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by zjaffee 9y ago
> I think it helps newcomers and people who feel like they're at the fringe find a community. Once thing I've noticed is a lot of the diversity events are directed towards college students. Grace Hopper has a large student pre
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by zjaffee 9y ago
The one advantage I see beyond the traditional self-organization of various diversity groups is that an ERG can do a lot with a non zero amount of money, and influence within the recruiting department. Forced participation is never a good t
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by zjaffee 9y ago
As of when? I've taken a ton of flights on united and never had to pay a carry-on fee. I've seen such fees on airlines like spirit or fronteer, but never on a "non-discount" airline.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Reddit is very different from other social/consumer tech companies in that they are a very small company. Last I heard, they are somewhere around 200 employees. Compare that to how many employees twitter has and you'll notice that
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by zjaffee 9y ago
If FB were to stop growing at the rate it has been, ~100bn would be a reasonable target market cap, given a P.E. Ratio of around 10.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Companies do this so that they don't get sued for lying in the event that things don't always go well.
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by zjaffee 9y ago
While it would almost certainly cost more than 400k to build a replacement photoshop, the open source community would already be profiting off the fact that a commercial photoshop already exists, and has years of product professionals spend
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by zjaffee 9y ago
I agree that the software engineering profession isn't one with much prestige vested into it as a profession. However, the technology industry, especially up and coming start-ups, and the established players like google,facebook, or ap
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Additionally, in smaller American markets, Uber is simply where the drivers are. Lyft's are almost always 15 minutes away, and because of that, they will always have surge pricing where Uber might not.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
I disagree that this is what makes LA a prime candidate for mass transit. If you look at NYC, all train lines exist to bring people in and out of manhattan where most people work. In LA you have this massive N+1 problem where you'd nee
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by zjaffee 10y ago
This makes no sense, while Vox might sometimes post video stories on their discover platform, it's not particularly common that they do when compared to other partners such as mashable or buzzfeed. Regardless, you see similar articles
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by zjaffee 10y ago
While this is a new concept for something a government does, this is already a thing that I've seen tech companies in the south bay provide to their employees when they are too small to afford sending busses.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
There are many companies over a 100 years old who are still in the fortune 500, many of them have very strong market cap's. Look at GE, or JP Morgan. http://fortune.com/2015/06/10/oldest-companies-fortune
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by zjaffee 10y ago
I disagree, the AOL purchase came with things like Huffington Post and Tech Crunch.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
Yes, but AOL has a bunch of subsidiaries ranging from Huffington Post to TechCrunch.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
Also going deeper into this, one of the common trends is huge liquidity events which allow there to be a huge emergence of venture capital funds. The growth of tech stocks in the late 90's gave people tons of money to blow, and since t
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by zjaffee 10y ago
I don't think it does make a difference, these are all just resource/cluster managers. Swarm and Kubernetes are more focused on containers, where Mesos is more robusta and can support running many other things on top of it.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
The type of person who will thrive at Netflix doesn't see an issue here. Either they have no issues whatsoever about having work always on their mind, or they are just simply so good at their jobs that they can still be one of the best
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by zjaffee 10y ago
Ehh, at least in todays world where teams that focus on operations in a DevOps environment, there are a lot more metrics that operations teams can be measured by other than just uptime. For example, lets say a decision is made that you want
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by zjaffee 10y ago
Its so dumb that people in todays day and age under estimate the intelligence of the Nigerian people who as a group in American are easily on of the most educated groups around with >25% of them have a graduate or professional degree. (
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by zjaffee 10y ago
This is much bigger than that. Linkedin has around 7k employees in the bay area, far more than Microsoft currently has down here. This acquisition will transform Microsoft into a major bay area Employeer, with >10k people working in the
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by zjaffee 10y ago
among those with Asian origins that I have worked with, I'd say at least half are foreign born, so I don't think its entirely unfair.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
I both agree and disagree with this as many of the other comments took this in a very different way than I had. You can still test for creative ability in the traditional coding interview construct through systems design questions. It requi
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by zjaffee 10y ago
What? while sure you might not need a database if you have under 10k rows, if you want any amount of resiliency storing data in memory is a huge mistake as if the current instance of the application fails your done for.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
A ton of sites went down yesterday that were on the cloud-flare network due to them having an issue with one of their transit carriers. Its crazy how the downtime of what seams like one edge network provider can damage so much of web access
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by zjaffee 10y ago
2 in the mobile space.
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by zjaffee 10y ago
What ever happened to community over code?
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by zjaffee 10y ago
While yes, the Washington Post has become more focused on new media, its really only them and the NYTimes that have successfully transitioned (as much as one could really expect) into new media. The websites and mobile apps for these compan
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by zjaffee 10y ago
Sure, Carlos Slim owns a huge portion of the the NYTimes public stock, but he doesn't have any significant voting power as that is held privately. If a rogue editor/journalist criticized Carlos Slim, he would have no power to fire
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by zjaffee 10y ago
Companies want to be in a possition where if a talented candidate is african american, female, gay, transgender, ect. that they wouldn't turn down the offer simply because they didn't feel comfortable working there/there is a

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