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Maybe we are not in tech bubble but there a lot of crappy companies raising a lot of capital.

The main problem with Google Docs is that it is just too complicated - or better to say, has some rules which are quite unique. For example, normal people get very confused that yo…

Discovery and personalization are not compatible with each other. So if you use Google search as a discovery tool, then personalization hurts. There is no alternative. Maybe DDG bu…

It is very dangerous to be ignorant about critical computer science fields like cryptography and just go with the cult. I'm not saying you should build your own cryptography, but a…

I wonder why companies when then become big stop innovating. All these managers read Innovator Dilemma but still they stop innovating. For example, we all know that Google has very…

And they both live in San Francisco - which shows that it is all about $$ and not about their political views or principles. So this is one of the problems I can see with politics …

Here is one possible theory: * majority of technology in US is outsourced to China / India * China is a good friend of Iran and India has a very close relationship * some info abou…

Unrelated question - but I would to hear what others think. I noticed that two sites we have developed in the past (chat/dating site and food review site) had much better acceptanc…

Does anybody know why they were doing this experiment (measuring speed fo neutrinos) at all? Were they assuming that neutrinos travel faster than speed of light in the first place?…

I'm not an expert how to write job posing (and Dave Thomas is an excellent writer), but this is more like "what a developer job posting should NOT look like" then "should look like…

I'm not sure this is a smart advice. Of course, frugality is good thing. But it does not help you to become rich. There is a saying which says: Don't waste your time thinking about…

Meaning that vacations are not tracked but also not guaranteed. I'm not judging whether that is good or bad, but just want to understand how many startups are practicing this new a…

This will be the shortest thread in HN history... On serious note, I'm really not aware of a single one. I heard some

I would like to hear what people on HN think about location check-ins. Is there a future for startups focusing on it? It seems like Foursquare is going nowhere, Facebook is abandon…

The questions like this are the reason why your first job should be working on large scale very-well maintained projects and not some small startup. By working on these kind of pro…

I found it interesting that Hacker News is full of Google lovers: if you say anything against Google you will be downvoted. I'm not saying that is bad or anything but just it is in…

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. So it seems AirBnb is stronger than ever after this.

I invested some portion of my saving into GOOG. But I'm concern that 90% of revenue are ads. Is it possible at all to disrupt advertising system Google is dependent on? Just want t…

From engineering point of view, the sad thing (and danger) about Google, Twitter, or Facebook is they will get in trouble as soon as some other company figure outs more efficient a…

I think the problem for engineers working for certain companies such as Google, Twitter, or Facebook is not that your customer are advertising companies. The real challenge (and pr…

Comparing personal budget with US budget is a gross oversimplification. First, US can (it is already doing via QE) monetarazie all the debt. And one comedian said: US can just star…

I have been living in Bay Area for 11 years and here is my take: - as an engineer, you will never be able to buy a house in Bay Area (at least not so you can live conformable). you…

Even if you put write ahead logs on different I/O subsystems the lock needed to ensure consistency will probably be a bottleneck (and crappy Linux implementation asynch IO on multi…

How MemSQL compares with TimesTen? Or even with Oracle RDBMS with bunch of RAM? Or Oracle RDBMS with Oracle In-Memory Database Cache (TimesTen) on application app servers? What is …