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by suresk 14y ago
I wonder why this is seen as being an effective way of mitigating the risk of discrimination lawsuits? At some point, whether you explicitly tell them or not, the candidate knows they didn't get the job. I can see where it might be problema
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by suresk 14y ago
Asking to delay the start date by two months might not be standard, but it isn't incredibly unreasonable either - if they are already employed, they are going to be delaying by 2-3 weeks by default anyway, and finding another candidate may
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by suresk 14y ago
That P/E is somewhat misleading, because it is heavily skewed by the loss they reported in September (interestingly, a big chunk of that loss can be blamed on a huge writedown of their investment in LivingSocial). Prior to that, their P/E w
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by suresk 14y ago
I think it comes down to a few factors: 1) Their sales and marketing expenses are incredibly high. 2) I think the kind of deals Groupon does only work for some merchants - those with high margins, new businesses, and those that are really g
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by suresk 14y ago
Another problem is controlling the quality of deals that merchants add. The whole selling point of Groupon (and similar "deal" services that have sprung up) is that they aren't just the run of the mill coupons you get in the mail every week
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by suresk 14y ago
I would assume that Groupon could build something like that tomorrow, if they really wanted to. However, the overhead isn't necessarily in the process of creating a deal - it is in finding local merchants and convincing them to give you a b
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by suresk 14y ago
I've worked 24+ hours straight a handful of times in my career. "Healthy" and "relaxing" are not two adjectives I'd use to describe such coding marathons, and a lot of the code that comes out of them is pretty low-quality. I understand ther
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by suresk 14y ago
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you (static typed languages are going to be faster on the JVM), but JRuby - partially with the help of invokedynamic, added in Java 7 - has come a long way performance-wise since Twitter began their rewr
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by suresk 14y ago
I'm admittedly not too tuned-in with the Mongo/Redis/Couch communities, but I do hear from a lot of folks using my native GUI http client tool to interact with their web APIs. I kind of assumed that most users of them were fairly happy to u
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by suresk 14y ago
I've kicked around some ideas for this problem a while back. I think letting users define a "view" like this is a pretty good approach. I also think a reasonable default is to just pick the the N most popular (where "popular" means defined
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by suresk 14y ago
Interestingly, I had a kind of DOS attack on my email account when someone gained access to a credit card account of mine and used it to send money to themselves - I got inundated with hundreds of random emails per second when they were sen
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by suresk 14y ago
Countries with much broader safety nets for entrepreneurs are not producing the risky innovative companies that America is. Could this be because countries with broader safety nets also have more regulation and make it hard to fire people
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by suresk 14y ago
If Amazon were merely collecting large quantities of patents and using them against companies who instigated patent litigation against them, I wouldn't be calling Bezos a hypocrite. I understand that - not acquiring patents is almost suicid
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by suresk 14y ago
Pursuing patents is one thing, utilizing them offensively against a competitor is another. Amazon used their one-click patent to harm competitors, but I've seen no evidence of Google utilizing patents against companies who haven't first fil
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by suresk 14y ago
Yes, it does. The message from Bezos, who has a history of abusing the patent system to harm competition, comes off as self-serving and hypocritical, which makes it easier for opponents of patent reform to write it off.
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by suresk 14y ago
This rings about as hollow as if it were Tim Cook complaining about closed ecosystems. Bezos likely realizes that as Amazon moves into making and selling mobile devices and tablets, they too will be targets for patent litigation.
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by suresk 14y ago
Glad to hear it is useful to you. I'll look into making the minimum window size smaller for the next release - thanks for the feedback.
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by suresk 14y ago
Thanks. The browser-based ones have improved quite a bit recently. I use Advanced REST Client whenever I'm on a Windows machine - it is quite good. There are a few features that my tool has that make it worth a few bucks for some people, I
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by suresk 14y ago
It was just something I needed at the time - I was doing a lot with REST services at the time and thought a simple tool for interacting with them would be handy.
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by suresk 14y ago
I really like building developer tools and kind of miss doing it full time. I built a tool for testing/playing with REST services last year and sell it on the OS X app store: http://www.uresk.net/httpclient/ I'm not getting rich off it, b
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by suresk 14y ago
I think it is really unfair to call Github greedy - they provide a valuable service and charge, in my opinion, a very reasonable price for it. I'm actually considering moving to bitbucket - I have a lot of small private repos, and free vs $
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by suresk 14y ago
I guess I'm a little bit curious as to why it is so important code like this ends up on your Github account? It is pretty simple, relatively useless outside of the course, and thousands of other people are writing very similar code - I'm no
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by suresk 14y ago
I guess it depends on the magnitude of saving we're talking about. I have also seen people who work 12+ hours per day making a ton of money, and only give themselves tiny budgets for pursuing things they enjoy - one guy worked a full-time j
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by suresk 14y ago
I probably wouldn't gamble on Apple forgoing litigation over something like that, but you're right - so many API-related leaks already occur that it is effectively useless, except to block legitimate things like books, tutorials, and sharin
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by suresk 14y ago
I've been taking the other algorithms class (Sedgewick and Wayne from Princeton), which has been interesting and informative so far. I'll second your statement about the usefulness of these classes for people who are self-taught - I'd been
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by suresk 14y ago
This is something Google could do pretty easily themselves right now - I'm a little surprised that they haven't. Installing the plugins isn't that hard, but a nice little package that contained everything you needed for Android developmen
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by suresk 14y ago
It's clear that SO adds a ton of value in general, and I've frequently found it useful when I'm working with a new and unfamiliar piece of technology and can't quite figure something out. I've found it to be sort of annoying as an answerer,
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by suresk 14y ago
Interesting read. Reading articles like this makes me wish the sources to some of those older RTSes (Starcraft, Warcraft, Age of Empires) were available to look at - I'm sure there'd be some interesting stuff in there.
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by suresk 14y ago
I'm certainly not in the elite ranks that they are targeting and I don't feel too bad about it, but this makes me wonder about the general purported software developer shortage. How much of it is genuine (some of it certainly is), and how m
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by suresk 14y ago
Sounds like an interesting idea - I love reading, and a lot of ideas I've had have been book-related. Just curious - why not utilize Amazon's book database, since that is likely how you'd make your money anyway (via referral fees)?

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