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631.
by powera 11y ago
Still don't believe it's at all an accurate account of the company. If it was accurate, I don't believe the author would be competent to write an accurate assessment of anything. I realize I'm sounding incredibly harsh
632.
by powera 11y ago
uh ... their "Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn" links at the bottom of the page literally just go to facebook.com and the like, rather than a page for their company. Also, their signup form gives a straight MySQL "Access
633.
by powera 11y ago
"Celolot currently has bad leadership, but with the right leadership, I believe it could eventually take over the CRM industry." - that is complete fucking bullshit . This guy is clearly delusional because he's in denial.
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by powera 11y ago
Google App Engine. This is what App Engine does.
635.
by powera 11y ago
No offense, but if the only thing you do on Hacker News is complain that people don't hire you, you're probably a bad candidate.
636.
by powera 11y ago
More accurate: "people keep piling into a bug thread about one symptom with many possible causes for over a year".
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by powera 11y ago
This seems to ignore cost of living. A lot of the reason salaries are high in San Francisco is because rent is high, and rent is high because salaries are high. Just because people can make "more money" in San Francisco doesn&#x
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by powera 11y ago
France has nukes and a UN Security Council seat, Germany has post-WWII military restrictions.
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by powera 11y ago
Can I invoke Betteridge's Law of Headlines here? I don't believe "a guy who is sick and doesn't mention that he eats only white bread and American cheese" is a sign of a scurvy epidemic. In fact, I actively disbeli
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by powera 11y ago
What would this get Google other than some good publicity on Hacker News? Do they have a customer base that would use other Google Cloud offerings?
641.
by powera 11y ago
First of all, "cloud computing" is going to be a very low-margin business compared to ads. So comparing revenues doesn't mean very much. Second, pretty much every Google business other than ads could be described as "ru
642.
by powera 11y ago
"One day, the devil came to God and said let's make a bet between you and me for the soul of a man. And from on high, they looked down on Job, a devout man, religious. And the devil said, I can change his mind and make him curse y
643.
by powera 11y ago
On the other hand, it most certainly isn't a good sign that they have this many employees.
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by powera 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this is all people who will make less money because of this change claiming that "some other people" will make less money because of this change. It would be considered "FUD" if it was a Silico
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by powera 11y ago
1600 employees and only $80 million in revenue? That's only $50k per employee, which seems very low for a company hiring that aggressively (+25%/quarter).
646.
by powera 11y ago
I don't think it's anything other than a bunch of marketing gobbledygook designed to get people to overpay for a computer.
647.
by powera 11y ago
Jokes are also against the HN guidelines.
648.
by powera 11y ago
Yes, of course. Perhaps "while the O-Rings hadn't yet catastrophically failed" would be the more accurate way of phrasing that.
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by powera 11y ago
Uh, that isn't the "O-Ring Theory" I would have expected. The Challenger failed because, while the O-Rings were within tolerances, they shouldn't have been varying at all . So because they were varying unexpectedly, th
650.
by powera 11y ago
Yeah. This seems like a calculated way for Volkswagen to make sure that nobody comes forward with anything, to "prove" that nothing else is happening. I mean, they even say you may still face criminal charges for coming forward.
651.
by powera 11y ago
My understanding is that every 36 miles, you have actual latitude/longitude lines as the boundary, and a few of the sections are adjusted slightly so the rest are 1 mile by 1 mile. (I don't remember the exact details)
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by powera 11y ago
Well, I'm claiming that it's fundamentally a self-serving and dishonest narrative, so I kind of have to contradict the lesser points to prove the narrative wrong. As a different narrative, I don't see drug-store chains as a s
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by powera 11y ago
What a load of BS. To just pick on one point: * There are only 250 Duane Reade's total (according to Wikipedia), there can't possibly be 400 in Manhattan. * Duane Reade as a chain is intricately associated with the city of New Yo
654.
by powera 11y ago
What does this really mean (and the list of random requests is just pointless): Is it a sign of a breakdown of the traditional ways of making money (as a summary, the replacement of "working the farm" to earn money with "driv
655.
by powera 11y ago
Well, investing initially could just be risk-taking. Investing now seems like pure madness.
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by powera 11y ago
Possibly a silly question: did you consider using the complex integers (either as a + bi, or as (r, 2*pi/T)) instead of the natural numbers as the basis for Nock?
657.
by powera 11y ago
I honestly want a list of Jet.com's newest investors so I can remember to never do business with them. This is the most obvious tire fire of an investment I've ever seen in my life (I missed seeing the late 90s dot-com bubble in
658.
by powera 11y ago
So basically this is a lot of syntax to add something resembling a type-system on top of a fundamentally un-typed language?
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by powera 11y ago
No! This is the equivalent of saying that kids shouldn't have chemistry sets or be able to play on jungle gyms. Saying that critical infrastructure needs to be "bug-free" is one thing, saying that dating site apps need to b
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by powera 11y ago
Nobody is claiming that climate change is "completely wrong". On the other hand, the claim that rising CO2 levels are responsible for a majority of the changes in the earth's temperature could be "completely wrong".

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