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HRoark

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About HRoark

Engineer who's interested in entrepreneurship and value investing

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    Compounding inflation over 30 years is much greater than the cost saving measures implemented by the consumer goods companies (supply chain optimization, improvement of packaging t…

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    Interesting, this is psychological misinterpretation. People have a tendency to think that price = quality. There was similar scenario presented in the book Influence: The Psycholo…

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    True. To clarify, I don't think it's safe to completely write off the fact that they could be doing something illegal (I'm not saying they are, but see this book of their alleged i…

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    Thanks for the great insight. The consumer product industry only has a few players (P&G, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Johnson & Johnson) which essentially gives them leverage to contr…

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    Yeah, it's the norm for most tech companies to have high P/Es. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad investment.

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    Comment #2666647

    Unecessary...

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    Comment #2666646

    People don't start worrying until something actually happens. The general public is deluded when it comes to internet security, and Lulzsec exposed the internet's vulnerability. Ye…

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    It's pretty embarrassing that none of these big corporations (PBS, Sony) can't even take some time to test for security flaws considering that SQL injection like you mentioned is e…

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    I read for most of their hacks they used SQL injection. Any know how that works exactly?

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    I empathize with you. It took my team hours just to figure out a name for our company. In fact, I think naming is one of the most challenging parts for startups.

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    The "Don't use IDs in selectors" was really random.