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by suresk 14y ago
I've spent a lot of time learning about the decision to dropping atomic bombs on Japan, and it is quite nuanced. I'm still not 100% sure if it was the correct course of action, given the information available at the time. First, any attempt
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by suresk 14y ago
How is that not _exactly_ the case here? The company offers a $10k fee for referring an employee who stays 6 months. Employee refers someone who stays 6 months, but the company forgets to pay him and he forgets until a month after he quits.
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by suresk 14y ago
I don't think the business model is quite as horrible as some make it out to be, but it certainly doesn't seem to warrant a $6+ billion valuation for Groupon and doesn't really bode well for some of its competitors. I see two major problems
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by suresk 14y ago
If one has to become a sophisticated Yelp user and do a substantial amount of detective work in order to determine if Yelp reviews are legit in order to get any value out of it (or at least not get actively misled by it), then what value do
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by suresk 15y ago
Unless things have changed since I was an intern at a VC fund almost a decade ago, VCs rarely sign NDAs, especially before due-diligence is complete. There are a lot of good reasons for that, and I've since found it a good personal policy w
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by suresk 15y ago
What makes you think this won't happen with Google? They have a very valuable patent portfolio, and there is a very high likelihood that Google will at some point experience problems similar to Yahoo, Microsoft, Kodak, etc. Once that happen
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by suresk 15y ago
Playing devil's advocate here a little bit - If you were a small organization with little technical expertise, how would you hire developers? As someone who doesn't have a CS degree, I agree that it is frustrating to see hard requirements l
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by suresk 15y ago
To be fair, before them it was Microsoft. I worked at a place once that brought in a few ex-Microsoft execs and managers, and the end result was a dev hiring process that worked roughly like Microsoft's - despite us not having access to the
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by suresk 15y ago
I'm not sure how bad Ford's touchscreen was, but this problem isn't unique to them - car UIs in general still feel way behind what we are capable of. The touchscreen on my 2011 Lexus is pretty disappointing - not very intuitive and often re
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by suresk 15y ago
These seem like mostly good ideas. I do see some problems with things like GitHub and SO rep becoming so important in the filtering/hiring process - it gives a huge advantage to those who work at companies with good open source policies. Op
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by suresk 15y ago
Indeed, had you asked me to rate myself as a developer 10 years ago and today, I would have rated myself substantially higher 10 years ago, simply because I had no idea how much I didn't know. It wasn't until my first job that I started to
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by suresk 15y ago
The post was a little disjointed, but there were two things I wanted to comment on: 1) Just build stuff. I think this, by itself, is pretty good advice. I've built a lot of websites and apps, and while I haven't gained a lot of notoriety or
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by suresk 15y ago
Sorry, I should have worded that a little more carefully. Yes, I agree there are situations where a limited-duration pairing is useful and even ideal. It is only when pairing consumes most of your day for days or weeks on end that it gets r
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by suresk 15y ago
I really dislike paired programming, and if I ever end up in another situation where all or most of the day is spent sharing the keyboard with another developer, I think I'd go insane. My first experience with it [1] was pretty bad from bot
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by suresk 15y ago
That sucks, and I hope you get things sorted out. My apps are just for extra cash, but I'd still be pretty upset if I were in your situation. Unfortunately, this highlights the drawbacks of relying on a third-party for all of your income, e
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by suresk 15y ago
Enterprise software purchasing is pretty broken from both sides, but the vendors make tons of money because of it and the managers who do the purchasing often don't care. Part of the problem Alex is seeing (and I've seen) is that the startu
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by suresk 15y ago
I find it a little odd that he spent so much time haggling over a $50 tool that is obviously providing a lot of value to him. The response from the vendor (about it being hard to make money to pay his developers when selling a fairly niche
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by suresk 15y ago
For purchases like a new MacBook or iMac, I generally prefer to purchase them in-store, for a few reasons: 1) Save money on shipping 2) Get the item quicker 3) If there isn't someone in your household who is home during the day, having big/
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by suresk 15y ago
As a developer, the ability to respond to reviews is also the #1 feature I would like to see. The lone 1-star review for my app contains factually incorrect information based on what I believe is a simple misunderstanding on the part of the
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by suresk 15y ago
While I believe that humans are having a significant, negative effect on the climate, I can see how there might be some doubt and skepticism as to the magnitude of the damage and how much of that is caused by humans. I'm not saying I agree
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by suresk 15y ago
It's tempting to think that technological progress can lead to a reduction in the number of hours worked or allow us to retire sooner, and I agree that in theory it is possible. But our economic, political, and social structures will never
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by suresk 15y ago
Love your idea and really hope you're able to be successful with it. As a developer with absolutely no design ability, bootstrap + some nice-looking themes could really improve the way I build websites - and I certainly wouldn't hesitate to
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by suresk 15y ago
Is it unequivocally good? Technology has certainly already disrupted a lot of industries and increased the marginal revenue product of labor (and lowering the number of people employed), and I think we are just getting started. At some poin
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by suresk 15y ago
If you're on OS X, I sell one for $2 on the Mac App Store - http://www.uresk.net/httpclient/ . I'm working on a major update, and I'd be interested in hearing some more details about the features that would make a tool like this useful to
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by suresk 15y ago
I don't agree with that. When I signed my contract with Verizon, they offered online payments via credit card as a free-of-charge option for payment. By charging for that, they are materially changing the nature of our agreement, regardless
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by suresk 15y ago
Given Verizon's size, 2% seems a little high, but it's sort of within the range of reasonableness. That said, I see this as nothing more than a way to get a few million dollars per month for doing nothing. If it were really to cover CC fees
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by suresk 15y ago
I don't get this explanation at all. It isn't like credit card companies just barely started charging processing fees. And, on the other side, customers who utilize the less expensive payment methods aren't being given a credit for saving V