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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…

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 th…

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 …

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 mathe…

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…

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, …

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 partie…

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 …

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 ou…

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…

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. I…

Bad missteps at Yahoo!. Apparently they have a new faster e-mail. Yahoo email in Flash/Javascript + visual ads really ruined my experience with Yahoo.

Sweet...2Gbps wireless bandwidth!

Sleep rocks! I am in the 2.5% that sleep 8 hours or more. I am much more productive during the day as a result. I am alert, my brain spins faster and I can take on more challenges.…

The learning curve on git is high, but I understand the benefits. We use it at my current company , but we do make mistakes with it. Windows + SVN is so easy to use (and so entrenc…

Keep it simple. Hopefully they did not use AJAX to serve static content.