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by pjlegato 11y ago
What are the possible commercial applications of this technology? How will your company make money from this?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
What's your marketing plan? That is, how will you find buyers who are interested in this concept, and get them onto your site?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
What's your go-to-market plan -- how will you find the partnerships and SDK licensees?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
It's not about selectivity in general. It's about companies not testing for relevant skills when they interview. Reciting the implementation of some obscure algorithm from memory is entirely irrelevant to the daily job of a softwa
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by pjlegato 11y ago
That sounds nicer than what 95% of programming interviewers actually do, which is something rather different. Almost all are simply playing "programming trivia." They name an algorithm or a data structure, and then evaluate whethe
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by pjlegato 11y ago
"Programming trivia" style interviews are the bane of our profession. They serve primarily to allow the people doing the interview to feel clever and superior when they discover that the candidate can't implement a red-black
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Rather than simply insulting me, you could perhaps propose exactly what the other options are, besides those two, that you think I'm missing here. I will then either accept that you are correct and admit that I was wrong, or else show
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Please refrain from speculating about what my emotional investments may or may not be, and any other personal speculation, as that is not at all relevant to the discussion. You have been making moral assertions in your original post on how
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by pjlegato 11y ago
It's not. Given that there exist moralizers who propose that everyone ought to have to follow a certain set of values, you can either: A) accept their authority and adopt their moral schema, or B) reject their authority. There are no
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by pjlegato 11y ago
You are rather proposing a vast curtailment of personal freedom, according to your personal interpretation of reified "democratic and humanist values" -- an extremely vague and nebulous concept that, once stripped of the layers of
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by pjlegato 11y ago
"Due process" means, quite literally, "process that is owed to you." It is the process that the government must, by law, provide when it is depriving you of liberty or property, to which (absent due process to deprive yo
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by pjlegato 11y ago
OP didn't say THEY ought to decide; they said CloudFlare ought to decide. CloudFlare is a business. Due process does not apply to businesses, since nobody has the inherent right to be a customer of a business under any circumstances. E
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The idea that private individuals and businesses ought to conform to a prescribed set of moral values dictated by "society" is the very definition of "totalitarianism," no less because you give them nice-sounding names l
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Conservatives certainly have many faults. They are not at all relevant, though, to the question of the faults of liberalism -- this is the "tu quoque fallacy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This comment is a demonstration of precisely the attitude criticized by the article.
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The smug style of American liberalism(vox.com)
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The efficient market hypothesis (the idea that the market is by definition perfectly valued at every moment) is highly controversial, and actively rejected by many finance and economics experts of all political views.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I think Venmo is more at fault here than the government. The government prohibits asset transfers between a certain public list of organizations. This list happens to include an organization called "ISIS". Implementing that prohib
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Advocates for the reverse ought to bear in mind that however noble the goal of avoiding harm to individuals in the short term may be, the harm done to individuals in the long term is even more massive, and then much harder to fix. Two case
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by pjlegato 11y ago
For this reason, most self-driving car development will only happen at large companies like Google, Tesla, Ford, etc. because they are the only ones who will be able to afford to purchase a massive general liability insurance policy.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Of course. You should still have a goal to strive towards.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Attention startups: this is what incident post-mortems should look like.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Why not just make your own African short films YouTube channel and promote it?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This is indeed pretty vauge. The question was, "how will you acquire users?" and the reply was "We have a way to acquire users." OK, what is that growth strategy?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
What is your marketing plan to reach both the customers and the photographers who will use the app?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Selling food requires government licensing and health inspections in most parts of the world. Many require the use of a commercial kitchen. What is your plan to overcome this obstacle?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
How will you get the initial user base and overcome the "ghost town effect"? This is the major problem for any social network / site. Nobody will use it unless they see that many others are already using it. What's your
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by pjlegato 11y ago
i) What exactly will be involved in this aggressive marketing to a niche group? That's a very broad statement, and a very difficult task. Do you have specific plans for how to do this? ii) Are the employees expected to do this as part
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Most people just deal with it and accept that their site will go down for 20 minutes every 3-4 years or so, even when hosting on a major cloud, because: 1) the cost of mitigating that risk is much higher than the cost of just eating the out
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by pjlegato 11y ago
He didn't grow up in ENY. He says he grew up nearby, in a much more stable neighborhood run by the Mafia.

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