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bkhl | 7 months ago | on: Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

> Current status: Core search is working. Adding new blogs weekly as I index them.

I guess this is a reason why it does not have recent blogs from some of the sites. Otherwise, it's definitely something I'd use

bkhl | 14 years ago | on: Interview Heuristics

This person (jackg) either does not know or realize that a great software engineer can use any platform, language, and tool to do whatever she needs to achieve. I'm also not a big fan of his own choices of "trendy" technologies. This post almost seems like trolling IMO.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: If you develop web apps, don't do this.

I'm not sure if I can totally agree with the author. I understand his pain, but email isn't the most secured place. If your email is being "watched" by someone else, then that someone else can access other web services that you own WITHOUT requiring to type passwords! I know that it is very rare to have your email being watched, but in security, even the most rare case should be taken into consideration. It's a trade off between user experience and security. This is something you find very often in software engineering.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: What the hell is happening to rails?

Can you elaborate more on why Rails might be a better option than ASP.NET MVC for creating "the next hipmunk"?

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Facebook Acquires Sofa

probably talent acquisition?

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad

It's too early to say anything about Office on Windows 8. What Microsoft showed today was Windows 8, not Office. I'm sure Microsoft will has something for Office on Windows 8 with touch interface in mind. So far, I haven't seen any good office productivity applications on touch interface. I hope Microsoft impresses me.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: This Guy Has My MacBook

Good to know that OPD has arrested the bastard. :)

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Microsoft Unveils Mango, the Latest Version of Windows Phone

They probably want to align versions for Windows and Windows Phone. It looks much nicer when you say Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the first time in 20 years

What we need to focus here is this...despite the decrease in PC sales, Microsoft managed to grow. They did not just grow a little, but they grew tremendously. 30%? that's a huge number for a company like Microsoft. Nonetheless, Apple has reached another huge milestone in their history.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the first time in 20 years

"a lot of the shady business & licensing practices that Microsoft engages in"

Um... you are wrong. These companies are all suing each other, and Apple is known for creating patents for every little thing they do in iOS.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Bing Now Powers 30% of US Searches

I don't know... $0.50 (Bing) vs. $0.00 (Google). What is better for me when I can still find whatever I need to find in both?

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Bing Now Powers 30% of US Searches

I've been using Bing since I found the Bing Rewards (http://www.bing.com/rewards), which gives you a point per 2 searches and lets you redeem the points for something later on. I have not found myself going back to Google, yet.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Gmail back soon for everyone

I really hope that I'm not using anything you created on the web. I would hate to be a customer of a service whose owner think 150,000 users are insignificant.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding

Those blogs were posted in 2003 and 2006. We are in year 2011. 5 years in tech industry is like 20 years in other industries. Just sayin'

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: YouTube Says It's in Negotiations to Stream Live NBA, NHL Games

I'm pretty sure they aren't making as much money as they want, though. If they make some deal out of Youtube, it would be win-win. Plus, another win for users (as long as it's free or cost at a decent price).

I'm so ready to cancel my cable tv.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed

Awesome. However, you said this is a "startup". How are you going to monetize this besides the obvious (ads)?

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

As a lot of people said already, this is very creepy. Yet, there will be tons of users who would use this...

By the way, can you get notifications on multiple people? (now, that's really creepy)

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News

Pretty cool. Why not have another column for comments instead of making users to click? Maybe put this as an option for users to select, because I'm sure there are a lot of people who are using widescreen monitors and are not fully utilizing it. I'm suggesting this as an option, because there are other batch of people who uses vertical mode.

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Google tries new angle on hiring

I doubt that Google ever tried to hire only MS/PhDs. I went through interviews and got an offer when I was only a BSCS student. I also know a lot of people who don't have MS/PhDs and work at Google.

On your 2nd point, I totally agree with you that self-taught programmers should actually get a degree in CS or any related major. Although the programming classes might bore them out, there will be courses and professors who will take them to somewhere they would have never known before. This is just my generalization and, of course, will not apply to everyone ;)

bkhl | 15 years ago | on: Quora vs. StackExchange: Why, Joel, Why?

SO probably doesn't want too many unregistered users floating around. Also, one of success metrics for an Q&A site is the number of registered users. So, it does make sense to force users to go through almost painless process of registering before they really start engaging in the site.