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This is just the beginning. As we see easy money dry up, we are going to see a lot of unprofitable startups go belly up.

I read this book, it was truly jaw dropping to see the "Guanxi" system at work. From what I could tell, there is a whole system of unwritten rules about how different political fac…

I seriously doubt Amazon would risk mail fraud (and a bevy of other federal charges) over this. If they get caught in a criminal case (not civil), they could be completely shut dow…

I once saw some article about them writing their own rich chat client for their internal tooling because their existing solution wouldn't "uber scale" - whatever that meant.

Soon Java will become the new PERL with 20 ways to do the same thing & developers will have to spend hours on Google trying to figure out what that wierd bit of syntax actually doe…

I disagree with this. A good Computer Science program must have enough software development curriculum that people actually learn to write code.

"for eventual integration into PostgreSQL"..

I'll tell you why - try to update one column in 100GB worth of row data. Postgress makes a copy of _every_ row and you need 100GB of extra space on the hard-drive until you commit …

Instagram is Facebook owned now.

I don't think they are monopolies. I use DuckDuckGo for search & Twitter for social media. I find discovering new things/People on Twitter more interesting than the sclerotic famil…

Huh got me there. I have started to trust Apple maps - not as good as Google though. Hope this gets commodotized though.

I switched to DuckDuckGo - it isn’t as good as google, but it is 90% of what I need. For the rest I have to slightly tweak my search criteria - but that is not a bad thing because …

I got tired of being a cog in the Amazon machine and bought some merchandise from Jet.com last week. It was a sub-optimal experience. This is what I bought: -> $4.22 Q-tips Cotton …

I don't think this will fix anything. Consider the following scenario. Employer to (theoretically) underpaid/under-represented minority: I offer you x. Underpaid minority: accepted…

Your last paragraph just made my point for me. Once you get out of toy frameworks that won't scale, refactor or "age well" - you end up with a JEE style framework. It's like that f…

I don't understand your comment. To me the beauty of JEE on the backend is: 1. Scalability - the application server creates as many instances as needed - until it hits either the J…

Probably because they don't want to deal with the overhead of maintaining patches to RHEL source.

If NASA doesn't have the funding for landing humans on Mars, this isn't "news" to them. This is whole article is actually designed to get attention at a time when the CJS (Commerce…

If this is what you want me to respond to: > You could even, if you wanted to, make an argument that this has some things in common with what was historically called indentured lab…

Ok - that "you are kidding" was an unwarranted swipe. I won't do it again. Regarding "indentured servant" - that is the factually correct term to describe the situation. Even H-1B …

How about this: VC: Hey DHS, Entrepreneur lied about something 2 years ago just before/after he came here. Entrepreneur: That was not a lie - that was marketing. Every business doe…

When the system brings people in who cannot change jobs or have a hard time changing jobs - what other term would you suggest I use? Is "bonded labor" better?

You are kidding right? When the "entrepreneurs" very status in the US is dependent on being in the good-graces of anyone else - especially vultures like VC firms - these "entrepren…

The US skills based immigration system is based on bringing in indentured labor to enrich corporations. L-1 visa holders _cannot_ change jobs. H-1B visa holders have to go through …