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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Where's the marketing love?
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
It appears that Reddit's days are numbered. Sure they may be able to get by with one developer for a while, the product is fairly mature and content is driven by the user base. But how long can a website remain stagnant, with no innovatio
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Does anyone know if all applicants receive some type of feedback, even if they are not chosen for an interview? Basically, an explanation as to why they were not chosen to move on to the next step in the process and which areas they may wa
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
WTF?!
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Is anybody else bothered by the use of the term "cloud" when speaking about hosted services? These services don't live "on the cloud" - they just reside on someone else's remote server, really no different than if you had a remote data cen
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Why is etsy trying to do social? Are they going to roll out a daily deals service next? What's their search strategy? Come on, etsy has a nice little niche going, why ruin it by chasing the latest trend?
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Some of the most successful people are very insecure. That's one of the factors that drives them relentlessly forward - the fear that everyone will find out their not actually good enough.
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Facebook fatigue is growing at a rapid pace. Just because all my friends are on facebook doesn't mean facebook is a great app - I actually think it's pretty terrible (design, functionality, of course privacy settings, etc), it's just the f
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
You actually expect any company representative to be truthful in what essentially amounts to a sales presentation? The naivety in these comments is astonishing - I mean, it's not like Jobs works for a non-profit doing humanitarian work in
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
You're all fanboys of some kind or another - "my apple product is sooo much prettier than yours" - "I'm way too cool for apple, I have android" Whatever. Show me the guy who has a Dell monitor, Toshiba laptop, droid smartphone, Apple iPad,
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
You must work for Oracle, the best sales & marketing organization in the world.
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
IMHO the largest salary jumps happen when you switch companies. Once you start with a company, you're pretty much locked into their payscale and salary increases happen in much smaller increments. Ideally, you would stay at a company long
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Shouldn't it be the Stanford of entrepreneurship :)
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
All this talk of freakin timesheets - they may be the biggest waste of time in the post-industrial era. Outside of a "billable hour" type firm, how many managers go back and look through timesheet data to make tactical or strategic decisio
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Pretty soon you guys will be telling the kids to turn down that damn music and stay off your lawn :)
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Or look for a really good technical project manager with a proven track record of rapidly building a technical team and driving them to execute (I know, I know all you hackers are laughing at this post because 99% of the PMs you've worked w
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
Pirates command a 20% premium over rockstarninjas. Conquistadors may be a more cost effective option (plus, you may be able to offshore them).
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by pdaviesa 16y ago
And Jobs has just stepped over the line of brilliance to madness. It is this same God-complex that ultimately led to his original ouster from Apple. Jobs really thinks that 30% of the revenue in the mobile world belongs to Apple??? I see