billnguyen

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by billnguyen 9y ago
Opal | Sr Frontend Engineer | Portland OR | Onsite | https://workwithopal.com/careers Opal is creating a brand new space for marketing/brand collaboration work. We've gotten significant traction with top brands li
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by billnguyen 12y ago
Schmidt, like any good CEO, will always always sell anything his company outputs. You'll never find him criticising anything Google does, maybe in retrospect but never upon launch.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Seeking Technical Co-Founder for Nonprofit Startup We are an exciting nonprofit seeking to make the world a better place by connecting international travelers with daylong volunteering opportunities in order to bring more resources to vette
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Nexus phones/products have always been made by external partners (HTC, Samsung, LG, etc...), none of which have ever been Motorola. Why does the Moto sale affect the Nexus line?
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by billnguyen 13y ago
The price of anything is a function of its supply versus its demand. A non open (or not truly open in this case) kills demand. Without demand for a finite supply (high quality engineers) the supply's worth can never fully be realized.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Crazy. Some of the comments on this old TechCrunch article about the economics of Outbox look Nostradamus-like http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/outbox-digitizes-sf-snail-m... It just never fully made economic
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Love seeing these posts but without any details on what he was doing on the "business side" that failed its unfortunately not very useful for the reader.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
really great insight here. thanks for gathering it.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
I struggle with this too, my github/bitbucket is a barren wasteland of half finished products. I believe that its fully a mindset thing and realize that success is not an accident nor some ephemeral spark of genius. Success is a a choi
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Your theory really only works for places with a large amount of reviews (positive or negative). When you have only a handful of reviews, the need for authenticity grows because they carry much more weight. You would need much more data poin
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Love this! Was in a coding interview once where they just gave you a problem and you were given laptop and time to code out a solution using whatever you would normally use ie stack overflow. First interview I've had where I felt like
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Indeed, the internets do seem to be trending towards highly focused niches rather than broad services like before.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Glad someone is taking this on. The recent threat to investigative journalism is a real bad indicator to America's future. Hopefully this in conjunction with Aaron Swartz's will really bring some bite back to journalism. Now if on
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by billnguyen 13y ago
yes, seconded! the most difficult part is not the languages themselves but how to glue everything together... Does anyone on hackernews have a resource like that? Its been such a pain trying to glue together a site.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
I could live with the new Compose... its the hidden/floating "Formatting Options" that really grinds my gears.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
i miss calvin and hobbes.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
luckily its open sourced and someone can create a Windows distro if they are so inclined.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
As a former Googler definitely agree with the 120% time. But I think its more because its hard to do any work effectively only once a week. So in order to make your 20% time be useful you just have to put in more time than 20%. And obviou
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by billnguyen 13y ago
its not anticompetitive to not allow a third party to release your product on their platform without following your rules (reasonable or not). Hundreds of millions of dollars in engineering effort and bandwidth go into Youtube. In reality G
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by billnguyen 13y ago
The US needs to close its tax loopholes and stop blaming people for taking advantage of its own terrible laws. As long as the loopholes exist its in everyones best interests to take advantage of everything they can.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Don't be dragged down by the weight of your past decisions. Do what you need to be happy tomorrow. And from your post its pretty obvious to me what that would be.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
if you want single column theres an option under More called Steam Layout
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by billnguyen 13y ago
@jack-r-abbit: its just a setting in your browser, chrome makes it sticky so once you set it for your google+ page you should always see it zoomed in/out to your setting
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by billnguyen 13y ago
no, but its pretty apparent that the G+ team doesn't think it matters. 3 columns just helps my brain get on that same wavelength, whether I agree with it or not :)
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by billnguyen 13y ago
I find it makes more sense when you're zoomed out enough to have it rearrange itself into 3 columns vs 2. When its at 2 columns I waste a lot of eye and brain strength trying to make some order out of it. But when its at 3 columns my brain
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by billnguyen 13y ago
why would advertising skew the factual information presented in wikipedia? Advertising is based off content, content isn't based off advertising.
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by billnguyen 13y ago
Except none of those launchers remove functionality like the Facebook launcher is doing by hiding your status bar and removing widgets. The 4+ star rated launchers add functionality to android.
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by billnguyen 14y ago
If this is Apple that'd be true, but since when has Google really bragged about any sales numbers?
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by billnguyen 14y ago
Code reviews can definitely suck but sometimes the short term cost needs to be sacrificed for long term gain and this is definitely one of them in my opinion. Code reviews help enable a 'hivemind' within a project. It helps other engineers
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by billnguyen 14y ago
iphone 5: Bigger iphone is bigger and fits bigger stuff.

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