testguy34

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by testguy34 11y ago
Most startups do hire a CFO once they raise an A round.
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by testguy34 11y ago
As other comments have already said, Uber is still expanding. They are also spending millions on self-driving car R&D. http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...
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by testguy34 11y ago
> It's insane that people think you need to do all this just to get a live updating counter. Dismissing this guy's tutorial because he didn't clone Facebook is kind of short sided. Everything is about trade offs. You don&#
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by testguy34 11y ago
>Most people don't believe in it Most people are quick to change their tune when it's their work that is getting copied.
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by testguy34 11y ago
The hype around this game reminds me of the hype around Spore a decade ago (it didn't live up to it).
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by testguy34 11y ago
Uber also doubled it revenue in that time.
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by testguy34 11y ago
Moderation on 4chan and /b/ has increased over the last year. Mostly to prevent the posting of peoples personal information. But the posting of shock images has also decreased. I don't know if they are being removed as well.
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by testguy34 11y ago
I've never seen a single site that uses Google login over Facebook. Facebook also owns mobile login on the iPhone. Google is closer to shutting down Google+ than winning any war with Facebook.
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by testguy34 11y ago
Those numbers are meaningless without knowing what the code is doing.
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by testguy34 11y ago
Because then it would just be some random person's opinion.
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by testguy34 11y ago
Of course not.
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by testguy34 11y ago
The ciriticism is that malaria is just a symptom of the larger problem of a lack of economic growth and development. Aid can save a child from malaria, but it will never solve the underlying problem.
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by testguy34 12y ago
> I want smart teachers to take control of education so this s* doesn't happen nearly as often as it does. This is the job of parents, not teachers. What does take control even mean? Public school teachers have no control.
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by testguy34 12y ago
Plenty of spies on all sides have been killed and jailed over the years. If a country can prove a specific person committed a crime. But that's a lot harder to do with tech crimes.
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by testguy34 12y ago
What do you think spying is? By definition it is illegal. Other countries won't do anything but cry a bit because their hands aren't much cleaner.
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by testguy34 12y ago
"Facebook sells your data" was always a stupid charge. Why would they give away their most valuable asset when they can make more money by renting indirect access to it (targeted ads). There are actual data brokers who do sell you
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by testguy34 12y ago
Literally in every Facebook post there is someone saying how their Facebook feed is a mess and how Facebook is "declining." I'm sorry to tell you this, but it's you and the people you are friends with that are the proble
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by testguy34 12y ago
Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells targeted ads.
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by testguy34 12y ago
Facebook doesn't sell user data (it sells targeted ads, advertisers don't get access to the data).
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by testguy34 12y ago
It was the NWS in this case who was playing up the fear. The useual suspect, The Weather Channel, is the only one who got it right.
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by testguy34 12y ago
>I wonder how long until the cycle comes full circle, and Youtubers are co-opted as subtle spinmakers for political ends. I can imagine a future where politicians are elected on the basis of a lulzy hashtag, and that scares me way more t
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by testguy34 12y ago
>You don't become WalMart/Facebook/Twitter by treating your employees well. Today's tech company employees are some of the most pampered in history. The list of perks Facebook and Twitter offer is huge ( http:/&#