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Bulgaria is considered the most corrupt country in the 27-member European Union. For example, just recently, Asen Drumev, former head of the State Agricultural Fund, was sentenced to four years in prison for embezzling $34 million worth of EU assistance (and as far I know he was just a sacrifice lamb). And crime journalist Bobbie Tsankov was killed "execution syle" last June.

Of course, Bulgaria pledged to work harder at "combating high-level corruption and organised crime" in response to renewed criticism from the European Commission (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/01d19cdc-942a-11df-a3fe-00144feab4...).

The w3school is a perfect for what it is. Is it reference? No - they don't claim to be. Is it school for beginners? Yes - and the excellent school. The organization is very good, there are examples, etc.

Can somebody make better school which is wiki based? Yes.

As always, great advice from WSJ: I will have one million dollar in my account in 5 years - if I start with two millions.

This anyway points that 2 space rule is not "right way" since significant portion of the world (maybe majority of your customers) will think it is weird and be confused about it. The "1 space rule" is more neutral.

Or maybe ad $$ will move from search advertising to something similar to GroupOn.

Am I wrong here?

In order to efficiently address a disruptive innovation, a corporations need to change their processes and since tools are connected to processes, these good tools make that change even harder.

Yes, it good to have good tools for developing the current product, but organization needs to be ready to eliminate internal tools without hesitations.

There is a misunderstanding that only top performers want to grow. Actually, all team members want to grow, but in different areas and at different pace.

In other words, good manager must always ensure that team members are challenged and they have feeling of actual growth and accomplishments.

I believe that "growth" is the most neglected part. And I think it is most neglected part because majority of companies have only two "growth paths": management and individual contributors while majority of people don't nicely fit into these categories.

The top four concerns for restaurants are: personnel, personnel, personnel, and personnel.

Cool looking web site is really peripheral for many restaurants. Mobile support .. What?

Actually, when growing the team, startups must assume that they will pay more than competitors.

Paycut is ok if it is augmented with generous equity (really generous): which basically means first couple of employees. And startups should treat these early employees (which took paycut) as important investors and co-founders.

If anybody responds, tell them that the offer is oversubscribed and that it is no longer available.

I wonder what is wrong with saying just "Hi, I would like to get feedback about project X.". Would that way have the same affect?

I'm asking that just becasue I try to follow an old proverb (not sure if translation to English is correct): if you have a smallest doubt about whether to lie or not, don't lie.

(no, I'm not good with the above rule, but at least helped me while dating and now in marriage)

I think this something each copmany should do when entering a niche market which can be easily commoditized.

The point is that coordinated attack by terrorists or plain old criminals can cripple the entire world's economy and there is no easy and effective way to prevent it.

We do need to think about how internet can be re-organized to be 100% distributed system to prevent this of happening again.

However, knowing Salesforce (and fact that they have many very very big enemies in this business) I'm concern about future of Heroku offering in the current form. As far as I know, Salesforce is not a hacker company - they remind me a little of Yahoo! (product managers are running the show). And, don't get me wrong, in this case, not being a "hacker company" is a good thing. But, I assume that Heroku will be transformed to be much profitable and target bigger margin businesses.

However, the key of learning Prolog to teach you how to expresses the logic of a program/system without describing its control flow. Basically to describe what the program or system should accomplish (which rules govern the program or system) without thinking how these things will be implemented and executed (it will just happen). This kinda of thinking can be very powerful tool when designing complex systems and products.

We had to write Pascal interpreter in Prolog - that was an experience. I strongly suggest to everybody to try Prolog - then you will understand why it is good idea to use declarative languages as much as possible when building product (including SQL).

> Similarly, you don’t work on great technology at a startup. .. They are about business model discovery...

If that is true, then why do technology startups exist at all? Isn't discovering business model very much connected to discovering new technologies (new, more efficient ways to solve problems)? In other words, if a technology startup is not planning to invent something, then it not should probably exist in the first place.

It is true there are some Web 2.0 startups which are not about technology at all, but these startups are anyway not looking for great engineers.

What is definition of hacker in this context? Web 2.0 / javascript developer? Or self-learned developer?

Could it be that since oracle inventions are mainly in enterprise space and these technologies are not generally available to consumers, so they are never publicized not discussed in venues blogs and forums like this? You can only can see ad in WSJ and that is the end of the story.

For example, compare Quora and Yahoo! Answers. I don't thing Quora is successful because they have very good UI (it does not hurt), I think they are successful becasue they are very serious about making they site clean and without trolls. On other hand, Yahoo! Answers is 'troll heaven'.

Why do you think Oracle does boring stuff? For example, both Oracle and Google work hard to make very scalable and highly available systems - but somehow Oracle is boring while Google is exciting.

You mention "they're evil". Why do you think Oracle is evil? Why do you think Oracle is more evil than Facebook, Apple, or Google?

Of course, installing everything on more expensive EC2/rackspace machine / mysql service would take half of a day, ....

Using heroku would be way more easier, but heroku is not so cool and hippie as Google.