roads from which customers are towed - roads typically owned by the public. Your analogy is folly.
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by adgar2 14y ago
Microsoft and Apple both have multi-billion dollar projects. Edit: Google and Amazon likely don't, actually.
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by adgar2 14y ago
What do you call the role of the individual whose job it is to implement account management? Do you not call that person an engineer? If not - whose responsibility would you say it is to ensure shit like this doesn't happen?
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by adgar2 14y ago
According to timestamps, it took ~5 minutes for you to realize your mistake. It may be worth waiting those five minutes before posting, in the future.
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by adgar2 14y ago
All I can say to that is thank Christ it's not 1996 anymore.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> Assumptions make a... "Head of Product" sounds like a product manager, it doesn't even sound like an engineer at all - this makes it even less surprising that these pathetic security holes existed. Just to be clear, that means my assu
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by adgar2 14y ago
It's not helpful, it's realistic. My exact wording was "your time will be better spent elsewhere." We each have 24 hours in a day. I spend 8-9 of mine sleeping, 9-10 at work. That doesn't leave much leftover for me. If zacharyvoase wants to
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by adgar2 14y ago
Since you presented 2 possibilities here, neither of which are accurate, what is your response to the reality of the situation?
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by adgar2 14y ago
Except you're talking about a payments startup . In startups, engineering talent isn't very important.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> The difference between reversing a string and pulling data from a database are, literally, completely different tasks. The killer is that the latter is something that a candidate will do in a job. Why can't you do both? Seriously? Pul
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by adgar2 14y ago
Exactly. When you go to provide your information to a website, you need to consider "what are all the possible outcomes of this?" We can't use the reputation of the providers of a service as a proxy and thus have zero information about wh
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by adgar2 14y ago
I had to look up WePay on Google. The wikipedia page says they have 30 employees as of a year ago, did YC and 1 round of funding. I have to be honest - that doesn't demonstrate a high level of trust at all these days. It's sad, but true. Pl
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by adgar2 14y ago
Dude... this guy clearly doesn't understand security. I'm glad you're trying to help him out... but your time will be better spent elsewhere.
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by adgar2 14y ago
You're so right! Writing secure web apps is for pussies.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> Is it considered apropos to state how surprised you are that developers who come across as relatively senior are capable of making an incredibly fundamental security mistake such as this? Only if you're concerned that you can't tell w
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by adgar2 14y ago
> I don't think I've encountered a site that had accounts edited this way before. Any site that employs the pattern of specifying user account routes using the user's primary key in the URL needs to implement authorization. This site cl
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by adgar2 14y ago
It might be time for pg and co. to reconsider the idea that engineering doesn't matter and that startups are just about people. This is pathetic .
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by adgar2 14y ago
Just to be clear: you are agreeing with your parent poster. Here's your response: Facebook's value IS lock-in, and companies with real technical prowess will fail because they rely on producing something new.
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by adgar2 14y ago
Explain. If you can't produce a god damned string reversal function in 10 minutes, why would I believe you can produce a bug fix to your own, complex code in a few hours? That's what interviewers are considering: the interview is a proxy to
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by adgar2 14y ago
You just compared Zynga/OMGPOP employees to 5-year-olds who don't know better than to tie their shoes.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> I feel sympathy for any employees who exercised their options at IPO Why? People choose their alliances. OMGPOP and Zynga are both trying to cash in on fads without bringing much real value to the marketplace. Why should rank-and-file
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by adgar2 14y ago
And now the real heavy lifting for Google web search is C++, as everybody with a clue knows. What's your point?

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