rrdharan

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1051.
by rrdharan 10y ago
Not to mention that options can, and do, go underwater at which point they're worthless. I would argue that an option to buy stock at a $15 strike is worth a lot less than 1/16th of a single RSU when the company's current FMV
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by rrdharan 10y ago
I imagine you know this but the tax advantages for stock options aren't as clear cut as you make them sound. To make them more compelling than stock grants the options have to be ISOs, the spread on them has to be negligible or zero (t
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Google most certainly does not fall into the former. Google has had multiple security incidents during the lifetime of the company that resulted in an increasing investment in upping their security profile. Operation Aurora ( https:/
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by rrdharan 10y ago
> How do you know it's true? Many, many people routinely prepare coffee for themselves that is hotter than McDonald's provided. Ok, I'm not exactly sure what we're really disputing here. To clarify, I was just agreein
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by rrdharan 10y ago
And yet it's true. https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts "McDonald’s operations manual required the franchisee to hold its coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit. Coffee at that temperature, if spilled, causes third-deg
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Note that the use of major.minor.revision actually predates the formal SemVer specification by something like 20 years. That doesn't mean you're wrong; but it does explain the confusion. I'm a fan of Scala but I'll admit
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by rrdharan 11y ago
Did you do a double blind test or use any instrumentation to confirm your perception? I ask as someone who has more than once been convinced that I'd made something faster only to prove myself wrong after measuring it.
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by rrdharan 11y ago
Even if they're not gonna be your neighbors, from the last quote it sounds like they'll be your landlords. Not sure if that's much better?
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by rrdharan 11y ago
I had the same guess: both the huge number of sales people and the explanation of user analytics as the company's focus were giveaways. For what it's worth Google shows e.g. some LinkedIn results that seem to now have been redacte
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by rrdharan 11y ago
Not sure how Nest's products are relevant here; they are owned by Google, not Apple. Unless you are saying that there has been no interesting Next Big Thing in the entire consumer hardware/device space? In which case I'm not
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by rrdharan 11y ago
I'm amused that the tech company map from the article doesn't have an entry for the Google NYC office, considering that there are at least 2000 engineers working there (dwarfing everyone else on the map AFAIK): https://
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Spotify Founders Blast Sweden’s Business Environment in Open Letter(wsj.com)
3 points by rrdharan 11y ago|3 comments
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by rrdharan 11y ago
That's entirely unsurprising. The recent major Facebook outage was also caused by bad configuration IIRC. See: http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/ > Configuration > > Configuration bugs, not code bugs,
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by rrdharan 11y ago
Agreed, I basically follow the same process when I'm going to interact with someone professionally. > Yes, they may see I have checked out their profile--so what?) You can actually turn that off - it means you won't be able to
1065.
by rrdharan 11y ago
Someone should build an OpenSSL vulnerability catchy name generator. Maybe seed it with a bunch of negative verbs, software nouns, and organ names?
1066.
by rrdharan 11y ago
That's not true. There are settings in your profile that you can use to control exactly how much of your profile is visible to people not directly connected to you. e.g. My profile is entirely public (you still need to have a LinkedIn
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by rrdharan 11y ago
At my previous employer I used Jenkins with build matrices quite heavily. Lately I've been using TeamCity and we're paying for the enterprise variant. TeamCity has its share of flaws but FWIW it seems to handle more complex workfl
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by rrdharan 11y ago
With respect, and empathy given that I have lost several close family relatives to cancer, I disagree with you. Many cancers are in fact overfunded relative to their societal impact. Moreover too much money is spent on chasing cures rather
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by rrdharan 11y ago
BradRuderman you are conflating two different things that are not necessarily related: (1) How Dropbox chooses to satisfy internal requirements/demand for a group chat solution (2) Why/whether Dropbox should have acquired/acq
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by rrdharan 11y ago
I find it very dubious that you had an EGA monitor hooked up to a machine capable of surfing the Internet, in the very late 1990s/early 2000s.
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by rrdharan 12y ago
This article doesn't accurately convey the state of Chrome Applications. There's actually a much richer way to build apps that have a more native look and feel, including their own branded top-level window with fewer of the limita
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by rrdharan 13y ago
Anyone know when it will be possible to remove the title bar on OS X? With tabs on top it's redundant and Firefox uses more vertical space than Safari or Chrome. There are various extensions floating around that claim to do this but th
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by rrdharan 15y ago
[Disclosure: I worked at VMware from 2002 through 2011.] I take issue with the claim that the competition "quickly followed" on for (at the least) the transparent page sharing feature. VMware was shipping transparent page sharing in their t