amitraman1's comments

If they have the actual e-mails, then Zucker will have to pay. It's clear that he gave 50% to Ceglia but never disclosed the success of the site.

Cegila for his part must be really naive.

Yeah they do!

The scale of poverty is huge. With 1.2 billion, the number of poor and destitute will always be high. This is unfortunate but true.

I go to India a lot and do see people locking themselves in from reality. BUT, there are many more who do make an effort to improve the lives of the poor.

Anywho, India is India and will always be India. So if you don't like it, don't go there. If you live there and don't like it, leave. Otherwise, take it all in!

Wow.

Another point:

You need game developers to work full time on your project and preferably be local.

This applies to apps too. Here my simple logic.

Android phones are available for free from carriers. Thus, the typical Android buy is more price sensitive. They are more likely to choose free content & apps.

iPhone customers don't get FREE iPhones. They are willing to pay $200+ for a phone and contract. Their willingness to pay for apps & content is higher than Android users.

Just look at Angry Birds. It's FREE on the Android store, but charged for on the iOS store.

It's interesting how inventions from the early part of the 1900s are becoming more useful today. I remember reading an article which stated that engineers were re-discovering mathematical models from the early 1900s for use today.

The big concern I have is that we'll end up with more expensive hybrid cars and China will have the cost-effective stuff.

Facebook is not boring but I do think the Fan pages have way too many updates. They get in the way of updates from my friends.

This is the best one I've seen so far today.

BTW, Angry Birds RIO is disappointing. I miss the pigs!

Fix problems early and often.

I currently work at Japanese company in San Jose, but I don't see this type of behavior. The caveat is that I've only worked for a year here, so I may not be exposed yet.

I'd really like to know if Japanese society looks down on people who have embarrassed themselves. The executives must have a reason to prevent embarrassment and risk lives.

Excercise daily!

I'll probably open mine in Pleasanton or Dublin, CA. It is 30 miles NW of Silicon Valley, give or take a few miles. Here's why:

- Employees can get to these two cities using BART, 580, 680 or ACE trains. This allows me to make it easy for a diverse mix of employees to come work for me (tech, support, admin, mktng, research)

- Slightly lower COL. I don't know the exact number, but housing is a bit lower here than in San Jose/Santa Clara. It's generally a reverse commute.

- Same weather and cultural benefits that come with working in the Bay Area.

- Very low crime rate.

I spent a year or so networking heavily. I was a freelance developer hoping to meet businesses to work with.

I did not get the results I hope for. The networking events were parties not business events. People just stood around, drank and aired out.

My current conclusion, especially for freelancers, is to invest your earnings back into raising your profile. Write a blog, travel to customer sites.

My answer:

No. We still have Verizon and Sprint. We may get a duopoly in 5-10 years, but for now, AT&T is not a monopoly.

"Fast Paced Environment" means:

1) The specs are not in place 2) They are a software company, mostly 3) The managers are not really managers, but engineers who were given a battle field promotion 4) They have a set of key customers who control 51% of revenue, who dictate everything and change their mind frequently

We used Amazon and got bad performance in the beginning too. It is bad when you pull files out of S3. By bad I mean the latency is high.

We tried GoGrid and they lost or crashed our server instance.

I've personally used Rackspace, so far so good, but I've only been doing development on it.

The worst program I ever worked on was spaghetti code with HTML, Javascript, PHP and PERL all entangled in one file. This was in 2003.

In 2010, I encountered something very similar at a well known start up. Some things never change...

Yes! Yes! Yes!

"HTTP API that’s not as hard to use as SOAP"

My current employer calls our API ...

... RESTful like .

My favorite is: system("/usr/bin/seq 1000");

Only thing is, the interviewer would ask, "How would this work in Windows?"

I've been to Dubai. It's boring, very boring. The shops & malls are too expensive. The non-Arab "residents" are mostly people stealing from their homeland and splurging in Dubai. It's really sad.

Don't get me started on the South Asian workers, it's a modern day slave trade.