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by cHalgan 15y ago
This basically means we will have more trivial patents filled which can be used to extort small companies. Correct?
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Does anybody thing this is a good reform? My understanding that this is a bill promoted by big law firms to make more money and to protect financial industry against patent trolls. Also, 'first-inventor-to-file' is something which big compa
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by cHalgan 15y ago
My biggest concern about 2007 collapse is that we DID NOT reform financial system after the collapse. Everything remains the same. The banks still operate in same way as before 2007. And everybody should be careful to bet on recovery: we ha
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Actually, Yelp can play game like this and be profitable. If business have a good rating on Yelp, then that pretty much mean that business is ok. However, a bad rating might be because business was not nice with Yelp sales people. That is o
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Maybe Google Apps (Calendar) are part of strategic vision (connected with Chrome OS)?
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The 25 Best Tech Companies To Work For In 2011(businessinsider.com)
7 points by cHalgan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cHalgan 15y ago
My understanding of all these GAE pricing story is that Google decided that GAE is not a strategic business and that business unit need to break even or they will be canceled. Does this make sense?
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by cHalgan 15y ago
My father has saying: running business is a marathon. So from that perspective first 100s of meters (cloning the initial version of a web site) means nothing.
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I'm not sure, but if you want to build a world class team you need to pay more than market rate + excellent team/work environment + more responsibility + more impact on world + give equity. There is no free lunch. Really. Did Facebook becom
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by cHalgan 15y ago
He is right. 3.45T are total costs of bailout. $2T Emergency Fed Loans (you can give shit-sandwich and exchange it to get real $$). $700B TARP. $300B Hope Now program. $310B Fannie/Freddie and AIG. And ya... we also added $140B Tax Breaks f
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I have some storage experience and I can tell you that Dropbox is not a new idea at all. Even AOL had something like this. I'm also convinced that they didn't win because of simplicity. However, Dropbox just delivered what they promised. It
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Primadesk(primadesk.com)
1 points by cHalgan 15y ago|0 comments
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Alternate social media platform?(unthink.com)
1 points by cHalgan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cHalgan 15y ago
We were developing data stream processing software for companies in financial sector. We were unable to get performances and controllability/measurability of the system our customer wanted using java. So we end up with C/C++.
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Exactly. All these claim memory is "cheap" are misguided. The hardest thing is optimizing your program for appropriate usage of non-CPU resources (inter-processor communication, memory, disk, etc.).
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by cHalgan 15y ago
The C/C++ is just faster. You can tune it. You know what is happening. Also very important thing with C is that you can have a clear control how much of resources your program uses. And the most important resource is memory.
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Actually this is the end of news papers and any form of newspaper conglomerates on internet. Things like Techcrunch, HuffPost are transitions toward the new model. It seems the future is that consumers will want to read content written by a
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by cHalgan 15y ago
The following stroke me as a very strange: "Hurd borrowed heavily from the founders’ playbook". Really? How? Where? Why? WTF? Does any of HP-alumnis here thinks that Hurd was a "HP way" CEO?
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I have to disagree. These are not entrepreneurial habits. These are top habits for good managers. The good entrepreneurial habits are: 1. do one thing every day that scares you 2. whatever you do it must not suck
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Let me understand this logic: A lot users cannot use Google Apps but since there are some user for whom the service works Google can say "100% uptime" - since problem is in a single data center. That is reason 37signals kicks ass: today som
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I don't believe this is something special to engineers. Hey, back home, in "less civilized" part of the world, you can be beaten up by waiters if you are complaining (being asshole) about meals at a restaurant. In order words, "tact" is som
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by cHalgan 15y ago
That is not true. When Google Apps don't work they just don't update their status page and ignore users. Last time I had to fight on forums (with other people) to convince Google guys that Google Docs was reporting 404 for many files. Final
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Hey... If you want to be secure that what you need to do. The keys must not be easily accessible. Anyway application which need to be secure are not the one you also would like to be restarted automatically or unattended: automatically rest
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by cHalgan 15y ago
If you are storing something in database which needs to be decrypted (i.e., you are storing credentials to access some other system) it is common sense not to have that key in the database. The key should be provided to your application on
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by cHalgan 15y ago
If it actually had capability to share X GB files via Web for a small one time fee, then it will be really cool. Can you guys do that?
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by cHalgan 15y ago
What kind of companies require this kind of service to screen the engineers? Maybe when hiring via odesk? Hiring remotely for short coding gigs? I'm genuinely interested since I'm not sure if startups or big corporations will use something
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by cHalgan 15y ago
The reason why prolog is important to learn and play with it is to understand and learn concept of declarative programming as programming paradigm. That is very important skill when designing system because you learn how to define what the
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by cHalgan 15y ago
This is 2nd time this year Google Docs is changing the look and layout of their interface. The first change was as recent as March this year. This is really bad. Me, as a heavy google docs user, want some consistency. Managing and editing d
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I'm not sure. As potential user of this product, I really don't care about design. Even usability can be a little off. What I need is: good support, reliability, speed, flexibility/good integration with other things I use. Somebody mentione
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Can you please elaborate this statement that "Cookies disappear all the time for reasons that have nothing to do with users nuking them"? I'm genuinely interested to understand in which cases cookies disappear. EDIT: But it is possible to d

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