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by sabat 14y ago
It's just too goddamned much money for organizations that are small and are not funded startups. $50 per user per year -- if it was $5, they might have a deal, but having to cough up $500 annually for something that was originally free?
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by sabat 14y ago
And so much at Yahoo has actually changed since Ms. Marissa took the reins. Oh, wait.
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by sabat 14y ago
No idea why this would be downvoted except for the fact that Patrick Can Do No Wrong. He's wildly opinionated, questionably successful before his sudden consultancy (he wrote a mildly successful Bingo card program in Java), and self-satisfi
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by sabat 14y ago
Exactly. "Cognitive decline"? The studies I've seen in the past ten years say it ain't necessarily so; you're talking about Joe 6-Pack, not people who use their brains for a living. We only get smarter and more nimble.
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by sabat 14y ago
Nice game, no complaints at all. I can see myself wasting a few hours at this. :-)
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by sabat 14y ago
I'll be the first to admit that although little good ever comes from Chicago, this guy has the right idea.
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by sabat 14y ago
I have not, but I am so not surprised that someone else had the idea, probably made it better, and is in business.
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by sabat 14y ago
I can't help but think that this hand-wringing over the iPhone5 is really an unspoken, collective wonderment: what would Apple have released if Steve was still alive? Would it look like this? Would it have had one more thing? This is collec
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by sabat 14y ago
FB is not comparable to a dotcom book company. If I gave everyone in the world a $1 every time they visited my site I could also have the most traffic'd site in the world Perhaps, but your site would probably not have the marketing treasu
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by sabat 14y ago
This is actually a compelling idea—I've been kicking around a similar idea for a while, where you'd like to buy something (e.g. a 2TB SATA drive) but only when it goes on sale below a certain price threshold. The problem is: what's the busi
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by sabat 14y ago
I think his idea would need to be more flexible than what ifttt allows you to be.
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by sabat 14y ago
LOL, I had roughly the same experience. I'd already moved onto Digg (before it was went downhill) and then to Reddit. But if I'm looking for more serious (if sometimes negative) technology conversation, this right here is the epicenter.
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by sabat 14y ago
I'm with you on this. It's bullshit to compare the two; for one thing, SF is not the Bay Area, and for another, Chicago doesn't pretend to be the startup capital of the world.
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by sabat 14y ago
JSON-RPC is just as easy to understand as REST, without all the pedantry. I hadn't heard of that, but it sounds exciting, partly because it's so self-explanatory.
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by sabat 14y ago
I'm not so sure the OP's argument is substantive. I don't know whether Roy intended that his architectural style, described in his thesis, to become a loosely defined web service 'protocol', but we're not really making everything up as we g
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by sabat 14y ago
Wondering when Heroku will support this, given that they use Nginx at the front of their stack.
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by sabat 14y ago
Interesting to note! Although I find "intellectual property" to be an oxymoron.
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by sabat 14y ago
It was never that to begin with. Fried wasn't trying to create an enterprise. He just wanted to own a small business. That's what he has.
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by sabat 14y ago
It's relevant.
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by sabat 14y ago
He seems to forget that he's not in the same business as startups are; he's viewing startups through a small business lens. see the sickness in our industry He's not in "our" industry. He runs a small business that makes good money, and i
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by sabat 14y ago
That small business is financially more successful Sure. But they're not trying to build the same thing. I think it's mainly a midwestern attitude vs. Californian. Fried just wanted to build a business. Startup founders want to build comp
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by sabat 14y ago
This company is not a startup; it's merely a successful small business. the startup community ... get funding and VC wants to make a profit within a year and get out, at the expense of any long-term goals This is not unheard of, but certa
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by sabat 14y ago
we want to be an emotionally supportive group for people who make a badge of honor out of being socially and professionally inept Unwarranted assumption. If this interview was as bad as I think it might have been, it is not at all inept t
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by sabat 14y ago
Puzzles in interviews are worthless unless the potential job involves doing those same kind of puzzles. If you want to see how someone's mind works, you could, say, talk through solving a real-world problem as if you were pair-programming.
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by sabat 14y ago
An interviewer may not say you've failed, but it's common practice to cut an interview short when an interviewer believes the candidate is not up to snuff. I've been at more than one company where any interviewer is allowed to "cut him lo
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by sabat 14y ago
The 2008-2010 was even worse than the 2000-2003 fallout, and I had to resort to contracting, but you'd need to be pretty desperate to accept a job at a highly toxic environment. Remember, companies need employees just like employees need co
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by sabat 14y ago
It all depends on context. I've had an interview where someone raised his voice nearly to the point of shouting, while leveling criticisms at me. You'll have to take my word for it that I did nothing to provoke this; it was clear to me at t
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by sabat 14y ago
Damaged as in mentally imbalanced or unstable. I've interviewed with people who fit that term.
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by sabat 14y ago
There really is no point in continuing an interview in an environment you find toxic. Allies? I don't think so; this guy clearly felt that the people he had spoken to were damaged, and I doubt he'd want them to be allies of any kind. Be pol
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by sabat 14y ago
And that's that HBO/MPAA/etc get so efficient at catching and prosecuting piracy, that piracy itself dies off. There are just far too many ways to evade detection. Remember, bits copy easily. Controlling that is very difficult, near-impos

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