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by zaidf 14y ago
Sure, I think there is an understanding the first dealer to give him the price will get his business.
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by zaidf 14y ago
My dad does something similar every few years when purchasing a family car. This is what he does: 1. Decides ahead of time what exactly he wants and how much he wants to pay(via internet, friends etc.) 2. Calls up area dealerships that have
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by zaidf 14y ago
Google may actually penalize their phone support for being on the phone for over 3 minutes. Story: An acquaintance got on the phone with support department to troubleshoot a problem. The support person was struggling to help. As the 3 minu
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by zaidf 14y ago
Knowing which device they are on helps me in small ways I don't even consciously remember. For example if someone replied and I knew they are on an iPad this moment, I know that I probably can't expect them to easily sign the PDF agreement
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by zaidf 14y ago
If this is indeed an easter egg, it shows a serious lack of judgement on the part of at least one or more (somewhat powerful) individual at google.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Sure, and thus the rise of the developer-product manager. I'd consider myself to be one and I know plenty of others out there. My primary focus is to make sure what we build is what the clients want but when communicating with the developer
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by zaidf 14y ago
Poor Charlie's Almanack , gave me a whole new framework to look at work and life.
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by zaidf 14y ago
As something concrete so that we don't get lost in abstracts: if you are building an accounting package that needs to calculate a user's tax rate from information pulled from twitter, then having your testers create a framework for testing
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by zaidf 14y ago
Have the QA work with the actual product and not a spec - the users will be using the product after all, not the spec. Why do these have to be mutually exclusive? There are plenty of cases, especially in enterprise, when if you solely(
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by zaidf 14y ago
The PM should be focusing on communicating succinctly the business problems to solve, and the software solutions evolve naturally from the small teams This may work with top x% of programmers/designers but the fact remains, majority of th
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by zaidf 14y ago
Organizational complexity can show up in odd ways in a shipping product. For instance, why does a single product, the Microsoft Surface, give consumers the option between two very different OSes: one model with “Windows RT” and another wit
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by zaidf 14y ago
I wish you emphasized make extremely fair initial offers as much as "Never Make Counter offers".
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by zaidf 14y ago
Facebook constantly leaks your data or change the policy by adding some checkbox to your settings that is set to yes by default and if you missed that change ( I am sure we all read through a huge policy updates) then you are screwed until
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by zaidf 14y ago
Pledge £350 or more Text link on the VLC for Windows 8 website for 1 month and your (company's) name in the list of Silver sponsors within the application. Are these going to be no-follows? Otherwise, isn't that to some extent selling a l
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by zaidf 14y ago
Completely disagree. I found no problems with the tone here. Instead, you have an insider who shares a few implementation details to give us an idea about the depth at which they go to prevent data loss failures. I saw nothing in his post
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by zaidf 14y ago
Let's say I start with a Personal account. I use it for a few weeks. In this time, you are saying there won't be a Personal folder, right? So in a few weeks I am added to a Team. The Teams and Personal folders appear. Does this mean all the
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by zaidf 14y ago
Considering huge number of users will never use the Teams folder, it seems like an additional click for no good reason for most users.
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by zaidf 14y ago
It used to be that a new version of the Windows operating system was enough to get people excited about buying a new computer, giving sales a nice pop. Vague statements like above make me wish papers like NYT published detailed sources. M
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by zaidf 14y ago
the primary function of a programming department is to crank out code OP didn't say the primary function of the legal department was to crank out legal language. He does say their job is to crank out advice that "prevents legally action
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by zaidf 14y ago
The problem with we all have slightly different or even evolving meaning behind words like "occupation", "life" and "time off". I have had time off when I wished I was working on something awesome. I have been working when I wished I had a
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by zaidf 14y ago
If you apply for jobs, you might get one and take months to discover the bad That has little to do with finding a published job. He could accept the first job via a referral and take months to discover its bad, for example. The small proj
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by zaidf 14y ago
1. Decide which country 2. Start a blog (AnAmericanSysAdminInBerlin) about what you intend to do 3. Ping a number of startup and established companies (follow them in twitter don't get spammy) and be clear you are an expert in xxx 4. Prove
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by zaidf 14y ago
My last job was at a struggling Lightbank-funded company. I didn't have much interaction with the VCs but did get to meet with Brad and Paul Lee briefly. Like any VC worth much, these guys have their niche: sales. They have that part figure
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by zaidf 14y ago
The iPhone equivalent of Todo.txt for me is the Notes app. Ironically the reason Todo.txt behavior exists is because all the other Todo apps try to be Todo apps, including this one. Sometimes I just want a blank sheet with no Todo magic.
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by zaidf 14y ago
May be just a matter of preference but for me "our site is experiencing server errors" is much clearer communication than "seeing unicorns." The latter requires me to learn a new terminology in a high pressure environment for no good reaso
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by zaidf 14y ago
Really? When I am not socially inclined, I tend to just keep quiet and for me, that is most comforting(though I'll admit some people find it odd). On the other hand, I ask the most questions when I am genuinely curious about something in wh
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by zaidf 14y ago
For many tech people, the product is the goal - getting some techie thing going. I agree with the first part("the product is the goal") but your second part("getting some techie thing going") sounds like one of the biggest myths. May be i
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by zaidf 14y ago
When is that site which is a collection of Poke mesaage screenshots going to show up? Can't be that long. I can also see this user reaction: "what! I thought there was no way to save a poke message. facebook you lied to me." Typically these
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by zaidf 14y ago
some extra views Billions, not some.
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by zaidf 14y ago
what if Google had one app and inside it was GMail, Search, Maps, etc? You'd find that weird, right? Because you are forcing a significant change of behavior. Similarly, facebook breaking their core functionalities into specific apps is a

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