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Slight addition/correction from Hillhouse: "I did not accuse Hersh of plagiarism." http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the_spy_who_billed_me/2015/...

I've been using Zoho Creator for years (http://creator.zoho.com) as a tech-savvy non-developer. Anyone had any experience with both Creator and Bubble and can compare the two?

Almost thought you were joking, but wow... nearly $38/mo to read NYT's webpages.

I've paid for WhatsApp and am in the US. Yes, I originally joined to chat with people overseas, but now it's also the sole messaging service I use with multiple US-based contacts.

AMA I guess, since apparently fellow Americans don't understand WhatsApp.

This total commitment to talent development is pretty inspiring—regardless of whether or not I'd agree/recommend this exact strategy or whether it ultimately works for Alibaba. Succession planning is hard and time-consuming, but the potential rewards are huge. A real passion for developing employees is also, to me, a much better differentiator than the number of foosball tables and espresso machines your company has.

I think you're totally correct to harp on design and functionality. I'm sure it's a business problem, too, but it's also the fact they keep screwing with the app with no real improvement. I continue to think removing Discover and Activity were big mistakes, and, no, Search does not replace them at all. Tweetdeck is similarly embarrassing.

Crescent Bay was, for me, a revelation. I don't know if I'm a born again true believer now, but I will say that a lot of skepticism washed away with that demo. It really was a very startling this-is-no-gimmick-anymore kind of moment for me personally.

OK, I'm really reticent to respond, but I've seen a few of your posts and feel weirdly compelled to help you. I love that you have strong opinions on recruiting/hiring, you do have passion, and you're clearly a very principled guy. I have no doubt that you're probably a very nice, decent person in real life.

However, you are absolutely going about job-hunting all wrong. You don't want to believe this, and I get it—finding work often really sucks. But you're coming off really badly and only exacerbating the vicious cycle. You need to treat this like a programming problem: you've been trying the same code for months (years?), and it's still buggy as all hell. Instead of continuing to tinker with that code, write something else and attack the problem differently. Spamming Google is not a viable strategy. Lashing out at employers in these threads is not a viable strategy. Constantly talking about how badly you need more money (however true) is not a viable strategy.

Look man, you don't know me from Adam. You have no obligation to listen to me. But I'm telling you 100% that a huge reason you're not getting offers is because of your attitude, not your aptitude. You can either read this and fume (I know I would for awhile), or read this and fume and then make a drastic change. When you wake up tomorrow, redo your resume, re-think your cover letters, rejigger your entire approach to job hunting. You may even find this attitude shift pays dividends elsewhere in your life, too.

How much can I pay you to stop shooting "What's Crayon?" across my screen every time I load a page? :)

If Twitter knew this rough patch was coming (albeit not so soon), why did they remove the Discover and Activity tabs from their mobile app? Just anecdotally, I, and everyone I know, spent more time on Twitter because of those two features. Isn't driving more engagement and longer time-in-app tied to revenues? Financial considerations aside, why remove those?

Wow, it's super brave of you to be defending those poor maligned billionaires. Takes a lot of courage to stand up for an underdog like KPCB.

I guess I'm an equal opportunity howler: I howl in frustration at Android, at Ubuntu, at iOS, at Windows, at OSX... Sometimes I wonder if—gasp!—all of 'em are imperfect and I should just find something that suits me well enough and be done with it.

  I, an amateur, have thought of multiple questions and arguments which I later come to find have already been explored in the literature. I've seen students in undergrad classes anticipate moves made by famous philosophers.

It's bizarre to me that you treat this as an indication of philosophy's easiness and not its difficulty.

"Now" seems an odd word choice considering it's been an auto-antonym since at least the days of Mark Twain.

Very interesting! Though I will say "Resolution" is odd in its current state; e.g. you can easily end up with a resolution of "400 micron" that includes 50 micron printers. Maybe it should include a min and max? Or value has a plus sign, so it's "50+ micron," "100+ micron" etc.

