danek

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by danek 14y ago
care to explain?
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by danek 14y ago
I'm curious about what 'Sinofsky-ization of teams' means. could you elaborate?
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by danek 14y ago
eBay is a great place for scammers to get free stuff! every few years, my girlfriend gives eBay another chance and tries selling something. Every single time, she gets scammed. Each time, the buyer claims he didn't receive the goods or rece
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by danek 14y ago
some feedback: The homepage is visually cluttered. it took me a while just to parse the page and figure out what I'm supposed to do. even now that I do know what the page is about, my eyes still don't know where to look. "Currently, you are
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by danek 14y ago
I have trouble using it for more than a week at a time. Evernote is great for saving full webpages and images and such, but I find the UI is terrible for basic note taking & the editor has so many bugs that plain text composition is a n
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by danek 14y ago
Its still not fixed on iOS chrome. I like bootstrap but it's a disaster on ios.
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by danek 15y ago
I think the issue is many engineers value things like tests, short functions, interfaces, dependency injection, pure functions, comments, DRY, etc. To them, these things are qualities of "good code", and they spend all their time on this st
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by danek 15y ago
"I think the goals of this project are to create a better currency, create a more competitive and efficient international payment system, and give people more direct control over their finances. And I don't think any of those goals are inc
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by danek 15y ago
I have the same problem. I can stay up until 8am no problem working on something moderately interesting, but I can't go to bed early and wake up at 8am if my life depends on it. I think this is a genetic thing so it's not a simple change,
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by danek 15y ago
Depends on location + company/role. Other comments point out location is important and I agree. But almost as important is what kind of company you are at--salary at a tech company where you are creating and building new products is differe
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by danek 16y ago
"I'm feeling yucky" button http://zocdoc.com also, we ported our site to lolcode http://codedoc.zocdoc.com/zocdoc-completes-site-rewrite/368
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Why We Hire .NET Programmers (and all other kinds of programmers)(codedoc.zocdoc.com)
8 points by danek 16y ago|1 comments
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by danek 16y ago
nor does it need to happen in real time in the browser :)
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by danek 16y ago
New York City http://www.zocdoc.com/careers We are like open table, but for doctors. Need to see a doctor in NY, SF, DC, or Chicago? Find your appointment on ZocDoc and save yourself a 3 week wait. We're looking for super-smart engineers
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by danek 16y ago
maybe the fbi thinks terrorists were communicating via blog comments, in a secret code designed to look like spam? as far as 'movie-plot terrorism' goes, i don't think it's too far fetched.
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Khosla Ventures And Founders Fund Invest $15M In ZocDoc(techcrunch.com)
5 points by danek 16y ago|0 comments
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by danek 16y ago
NYC (soho) http://www.ZocDoc.com Like OpenTable, but for doctors. We are a successful and rapidly growing startup, run by people who have run successful startups before. It's a fun atmosphere, the work is very challenging and technical, a
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by danek 16y ago
when it peaked at $200 in 2007 the P/E was about 40. The company has grown a great deal since and the stock has a long way to go just in terms of post-recession P/E inflation, if that ever happens. meanwhile they continue to dominate. th
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by danek 17y ago
i probably would have thrown away the book too just to mess with the FBI, though now I know better. wow, the FBI's analysis doesn't inspire much confidence, considering how easy it is to make meaningless, after-the-fact connections--"you mi
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by danek 17y ago
easy to say, not so easy to do. for an american to legally live and work in another country is not trivial unless you have citizenship in that country. trust me, i would have been out of here years ago if it were less complicated.
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Tech job scene--NYC vs SF
3 points by danek 17y ago|2 comments
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by danek 17y ago
i was just watching this the other day... it's so savage
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by danek 17y ago
I'm not disagreeing with what you say, but I think it's a stretch to interpret that as a threat. I also think that if a threat is determined to be a misinterpreted joke, then the government should stop wasting time and money investigating i
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by danek 17y ago
what's (also) shocking is that he and his parents have to go to counseling for this.
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by danek 17y ago
i don't know if this is true, but i heard somewhere that drug companies don't really innovate anything. it's the NIH and universities (via government funding) that actually discover the drugs, then they sell the exclusive rights to manufact
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by danek 17y ago
me too. wow, it's sooooo simple. the trick is to not think.
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by danek 17y ago
It's an extra bit of information that you wont get from interviewing someone. A lot of people interview well and are good at talking, but can't program worth a damn and they will waste lots of your time and money. I've seen this happen a l
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by danek 17y ago
I agree about needing both sides. The people I've worked with that are heavy on the academic side (MS,PhD, etc) with little real world experience have, without fail, been very mediocre and have had a hard time getting stuff done. They are
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by danek 17y ago
Oops I didn't mean to say that an iPhone contract is tied to a specific phone. You could always swap the sim to a different phone. what I was trying to say was that AT&T has a special iPhone contract that is separate from their regular
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by danek 17y ago
It was a flip phone and the buttons were on the side. no way to lock them. I checked the manual and that combination was the way to activate voice mode... Before I got my iPhone, I considered Nokias to be the best. In Europe the situation

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