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There's Airbnb and Uber. Add spotty cellphone service, higher cost of living, higher cost of supplies, crumbling infrastructure, substandard internet as well as JFK/LAX/ORD airport…

Bill Gates is now doing his best to eradicate diseases around the world. Before Steve Jobs died, he revolutionized mobile technology for the common people. Now the technical co-fou…

I'll define traditional hiring as getting a job via the "Career" or "Jobs" section of a company's website or going through a staffing firm (except for small startups which is a com…

If so, how did you do it? Was the old team still there or did it need new people?

There's the Google Bus, the Apple Bus, the Facebook Bus, etc. How about startups?

Just out of curiosity, did it work? Where they sold?

Companies make demands on all employees which have nothing to do with their business all the time but they care about it a lot. One obvious one is a suit and tie policy. I'm curiou…

There is a difference between wanting to wear a suit and forcing everyone to wear one.

>This way of looking at it unfortunately suffers from self-reference. Someone who won't meet the dress code won't be looked on as a "really great candidate", so the exercise is und…

For the old timers here, what was is it like in the suit and tie culture of the past? Do you know or have you been fired for choosing not to wear one? Any stories of employees firi…

Quite frankly, I'd say more than 70% of the stuff customers want end in a product up being worthless and useless to their core business yet they DEMAND IT to the point it's eating …

I'm used to knocking at a lot of doors and hearing the word "no" or "your idea needs major work". I'm a nobody - that's expected. I use the information they give me to self-improve…

I disagree. Many entrepreneurs would love to work for a big company IF they were at the controls and not the cogs. Steve Jobs. He had full control over Apple and could tell it to b…

How about Silicon Valley itself? How much influence does Silicon Valley have for it's own land?

Silicon Valley is known for having some very smart people solving very complex problems. Do you think there was any way for them to have limited the damage from California over the…

Do you think this will this have an effect on the technology companies there in the long run if things keep going the way they are?

IE6?

Let's try this example. Think about navigation websites before Google Maps. Think about it after Google Maps. Look at Node.js. Build a time machine, go back to the past before Goog…

No, not the companies in Silicon Valley but the region itself. I'm reading articles about how CalTrain almost ran out of money, how VTA is underfunded, and articles upon articles a…

For me, I find it's actually a matter of learning more about myself and why I do what I do. I'm no great designer but I was a technically minded person who thought I could never de…