xenen

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by xenen 14y ago
I want to give you my applause instead of condolences. You can't lose something without taking risks, and taking risks is what makes life interesting and worthy of living. I'm sorry you lost your wife - it's one of the hardest things we can
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by xenen 14y ago
This looks eerily similar to late Microsoft design patterns.
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by xenen 14y ago
Well said. Although I think part of the article is saying that as people, we shouldn't be afraid of stepping outside of our comfort zones to try something new, even if on the surface it doesn't immediately look like it's gonna be "greener p
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by xenen 14y ago
Thank you so much for this comment. It's legitimately eye-opening and helps someone like me answer a lot of questions.
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by xenen 14y ago
Having read a bunch of the comments and the OP, I think everyone has shared something that makes good sense. The problem is, though, that as much as these "lessons" make sense to us when reading them, it makes absolutely no sense to try and
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by xenen 14y ago
I think the problem is the fact that we have two types of engineers: the academic geeks, and the creative geeks. I wouldn't give anyone a pass if they show no personality, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking with good product intuition d
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by xenen 14y ago
Wow, I never would have expected Google's perf management to be as bad as what I've read here - Glassdoor reviews all sound so peachy.
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by xenen 14y ago
While there's some truth in what you say, the glass ceiling is mostly within yourself. In my experience, it's been the case that if you are actually taking actions to pursue females be it white or yellow or brown or red, rather than taking
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by xenen 14y ago
I'm really happy with what Microsoft has been doing lately, but this presentation is kind of failing. It's not really getting the audience that excited. This doesn't affect my opinion of the new products, but it's not helping Microsoft's co
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by xenen 14y ago
Benioff is very very good at playing the publicity game. What was said is not important, that wasn't the reason why he said it. He said it in order to make front pages, and he did.
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by xenen 14y ago
I really really hope that results like this will serve as a wake-up call to the community that is the valley. We've gone from creating microchips, putting a PC on every desk, opening up and connecting the web to the whole world with pioneer
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by xenen 14y ago
Is there any existing service out there that is not a 24hr hack? I for one find something like this extremely valuable and helpful and I'd pay money for one that has some traction and is more than just a demo.
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by xenen 14y ago
Absolutely amazing and a rare voice of reason in our industry. If only more companies would adopt this kind of mentality of building sustainable businesses.
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by xenen 14y ago
Exaggerating your connections to others to try and hustle favors and more connections is one thing, but photoshopping yourself into photos with celebrities is pretty damn creepy no matter how you look at it.
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by xenen 14y ago
Yup, pretty much. My view of FB prior to this was luke-warm because of their contribution to open source, but it's just gone in the toilet.
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by xenen 14y ago
I was way too naive to expect a Facebooker to not actually be drunk on the cool-aid and actually bother to offer a comprehensive good/bad overview of FB.
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by xenen 14y ago
Except I don't make over 200k so I can't fund anything. I wouldn't call it "getting crowdfunding right".