JGailor

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by JGailor 4y ago
> I highly suspect very few will ahve to tear it out. It'll cost more money to replace than it would to pay license fees for many companies. Developer time costs money. That is the strategy companies are using to monetize these sort
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by JGailor 4y ago
> If they're not just homebody introverts in the first place, they may already have a pretty saturated schedule/network without many suitable people around to pair off with. Then they really don't have the time for a relat
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by JGailor 4y ago
The problem with these articles is that they never go into exactly what parts of the message and metadata is actually encrypted. It can't all be encrypted (or at least I'm not aware of how that would work in practice), so it woul
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by JGailor 14y ago
Well, given how many people Zynga is buying vs. the mass exodus that seems to be happening in S.F. from them, I'd be interested in seeing their recruitment numbers.
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by JGailor 14y ago
I understand your point completely, and I agree with you. It still doesn't change the fact that when you give up your Facebook account information, you are not just surrendering up your personal information, you are giving up the personal
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by JGailor 15y ago
Facebook played the Friend card in their press release, and did it really well. If you are giving up your Facebook password, you're not just giving up your information, you're also giving up your friend's information as well. If any potent
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by JGailor 15y ago
Agreed. At this point he needs to start looking at SOA designs and figuring out if he can break this application out into services that can be individually tuned and managed.
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by JGailor 15y ago
I took a professional ethics class in college, and the professor was a personal friend of Roger. The whole class was about Challenger, and the incredible failure of judgement around it's demise. Roger came into one of our classes and spok
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by JGailor 15y ago
I find it a little annoying when anyone promises something like this in the headline, and then provides no direct action to take on it. I was basically ready to open my wallet and at least try it for a few days, but just throwing a signup f
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by JGailor 15y ago
I'm not in love with the design, or how big and out of place it feels just appearing in the top left corner, but it's a great start and I hope they keep pushing it forward. I hope developers of Alfred for OS X look at this and try to apply
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by JGailor 15y ago
I co-founded my first company @ 30. It was pretty scary, but me and my co-founder kept working on our day jobs until we felt like we had the momentum to go raise some money. As soon as we did, we both quit and went to work full-time. It w
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by JGailor 15y ago
There are plenty of examples to counter your argument in the startup community. FriendFeed is an easy one. It was built while each of its founders had day jobs until they had a viable product to shop around. I take issue with these kind o
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by JGailor 15y ago
This is really awesome advice. Thanks. Living in the Bay Area sometimes means you're in an echo chamber. I hope that as people travel for the holidays they will take your advice and bring it up to friends and family that may not be expos
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by JGailor 15y ago
Just added it to the posting. Thanks for pointing this out, but beyond the release itself, I feel like it's hard to make someone who's generally apathetic about news or politics understand why something like SOPA could be so damaging to th
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SOPA is "weaponized censorship"
2 points by JGailor 15y ago|5 comments
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by JGailor 15y ago
When I first heard this, all I could think about was "Amber Alert".
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by JGailor 15y ago
This is a great point that is often overlooked in the startup work environment. In 8 years of working at Startups I have only ever been in one place where anyone actually worked a solid 8 hours (everyone happened to pair-program there, whi
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by JGailor 15y ago
I'm a little surprised I haven't seen this on TechCrunch yet.
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by JGailor 15y ago
Good advice, although from my experience (in San Francisco), getting to know the staff is the easiest way to ensure a free -> cheap working environment. Local places with a lot of people means you can get away with 1 - 2 cups of coffee
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by JGailor 15y ago
That is definitely an interesting quirk. The first one seemed pretty decent of them. It would have at least given me a warm feeling about not getting an offer based on concern for my well-being.
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by JGailor 15y ago
Ah. I don't think it was a case of me being too "old" as maybe me being "too uptight" or something along those lines (although I'm still pretty young I guess I've recently slid outside that 20's sweet-spot, and as most of my friends will at
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Strange reason for being turned down. Any other good ones?
7 points by JGailor 15y ago|8 comments