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Bamafanon The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

They don't just "not like the US".

The US is actively terrorizing their homelands.

Bamafanon The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

What nuance needs to be added to blowing up hospitals?

Bamafanon Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz

All that.

I've told people who scoff at $32 million "for a website" that $32 million might actually be low, depending on requirements.

Bamafanon The Death of an Adjunct

My takeaway is that most people assume a university professor never "brushes up against the floor of society" (as you put it).

This article is good for enlightening people that this is far from the case.

Bamafanon Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

> Growing an already massive company company by 3x in revenue is the important thing, which is the 'bottom line' in which missteps have to be contextualized.

Yes, he managed to creatively squeeze revenue out of existing markets. This is what he was known for.

But as far as finding new markets or growing existing markets, he failed and that's all Wall Street cares about.

> Surely MS could have done better, but I view it more as lost opportunity than failure.

Non other than Bill Gates himself refers to MS Mobile strategy as a failure: http://fortune.com/2013/02/19/today-in-tech-why-bill-gates-c...

> Remember that 80% of acquisitions fail. Google spent $3B on Nest. Apple spent $3 Billion on Beats, it remains to be seen if they'll make that up in profit

Ballmer's failure rate on major acquisitions may have been 100%. (I'm not even kidding)

Bamafanon Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

I'll bet you use Azure though (even if you don't realize it). I guarantee you use apps/websites/services that leverage Azure.

Bamafanon Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya

Ballmer made several missteps:

1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia and Windows Mobile and Windows Phone strategies.

2. Billion+ dollar acquisition of Skype that basically went no where.

3. Remember a company called aQuantive? Don't worry, neither does anyone else. Ballmer's MS purchased them for $6 billion.

That's off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more examples.

Bamafanon Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

Long story, short:

1. Realize the world is moving beyond Windows

2. Cede mobile OS to Android/iOS, that battle is lost.

3. Realize, next great revenue stream is the Cloud (Azure).

Bamafanon San Francisco has more drug addicts than students enrolled in public high school

I think it's useful as far as making the amount stick in the brain. For like 90% of America a stat like that is a hugely disturbing figure.

Bamafanon San Francisco has more drug addicts than students enrolled in public high school

> It's not even really a city, but more just a place where exurbanites congregate from 9 to 5 to conduct commerce.

Definitely not the case. Lots of people live in the city of San Francisco, though it's also true a lot of people commute in from the South and East Bays.

There are good things about the city, but the homeless problem (and really, that's what I think this is about) is a very serious issue that makes the place much, much less desirable.

Bamafanon Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

I think the part that you may be missing is that View 1 (embedded view) is hosted on DocuSign's domain.

So the view may be designed by the client, but it's not hosted by the client. It's hosted on DocuSign.

Then View 2, is the "dashboard" view which of course isn't designed by the client.

In an ideally designed embedded View 1, it should not be possible to get to DocuSign's "dashboard" (View 2). Sessions should be tracked in DocuSign's API and View 1 refreshes should return the user to hosted View 1 or should return an error.

Bamafanon Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

Even if they added this feature, the API bug would still remain (it would just be covered up by the UI).

A sophisticated enough client user would still have access to the all data associated to the API user.

Bamafanon Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

I'm curious as to how HelloSign guards against this. Do they have some sort of session token that sends you back to the signing page on refresh? (i.e. similar to guard to avoid submitting shopping cart purchases twice).

Bamafanon Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

When I read retrospectives like this, I wonder how many apps have this bug and don't know it.

Bamafanon Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

Whether an API is "good" or "bad" often is dependent on the requirements of the calling client. At the beginning of projects when client requirements are unclear, it is often hard to determine whether a supporting API/library truly meets your needs.

Bamafanon Don't Pay to Acquire Your First Users

Was going to post roughly the same thing. All good suggestions in the article, but there are absolutely costs in the approaches she suggests (unless she's saying people's time has no value).

