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by suresk 14y ago
It really isn't clear what GS was providing if they didn't do the most basic due diligence. I did that kind of stuff as a lowly associate at a university-affiliate VC fund, so I don't see how a firm being paid millions of dollars can't find
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by suresk 14y ago
I'm still not quite sure what to think about Windows 8 and the new Metro-style apps. My first (and somewhat lasting) reaction was that I didn't like the design, but I wasn't sure if it was because it was actually bad or if it was just new.
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by suresk 14y ago
Like briandear mentioned, this is more directed towards Samsung in particular (although Android itself is a big part of it, and this is part of a broader war on Android), but at least part of the reason I think Apple is going after the Gal
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by suresk 14y ago
I guess it is just an issue of semantics, but while I disagree with Apple here, I have a hard time calling them a 'patent troll'. To me, that always indicated an NPE who was suing random people over a patent that had never actually been imp
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by suresk 14y ago
Ignoring the obvious patent ridiculousness, I'm a little bit surprised and dismayed to see Apple going so hard after Android in this way. 1) As a consumer, competition in this space is overwhelmingly positive. You can already see a number o
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by suresk 14y ago
Indeed, when you look at surveys that ask people why they prefer shopping online, things like "24/7 convenience", "saves time", and "better selection" usually end up ahead of "costs less money, even after shipping" and taxes are usually a s
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by suresk 14y ago
It looks like they are just trying to disclose a potential conflict of interest.
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by suresk 14y ago
Likes are a pretty useless signal, IMO. So many businesses offer contest entries or coupons for "Liking" them, that many users (if most of my friends on FB are any indication) have Liked tons of businesses they've never had any interaction
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by suresk 14y ago
I've kicked around ideas for something similar to, but not exactly like Twitter. I think there is possibly a market for more controlled, but still fairly frictionless information sharing similar to Twitter. For example: A group of us from
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by suresk 14y ago
I derive value from GitHub's services and want to support them (and I do have a $12/month plan), but I wish it scaled a little better for smaller developers who want a tiny number of collaborators (ie, 2 or less) on a large number of small
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by suresk 14y ago
Personally, I overwhelmingly dislike working from home, although it is nice to have the option to do so occasionally when I'm sick, waiting for something to be delivered to my house, the weather is poor, etc.. The main ways I think it is ha
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by suresk 14y ago
Somewhat related - about 2 years ago, my employer had a bunch of us go through the SANS/GIAC GSSP training & certification. Some of the material was pretty boring and of questionable utility, but we had a good instructor and some of the
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by suresk 14y ago
Interesting. I don't think I've ever had one take < 1 hour, and most are 3+ hours from 'In Review' to 'Processing for App Store' or 'Rejected'. 12-24 hours is fairly common for me, and I just had one approved the other day that was 'In
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by suresk 14y ago
Yes, absolutely. In fact, based on the fact that my apps frequently sit in 'In Review' (versus 'Waiting for Review') for 12+ hours usually, it wouldn't shock me if they had multiple people review each submission. How much they play around w
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by suresk 14y ago
The first rule of Rockstar Developer Club is that you always talk about Rockstar Developer Club. It certainly seems like there is an element of truth to the numbers, but I think they tend to be both drastically overstated (there are fewer
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by suresk 14y ago
The quantity and quality of programming courses available online right now - completely free of charge - is astounding to me. I taught myself to program in high school in the mid-to-late 90's, and while there was a ton of information availa
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by suresk 14y ago
Getting a CS degree isn't easy - most of the people who lack the interest or intellect for it wash out before too long. I started going back for a CS degree about a year ago, and quickly found this out when I saw people retaking a 2000 leve
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by suresk 14y ago
I cringe a little bit in some of these education threads. On one hand, students who chose to major in something that isn't very marketable right now are lambasted for making a poor decision based on what sounds interesting to them, and they
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by suresk 14y ago
I, too, am a little curious. Anyone seen thread dumps from any of these floating around?
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by suresk 14y ago
Those aren't fundamentally different decisions. In both cases, you are determining your rate of return on your educational investment and making a decision to prefer high debt/high earnings, and lower debt/lower earnings. If you don't think
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by suresk 14y ago
I wish bug trackers were better equipped to help find the real root cause of bugs, and more teams actually tried to track that data. Were the specs bad? Is there a problem with our process? Did we not write enough tests? Did someone just sc
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by suresk 14y ago
As fun and easy as it is to take potshots at PHP, and as much as I am against personally working on any medium-sized or larger project that is written in PHP, I feel like a bit of a hypocrite because I probably owe my career to PHP. One "fe
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by suresk 14y ago
Also, after the dot-com crash and the first wave of offshoring, programming was sort of seen as a dead end. CS enrollment dropped considerably, and I'm not really sure that it has fully recovered. I would argue that the talent pool isn't co
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by suresk 14y ago
Not to mention a few redirects randomly thrown in for every page. I haven't seen a website outside of MySpace that is this pointlessly slow. I wouldn't normally say anything, but Dr Dobbs is ostensibly targeted at developers.
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by suresk 14y ago
It is worth noting that there are reasons beyond enforceability for having written contracts - making sure both parties are on the same page about important elements of the contract such as scope of work, deliverables, acceptance criteria,
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by suresk 14y ago
I don't get it - did he actually email legal@ and get a negative response, or are we just spawning internet lynch mobs the second we run into the slightest amount of resistance now?
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by suresk 14y ago
I guess I'm not sure why you'd want to try to compete with Craigslist directly. Besides the network effect, there is also the fact that Craigslist isn't really making that much money (at least compared to how much they could be). This mea
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by suresk 14y ago
1) While Oracle's chances don't look great, there is still a chance that parts of it could be overturned on appeal. Plus, if they are still hoping for some kind of settlement with Google, they'll need to keep litigating to put pressure on t
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by suresk 14y ago
Just so long as he promises to film a video montage of him enjoying it and presents it to us during a keynote at OpenWorld/JavaOne, like he does with his yacht.
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by suresk 14y ago
Not Mechanical Turk, specifically, but I've used other forum posting services in the past, and the quality was quite low. If your site is targeted at anyone but the most general audiences, I doubt it would be very useful. For example, I thi

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