dkrich

64 ms·

571.
by dkrich 12y ago
They did the same thing with the new iPhones. I'm no Apple insider, but my hunch is that 32GB is right in the sweet spot of what most people probably realistically expect to use. So, basically, they could easily give you the 32GB in th
572.
by dkrich 12y ago
Completely agree. I just came back from Istanbul and they use the mobile card readers everywhere. Every bar/restaurant tab was cleared in seconds despite there being 6+ people in our group. This was new to me as an American who had not
573.
by dkrich 12y ago
Completely agree and was going to make this same point. The PIN system is a lot easier to "hack" considering that all numerical layouts are the same and all PIN's are four-digits. Thus you only have to see the area in which t
574.
by dkrich 12y ago
In my experience the reality of enterprise purchasing is far more depressing. If you are a new company with a new product, hoping to sell into the large enterprise market, you're competing with large, well-funded sales teams who's
575.
by dkrich 12y ago
I was in Boston a few weeks ago visiting a famous bar by Fenway called the "Cask n Flagon." This place is a gigantic sports bar and one of probably only five or six bars that sits around the stadium. I got to talking with the bart
576.
by dkrich 12y ago
Well I guess the fundamental disagreement is that I don't think these biases are best classified as illogical. Yes, if you are being completely objective, two job applicants should be judged solely on the basis of their qualifications.
577.
by dkrich 12y ago
This is like saying "I don't respond to advertising." It sounds good in theory but pretty much falls flat on its face in reality.
578.
by dkrich 12y ago
I don't understand this line of reasoning. When you go on a date, do you pick up the check for your SO? When you go to a bar do you buy a drink for your friends occasionally? Surely you'd rather save that money, but you have to &q
579.
by dkrich 12y ago
Amen. I wish I had realized at a younger age the importance of investing in nice clothes. Not only does it make a person more confident, it is literally the difference in many cases between getting a good job and a spouse and being totally
580.
by dkrich 12y ago
Does that hold for individual pick-up's and drop-off's, though? I take UberX to and from Reagan in D.C. every time. Can't imagine it's a huge leap to gather groups together the same way. I have to believe the airport shu
581.
by dkrich 12y ago
This is an awesome idea, but I wonder why it is debuting solely in San Francisco. Not that it doesn't make sense there (I'm not familiar with the city), but cities with Airports that are greater than 20 miles or so from dense urba
582.
by dkrich 12y ago
I definitely agree with the crux of the article (that it's important to know SQL if you want to program with an ORM), but not for the same reasons as the author. The reason I agree that it's important to know SQL is that not knowi
583.
by dkrich 12y ago
Software products may be a commodity (although I'd argue this point to an extent), but the companies that run them are not. Price is one variable in the purchasing-decision process, but beyond some point, it really falls down the prior
584.
by dkrich 12y ago
This isn't really true. They cover their huge losses with loans from the government. http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/05/news/economy/postal_service_...
585.
by dkrich 12y ago
I think you can speak in terms of the technology you used, what you liked about it, what you disliked about it, the business objectives and how you helped achieve them and still do fine without showing an actual code repository. Most interv
586.
by dkrich 12y ago
I don't think this has too much to do with it. The reality is much simpler. Blogs like TC go for mass-appeal. People like reading MG Siegler's fanboy columns on Apple/Facebook products even if they despise Siegler and his opi
587.
by dkrich 12y ago
Believe me, I understand the "this makes good business sense on paper" angle. To me it is very clear that this guy is not reading from a script. He is clearly angered and frustrated on a personal level by the customer's unwil
588.
by dkrich 12y ago
I thoroughly dislike Comcast and would go to great effort to avoid their service. That said, as funny as this is, this to me is more of a failing on a personal level than by Comcast as a whole. He seems more angry at the caller because he&#
589.
by dkrich 12y ago
See Grover Norquist. He approached congressional members of both parties with a pledge to never raise taxes. If a member refused to sign or signed and violated the pledge, his group would go into the local elections in that person's co
590.
by dkrich 12y ago
Definitely put a 1-2-3 type basic explanation of how a user would use the service on the front page, possibly below the fold. I can't see how the service works and don't want to register before having some basic understanding of w
591.
by dkrich 12y ago
I don't think it's a solvable problem. People who tend to make the hiring and pay decisions are seldom those who understand the intricacies or value of good engineers. An engineer could make $500k a year, but the business case for
592.
by dkrich 12y ago
I deleted my comment because the OP updated his to be less inflammatory, which I appreciate. I have no problem with criticism, it's a very important part of product development. I just don't really like when people shit on other p
593.
by dkrich 12y ago
If you're going to file in Delaware, do so for a good reason. Just assuming you're better off having your legal entity setup there because anecdotally everyone says you should is no better than randomly picking what kind of corpor
594.
by dkrich 12y ago
Thank you- somewhere it became lore that filing in Delaware is a necessary step to running a successful business. Most businesses that are cited as examples didn't start in Delaware, but did so after they had much to lose and on the ad
595.
by dkrich 12y ago
My $0.02: Hiring typically follows the path of least resistance. Every hiring decision I've ever witnessed went something like this: "We need somebody with [insert some skillset]. Do we know of anybody?" This would routinely
596.
by dkrich 12y ago
But you have to consider R&D costs. If they get one million people to buy this phone over the next year, how many of those customers will buy more products from Amazon than they already were? At $199, my gut tells me that the early adop
597.
by dkrich 12y ago
You're saying that Amazon will be the big winner in the long run because they can control the phone, and the products you buy on Amazon? If I'm interpreting that correctly, I don't see how that holds. People use smartphones&#
598.
by dkrich 12y ago
Fine, then don't give me an option to close it and then ask me to try again later. Just be honest and tell me I have to call a number to close it.
599.
by dkrich 12y ago
Certainly not. I don't think there's anything unethical about what you described. What I wrote was in response to the notion that he would be angered had you actually "tricked" TechCrunch into writing about you. They, af
600.
by dkrich 12y ago
Don't feel the need to be courteous or overly polite. In my pitch I didn't even use complete sentences. Citing my previous example: Hi, My name is X and I'm a founding member of [insert name of startup]. We've developed

More ›