boubountu

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   by boubountu 15y ago

   Giving analogies mean 2 things: Either the receiving person is stupid or the one giving the analogy is bad at expressing his ideas.
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   I am not vouching for MS nor Google. I don't take sides. All what I am interested in is to know wether the examples given about google were valid or not.
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   So what? The most important is the content. Did they give wrong examples about Google? This is similar to when giving Coca-Cola as an example of how bad soda drinks are. It does not mean that Pepsi is good.
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   Too much space between "windows 8" and the actual window.
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   You better have stronger reasons than those presented in the article to doom Wikipedia to be a "failure" The problems stated by the author are valid however they are solvable. Definitely, Wikipedia must have a scoring system to allow editor
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   That's assuming the traffic is only 140 characters per tweet. What about html/TCPIP overhead, images, clicking links. I guess you need a LightTwitter application.
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   Those questions are valid if someone is trying to build the next Facebook. However, I think a person should work on important problems (not necessary hard, but important). And most importantly to like your work to reach a flow state.
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   I don't mean he got lucky. But as a programmer, I believe that there are far more success stories to learn from than that of facebook.
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   by boubountu 15y ago

   Seeing Facebook or Mark Zukerberg to be at the top of the success spectrum is really disturbing, much like when most business students see Donald Trump as a smart businessman.
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    by boubountu 15y ago

    I sucked.
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    by boubountu 15y ago

    I don't like the fact that people either love Microsoft or don't. The same applies to Google and Apple. As developers, we should always objectively question all big companies and give them credit when they deserve it. I, for instance, hate
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    by boubountu 15y ago

    Very nice interview. Although, I strongly oppose the style of interview questions he is vouching for when recruiting new employees at Facebook. I am a PhD student. I focus on parallel computing. I was interviewed by a company in Seattle. Th