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by kovacs 7y ago
Exactly. Sure, some of the customers of these products are simply mismanaging their finances, a great deal of them are simply not getting enough value for their labor. How do we get to a form of capitalism that works for all people? Not an
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by kovacs 7y ago
If you can only read one book on the topic I'd make it this one - https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober... It's not about sales it's about how people think, act, and make decisions. I w
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by kovacs 7y ago
Asking that question seems to imply that you didn't really see the commenter's reasons for asserting that... "instead of actually investing in things like capital expenditures, R&D, or higher salaries" Specifically t
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by kovacs 7y ago
Luckily Snapchat isn't in SV so the record of zero unethical behavior in SV remains in tact.
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by kovacs 8y ago
We have zoning laws for a reason. AirBnB is encouraging people to break those laws. It's no different than anyone running a business in a residential zoned area. Do people run small businesses out of their houses? Sure, all the time an
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by kovacs 8y ago
Because SF is a town, not a city. And with the cost of doing business only on the rise there isn't room for places to be open during non-peak hours anymore. The number of coffee shops and restaurants that stay open later has noticeably
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by kovacs 8y ago
Go read "Mythical Man Month", written in your selected year of 1975, and see how relevant it remains today. It's pretty startling isn't it? That a book written over 40 years ago remains relevant today. Dismissing things
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by kovacs 8y ago
Satya agrees with you ;-) https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-satya-nadella-nonv...
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by kovacs 8y ago
Uber/Lyft are taxi services. They need to be regulated. The cars need to be marked, have numbers, drivers accountable to the community (not just the passenger), for bad driving. As a driver who's lived in SF for a long time I&#x27
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by kovacs 8y ago
Oh... it's just her/him :-P
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by kovacs 8y ago
face palm
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by kovacs 8y ago
Nearly anything that's ideally one or two syllables, phonetically easy to say, and can have a reasonable brand built around it. Not that these are awesome but just examples off the top of my head so I'm not just saying "they
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by kovacs 8y ago
Yeah and this is smart because this time around the licensing falls on Spotify where as back then TT had to negotiate licensing if I'm not mistaken. I'm not a lawyer but if that's true this seems much more viable using Spotif
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by kovacs 8y ago
Hehe.. turntable.fm v2.0 :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntable.fm Just checked it out. This is really well executed! Definitely doesn't look like a one man operation. Congrats!
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by kovacs 8y ago
Is that where the data sits around waiting, eager, to be queried into action while watching data around them being used over and over again.... But that time never comes, thus leaving them to question their very worth?
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by kovacs 9y ago
You took the words right out of my brain as I was scrolling through the comments. My internal dialogue literally was "This is EJB all over again", which admittedly may be a bit too much but as they say history never repeats but of
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by kovacs 9y ago
The simple way to say it is that once your code gets too complicated to keep all the execution paths in your head (sooner than you think), tests are what enable you to make sure you didn't forget an assumption you made about how it sho
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by kovacs 9y ago
I remember this from Twilio-con in 2014 or so. TwilioQuest was easily the best session I've ever had at a conference. It looks like they took that and went even further. What a fun project to work on! I wish every conference session wa
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by kovacs 9y ago
To be fair the director in charge of my group said to me at the start "You should help the customer. If it's not an Oracle solution that's fine. We'll eventually sell them something, we're too big with too many prod
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by kovacs 9y ago
Paying someone to offload things you shouldn't be doing is a sound strategy when applied correctly. Unfortunately this message can't come from someone like Oracle whose entire business depends upon companies choosing to buy instea
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by kovacs 9y ago
Are people entitled to have the fruits of their work stolen from them?
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by kovacs 10y ago
This is a straight up corny idea but I do think there's a kernel of something that could pop if the market heats up. OK, I'm in too!
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by kovacs 10y ago
One more point is that in your monolith you actually have the option of crossing module boundaries. You don't have that luxury with microservices unless you want to introduce XA (God bless you). So you better get your boundaries right.
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by kovacs 10y ago
Actually I've worked on a great many monolith projects over the past 20 years, including a J2EE server (WebLogic). And yes that was a huge monolith that had technical debt that needed addressing. When I left there was this future &quot
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by kovacs 10y ago
I've heard this exact argument at work in favor of microservices. I honestly think it's a lazy man's cop out to say it makes sense to insert a network boundary because it's just assumed somebody's going to violate a
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by kovacs 10y ago
I'll be expecting my RSUs from Google for telling them this exact strategy in my PM interview 2 years ago when I was asked "What would you do with Google Glass?". Then again enterprise is a fairly obvious answer even before t
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by kovacs 10y ago
Well luckily these customers have the money for the book because they were able to launch an actual business at least 2 months sooner and can move 5x more quickly than all the competitors still mulling over which lesser productive alternati
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by kovacs 10y ago
There's nothing xenophobic about wanting to build a community of dedicated citizens. I didn't invent a new problem, you're just failing to account for it in your capitalistic solution. Zoning laws exist for a reason and AirBn
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by kovacs 10y ago
No, AirBnB isn't a solution to this problem. The problem is there's a constrained supply of housing in Paris and the city wants to try to ensure that people who own housing there actually live there. You know, so there's an a
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by kovacs 10y ago
I use this app which used to be $5 but is now free - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindfulness-app-meditation/i... Apparently they too switched to a freemium subscription model. Having subscription models f

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