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by cliffchang 15y ago
It bothers me that TC writers, when called out on their bias, claim to just be mere "bloggers" who are supposed to be expose their bias so you know where they're coming from, but now they're claiming to be holy "journalists".
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by cliffchang 15y ago
Or, you could talk to your mutual friend and ask if their friend is on the up-and-up.
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by cliffchang 16y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfee... FF was acquired about 15 months ago, so that's about how long Paul was at Facebook. Also, I imagine being a partner in YC is very much a fulltime job.
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by cliffchang 16y ago
HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, and Python all have steady increases, and ruby is mostly stable. It could just be that focus is more on the web (HTML in particular seems to have taken a biggish jump mid-2009 - related to HTML5?) http://www.ohloh.net/l
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by cliffchang 16y ago
Yeah, notice that the blog post was written by Sam Odio!
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by cliffchang 16y ago
I think you may misunderstand what signing in with Facebook does. 1) It could, potentially, provide some value to you as a user. Quora gets to suggest people to follow for you based on your Facebook friends, so your experience on there is s
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by cliffchang 16y ago
If you think of advertising as "traditional advertising" and "internet advertising", then FB and Google are certainly rivals. However, in pure marketing terms, they are actually very different. Google search ads EXCEL in "Demand Fulfillment
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by cliffchang 16y ago
i know this isn't reddit, but when you say "thundering herd", do you mean the processes, or the comments on the story?
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by cliffchang 16y ago
I interview plenty of people, for fulltime positions and internships, and, basically, yes, you can definitely be hired. It sounds like you're starting your 2nd year of college now, and most of your peers have pretty thin resumes, too. The f
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by cliffchang 16y ago
The rule of thumb to use in most interviewing situations, not just Software Engineering, is to dress one "degree" up from your interviewers. If you're being interviewed by jeans and a T-shirt, wear a dress shirt and slacks. If you're being
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by cliffchang 16y ago
As a side note on the conversation, I'm impressed by how well Best Buy is adapting to the changing demands of the consumers. Rather than desperately promoting the same stuff that has worked for them for decades, they see the writing on the
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by cliffchang 16y ago
re: Forer Effect - one thing to do is to read all of the personality types, especially before taking the test. I find the these descriptors tend to be a little more specific about traits (especially weaknesses!) and there are many that don'
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by cliffchang 16y ago
Can somebody summarize what he "lets it all loose" about? I am too lazy to invest the time in watching a video unless I have a vague sketch that it will actually be something I'm interested in.
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by cliffchang 16y ago
Can anyone give an idea of how large, compared to other DDOS attacks, 50 GBPS is?
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by cliffchang 16y ago
Why not use both anti-spam technology and CAPTCHAs?
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New Digg Redesign(mashable.com)
21 points by cliffchang 16y ago|12 comments
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by cliffchang 16y ago
I used K in an internship in college (DB stuff for a data company whose clients were mostly financial companies). The learning curve was really steep, but once you can parse it, it's incredibly fast to program in, incredibly fast to execute
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by cliffchang 16y ago
As a matter of comparison, let's look at Google. $23.6 bn in 2009 (don't have 2010 numbers, and don't want to speculate). I don't know how many engineers they have, but I've heard the number 10,000 bandied about. The below says about 20,600
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Amazon Patents Social Networking?(patft.uspto.gov)
3 points by cliffchang 16y ago|0 comments
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by cliffchang 16y ago
http://facebook.com/facebook