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by seldo 16y ago
This is a textbook example of Yahoo's problems as a company (I'm an ex-Yahoo). It's all there: poor execution (performance/quality), insufficient focus on the user experience, focus on per-search revenue rather than long term search share,
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by seldo 16y ago
You can search for prevailing wages here: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx A database engineer in San Francisco is here: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=41884... The levels are (very roughly): 1 =
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by seldo 16y ago
My co-founder doesn't have a salary (though he does get our health benefits). I'm on an H-1B so my salary legally required to be "market rate", as set by the US government for my job title and location (a fact apparently not very widely kno
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by seldo 16y ago
The idea that "being agile" is a fixed process that you can write down and teach to people seems to me to be a contradiction in terms. If you have to train people how to do it, and have meetings about it, and read books about it, how can yo
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by seldo 16y ago
At HP, Hurd was famous for ruthlessly cutting jobs. If I were a former Sun employee, I would be very scared of this guy.
606.
by seldo 16y ago
I found that hitting the "updates" tab repeatedly caused the availability of the Twitter app to come in and out -- presumably because I was cycling through servers, some of which had the update and some of which didn't.
607.
by seldo 16y ago
You're essentially using the existence of sexism as a justification for sexism. "There aren't many women in tech, therefore why should I treat women like they might be in tech?" The reason you should ignore the current situation is precisel
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Arrington is completely wrong about women in technology(seldo.com)
54 points by seldo 16y ago|62 comments
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by seldo 16y ago
I was hoping this was going to be a measure of how easy it was to obtain a work visa in these countries, in which case I would expect the US to rank near the bottom...
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by seldo 16y ago
So, I don't want to be a whacko or anything, but... this is the plot of 2012, the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Plot In the film, solar flares and sunspot activity are blamed for altering radioactivity levels in the eart
611.
by seldo 16y ago
I do not. As long as the hardware has been in possession of untrusted parties (and polling place workers do not count as trusted) any software solution can be compromised.
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by seldo 16y ago
It is one of the curious facts of modern culture that the people who love technology the most also seem to be the most opposed to electronic voting. I think it's because the people who most understand how computers work also understand that
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by seldo 16y ago
If you don't have any money or any reputation, just an idea, you need to bring one hell of a convincing story. Try getting non-binding letters of intent from potential customers. But really, you're in the toughest position. Most business co
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by seldo 16y ago
Speaking for myself: you need to bring something to the table other than an idea. Ideally you should bring cash, at the very least the cash required to buy the hardware and software you need, even if the technical co-founder agrees to work
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The great Yahoo developer experiment is over(blog.jeffreymcmanus.com)
4 points by seldo 16y ago|0 comments
616.
by seldo 16y ago
I certainly agree that learning to type is the most important skill in programming. It saves you a few milliseconds every time you type anything, which adds up over thousands of keystrokes into a clear competitive advantage. And unlike comp
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by seldo 16y ago
Very interesting, but a few questions: 1. Really one in three orders was a scam? How big is the sample -- how many times did you ship to Nigeria? How long ago did you stop? 2. You list two problems: determining if a customer really can pay,
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by seldo 16y ago
Preface: I am just another ignorant westerner. Any one of my impressions of these countries could be so wrong as to make my conclusions meaningless. If I'm wrong, please be gentle. I believe there's some differences of scale here. China and
619.
by seldo 16y ago
Can I add "men's fashion is painfully boring and expensive compared to the endless variety of cheap, interesting clothing available to women"? It's a small, small thing compared to these but man how it bugs me. And the US is even worse than
620.
by seldo 16y ago
Call me cynical, but I don't think 18-year-old Bill Gates had the Gates Foundation in mind when he started trampling over the competition in his rise to the top. He wanted to be rich and powerful (because frankly, with the looks and alleged
621.
by seldo 16y ago
I had forgotten they also owned BerkeleyDB (obviously I know that Oracle own Sun, is that why I'm getting downmodded?). But my point still stands: makers of replacement engines for MySQL could be in violation of MySQL-related patents, which
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by seldo 16y ago
Given that Eric Schmidt is the former head of Java at Sun, it seems unlikely they'd have written their own JVM if they didn't have a good reason to do so. Also, JavaME is awful.
623.
by seldo 16y ago
Well, Sun own MySQL. But the drop-in replacement MySQL engine makers (infobright, percona, etc) might be a little worried.
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by seldo 16y ago
Thanks, it naively hadn't occurred to me that Android would be using a non-Sun JVM, and given what you've said it seems that would be a viable route for an IP lawsuit (though it still seems in pretty bad faith).
625.
by seldo 16y ago
I've played with one of these and they are pretty neat. As others have mentioned, most of the functionality relies on using special paper which is printed with patterns of dots. The paper doesn't look special though -- the dots are almost
626.
by seldo 16y ago
Excuse the really really obvious question, but how can you sue somebody for intellectual property infringement on open-source software? Didn't you already give anybody the license to do what they wanted with it? If they've violated the lice
627.
by seldo 16y ago
Reading this just makes me think it should be laughably simple to date another gay male (mostly PHP) programmer[1]. We'd automatically share interests! But WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS?! [1] see http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comic
628.
by seldo 16y ago
I specifically cut out foods containing High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is an artificial additive created by doing messily chemical things to maize. Natural sources of fructose I'm not so bothered with.
629.
by seldo 16y ago
I'm a devotee of mexicoke; in San Francisco's Mission district where I live it is in every store, but even elsewhere in SF it can be hard to find.
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by seldo 16y ago
The last is probably the most important. A snack should a treat; not a thing you do every day at 4pm.

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