jarjoura

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by jarjoura 14y ago
Yeah, it's obvious now, because it's so beautiful and simple. That's the magic of the iPhone, how obvious it all seems now that it's staring you in the face. I have no doubt that Samsung, Microsoft, Palm, Google, et. al, were all headed do
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by jarjoura 14y ago
Sorry but Valve has been on a smear campaign to slow Windows 8 adoption for one reason, Microsoft will own the store and the keys. So I'm immediately skeptical of any information they put out there. A lot of their grumpy comments sound very
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by jarjoura 14y ago
Apple fully embraced the open source community as a launch-pad for Mac OS X a decade ago. So the initial early adopters were all Unix/Linux enthusiasts that were establishing all the web technologies. Plus, for the first time you could comp
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by jarjoura 14y ago
...and Where is this statistic you are alluding to? Facebook is the #1 example of a company who gave HTML5 100% of the company's focus and realized it was seriously misguided and is now redoubling efforts to write serious native apps for ea
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by jarjoura 14y ago
Sorry, but Marco is mostly right. Microsoft's #1 problem right now is getting good consumer front-end developers to even install Windows, let alone write apps for their platforms.
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by jarjoura 14y ago
Yeah and Cabel's phone was going off the whole time. Clearly that part should be edited out of the interview. Panic is not even a startup, they are an established business that's been around for a decade.
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by jarjoura 14y ago
On the one hand it's an ego boost to feel they want me to stay. "Okay, I must be doing something right." On the other hand, I'd be more insulted that they think I'm actually worth 2x what they are paying me now, but weren't. Ultimately, I t
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by jarjoura 15y ago
To be fair, in my experience there are always the engineers who build the first 80% of something, but then a separate set of engineers who build the last 20%. Of course the original 80% remain part of the team, but they usually take on dif
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by jarjoura 15y ago
Bah. CS ("engineer") is a pretty rigorous and challenging curriculum at any competitive school, whether it's state or private. So graduating with a CS degree is enough of a level in my book. Of all the hundreds of candidates I've interview
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by jarjoura 15y ago
Heh, at Apple it's currently 50/50 svn/git.
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by jarjoura 15y ago
I honestly wanted to give .NET a try. I built a machine and installed Windows Server on it. I knew that Ruby/Python have scalability hurdles to overcome if things were to take off. So I felt .NET vs. Java was the way to go. Ultimately, the
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by jarjoura 15y ago
The problem is simple. Hollywood is conservative and hates taking chances. Every movie that's come out the last couple of years has been a sequel, another comic book franchise, or a remake of an already epic (unneeded remake) movie. I see a
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by jarjoura 15y ago
In the early 2000s, during "the great media consolidation" as I call it, studios were pumping upwards of 300 million into films assuming they'd return twice that worldwide. * Lord of Rings * The Matrix * Pirates of the Caribbean I'd say for
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by jarjoura 15y ago
Wow, this list is pretty spot on, can't really think of anything else to add to it.
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by jarjoura 15y ago
We had an entire orgs source-code in one SVN repository. It was useful for moving files from one project to the next to keep history and enabled anyone in the org to easily commit to any project. Obviously that wasn't scalable. (My inbox of
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by jarjoura 15y ago
I most definitely want to see the parent repository. It is extremely valuable. Especially when I come across a repository that hasn't been updated in a couple years and by clicking on the parent I can see that the fork was just there for
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by jarjoura 15y ago
shrug sometimes a lame idea is just a lame idea. Sounded more like you just wanted to be part of YC for the sake of being part of YC and not start a company you would be super-passionate about. I mean, also, your website you put up kind o
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by jarjoura 15y ago
I am curious what conference and also what session this was?! Word of advice to anyone reading these comments, when presenting, ALWAYS take the moral high ground. People are easily offended period, and for all sorts of reasons you may not
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by jarjoura 15y ago
I have to agree that my best semesters in college were the ones that I overcommitted myself (22-23 credits). I actually found the lack of downtime a way to stay focused and move from one project to the next. Likewise, my worst performing
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by jarjoura 15y ago
Wow, this is a really weird analogy to make. I don't agree that software can jump the shark by over-telling a story. I think software is either focused and serves a well defined feature set, or it is chaotic and has several 1/2 defined fea
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by jarjoura 15y ago
Umm, this "central planning" theory always comes after a great economic boom period. It's just a collection of wealth at the top that will take a lot of political might to break up and distribute more evenly. I think we all hoped Obama was
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by jarjoura 15y ago
Umm, Mexico's border city stability has such more more to do with our illegal immigration policies than our war on drugs. Sure these thugs are funded by our addictions, but should we legalize drugs tomorrow, they'll just find a new revenue
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by jarjoura 15y ago
I've switched my FreeBSD machine over to clang and have been successfully building most ports with it. It really is ready for prime-time :-).