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by amurmann 15y ago
Legal departments should always first check with the marketing department to avoid harming their company like this. They are protecting their brand from what they think might be a takeover by someone else, but are harming it to a much highe
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by amurmann 15y ago
I worked on an Android app for about 2 months together with some experienced Android developers. Most things, like displaying dialogs, storing things to the Db, etc. worked quite well and I really came to like intents. However, I completely
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by amurmann 15y ago
I don't think Twitter would have existed, if they had had to take the "grow"/plan for scale path. As I understand, Twitter originally was little tool, that the founder just wanted to have for them selves. If they had thought, they would hav
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by amurmann 15y ago
When I read the first half of your post I first had to laugh because I thought it was ridiculously insulting and simplifying. However, reading the part about the waiter, I quickly realized that I made the exact same experiences on my Corfu
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by amurmann 15y ago
Well as much as it sucks, I am sure they would have gotten into legal hell otherwise. Thanks very much to the current copyright system.
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by amurmann 15y ago
Just tried to sign up and apparently they very much want me to sign up via facebook. Invites to people who want to login with their email are apparently only given out "sometimes". Great! Thanks for that! So I have to give my data to Mark Z
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by amurmann 15y ago
I am surprised by the large number of databases in the list that's written in Java. I would have expected that something performance critical, like a DB would be written in C. Is it typical these days to a database in Java? Are there any we
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by amurmann 15y ago
I am really unhappy about the move towards premium-content, DLC, IAP or however you want call what's happening in the gaming industry right now. When I play a game I do not want to make financial real world decisions and I don't want my gam
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by amurmann 15y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't understand why Yahoo is even still around? Since at least three years I have only heard about Yahoo products because they were canceled.
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by amurmann 15y ago
I think RPX http://www.rpxcorp.com/ already does what you are suggesting. They seem to be doing quite well with that concept and just had a successful IPO: http://247wallst.com/2011/05/05/rpx-ipo-changes-tech-patent-...
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by amurmann 15y ago
Too bad the highest education level in the survey is "Bachelor or higher". I would have really liked to see the impact of having a Master or Phd. I wonder if an education level above Bachelor makes any difference in regard of unemployment o
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by amurmann 16y ago
I suspect the same. It would be really interesting to see an analysis of search terms on Google vs search terms on Bing. Bing's video search also lends itself to porn searches.
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by amurmann 16y ago
Why not pair on whatever you would be working on anyway. I usually have to solve many architectural problems every day but honestly never had to implement a heap sort all my life. So there should be ample opportunity for an interviewee to s
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by amurmann 16y ago
Yeah, keep downvoting me and don't even have the curtesy to write a comment as to why!
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by amurmann 16y ago
I am getting down votes for this?! WTF? Look at the domain name and understand the original post, before downvoting! Think and then act!
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by amurmann 16y ago
No humor on HN allowed!
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by amurmann 16y ago
Why not just pair with the interviewee for half a day or a day? You will learn how they think and work and if you like them. It's a riddle to me. I've never heard from anyone actually trying it and not being happy with the insight won.
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by amurmann 16y ago
Well, all the songs you buy at amazon get stored for free. So that addresses some of the points you made. Since the storage gets upgraded to 20Gb after you buy an album it would be at least enough space for my music.
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by amurmann 16y ago
I couldn't agree more! I do all my work on a 11" MacAir with 64Gb HD and having something I never use take up 4Gb is just silly!
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by amurmann 16y ago
I strongly recommend "Unconventional Success" by David Swensen ( http://www.amazon.com/Unconventional-Success-Fundamental-App... ). The book reads a lot like a text book, but everything he sais just seems to make sense. The man is CIO at Ya
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by amurmann 16y ago
39 Euro/month?! As an individual developer I get Rubymine for $69 and can use it as much as I want. What's up with the per day pricing? Who wants to pay his IDE + workspace on a n per day basis? This is about the strangest pricing I've ever
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by amurmann 16y ago
I have very little hope that IE 9 will change anything about the IE problem. What we need is continuous releases of IE like we see it with other browsers. I don't see anything in Ms's behavior that indicates that that's what will be happeni
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by amurmann 16y ago
It's a problem under OS X as well
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by amurmann 16y ago
Rehabilitation is actually bad for business, since rehabilitated inmates won't be returning "customers". It's just so wrong that prisons are run by private companies...
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by amurmann 16y ago
Here is the official blog post: http://pivotallabs.com/users/dan/blog/articles/1537-introduc...
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by amurmann 16y ago
You also aren't stuck with overpaid employees once everyone lese is up to speed. That actually might be a downside for the highly paid youngsters. Once everyone else has caught up with them, why keep them for such a high price?