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by thejo 17y ago
Prof. Varian lectured on this topic at the School of Information at UC Berkeley in October, 2009. The audio is here - http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dls2009...
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by thejo 17y ago
Here's an IT Conversations interview with Sal Khan - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4386.html
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by thejo 17y ago
http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/53-HipHop-PHP-Nifty-Trick.h...
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Speaking the Java language without an accent(ibm.com)
1 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments
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Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr(ibm.com)
1 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments
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by thejo 17y ago
> How about supporting public key encryption for SMS? The protocol in its current widely deployed form does not support it.
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by thejo 17y ago
> Asynchronous, callback-based code is frequently more difficult to write, harder to reason with, more inflexible, and buggier than similar synchronous code. That is an excellent point that is usually ignored. Thread per request is much
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by thejo 17y ago
Many SaaS products, especially enterprise software, have a "login as a different user" feature that engineers use for debugging. It's good that non tech savvy users aren't always aware of the amount of information leakage that happens in si
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by thejo 17y ago
He's always been pretty open about his "just get the job done" approach. That's exactly what PHP is too. Not beautiful, well designed etc., but gets the job done in most cases. This is a mail he showed at a talk - http://lerdorf.com/fanmai
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by thejo 17y ago
Getting to Plan B by John Mullins and Randy Komisar is another good book from 2009. It provides a framework to arrive at a business model that works with lots of analogs from successful companies. A nice addition to the customer development
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by thejo 17y ago
The headline is misleading. He's pretty balanced in his views on Microsoft and Google.
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Joshua Schachter on blogging tools(joshua.schachter.org)
7 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments
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by thejo 17y ago
On the first point, you have to remember that the larger a company grows, the more impersonal it becomes. Interviewing in most large companies is usually seen as a chore, the outcome of which does not have a huge impact on the interviewer.
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by thejo 17y ago
These are very basic, but here goes - * Most interviewers, especially at big companies, don't take the time to read a resume in detail. Also, it is usually difficult to access websites if all they have is a hard copy of your resume. Make it
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Groupon Gets A Hefty $30 Million From Accel For Local Offers Service(techcrunch.com)
9 points by thejo 17y ago|1 comments
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Total security in a PostgreSQL database(ibm.com)
27 points by thejo 17y ago|3 comments
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by thejo 17y ago
Any business we consider to be a commodity today and can't live without. It wasn't always so, and somebody worked hard to make it one.
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Oracle Announces Plans for Sun's Products - Raises Concerns about NetBeans(infoq.com)
3 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments
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by thejo 17y ago
Those were mostly "funny quotes about technology". Since this is hacker news, what are your favorite quotes about entrepreneurship? Here's mine - "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that.
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Cocoa for scientists(macresearch.org)
7 points by thejo 17y ago|1 comments
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Head First iPhone Development(oreilly.com)
1 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments
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Babies Cry With an Accent, Study Finds(abcnews.go.com)
11 points by thejo 17y ago|2 comments
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by thejo 17y ago
I don't think the IITs have ever been famous for their research programs. They are well known as a magnet for the smartest engineers in India. Those smart engineers then come to the best US universities and contribute to the reseach, start
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You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance(queue.acm.org)
2 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments
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The DVR vs Internet Video(blogmaverick.com)
3 points by thejo 17y ago|2 comments
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by thejo 17y ago
Direct link to article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870422400457448...
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Will the Promise of Location Based Ad Models Ever Get Off the Ground?(itc.conversationsnetwork.org)
1 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments
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India's demographic moment(strategy-business.com)
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by thejo 17y ago
Venture Lab at Berkeley - http://cet.berkeley.edu/connect/teams I'm quite sure the The Lester Center at Berkeley has a program too - http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/main/index.html
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by thejo 17y ago
Andy Grove has a wonderful notion of something he calls "earned luck". One needs luck to succeed, but you can't sit around waiting for it. I came across it in his biography by Richard Tedlow... a highly recommended read.

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