gfaremil

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by gfaremil 15y ago
Maybe we are not in tech bubble but there a lot of crappy companies raising a lot of capital.
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by gfaremil 15y ago
The main problem with Google Docs is that it is just too complicated - or better to say, has some rules which are quite unique. For example, normal people get very confused that you can have multiple files with same name. Also the concept o
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by gfaremil 15y ago
Discovery and personalization are not compatible with each other. So if you use Google search as a discovery tool, then personalization hurts. There is no alternative. Maybe DDG but results are not so good.
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by gfaremil 15y ago
It is very dangerous to be ignorant about critical computer science fields like cryptography and just go with the cult. I'm not saying you should build your own cryptography, but a good hacker (or a good engineer how we call them in early 9
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Ask HH: Why big companies with very smart engineers stop innovating?
4 points by gfaremil 15y ago|2 comments
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by gfaremil 15y ago
And they both live in San Francisco - which shows that it is all about $$ and not about their political views or principles. So this is one of the problems I can see with politics today: politicians have no views or principles you can count
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by gfaremil 15y ago
Here is one possible theory: * majority of technology in US is outsourced to China / India * China is a good friend of Iran and India has a very close relationship * some info about technology might be passed to Iran And joke is: when they
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by gfaremil 15y ago
Unrelated question - but I would to hear what others think. I noticed that two sites we have developed in the past (chat/dating site and food review site) had much better acceptance in Mexico, Brazil, Netherlands, etc. than in US. First we
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by gfaremil 15y ago
Does anybody know why they were doing this experiment (measuring speed fo neutrinos) at all? Were they assuming that neutrinos travel faster than speed of light in the first place?
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by gfaremil 15y ago
I'm not an expert how to write job posing (and Dave Thomas is an excellent writer), but this is more like "what a developer job posting should NOT look like" then "should look like" Two important things and one less important: * job descrip
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by gfaremil 15y ago
I'm not sure this is a smart advice. Of course, frugality is good thing. But it does not help you to become rich. There is a saying which says: Don't waste your time thinking about how to spend money, think about how to make money.
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Ask HN: Which startups have flexible vacations policy?
8 points by gfaremil 15y ago|3 comments
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by gfaremil 15y ago
This will be the shortest thread in HN history... On serious note, I'm really not aware of a single one. I heard some
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Ask HN: Is location check-in dead?
6 points by gfaremil 15y ago|5 comments
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by gfaremil 15y ago
The questions like this are the reason why your first job should be working on large scale very-well maintained projects and not some small startup. By working on these kind of project you will understand that there is a clear need to have
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Ask HN: Why there is so many Google lovers on Hacker News?
5 points by gfaremil 15y ago|2 comments
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by gfaremil 15y ago
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. So it seems AirBnb is stronger than ever after this.
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Ask HN: What will happen to Google when somebody disrupts AdWords?
34 points by gfaremil 15y ago|31 comments
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by gfaremil 15y ago
From engineering point of view, the sad thing (and danger) about Google, Twitter, or Facebook is they will get in trouble as soon as some other company figure outs more efficient advertising model (and starts eating their revenue). In other
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by gfaremil 15y ago
I think the problem for engineers working for certain companies such as Google, Twitter, or Facebook is not that your customer are advertising companies. The real challenge (and problem) for some engineers is that your user is not your cu
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by gfaremil 15y ago
Comparing personal budget with US budget is a gross oversimplification. First, US can (it is already doing via QE) monetarazie all the debt. And one comedian said: US can just start a little bigger war to get us out of the. Also don't forge
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by gfaremil 15y ago
I have been living in Bay Area for 11 years and here is my take: - as an engineer, you will never be able to buy a house in Bay Area (at least not so you can live conformable). you will struggle all your life. And don't dream: None of you
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by gfaremil 15y ago
Even if you put write ahead logs on different I/O subsystems the lock needed to ensure consistency will probably be a bottleneck (and crappy Linux implementation asynch IO on multi processor system does not help). How do you guys organize d
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by gfaremil 15y ago
How MemSQL compares with TimesTen? Or even with Oracle RDBMS with bunch of RAM? Or Oracle RDBMS with Oracle In-Memory Database Cache (TimesTen) on application app servers? What is MemSQL "secret sause" comparing to competitor? EDIT: Just