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by zaidf 15y ago
Not a huge fan of an MBA. But I don't think your ability to run your own business is necessarily a strong indicator of your ability to be a VP at a Fortune500.
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by zaidf 15y ago
I'm really surprised google did not try to launch this on colleges similar to fb's roots. A lot of college kids have serious issues with fb's privacy features. Instead of google plus building bloatware like hangouts or huddle, a decent even
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by zaidf 15y ago
I'm underwhelmed. May be facebook should first get their text chat right before moving to video.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Absolutely. The man hours can easily pile up when you do a conf call with a half dozen folks where majority of them are on mute 90% of the time. I recently did contract work for an agency and had instances where a simple spacing or image re
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by zaidf 15y ago
Wow, sounds a lot like our university's tech overhaul, especially the single signon stuff.
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by zaidf 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they put a fair use clause somewhere. Otherwise you could hypothetically run a fairly resource intensive bot that scrapes data 24x7 using up aws download bw for no cost.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Designing with JavaScript by Nick Heinle was one of my first book purchases. I studied the crap out of it in middle school. Javascript is great as intro. Kids are naturally drawn to shiny things and you can create plenty of shiny stuff with
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by zaidf 15y ago
Google Instant. Now this. Is google just bored so much so that they are trying to fix things that were never broken? This is a company that cared so, so much about every pixel of their homepage. And yet, they've just introduced a whole new
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by zaidf 15y ago
I think folks like Zuck graduated beyond such lists a few years ago. At least a partial goal of these lists is to introduce fresh faces and find the "next" Zuckerberg. Otherwise we'd be seeing the same people for a decade.
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by zaidf 15y ago
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/apple.com http://www.retailmenot.com/view/bose.com http://www.bargainist.com/deals/stores/amazon/#b http://dealspl.us/zappos-coupons
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by zaidf 15y ago
Associating discounts with businesses who haven't agreed to them is problematic for me. That's a much broader net than this specific issue. Run of the mill coupon websites have been associating businesses with coupon/discount verbiage for
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by zaidf 15y ago
Neither is San Francisco or Mountain View technically Silicon Valley. I always thought that SV is used more as a metaphor for the tech startup scene than the specific location.
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by zaidf 15y ago
True - but I think it'll be a little different if an official independent organization gives them a "Poor" rating for support or platform reliability.
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by zaidf 15y ago
We copy no one That is good as long as not copying folks is also the best business decision. You get no extra credit in your bank balance for not copying. On the other hand, lots of companies have done very well copying some basic idea fr
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by zaidf 15y ago
I feel we need an independent org that does arbitration of API/platform-related cases. Have a complaint about Facebook's API? File it with the independent org and as a member of the org, Facebook will be forced to resolve it in a fair manne
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by zaidf 15y ago
Anyone else think this thread may be linked to 10-20 years from now when this thing begins to take off?
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by zaidf 15y ago
Is Hulu even an acquisition target at any reasonable price? I always felt the media co backers of Hulu(Viacom, Time Warner etc.) want to keep it independent and use it more to progress their corporate cause than make a return by selling H
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by zaidf 15y ago
You say all this...until it happens to Softlayer(or another host you think has all bases covered). Any data center that has been around for bit will have random screwups to a tiny percentage of their infrastructure almost on a daily bas
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by zaidf 15y ago
I checked out some esoteric books and every now and then would look through the previous due dates and wonder how much in common I may have with some of these locals I'll never know about. It's easy to meet likeminded folks on the web and y
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by zaidf 15y ago
I find it very irritating for precisely the same reasons. The general instability caused by the momentary screen freeze and the breakage of back button(when all the hacks don't work) is extremely annoying. I was literally banging my head ag
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by zaidf 15y ago
The biggest problem with google instant isn't the flickering or any of the issues the author of the post addresses. It is with general usability such as using the back key(sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't), freezing of the screen fo
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by zaidf 15y ago
Since we are on the topic of google search, let me nominate google instant for the worst piece of UI implementation ever.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Flagged. Even if it's accurate, there is little justification for posting names of siblings and parents of these adults .
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by zaidf 15y ago
Facebook's biggest blunder could be their continued focus on increasing engagement at the expense of giving more granular privacy options. There is no reason I should not be able to maintain all my different identities--as an employee, as a
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by zaidf 15y ago
Plentyoffish emailing you your password. OKCupid sending login token'd links Notice the trend? When you're a dating website, engagement trumps security in many cases. But if you are a bank or any service with some liability, you're probably
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by zaidf 15y ago
AFAIK CAN-Spam only applies for unsolicited emails, so a newsletter from a service you opted into does not need to abide by it. May be I'm mistaken.
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by zaidf 15y ago
This is my point, you can get this advice easily outside of YC. I disagree. There are a lot of experienced people willing to learn about your business and provide you valuable insights but in almost all cases, they have some interest of f
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by zaidf 15y ago
but the value prop of it seems to be diminishing as it grows Just some of the things that have become better as YC has grown... - guaranteed convertible debt money waiting for you after YC - meetings with the best VCs - tailored advice
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by zaidf 15y ago
North Carolina, I think, is one of them.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Doesn't it boil down to choosing the rate of expansion? They could probably expand at a slower rate and keep a profit; or they could spend what would otherwise be a profit to expand at a faster rate. At the moment they seem to be going for

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