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by zaidf 8y ago
My favorite interview anti-pattern: a position that stresses analytical decision-making, and then an interviewer that pushes you to give a quick, off-the-cuff answer to “do you think we should build X or not?”.
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by zaidf 8y ago
I wish companies would figure out a way to have their best engineers do blind-shopper-style interviews where they regularly see if their best engineers would be able to make it through their current interview process. This can be tricky t
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by zaidf 8y ago
This is the latest flavor of humble bragging in the Valley.
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by zaidf 8y ago
How do you define abuse? ow does Facebook abuse data?
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by zaidf 8y ago
Did you have the same concerns when Obama won?
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by zaidf 8y ago
I’m questioning your assumption that providing a choice would move the needle much in solving the real issue. The choice you’re asking for in this case seems to only offer additional privacy for those in the top X% of wage levels while pre
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by zaidf 8y ago
social cost of a free product costs that user far more in the long run in the form of political unrest I believe you’re referring to the last elections. But the way I see it, this is mostly a case of people whose candidate lost wanting to
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by zaidf 8y ago
a) Pepsi and Coca Cola is consumed by people of all sorts so just because someone can’t afford to pay $5/mo to access fb, they’re still worth targets for all types of products. b) Vast majority of current users won’t pay $5/mo. If
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by zaidf 8y ago
That logic applied to Google or FB would mean “Google has dropped prices for Search: the 2001 version only costs pennies.” True, but also, you’re using a much older version of a revolutionary product.
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by zaidf 8y ago
a lot of things start by being sold for a lot of money to the riches first before their execution become cheap enough to be targeted Things don’t become cheap in a vacuum: advertising is literally how many things that would have cost mone
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by zaidf 8y ago
Almost everyone making this claim is pretending to speak from a highly priveleged position on behalf of people who aren’t priveleged. They assume that just because they don’t have a problem paying $5/mo, rest of the world doesn’t eit
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by zaidf 8y ago
Who is “we”? You and I might decide it was the right thing to do but you and I are probably also in the top X% of the world in terms of wage. Here’s my hunch on what would happen: we would realize that it’s really messed up that the only op
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by zaidf 8y ago
"The reason the other families aren't on TV are because their loved ones are still alive." Wow, this sounds like a horrible, tasteless burn to end the statement with. And I am a Tesla fan.
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by zaidf 9y ago
The Indian government has been discouraging cash use, leading to consequences such as http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3923522/Indian-farme...
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by zaidf 9y ago
That’s a strawman. The argument is “would a devops person focused primarily on deployment be significantly less likely to make errors of this nature?”
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by zaidf 9y ago
I wish people would talk about this more. I am of the belief that if a single command can lead to a failure like this, you can’t simply plan on that accident not reoccurring. You should basically assume that it will reoccur. Ideally, I thin
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by zaidf 9y ago
A large part of a solid PR team’s job is to cultivate relationships with journalists so when situations like these arise, they feel compelled to cover the issue in a more nuanced and educated manner. I don’t mean to say the PR team has to s
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by zaidf 9y ago
I have come to believe the biggest mistake Facebook made is not hiring the right lobbyists. The disproportionate attack on Facebook versus, for example, Experian is stunning.
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by zaidf 9y ago
Demo link shows a blank page in Safari iPhone ( https://springload.github.io/lic-pattern-library/ )
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by zaidf 9y ago
The standard email verification patterns rely on the user clicking a link. I am not sure how that would have helped here. Making users retype the email (instead of merely click on a link) might be better for exposing scams but requires more
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by zaidf 9y ago
"This site is blocked due to a security threat." First time I'm seeing this message so I doubt it's a case of over-sensitive Cisco firewall. Chrome also blocked it as a threat.
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by zaidf 9y ago
Sounds like what fb was doing in determining what news stories to feature. We saw how that turned out (they ended up largely abandoning the editorial team.)
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by zaidf 9y ago
Advertisers do get to decide but advertisers don't want to have to decide between 10 million channels. They wanted a curated list with some minimum quality control to decide from.
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by zaidf 9y ago
Companies that succeed are driven by burning vision, not by day-to-day operation people. They are not mutually exclusive; thinking that they are is a recipe for failure.
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by zaidf 9y ago
SEC cannot bring criminal charges. The Justice Department can. We will see if they do in the case of Elizabeth Holmes.
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by zaidf 9y ago
Shkreli was charged criminally. She hasn't even been charged criminally.
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by zaidf 9y ago
As she long is able to dodge criminal charges, I think she got away with a slap on the wrist. A $500,000 fine and returning most of her Theranos equity is hardly proportionate punishment for a supposed-$700M fraud.
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by zaidf 9y ago
Has anyone here tried canceling their Apple Music subscription? When doing it from the iPhone, it takes 6+ taps, and involves traversing through 4-6 different screens, including multiple super slow loading webviews.
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by zaidf 9y ago
OP must have little idea or has given little thought to how hard it can be to maintain on-going support for a feature a very, very tiny percentage of customers use. As far as I know, Slack never pitched as the guys who would rescue IRC out
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by zaidf 9y ago
Friend List can be made private through your privacy settings.

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