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by bousaid 9y ago
(his /s tags missing lol) Ah yes, the classic “buy the dip” strategy.
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by bousaid 9y ago
They actually have incredibly strict policies about user privacy. Everyone in the company recently had to watch a short movie (with actual actors and realistic scenarios) about appropriate data usage and permissions.
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by bousaid 9y ago
I’m sorry but you are incredibly ignorant. There’s a huge focus on customer feedback and “customer obsession” in the company now. And that’s coming from Satya himself. I’m sure what are talking about was true in the past (and it seems like
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by bousaid 9y ago
This was started long before Silicon Valley...
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by bousaid 9y ago
That's my biggest wonder, how can the economics change for the better?
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by bousaid 9y ago
No, Atom is more popular. VSCode is gaining momentum though. I just switched to it yesterday actually.
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by bousaid 9y ago
Wow, I'm just as dumbfounded as you.
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by bousaid 9y ago
I interned at Microsoft this summer and had my own office.
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by bousaid 9y ago
Let me ask you this, have you worked at any of those large companies?
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by bousaid 9y ago
I actually just started reading his newsletter a few weeks ago. His writing is akin to the comments you see on Hackernews: insightful, appropriately opinionated, backed up by experience in industry. He also adds a wittiness that makes readi
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by bousaid 9y ago
Go work for Microsoft or Amazon?
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by bousaid 9y ago
Good. People try to do this in Malibu as well.
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by bousaid 9y ago
Microsoft intern here. Got my own office for the summer.
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by bousaid 9y ago
People are downvoting you, but you're not wrong. Bitcoin is legitimately seen as an alternative to gold. So it's not crazy to expect people to buy BTC when shit hits the fan in the fiat markets.
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by bousaid 9y ago
You can't seriously be putting software engineering above civil or mechanical engineering... They're two completely different fields which both require years and years of training.
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by bousaid 9y ago
Apparently people didn't watch the video. The author estimates $5M
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by bousaid 9y ago
Yeah, lounges are nice (I used to frequent the Emirates business class lounge in Dubai), but modern airports are more than comfortable for a <6hr layover.
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by bousaid 9y ago
No good is a liquid asset. You realize it takes weeks to get from crude oil to something you can pump into your car (including shipping time), right?
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by bousaid 9y ago
In Tunisia everyone grows up learning French and Arabic. Additionally most learn English in school.
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by bousaid 9y ago
The secret according to my business professor who was an electrical engineer, a sniper in the military, and started a multimillion dollar PE firm, and sleeps <6 hours every night: eat more.
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by bousaid 9y ago
Have people done this?
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by bousaid 9y ago
Truffle is also just as useless for understanding how developing on Ethereum works. Edit: Not saying Truffle isn't useful as a framework. You just won't learn a lot more about Ethereum by just learning Truffle.
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by bousaid 9y ago
They have plenty of oil. And more is found every day.
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by bousaid 9y ago
Windows was developed a long time ago, and I'm guessing components were never fully separated as the codebase grew larger everyday.