twelve45

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by twelve45 14y ago
I think it was just out of curiosity; I had the exact same question. Also, "Why is it free?" is another way of asking "What's the catch?". It's important to understand this before you put in a bunch of work...
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by twelve45 14y ago
It's the HTML5 <video> tag.
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by twelve45 14y ago
Will do, thank you for the offer jbk. Again, great work. I can't begin to imagine how painful it must've been to get everything relicensed! Sometimes it's such "non-technical" work that ensures the continued success of a product.
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by twelve45 14y ago
You are right, of course. "commercial" was the wrong terminology; I meant proprietary, closed-source products as you said. However, whatever your views on closed source products, they are still quite prevalent. IMO LGPL is a great license t
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by twelve45 14y ago
Most commercial work these days leverage several open source libraries. And once a library becomes part of your core product, it is in your interest to support further development of that library by contributing code, time, money, etc. Unli
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by twelve45 14y ago
It looks like you're trying to do the right thing here, even though there is no boss or peer who understands exactly what you're doing and can appreciate that fact. Kudos for that :) To echo tinco's comment, do not try to explain the intric
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by twelve45 14y ago
I think Yishan Wong's thoughts on this really hits the mark: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a... It is incredibly important to get your tools right so you can operate as efficiently as possible. At my company w
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by twelve45 14y ago
Great comment. We're in the enterprise space and we also see many competitors do the tech blog rounds and then fall off the face of the earth after a few months. To add to your morale point, I look at tech blog coverage as great for recruit
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by twelve45 14y ago
Not a big fan of the article either, but I think there is some benefit to at least trying to develop some skills outside of your core skill set. This is not necessarily to get good at those skills, but to develop empathy for others who've
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by twelve45 14y ago
Yeah for the closest possible comparison in your scenario, you want to do a 3 year reserved with heavy utilization. When you reserve an instance, you are committing to a higher upfront in order to get a lower hourly for the reservation peri
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by twelve45 14y ago
Good work. Small typo on your frontpage that you may want to fix: "webiste".
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by twelve45 14y ago
Exactly. This was an attack on the new "Uber X" service which will more directly compete with regular cabs. (Frankly the only reason I even take cabs anymore is the cost of the regular Uber service.)
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by twelve45 14y ago
I believe Uber simply sub-contracts to independent sedan drivers who have already jumped through all the necessary governmental hoops - it's not a dispatching system for gypsy cabs. The drivers I spoke to in my city (SF) said that they simp
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by twelve45 14y ago
Second this. Nothing more awkward than giving notice and then not finding a job you're excited to move to. Unless your intent is to take a few months off anyway, in which case give a solid last date and make it happen.
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by twelve45 14y ago
In fact, in this scenario he can be completely honest and say that that would not be a good idea because, well, he's the main engineer there and they would not be happy about him leaving. I know for me that'd be a very good sign (assuming I
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by twelve45 15y ago
Second this. Right after school I passed on a higher-paying job to work at a startup. It didn't do well, but I learned a whole lot about what is involved in running a startup correctly, from the perspective of a mid to late stage employee.
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by twelve45 15y ago
I think it could be argued though that Jobs probably had a good idea of what is feasible with current technology, and this allowed him to push his team to deliver something that is just slightly beyond the envelope. I'd consider this simi
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by twelve45 15y ago
Not sure why you're getting attacked. I think the advantage is a combination of nicer design and better PR ("brought to you by the fathers of the iPod", etc). A very Apple-like approach to product. Which works on many folks, myself included
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by twelve45 15y ago
Great work. Love the humor too :) I second the other comments about choosing a different background - took me a while to notice the parallax effect...
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by twelve45 15y ago
Well, we have no specific projects for which we're waiting for interns. We'd like to get some smart interns for a while and see what you can do in whatever interests you, and see if it makes sense (from both sides) to maybe turn this into a
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by twelve45 15y ago
San Jose, CA. Intern / Full-time. H1B ok. RetailNEXT ( http://bviretailnext.com ) We are google analytics for the real-world. We use a combination of machine vision (OpenCV + our own algorithms) on standard video cameras, and other inputs l
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by twelve45 15y ago
These are some great tips. One thing to be aware of is that there will be a natural tension between your and the dev team, as devs tend to be a proud bunch and your job is to point out deficiencies in their code so many won't appreciate tha
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by twelve45 15y ago
Nicely captures my issues with tech recruiters. The other big disconnect is that since tech is in so much flux, you want to hire smart generalists who can pick up new technologies in a few days if necessary. Most recruiters have no clue how
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by twelve45 15y ago
Great idea - hope you get to meet some great startups when you're out here! (Would invite you over but we're an enterprise software company - AS/Java/Python/C++)
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by twelve45 15y ago
True. I think xxbondsxx was just wondering about the wisdom of linking to his personal website from their homepage. I'm a developer myself, and I give a lot of importance to what my potential colleagues are going to be like. This is especia
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by twelve45 15y ago
Yes, onsite full-time or interns.
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by twelve45 15y ago
San Jose - BVI Networks (bvinetworks.com). INTERN, H1B welcome. If you run an e-commerce website, you probably use google analytics, mixpanel or similar to track your customers and do some funnel analysis, A/B testing etc to optimize your s