cHalgan

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by cHalgan 15y ago
Can you please reconcile something to me: Kissmetrics operates in a most ethical fashion but they prevent deletion of cookies in order to track my browsing? Do they think I'm stupid? Or let me ask the other way: Is it ethical to prevent del
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by cHalgan 15y ago
VMware reminds me of Palm in 2000... They start something which will change the entire industry but somehow they are loosing their lead rapidly...
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by cHalgan 15y ago
The west is learning fast from the east (meaning east europe) :) The communist countries were setup in such way that everybody living a normal life was definitely breaking some law. Hey even using a fax machine was illegal (but companies ne
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Tiger Oil Company Memos(lettersofnote.com)
1 points by cHalgan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I scanned and noticed some common newbie mistakes... I wish the life is so simple :( I don't like email, particularly for discussing complex topics Dijkstra is rolling in the grave... If you cannot write down your thoughts about s
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Correct: that is what I learn from my experience. Of course even small companies might have issues with "innovations" for low level employees, but big companies have people, processes and revenue structures in place which are essentially in
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by cHalgan 15y ago
There are some good general ideas in this article, but they will not work... The problem with ideas in big corporations are the following: - Something vaguely similar is already planned to implemented by some other group in the company. So
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by cHalgan 15y ago
There is no war on tech talent. Or better to say, in Bay Area, there is a war to find an engineer with 15+ year experience for 80K/year. But if you pay a market price (meaning match what other companies pay), there will be no problem findin
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Apple's iPad outsells Android tablets by 24-to-1(bizjournals.com)
10 points by cHalgan 15y ago|5 comments
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I think these are really wrong rules: they are good for non-knowledge workers but horrendous for knowledge workers. Here is what needs to be done instead: Instead ASK, you should EXPLAIN task/project multiple times preferable using differen
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by cHalgan 15y ago
You are right. Apple is more like Oracle and Microsoft: they look for a talent and they will happily ignore GPA or lack of degree. However, that does not mean it is easier to get job at Apple than Google. Not at all.
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by cHalgan 15y ago
No that is not ironic. That is how things work: if you have vision and you want to do something new and innovative, big corporations such as Apple are not the place to work for. They need just very smart people (hopefully not willing to roc
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by cHalgan 15y ago
Oracle still tries to keep up with standard. Getting hired to work in 400 building (RAC, ExaData, etc.) is still much harder than getting into Google.
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by cHalgan 15y ago
I'm not security expert at all, so I have a question. If I lock my phone using pin does it mean that my passwords and keys (mentioned in comment #48) are not encrypted using pin+some phone HW ID? Also does encrypting my passwords and keys