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Well, it is good for a few laughs. You get a bit worried if someone walks around calling themselves CEO of a startup with 2 or 3 people in it.

This works if you already know how to code, and can come up with a quick 1 hour problem for them to solve. And it is a lot of work on your side as well. Filtering the list, checkin…

Now imagine if your family relied on you having this job? How awful would that be.

> That's a little naive. Are you saying it is impossible to escape their devious plans, because I have managed to avoid a parking or speeding fine for the last 20 years, simply by …

Startups of any kind have a big problem in france. Most people are employed by these huge companies.

Also, if you need to start paying for whatever reason, these are the guys most of those users will go with.

Has google hired a lot of MBA's recently, because it look an awful lot like they are trying to cross-pollinate their main business lines, to improve vertical integration and uptake…

> Within the Android space they are exemplary You will often see this with someone coming into a new space. HTC used to be like this, very consumer friendly, then when they start t…

> Pixar is still making (some) good movies under Disney. Pixar movie quality seems to have dropped, while Disney's have gone up after the acquisition. http://i.imgur.com/H2s4hVL.jp…

How would the carpet company even know, if they don't have their details?

All of the amazing websites and apps created here are just copies of other apps, localized for China. I don't see this as anything to be too proud off, creating the apps isn't hard…

Why is this cool and clever? It still only encodes 12 bits of data, it is just different to using the normal 12 bits of data. Is this a more useful subset? I am guessing it is so, …

I guess, according to your logic, anything goes then at these conferences?

These all seem a bit ridiculous for 2014, maybe 2024. There are so many hurdles to overcome to get self driving cars, or private drones.

I used to get a lot of 'this role requires a Java expert, it also helps if you know jquery, html5, css'.

Then you have to worry that they might track you down. How will you send an anonymous email? The library will have cameras, so might the coffee shop. The fake email you setup might…

> On top of start small I'd add: just finish it first. Make the most MVP(G?) game that you can, and finish it, get it out there. Then start making improvements adding stuff, making…

> The game is desktop-only, and it probably could have been done with Flash, but the web was the main reason this game had success. It feels very much like a website, because it is…

> It's more probable that you reconstructed those memories from stories told by other people, even if you forgot hearing those stories before remembering the event, than that you'r…

Ah yes, so much power going the assembly code route, it took me a while to shake it. Started entering opcodes in the z80, and thought that Masm was as good as it could get. Was sti…

This may mean something to the people who study management, but since most organizations use managers, and different managers have different styles then this already exists. I had …

> our devices were roaming on to AT&T, where we only had 10MB of data to use. Is this really that much of a problem? Coming from an Aussie who is used to having no mobile access a…

Used to work at a coworking space near there that was £40 for 2 days a week, a really great deal. Wish I could find anything approaching that in Melbourne, for some reason they are…

Ha, come on, is this oppression? And the problem we all have is that this guy is taking it out on the clerk, who has no responsibility in deciding this, has no control, and present…

As an Australia who also has lived in the USA, wtf are you talking about? Yes, the USA is not perfect, but it is an amazing place, with so much support and infrastructure to get an…