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boubountu

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    Comment #3821329

    I am sure I can come out with better facts that will blow your mind about Microsoft than those presented in this blog. I do like Microsoft, Apple and every company that has made or…

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    Comment #3764978

    Being 99% percent wrong in research is good. Reporting negative results is very important, provided you have an acceptable argument of the reason you pursued a specific idea.

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    Comment #3711255

    Santorum looks both gay and addicted to porn.

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    Comment #3696121

    Giving analogies mean 2 things: Either the receiving person is stupid or the one giving the analogy is bad at expressing his ideas.

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    Comment #3661123

    I am not vouching for MS nor Google. I don't take sides. All what I am interested in is to know wether the examples given about google were valid or not.

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    Comment #3661082

    So what? The most important is the content. Did they give wrong examples about Google? This is similar to when giving Coca-Cola as an example of how bad soda drinks are. It does no…

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    Comment #3604460

    Too much space between "windows 8" and the actual window.

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    Comment #3593269

    You better have stronger reasons than those presented in the article to doom Wikipedia to be a "failure" The problems stated by the author are valid however they are solvable. Defi…

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    Comment #3591257

    That's assuming the traffic is only 140 characters per tweet. What about html/TCPIP overhead, images, clicking links. I guess you need a LightTwitter application.

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    Comment #3591212

    Those questions are valid if someone is trying to build the next Facebook. However, I think a person should work on important problems (not necessary hard, but important). And most…

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    Comment #3589350

    I don't mean he got lucky. But as a programmer, I believe that there are far more success stories to learn from than that of facebook.

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    Comment #3588911

    Seeing Facebook or Mark Zukerberg to be at the top of the success spectrum is really disturbing, much like when most business students see Donald Trump as a smart businessman.

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    Comment #3532291

    I sucked.

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    Comment #3532284

    I don't like the fact that people either love Microsoft or don't. The same applies to Google and Apple. As developers, we should always objectively question all big companies and g…

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    Comment #3529215

    Very nice interview. Although, I strongly oppose the style of interview questions he is vouching for when recruiting new employees at Facebook. I am a PhD student. I focus on paral…