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by azylman 14y ago
For proof of this, see Marc Andreessen's comments in TechCrunch[1]: Andreessen also said he's "super-happy" for Mayer, because she's ready to step into a CEO role at a major tech company. But can she actually turn Yahoo around? Andressen d
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by azylman 14y ago
I don't think there's a lot of reputation risk for her, here... I'm pretty sure that if Yahoo continues it's current course, the majority reaction will be "Well, Yahoo was a sinking ship anyway, there's not a lot she could have done" but if
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by azylman 14y ago
I don't think "Best viewed in X" is a problem when you're trying to force people to use standards-compliant, modern browsers. What made it a problem in the past is that people would rely on weird, kludgy, non-standard behavior of Browser X
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by azylman 14y ago
The current standard deviation between our salaries is less than $5 and we’ve improved our profitablity since implementing this over a year ago. It sounds more like this policy is to guilt their employees to accept less money (thereby imp
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by azylman 14y ago
Probably that whole "being one of the original members of the Reddit team" thing. But, you know, I could be wrong.
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Kleiner Perkins Loses First Round in Discrimination Case(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by azylman 14y ago|0 comments
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by azylman 14y ago
My guess is they're talking about the various Github desktop clients and he was misquoted...
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In this economy, employers can afford to be picky and potential employees will put up with a lot While I agree that it's important to make sure you hire good employees, "because I can" is not a good reason to make the hiring process as pa
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I Hired a Zombie: The True Cost of a Bad Hire(mashable.com)
5 points by azylman 14y ago|4 comments
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by azylman 14y ago
"Plivo is not a direct competitor with developer-friendly Twilio, but is targeting larger businesses in need of scale." I'm confused how this is different from Twilio - my understanding is that Twilio gets most of their revenue from large b
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by azylman 14y ago
"He added that it was 'entirely possible' that the spammers had faked the message formatting to make it look like it originated on a phone. However, he added, there was no doubt that the number of malicious programs written for Android was
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by azylman 14y ago
Except for, you know, everyone who purchases Google Apps and has 24/7 phone support...
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I struggle to think of Apple as innovative - I consider them iterative. They DO make amazing, fantastic products. With few exceptions, however, their products tend to be things that are iterative improvements over already existing technolog
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by azylman 14y ago
Why should you care why people got interested in computer science? As long as they're capable of doing it (and if they graduate from a place like Stanford, they probably will be) why should you care about their motivation? I personally thin
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by azylman 14y ago
Haha... so that's the same thing she just replied to me when I sent her this link. Womp. So much for that idea.
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by azylman 14y ago
I just sent this to my girlfriend, who is in China this summer while I'm in California. I'd actually been considering the best way to do something like this, so this will be perfect for us - thanks!
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by azylman 14y ago
Does anyone else think that it's weird for the model to be sending events directly to the view and have the view listening for those? That seems like something that should be going to the "operation tree" and having that push changes to the
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by azylman 14y ago
Were you a free user of Google App Engine? Unless you weren't, your comment is irrelevant. And if you weren't, you'd be in the minority of paying users who have customer service issues... For example, I, as a paying Google Apps user, have a
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by azylman 14y ago
I've also had experience like that when I was developing with one of their APIs (specifically, Blogger). Basically, it was when they were rolling out a brand new version of their Blogger API and the documentation was outdated. I was trying
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by azylman 14y ago
I used it with PhoneGap. I had no issues with PhoneGap, and unlimited issues with jQuery Mobile. Basically, jQuery Mobile wants your whole app to be on one page. You can either have one giant HTML file that has a bunch of divs representing
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by azylman 14y ago
Your argument falls apart when you realize that Macs don't have any of those keys and most people have no issues using them for "basic text editing".
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by azylman 14y ago
What? Anti-lean? Lean isn't about "small teams", it's about no waste. Needing a big team (which it sounds like these guys do) doesn't preclude you from being lean. If you have a big team and you DON'T need it, THEN you're "anti-lean".
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by azylman 14y ago
I'm looking to make this move in August and some of the advice here won't work for me. For instance, I can't get a reference from a past landlord or a list of past landlords - I'm just graduating college and have lived in on-campus housing
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This is the most important part of the talk: "I have started or helped start, dozens of businesses and initially hired lots of people. But if no one could have afforded to buy what we had to sell, my businesses would all have failed and all
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by azylman 14y ago
No, the jury will not be deciding on whether or not APIs are copywriteable. Judge Alsup is deciding on that, if necessary. The jury will be deciding on Google's fair use arguments etc.
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by azylman 15y ago
If you just think in terms of updates and hardware, WP7 has the worst of both worlds. But think of it in terms of software. But iOS and Android share a very similar UI, while WP7 is very different. I've never owned a Windows Phone, but from
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by azylman 15y ago
Mine's fine...
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As someone who competed in this contest, that wouldn't be the only bug. There was a lot of bugs in the submission/grading process - so much so that my team got frustrated enough to leave early.
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by azylman 15y ago
I think this is the best illustration I've seen of what makes Dropbox so great: http://xkcd.com/949/
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The problem is that that's not actually how it works. For things like textbooks, people don't really have a choice on whether or not to buy it - when everyone colludes to price it very high, the people who need them have no recourse other t

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