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by tomerico 16y ago
Not likely. Consider an extreme example where they admit they didn't hire you because you are black. They broke the law and cannot be protected. In other words, your signature does not provide a lot of legal security
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Nexus S(google.com)
364 points by tomerico 16y ago|263 comments
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by tomerico 16y ago
Assuming ~100M the P/E 60x and not 600x, which is high but not terribly high, considering their rapid growth. For example, Amazon is worth 79B with a P/E of 71x
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by tomerico 16y ago
Their current annual spending is $9.2M. Of which $1M is spent on hosting. $3.5M on salaries. It seems they want to grow really fast - 185% growth in salary expenditures next year to $9M.
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by tomerico 16y ago
With your solution, I might have not accepted you to do job because it is obvious you don't have experience with Unicode and localization.
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by tomerico 16y ago
I can't vote you high enough. Rescue time is the biggest thing that happened to my working discipline. I don't even use the tools to block non-productive work, but seeing a report in which 70% of your time is spent on non-productive activit
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by tomerico 16y ago
The App Store / Marketplace is a very important distribution channel, which I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss. Downloading an app in today's modern phone is almost as frictionless as entering a website.
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by tomerico 16y ago
A pilot's job is one of the easiest to replace with a computer. It is already happening in the military. In fact, the only actual role of a pilot today is to take off and land the plane, the rest is auto-pilot. If the unions make it so hard
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Google co-founders wanted Steve Jobs as their first CEO (techspot.com)
3 points by tomerico 16y ago|1 comments
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by tomerico 16y ago
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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Amazingly Human Japanese Robot(youtube.com)
1 points by tomerico 16y ago|1 comments
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Steve Jobs First iPod Keynote (2001)(youtube.com)
1 points by tomerico 16y ago|0 comments
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by tomerico 16y ago
Almost correct. The main problem to me is that GPS apps still run in the background when you close them, and they KILL the battery life. So every time I want to exit my GPS, I have to close it, double tap, press and hold the icon and close
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Tell HN: The Submissions System is Broken
136 points by tomerico 16y ago|49 comments
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by tomerico 16y ago
You display partial data. I did a quick google search and Samsung Galaxy S 16GB cost 799 CHF on swisscom http://swisscomonlineshop.sso.bluewin.ch/onlineshop/Pages/Pr...
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by tomerico 16y ago
I can share my experience from developing with Silverlight and c# for a few years (Though for the past year I've developed exclusively in java). First of all the language. c#, especially in the latest iterations has become incredible. Featu
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by tomerico 16y ago
Steve jobs has a tendency to identify technologies which are on the brink of succeeding, and bring them to the mass market. Examples are pixar, the iPhone, the iPad and early exclusions (apple was the first to exclude floppies from their co
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IPhone's Trainyard developer share his story on how he got featured(struct.ca)
32 points by tomerico 16y ago|0 comments
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by tomerico 16y ago
Try to guess which company is using this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2601554/logo.jpg
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by tomerico 16y ago
Hopefully: * War * Garbage * Pollution * Taking your shoes off in airports :)
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Cameras attached to birds: peregrine falcon and Goshawk (youtube.com)
2 points by tomerico 16y ago|0 comments
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by tomerico 16y ago
He can mark it as 'unlisted' to overcome that problem.
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by tomerico 16y ago
Suggestion: Provide the user with starting templates based on their goals e.g. blank, wedding, blog, Company Information... There templates will contain a default theme and the structure inside, which I could use as a guide when editing. In
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by tomerico 16y ago
There have been many rumors (patent applications) that Apple intend to have their iMac line act as a tablet. With a large capacitive screen and iOS (In addition to OSX), which effectively would act as Microsoft surface, just with mature sof
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by tomerico 16y ago
Google has never paid any dividend and has always gave big bonuses to its employees. So stockholders already tolerate these things. Microsoft on the other hand has been paying generous dividends, its profits has been rising at an impressive
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by tomerico 16y ago
The 88 in the output is the area of the smallest square (an 8x11 square)
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by tomerico 16y ago
Yes, it works using search. e.g. you could search for all conversations with a specific contact to see your conversations frequency across the years.
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by tomerico 16y ago
I think that apple intentions are different. They want you to try really hard before you submit your application. In the same way YCombinator want you to. By publicly claiming you only accept quality apps, people will try harder and self fi
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How Much Big Brands Are Spending on Google Ads(adage.com)
14 points by tomerico 16y ago|0 comments
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Amazing Augmented Driving App on iPhone(youtube.com)
2 points by tomerico 16y ago|0 comments

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