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by zaidf 10y ago
creepy and megalomaniacal strains of his personality If you choose to, you could attach those super subjective labels to almost any founder of a billion dollar consumer tech company.
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by zaidf 10y ago
...if the CEO and I didn't see eye to eye on something, that was never going to change while this person was CEO. This advice may be reliably true but I would also argue there are major exceptions. For example, take founder & ceo
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by zaidf 10y ago
There should be a SaaS API that let's you file, track and access data from your FOIA requests.
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by zaidf 10y ago
This is such no-brainer reform. I really hope the Valley comes together and crushes the H1-Bs used up by employees of Wipro, Infosys etc. at the expense of much more exceptional people employed by amazon, google etc.
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by zaidf 10y ago
I just don't get why people consider Medium to be so remarkable or innovative. The same (silly) logic was once applied to facebook. "It's just another friendster/myspace!" people said.
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by zaidf 10y ago
Here is the root of your problem - your organization was in Exchange ecosystem before switching to G Suite That is not his problem. That is google 's problem. Ironically, thinking that this is the user's problem may be the ro
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by zaidf 10y ago
That is not unique to Uber. It is a possibility for any company and for large companies, it introduces major risk of damage. This is why companies have controls in place. If you are arguing that the norms industry-wide should change, then
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by zaidf 10y ago
You are assuming you (or I) know the safeguards they already have in place. For example, if they have an audit trail for anyone that access this data or if they have independent audits on data access, it could be sufficient. Both of these a
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by zaidf 10y ago
I generally agree with you that not having the data would make it easier to refuse. But not having the data does come at a cost: in this case, poorer user experience. As a side note, I was mainly talking abt Uber. Your post seems generic
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by zaidf 10y ago
My roommate works at Uber as an engineer. He has a pretty high moral bar and I'd bet there are enough like him at Uber that doing shady things systematically would get exposed to the outside world fairly quickly. Notice I said system
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by zaidf 10y ago
Azure has 10% marketshare. AWS has 30% marketshare. People who aren't on the frontlines of enterprise wheeling and dealing can't see this but for those who are, it is fairly clear that Azure is out for blood AWS's blood.
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by zaidf 10y ago
At the moment, I'm afraid I'm unable to muster the empathy necessary to understand how you could even begin to help the scammer. Is there anyone who can still empathize with her? Strategize with them to help her. Make them the
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by zaidf 10y ago
I wonder if RIAA ever pushed YouTube to embed ads in videos downloaded by these sites. YouTube would object since they can't change the ads once it is downloaded so they'd have to sell a different ad package to advertisers for &qu
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by zaidf 10y ago
"If you want reliable software, insist that no new features go in until all the reported bugs have been fixed." That is a massive oversimplification. In fact, a key job of a product manager is differentiating between critical bugs
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by zaidf 10y ago
My super basic understanding of deep learning is that it lets you skip step 5. Is that true?
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by zaidf 10y ago
They only state the average when they should also state the median along with the entire data set. Let's say they sent 10 shoes of each type. Nine shoes of each type took exactly the same time. But one pair of Atheist shoe was delayed
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by zaidf 10y ago
It is $200 this month. Chances are they will increase the price or put a cap the following month as they did in SF. The SF subscription isn't all that attractive anymore.
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by zaidf 10y ago
He should get a Facebook page and publish a copy of all his posts on it.
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by zaidf 10y ago
"Seriously, you don't need to be internet friends with your roommate. Just talk to them face to face!" -- parents of college kids during early days of facebook.
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by zaidf 10y ago
I concur with you. People who have a super negative impression of SF nerds should re-consider their choice of nerds they are finding themselves around. My own experiences in SF has been positive. I've found people are generally very ex
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by zaidf 10y ago
Spotify is the only subscription I've held for (almost) 5 years and going. Worth every penny!
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by zaidf 10y ago
That is a catch-all argument against basically anything. So my catch-all response: "Obviously. So what? Not a super hard problem to fix."
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by zaidf 10y ago
I think it is ridiculous that we have a minimum age for presidency but no max. age.
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by zaidf 10y ago
The smaller you are as a business, the closer you are to being an individual and less of a business. Of course, as an individual, basically any money you earn is taxed. You don't get to not pay tax on the $1,500/mo rent for your a
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by zaidf 10y ago
WrkRiot CEO's entire resume fraudulent (nytimes.com) Somewhat misleading title. The article itself only mentions the resume once. For example, it doesn't provide examples of the fabrication. If you read the original post. there
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by zaidf 10y ago
I get that artists want to make more money but at the end of the day, that is simply a function of the total pot size and the money that has to be spent to get a pot that size. Spotify, so far, has been losing money. Overall, monetizing m
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by zaidf 10y ago
Exclusives provide a monopoly of sorts to Apple by removing choices for consumer. That makes exclusives a bad thing for the consumers and the market.
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by zaidf 10y ago
Anyone else think Apple is fighting a petty war? Spotify is a solid product and instead of spending energy, money and time fighting them, they could acquire them and take on more ambitious fights.
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by zaidf 10y ago
...they can simply operate their Apple Music service at a loss. Forever. The keyword is "forever" or at least for the next decade or two. It applies to Apple but not Spotify.
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by zaidf 10y ago
A good PM would state in the specs to check the new password isn't the same as the old one.

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