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Well, it is good for a few laughs. You get a bit worried if someone walks around calling themselves CEO of a startup with 2 or 3 people in it.

This works if you already know how to code, and can come up with a quick 1 hour problem for them to solve. And it is a lot of work on your side as well. Filtering the list, checking the code, making sure they didn't cheat by checking github logs, pay someone else to review the candidates.

It would almost be quick to post the job online, break it up into stages, hire someone, check their progress, and move to the next person if their work is not satisfactory.

Now imagine if your family relied on you having this job? How awful would that be.

> That's a little naive.

Are you saying it is impossible to escape their devious plans, because I have managed to avoid a parking or speeding fine for the last 20 years, simply by following the rules.

Startups of any kind have a big problem in france. Most people are employed by these huge companies.

Also, if you need to start paying for whatever reason, these are the guys most of those users will go with.

Has google hired a lot of MBA's recently, because it look an awful lot like they are trying to cross-pollinate their main business lines, to improve vertical integration and uptake.

> Within the Android space they are exemplary

You will often see this with someone coming into a new space. HTC used to be like this, very consumer friendly, then when they start to do well they change and become assholes.

> Pixar is still making (some) good movies under Disney.

Pixar movie quality seems to have dropped, while Disney's have gone up after the acquisition.

http://i.imgur.com/H2s4hVL.jpg

Cars 2 was clearly a release for money (they make more money of Cars merchandise than they do from films), but the other films?

How would the carpet company even know, if they don't have their details?

All of the amazing websites and apps created here are just copies of other apps, localized for China. I don't see this as anything to be too proud off, creating the apps isn't hard, and china has a huge number of people so you have that going for you.

Show us were China is innovating, that is where the real story is.

Why is this cool and clever? It still only encodes 12 bits of data, it is just different to using the normal 12 bits of data.

Is this a more useful subset? I am guessing it is so, since they went to this trouble.

I guess, according to your logic, anything goes then at these conferences?

These all seem a bit ridiculous for 2014, maybe 2024. There are so many hurdles to overcome to get self driving cars, or private drones.

I used to get a lot of 'this role requires a Java expert, it also helps if you know jquery, html5, css'.

Then you have to worry that they might track you down. How will you send an anonymous email? The library will have cameras, so might the coffee shop. The fake email you setup might store information about your location as well. You can never be too careful. It might be better to send a regular old mail.

> On top of start small I'd add: just finish it first.

Make the most MVP(G?) game that you can, and finish it, get it out there. Then start making improvements adding stuff, making it good. Just finish something and get it done and out there. So many people keep adding new features, trying to get it perfect before they release it, which they never end up doing.

> The game is desktop-only, and it probably could have been done with Flash, but the web was the main reason this game had success. It feels very much like a website, because it is… it’s able to have solid integration of various user interface elements in a website format rather than a typical game menu. More importantly, because of the nature of the web and links, this game spread like hot cakes through social media and news outlets.

What does that even mean? Is this non-nonsensical to others, or am I missing something? And it is a bomberman clone?

> It's more probable that you reconstructed those memories from stories told by other people, even if you forgot hearing those stories before remembering the event, than that you're an exception to a well-studied and widely documented event.

People want to feel that they are special, together with the fact that the other people involved, the parents, have probably forgotten talking about it as well, since they forgot about the even happening.

Ah yes, so much power going the assembly code route, it took me a while to shake it. Started entering opcodes in the z80, and thought that Masm was as good as it could get. Was still doing Windows x86 assembly programming, until I found another way.

This may mean something to the people who study management, but since most organizations use managers, and different managers have different styles then this already exists.

I had a manager like that, set you a task, and how you did it was up to you. As long as it was progressing, he didn't care if I never came in except for the meetings.

> our devices were roaming on to AT&T, where we only had 10MB of data to use.

Is this really that much of a problem? Coming from an Aussie who is used to having no mobile access at all (not even emergency) driving between major cities.

Used to work at a coworking space near there that was £40 for 2 days a week, a really great deal. Wish I could find anything approaching that in Melbourne, for some reason they are incredibly expensive hear in Australia.

Ha, come on, is this oppression? And the problem we all have is that this guy is taking it out on the clerk, who has no responsibility in deciding this, has no control, and present a reasonable solution despite not having too.

The guy who went there for ice cream is more to blame than the clerk in this issue.

As an Australia who also has lived in the USA, wtf are you talking about? Yes, the USA is not perfect, but it is an amazing place, with so much support and infrastructure to get anything going. Everything is cheaper, available at all hours, and much better services (I am not just talking about the bars, I am talking about getting stuff done!). On top of that you have a supportive government towards startups, something Australia lacks.

Australia only has a few submarine connections to the rest of the world, it will always suffer because of this. On top of that it is incredibly low density, even in the big cities. The same reason we don't have an subway/underground or good public transport is the same reason the internet suffers. On top of that Australia has only produced a small amount of content compared to the rest of the world.

What do you imagine, the clerk has access to the a wifi panel where he can just enter in your details, match it to your mac address, and you can bypass the facebook login? That this guy has been trained on a complex system, which has very little use, makes them no direct extra money, would be more expensive and a pain in the ass?

So you acting like a jerk just makes you look stupid, and then you write about it online as if you somehow made a point?

This is not about accepting that everyone has facebook, it is about accepting a very easy way for them to solve a problem they are having, which is people doing illegal stuff through their wifi.

Not really. There is a lot of logic failure in this comment.

What does the fact they don't install them on US machines have to do with them not using it as a business opportunity? This is a non-sequitur.

Since this guy hasn't heard of them being used to enforce finance deals means absolutely nothing, how could anyone cancel out a point because of that?

And his third point skips out on the fact that adding this functionality to the machine can cause extra problems.

Ctrl-alt-del? No, this runs windows.