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First, desktop Linux sucks, so there's no point of porting anything to it. Second, office suites including MS Office are now cloud-based.

How they will be better at making self-driving cars than established electronics and auto-manufacturers?

Well, even if you can do something by hand, there's a market for a gadget that will do it more conveniently. There is a market for food processors and rice cookers. I don't think J…

Of course you can put together an SMS sending service over the weekend. It just won't scale to the whole world and will have limited throughput.

Large eCommerce sites are constantly scraped by competitors, market research companies and even vendors (to ensure sellers honor MSRP). Scraping activity is usually throttled at re…

It's higly likely that a web site will greet any connections from Tor with captcha.

Here's the difference - when shit hits the fan everyone in the room wants to solve the problem and they are actively helping each other. Technical interview is completely different…

The problem with take home assignments is that while investing time the candidate doesn't know how it will be judged. Sometimes people want just a working prototype but sometimes t…

I don't get how IQ could be considered inherent. It's a test, so results are defined by talent and training. A person who spent a month solving the types of problems present in an …