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by j_col 15y ago
Yes I agree, probably the only difference is that they would make you come in on six different days for your six interviews, and maybe spread them over a few months, and then still tell you no over something apparently random. I refuse to
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by j_col 15y ago
Yeah, the "bar raiser" is a concept that you will hear about when you interview there. Mine was the last guy after a very long day (sixth interviewer), who actually introduced himself to me as "the local bar raiser", and then got me up wri
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by j_col 15y ago
I interviewed for a support role at AWS last year, and that was bad enough. 1.5 hrs of a technical screening call, followed by 6 hrs straight (like, no breaks whatsoever) of face-to-face interviews with 6 separate people, only to be told th
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by j_col 15y ago
Matt, I tried that recently with one of my own sites, and after a few days I got a warning in my Google Webmaster Tools dashboard that the bot could not access my /search URL because it was blocked in my robots.txt, and I should take acti
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by j_col 15y ago
Totally agree, Google is basically dictating how websites have to be designed now, or else .
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Decision on webOS sale to come as early as this week [rumor](precentral.net)
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by j_col 15y ago
Excellent presentation, I love the slide with the Gartner-esque magic quadrant!
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by j_col 15y ago
> PHP solves a niche of small sites with slightly dynamic templates. Like Facebook. And Flickr. And StumbleUpon. And... Wait a minute, are we not past this "PHP only works a small sites" thing yet?
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Stepping Down From Spaz(funkatron.com)
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RIM buys NewBay in $100m deal(irishtimes.com)
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by j_col 15y ago
Notticed the same thing today on all of my websites, glad to hear I am not the only one!
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by j_col 15y ago
Nobody has defaulted (yet!).
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by j_col 15y ago
Eh, who exactly is getting bailed out? I think you mean loans, which are expected to be paid back in full (and up until very recently, interest was also paid on these "bail outs" making it a profitable venture for the country doing the lend
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by j_col 15y ago
Precisely. That is why Germany does not have a great domestic economy, all of their wealth is generated from exports, i.e. first we lend you the money, then you buy our expensive cars with the money, then we ask for the money back ;-)
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by j_col 15y ago
The Greeks are neither...
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by j_col 15y ago
You right of course, I was mistakenly thinking of comments getting down-voted, but articles cannot. > There is no reason to expect that you aren't being censored; ultimately this site is for advertising YC, not for being an impartial ne
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by j_col 15y ago
I'm sorry, but no censorship is nice in a site that is supposed to be about content getting up-voted/down-voted by a community.
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by j_col 15y ago
I've always felt that corporate managers beyond a certain grade were career politicians anyway, so what's the difference?
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by j_col 15y ago
Considering they already fired all of the hardware people, most of the talent have already gone (unless you mean't software, and it that case webOS is a pretty different system to Android, so it's not like Amazon would be picking up a few h
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by j_col 15y ago
> There's no market for TouchPad software. Tell that to this guy: http://twitter.com/#!/PalmFlashCards/status/1147168660978442...
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Google to establish new €75m data centre in Dublin(siliconrepublic.com)
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by j_col 15y ago
What about Dalvik and the on-going Oracle case? webOS has no Java, there is another distinction for you. It's the full stack in webOS that is unique, not just the UI.
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by j_col 15y ago
Take a look at this from back in 2009 when Apple were raising the possibility of sueing Palm over the original Pre being too close to their iPhone (according to them): http://technologizer.com/2009/01/23/palm-responds-to-apple-i... Of cou
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by j_col 15y ago
> Amazon could take the patents and throw WebOS away. ...along with at least 1 million webOS users? Who are currently buying software from the webOS store, and are likely to buy future webOS hardware from Amazon (or whoever else how ma
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by j_col 15y ago
> Amazon has probably 10 times that many Kindle users or more already Kindle users may very well prove to be a different demographic than tablet users. If they sell 10 million Fires then they will probably be out-selling iPads in that
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by j_col 15y ago
Look at it this way: their are about 1 million Touchpad users already out their due to the HP firesale. That's a nice market to buy, considering these people will want to upgrade to something in 12-18 months time, while keeping their profi
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by j_col 15y ago
As a long-suffering webOS fan (Pre- through to Pre3 & Touchpad), all I have to say to this news is, yay! WebOS is a fantastic system that does not deserve to linger and die due to HP's lack of leadership and vision. Jeff Bezzos, on the
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by j_col 15y ago
Firstly, my compliments on your lovely design. I'm signing up for the free trail now because I can see how this could be very useful for me...
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by j_col 15y ago
From the statement: > Mr. Lynch then accused of Oracle of being ‘inaccurate’. Either Mr. Lynch has a very poor memory or he’s lying. Wow, things are really getting dirty between Oracle, HP, and Autonomy. Wonder will this affect HP's
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by j_col 15y ago
Really like it when compared to SlideShare for three reasons: 1. The actual slides are bigger. 2. There are no advertisements overlaid on the slides. 3. You can download a PDF of the slides, without having to sign up.

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