hamami
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7 years ago
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on: Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
I think it would be useful if there was a patent type for "free for anyone to use", something like the MIT License in open source. This would make it easier for patent officers to discover and reject applications conflicting with prior free to use patents and offload the burden of keeping track of this from the inventor to the patent office.
hamami
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8 years ago
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on: “This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash”
Looking at the two repos it's not clear to me whether it's even a fork or not. The issue owner didn't state which files he thinks are forked from the Gemstash repo. Also, MIT license is a permissive license and does allow sub-licensing, so his comment that you cannot change the license is not entirely correct. However the intern should have kept the original MIT license along with the Apache license, adding a note that MIT license only applies to specific portion of the project (that is, if he forked that repository in the first place..)
hamami
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8 years ago
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on: Rich Retirees Are Hoarding Cash Out of Fear
I suspect the biggest reason this is happening is there's no healthcare in U.S. and retirees simply have to account for that. Who will help pay the hospital bills of the "educated spenders" with no money when they get a serious disease?
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
Lockout period ending is not necessarily a problem with IPOs. However, a rushed IPO where fundamentals can't justify the valuation, already slowing growth story and risk of envelopment by Facebook's Instagram stories; these are some serious red flags.
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
I agree with you that only employees selling won't make it crash or anything, and I don't expect any big investors to sell; however unless they come up with a solid ad-monetization + continued growth strategy I expect it to follow TWTR's pattern leading up to the lockup (Jan-Apr 2014 -40%) and go even lower shortly afterwards (May 2014 -20%).
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
I think Snapchat is currently already overpriced, so I don't agree with your comments that it's fire sale prices, but only time will tell :) Note that I don't own any long or short position on the stock.
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
I believe Snapchat founders also agree with you, which is why they rushed to IPO as soon as Instagram and Facebook released stories. In a few months when the lockout period expires and employees are able to sell their stocks, I expect to watch the stock tumble to never come back up..
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Remove United from your flight results
yes I've thought about this as well after the event, now I keep a printed copy in my pocket and use the one on my phone in case something like this happens again (on a different airline)
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Remove United from your flight results
While I didn't have terrible experience comparable to some recent events, I also want to share mine. Last year when I was flying United I printed my boarding pass from one of the kiosks at the airport, and it assigned me to a seat where there's slightly more legroom, normally I believe these are upgrade seats, but I assumed there's no other seats so it gave me that one. After I and several others boarded the plane, one of the agents comes to me and wants to see my boarding pass. At this point it's a little awkward for him to ask for this but OK whatever, I give him my pass and he walks off with it without saying a thing. A minute or two later he comes back and gives it back to me and doesn't give me any explanation why he asked for it in the first place. 5 minutes later another agent comes to me and says in a rude manner I sat in someone else's seat and asking me to leave that seat. Well guess what, the first agent swapped my boarding pass with a different one before returning it to me. I didn't make a big fuss about it but let them know that I knew what they did. In fact I'd be fine if they just explained the situation and said there's been an error with the seat assignment. They're not just violent and inconsiderate but also very good con artists..good job losing a customer for good..
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights
it's just another distraction from the healthcare plan or the Russian ties investigation, no need to fry your brain looking for logic here.
hamami
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9 years ago
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on: Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015)
This is simply not true for all tech companies. I've had instances where I said no due to asks being not in line with company policies and we changed course to tackle the problem another way. I work at Microsoft and there's severe rules against retaliation should your boss penalize you for something like this.
hamami
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10 years ago
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on: Working remotely is hard
I'd also call myself an introvert, and the best productivity I get is when I dedicate a couple of days working from home with the rest in office. This allows me to get the bulk load of work done when I'm home and allow some social interaction with my colleagues the rest of the week, while still getting a decent amount of work done. It's consistently the same days every week that I work from home, so people I work with can have their expectations set on when I'll be around. Choosing random days does not really work well for this, as people get confused when I'm not there.
hamami
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10 years ago
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on: Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
you cannot just decontaminate your body, the human body relies on beneficial microorganisms to function. without them you'd die
hamami
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10 years ago
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on: How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500
Exposing an AWS key through a public repo happened to me a few years ago and AWS support called me to confirm whether I was aware of the suspicious activity, when I stated I do not know what's going on they immediately blocked the account and told me I wouldn't be responsible for the cost. Mine was actually much worse, the account was billing a thousand dollars every hour. They told me I'd have to sign up again with a different account.. I'm surprised this process was not followed in author's case.
hamami
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11 years ago
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on: How to destroy Programmer Productivity
I work in an office but I felt the productivity graph is still pretty accurate for me as well. WFH does wonders for me as it avoids most of the randomization I get from coworkers.