I think the real value is in seeing who's tracking that you wouldn't expect. Yes, most know that marketers are tracking the hell out of us, but there may be use cases that many are not aware of.

Just curious: why are we dredging up stuff from 1999? Is it throwback Friday now?

Setting aside its illegality, what strikes me here is how unintentionally hilarious this job posting is. I'm laughing just thinking about someone earnestly creating this, and maybe even someone else approving it for publication.

My thought process as I'm reading/scrolling:

"So, Instagram?"

"Instagram... This is Instagram."

"OOOHH, that's how it's NOT Instagram. Why didn't they say so earlier? That weird copy about Shakespeare and 'trailing' [sic] wasn't actually an ad for Instagram."

Be direct and get to your value proposition much sooner than 3 pages down or whatever. I actually could see myself using this app, or at least trying it, but not when the entire hook upfront is "share photos."

Also, the name is very bad. I get it, "must do, must drink, must see," etc. The URL alone makes me twitch.

That's surprising/confusing to me--I've actually never been asked that. This is in the US (east coast), so can't speak to other locales.

Also has implications for the social safety net in the US: if you resign or are fired, you can't collect unemployment checks; if you are laid off, you can. A lay-off also means the company can't immediately turn around and hire for that position because, supposedly, the position is not needed, or is needed but can't be funded (as you said). Companies can easily circumnavigate this by creating a new position with a slightly different title and slightly different responsibilities, then just hire for that.

I have seen multiple cases where shitty or ill-informed managers tried to pressure salaried employees into "committing"—commit to another project cycle, another quarter, another year, whatever. "We're trying to do strategic planning, I need to know if you intend to stay... yada yada yada."

As part of HR, part of my job was to remind managers and employees that that's all bullshit. As at-will, you can "commit" to staying and then quit the very next day. If you're a good manager, you very likely have some sense of your staff's intent to stay without needing passive-aggressive conversations about commitment/engagement. If you do not have a contract and you're under at-will employment, use it to your advantage whenever the fuck you can.

(That said, I do agree with maxsilver that at-will employment is still tilted to the employer's benefit overall.)

Is there any easy to way to grab some contacts off my Google Apps account (i.e. work) to add to my personal Gmail contacts? When adding contacts on my phone, I often forget to attach them to the right account.

Thank you for posting—this shed light on my own bouts with hypersomnia in my early twenties. In my case, brought on by Major Depressive Disorder. A normal night's sleep for me was 12-14 hours, and on three occasions I slept 24-26 hours uninterrupted. I cannot begin to describe how disorienting it is to wake up a full day after you went to bed. For me, the hypersomnia melted away when my MDD was under control, and it's heartbreaking that some of these folks in the article can't find relief as "easily."

Interesting. For traffic/congestion reasons, Manila, Philippines had (has?) this on a permanent basis, not just for a special event. Your license was coded so that police could easily see if you were allowed to be on the roads that day (otherwise, it was public transit for you).

> I think all important things in travel have been invented.

In decades, if not years, you will look back and laugh at yourself for this.

Kirbys clean carpet & mattresses extremely well... that's the appeal. I have a really hard time believing anybody sees a Kirby as a status symbol, as "cool", as anything other than highly utilitarian. I think this is why Dyson was so successful disrupting Kirby: they sold these based on function, not looks, and Dyson came in and competed on functionality AND price.

I'm not sure what the price point is, but I'd pay non-negligible dollars to add this kind of tech to my '99 Accord. I don't even want the full $10k package with "self-driving," just lane assist, warnings, adaptive cruise control, etc. I think many of us would be onboard if someone can work the value proposition so that buying such a kit/package is a better idea than buying a new-ish car.

I'm embarrassed to admit how long into reading this it took me to clue in...

edit: nevermind; if I didn't have to check WhoIs data then I'm apparently ahead of the curve.

What's the point of being able to get an appointment in a day for a specialist if you'll eventually have to go into debt or file bankruptcy to be able to afford that specialist?