bigmario's comments

bigmario | 8 years ago | on: Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well

Lots of people make this claim with no evidence. It's understandable to feel insecure about future career prospects in our fast-changing industry, but honestly I'll believe it when I see it.

bigmario | 10 years ago | on: Why computer programmers need to stop calling themselves engineers already

Nope, not clicking. How about: Why "journalists" need to stop telling software engineers what job title to use

bigmario | 12 years ago | on: US Nuclear Missile Silos Still Use Floppy Disks

Security through obscurity? Old technology and keeping disconnected from the Internet are probably decent additional security measures, although they shouldn't rely on it. Like the article says though, we still want these computers to be new enough to actually work

bigmario | 12 years ago | on: Dead Man's Switch

I don't think anyone's said it yet, but... this is what an attorney is for. This website is stupid.

It's bad enough to trust any confidential information completely to a third party, let alone a website that could lose your information or go defunct in a few years. At least disclosures to attorneys are legally protected to the n-th degree, and the business is brick-and-mortar with a known location.

Add to that the fact that a regular e-mail is something that could easily be forgotten about, caught by a spam e-mail, lost when you switch accounts, etc. The problems with this idea are endless

bigmario | 12 years ago | on: Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money

Running an ad on mobile for a site that's not optimized for mobile is a HUGE red flag, not some afterthought that should be mentioned in the conclusion. I'd wager anything most of Facebook's traffic comes from smartphones and tablets nowadays.

bigmario | 12 years ago | on: The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple

To be honest, I think Cook is doing a damn good job considering the big shoes he had to fill when Jobs left. Tim Cook will never be the dictator that Jobs was, nor will he command the same "respect" that Jobs had. When you not only founded a company, but also brought them from the brink of bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world (a few months ago), you have a certain gravitas that your successor will never have.

Also, Tim Cook seems to be passionate about the company, especially given his emotional rebuttal of activist investors at the last shareholders meetings.[1]

[1] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-reje...

bigmario | 12 years ago | on: Poll: Is your startup or side project profitable?

Nope, probably not ever going to be profitable, but I barely have any operating costs either. My project is called Simple Blocker, and it's an extension for Chrome that lets you block websites to help you concentrate. It was designed to be as simple as can be (hence the name), while still having all the essential features.

I don't really have any plans to monetize it, and I think asking for donations is a bit tacky. But who knows - it's good practice with Javascript and the Chrome API even if it never breaks even.

http://simpleblocker.com/