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pjackson
18y ago
Most carriers have integrated SMS-to-email. If you can bother your users to send their SMS messages to an email address instead of a shortcode or NPA-NXX style number, you'll be way better off in terms of integration and cost. This only wor
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18y ago
YouTube didn't give up because Google launched Google Video. And as it turns out YouTube did it better and sold to Google. Press on!
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18y ago
I won't comment on the design concerns. Many people have done that and I could swing either way on your choice of implementation strategies. Instead, I'd like to comment solely on the code. As an agilist, I'd say: "The code works, so it add
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18y ago
I interview a lot of people. When candidates ask me this, they often say "I'm coming from work, and I don't want to over-dress and tip them off that I am interviewing. May I dress casually?" I never say "no." This is always acceptable to me
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18y ago
I agree with the first paragraph and disagree with the last sentence. For me, it's less about the typing or language skills and more about proving that you can produce a complete work-product. A typo-laden resume indicates to me that you fa
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18y ago
I agree. I think a lot of the advice that I see above is: "come as you are, and if they won't take you, you didn't want to work there anyway." This is wrong. I work for a startup (my third one). I wore a suit to the interview. My now-boss s
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18y ago
Mine is an MVNO that sells mobile phones to kids. There are web application components, but there's a lot more to it than that.