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by sdizdar 16y ago
These are good points. "What was the last Oracle innovation you heard about?" - that is very good question. It is hard to believe that company with $26B (4x more than Google) in sales has no innovation. Could it be that since oracle invent
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I think the reason is that internet is full of trolls and if you don't put significant effort into making community / collaboration clean and vibrant then the collaboration site is destined to fail. For example, compare Quora and Yahoo! Ans
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I would like to understand the following: Why do you think Oracle does boring stuff? For example, both Oracle and Google work hard to make very scalable and highly available systems - but somehow Oracle is boring while Google is exciting.
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Ask HN: Why does no one talk about working or interviewing for Oracle?
17 points by sdizdar 16y ago|15 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
The main point of this article is how GEA can scale very very fast... Basically, it sounds like: "you can win a lottery too, and GAE is there to scale in case you win a lottery". Of course, installing everything on more expensive EC2/racksp
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by sdizdar 16y ago
The reason why recruiters are needed is because companies are very bad in answering and maintaining their job posts and open positions. Recruiter will spend time establishing contacts with all possible prospects. Lets take example of seatge
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I believe that for non-naive English speakers like me these "I'm lying" phrases are very annoying. Mainly because we still translate sentences into our own mother language (or some kind of proto-language) and then try understand the meaning
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Ask HN: Looking for simple service or software product for making intro videos
2 points by sdizdar 16y ago|1 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
As far as I know this is offered for $15/hour call center people in Las Vegas (or something like that). Friend of mine told me that is about $2000 in first week and then after training it is $3000. This is quite significant chunk of money f
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I think these check in services are still in infancy - and neither foursquare nor gowalla fix real-world problems. For example, my wife and I went for dinner yesterday. We ended up at Pier 39th. Which restaurant to chose? What are the speci
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Actually, regarding engineering salaries, I think is this is very very good. In recent years, we ended up in situation where it is widely believed that technical knowledge / expertise is not needed to start a software startup or run success
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by sdizdar 16y ago
> Using the remote to enter search terms for Youtube is possible, but is a dreaded chore. This is exactly what Apple is trying to tell: searching on TV is not what consumers want. If you ask me as a consumer, searching on TV just does n
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by sdizdar 16y ago
The concept is excellent. And here is what I use to achieve the exactly same thing: http://senadreport.com/post/1472323819/how-to-stay-focused The ratio for me is maybe 15/45.
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Congratulation to Kik. Great! But I'm concern about this service and privacy. It uses same tactic as Buzz (which tactic I didn't like). Here is my understanding - please correct me if I'm wrong: First, Kik ties in a person's username with t
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I'm also coming from part of the world where people just drink a little more than here. So, I had the similar problem, and here is what I did: - Exercise during the week and don't drink alcohol at all during the week. Exercise in the mornin
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I think the problem is much more general. It seems like the underlying problem is that technology companies have idea to divide people into two categories: manager and individual contributors (developers). And then rank them into levels. T
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by sdizdar 16y ago
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html However, my problem is that modern language are hiding these things for you.
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Ask HN: Growth of my service is stagnant. What next?
5 points by sdizdar 16y ago|1 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Having kids makes you wiser.
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by sdizdar 16y ago
First, I'm 100% convinced that design does not sell the product. It some instances it is very important, but in other instances it is not. I'm using many confusing and ugly products but since they solve my problem, I use them (all HA softwa
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by sdizdar 16y ago
MS has some of the best engineering team in the world. But MS does not have leadership with courage. That is the problem.
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Ask what he/she did wrong in his/her life and things at which he/she failed. Don't be fooled with "quiet soft-spoken voice of reason" and other outside behavioral decoration. These things can be learned. School where I learned this: odesk.c
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Very very inspiring post. I've built and released only two web sites and just a couple of C++/C projects in storage area (of course nothing successful), so I have way to go... It be would interesting to know what did you learn of each thes
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Ask HN: Need Contacts: small teams which use multiple online services
2 points by sdizdar 16y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I wonder what people will do with their money when they die? Spend all that money in after life? As my father says: money is irrelevant - think about what you are going to think about your life on dead bed. And the other important saying is
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Any suggestions how to make money with showzey.com?
1 points by sdizdar 16y ago|2 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Here is my list: * The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) * The Four Steps to the Epiphany * The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-can Harness The Power Of True
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Facebook + Foursquare + ChatRoulette = FBChatroulette.net(fbchatroulette.net)
1 points by sdizdar 16y ago|0 comments