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by yesno 16y ago
I've been semi-following wikileaks but I didn't know about this Shell-Nigerian infiltration issue. Sometime I feel that whatever noble cause Bill Gates and Warren Buffet do will eventually be overridden by these issues in the future. What w
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by yesno 16y ago
Last night I told my wife that the future seems scary with all these rich multi-international companies starting to stick their legs deeper in foreign countries infrastructure. Oils, Natural Gas, Minings, Banks. I can only pray that these g
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by yesno 16y ago
Whether FB wants to call it hackathons, hack-a-tack, tick-hack-toe doesn't matter. But the message from the parent here is that it's cool to build a product by pulling one-nighter. (And we all know that's the culture in Facebook). The same
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by yesno 16y ago
Not quite sure why this is being downvoted but let me put my more "politically correct" hat on. I don't feel strongly with the presence of the word hack in the same line with engineering. They just don't gel. I rarely and hardly seen any en
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by yesno 16y ago
It might be a matter of time before Oracle decided to cut all of the oxygen lines for these open source solutions judging from Ellison's comment about RedHat business models. What do you think would happen in order for a library to be certi
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by yesno 16y ago
... and bugs... lots of bugs... of course bugs in your Facebook albums are exceptions. I wish I could write code without consequences during maintenance stage :(
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by yesno 16y ago
Cool stats bro. Chill out, here's a glass of wine.
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by yesno 16y ago
I saw an Azure book in a local bookstore yesterday and the content seems to be directed at CIOs, IT Manager and the like. I don't think Microsoft's marketing effort is weak though. http://www.amazon.com/Applications-Microsoft-Platform-Patt
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by yesno 16y ago
I used to work with a few companies that use warez software. Let's just say that the situation weren't great in those companies. While I'm not trying to judge people with their morality and all that stuff, there might be something that link
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by yesno 16y ago
Google is 1 in a [insert the number of startups from 1998 to 2010] 1:xyz
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by yesno 16y ago
Nothing last forever. Eventually all the "startups that you love" will either close their door or be acquired and I think people should expect that since day 1.
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by yesno 16y ago
He quits grad school (he has a degree already). Big difference. No, I'm not trying to knock you off either.
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by yesno 16y ago
... or perhaps the advantage is in the ability of people to communicate. I've lived in a few countries and the significant difference between them is how well people communicates (i.e.: to write, to talk, to imagine and put that imagination
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by yesno 16y ago
In most companies, that's what IT is: doing the necessary stuffs to support business. On the other hand, it's their decision to specialize in such technology. Perhaps they have the necessary business knowledge and they just need to complime
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by yesno 16y ago
But if your competitors have the same amount of experience but have picked up and used the 'latest and greatest' tools in real production environment, guess which one will get the job? Do keep in mind that if you're 40 years old, it's less
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by yesno 16y ago
This is a very unfortunate situation in our industry. BizDev guy says he needs one of them "programmers" who can code and don't talk back to him. BizDev guy knew almost nothing about software development or the "properties of a system softw
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by yesno 16y ago
Could backfire you. There's no guarantee that this is a home-run to get a job. Keep that in mind that the world is not "ideal".
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by yesno 16y ago
... 50 years ago that is (check their age).
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by yesno 16y ago
BBM is the key of BB existence for regular/most BB users outside Enterprise. Without BBM, BB is probably crippled.
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by yesno 16y ago
Only after Mac got successful. If not, it won't be the best times of their lives. Here's another bet: ask them if they want to do that again for at least 2 more times with different companies and unknown leaders, wonder if they'll take it.
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by yesno 16y ago
I would agree with some of the commenters: you need experience and write more code using a single programming language of your choice. But before you do so, here are some of my suggestions, take it with a grain of salt because it may not wo
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by yesno 16y ago
A similar set of properties can be applied to web startups as well: market is saturated, competition is strong, and the consumers are much more conservative than you think (unless if you happen to be in Silicon Valley). Keep in mind that th
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by yesno 16y ago
It's relative. It depends on your POV. To some people, Hacker News is like that book. To others, HN is like a bible.
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by yesno 16y ago
Microsoft here is just a temporary buffer for those who can't get H1-B visas. Once they're approved, MS will ship them to HQ, Redmond. apike, one of the commenter in this thread, used to work for Apple, he might be able to give more info (a
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by yesno 16y ago
There are small game-dev shops around here and they seem to do okay, not terribly successful. Let's recap: - EA Burnaby/Vancouver laid off twice in 2 years - Disney Propaganda laid off 100-200 people recently - Nexon (or something) close th
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by yesno 16y ago
It's a nice place to live. Period. Can't go further than that. Life is about series of choices: - Work hard vs enjoy life - Spend time writing unit-tests vs hack and go home by 5 PM - Come in early 8.30 and build relationship/culture vs com
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by yesno 16y ago
What does it mean with "Specialized Knowledge". I'd like to know.
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by yesno 16y ago
Mind if I ask you where you can get these data? I'm a semi hard-core NBA fan.
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by yesno 16y ago
Relying the situation to motivate you seems... um... very risky and not quite strategic. I noticed that some people weren't born to become Jason Calacanis, Zuck, Gates, Hsieh. For these type of people, they have to play a bit safe or else t
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by yesno 16y ago
That is assuming everything will go well: this person will get a few customers ASAP, within 1 week or 2, to stay a float for at least 1 - 1.5 years. Consulting requires networks and connections. If the person stick too long as a "Senior Sof

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