Bamafanon ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

On the flip side, many of the previous generations of parents would kill to have the choices their kids have. They simply never had those choices when they grew up.

Bamafanon ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

>> "If she was in a committed relationship, had offspring, a home with equity, savings, and a career, there is no guarantee that would bring her fulfillment."

All of this. Also, I'd bet more than a few of her friends in relationships with homes are jealous of her! They probably have a false impression of how exciting her life is.

Also, I am happy you were able to get out of your DV situation and can see your kids. Can't imagine what that must have been like.

Bamafanon John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying

FB post is solely about "literal" vs "non-literal" code copying. These are words that the lawyers chose to use to communicate a complex (for non-programmers) idea to a bunch of non-programmers.

I think of "non-literal" code copying as R&D. I think the Zenimax lawyers were claiming that the R&D that Carmack did for the Occulus, while still an employee of Zenimax, was key to making Occulus valuable. And it seems like Carmack even used Zenimax IP (Doom) to develop a demo that was shown to investors, without Zenimax permission. Essentially Zenimax was used as an R&D arm of Occulus.

Pretty messy case and pretty different from Google vs Oracle IMO.

Bamafanon John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying

John Romero was largely responsible for the stories and designs of the old school iD games from back in the day. Carmack brought the tech brilliance to make it happen.

Bamafanon John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying

I believe the "non-literal copying" thing simply refers to the insight gained from the R&D time he spent on Occulus while still an employee of Zenimax. 90% of HN members know that this deep understanding is FAR, FAR, FAR more valuable than blindly copying over code.

It was this deep understanding that made Occulus valuable and it was seemingly funded on Zenimax's time and dime.

Bamafanon Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit

"While I personally believe they did break the NDA by showing the hardware with the demo Carmack cooked up, the amount of money awarded is beyond absurd."

That all depends on if the demo was the deciding factor in the multi-billion dollar buyout.

Bamafanon Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit

They also made a number of "free" games that were published by SoftDisk. This was all pre-modern software era though. If that happened today, it would end up very similarly to how the Occulus case ended up.

Bamafanon Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness

Yep.

Check out 4:06 from this scene from "The Aviator": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1pPyarKhA

Lady: "We don't care about money here, Mr. Hughes"

Howard Hughes: "That's because you have it"

Bamafanon Working fewer hours would make us more productive

Now, let me just dispel a myth you stated. You believe that "Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more."

This works for people like Carmack because he's always gotten to choose precisely what he wants to do in each of those 40+ hours.

Bamafanon How to be like Steve Ballmer

Also easier to be a genius, when you have an actual genius (Wozniak) creating things the world had never seen before.

Bamafanon Totally Honest Software Engineering Negotiations

ding ding ding

Bamafanon The Melting of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100MM Donation to Newark Schools

"But it is downright chilling to watch the leadership team throw around buzz phrases from business best-sellers with minimal focus on the nuanced requirements of applying these principles to the education ecosystem generally"

Replace "education" with software and still applies. :)

Bamafanon How I Grew My Company from $100 to $400M

On some level, I hate articles like this because of all the unanswered questions:

[1] What did you spend that initial $100 on? (Even the cheapest overseas programmer can't do jack for $100)

[2]You mention $400 million in revenue, but how much of that is profit?

[3] What exactly does Trace3 do (if it was so great, I would have heard of it on my own, or you would have explained it in the article, without me having to Google research it)

[4] If things are going so great, why are you writing articles for websites like entrepreneur.com? (oh yeah, you have another thing called POP you're promoting)

[5] You mentioned a "bold" client's advice. How did yo know this was advice worth listening to vs advice to be ignored?

I'll probably get voted down into oblivion, but IMO these kinds of articles say a lot and nothing at all.

Bamafanon The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich

Thank you for answering. And wow, amazing results from using the default "marketing" you get with the Mac App Store (especially given the difficulties that so many others have reported).