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This is so cool. It lets Facebook amass a massive amount of data about customer whereabouts and whatabouts. The incentive for merchants is quite compelling. However, Facebook needs…

Very informative. We are a payments company ( http://www.juspay.in ) based out of India. We came to similar conclusion just after the inception of the company. Instead of building …

A vague generalization. Can you conclusively say that all the YCombinator (or any other similar incubator) startups are groundbreaking innovations? Given the transformation that te…

This is very good! I work for a payments service provider in India. And at our company, we have something similar but not so detailed as this. Ours is built on top of Pingdom - htt…

Why such a great support to Apple even when it is so evident that the mini iPad is a first generation product? I think it has become fashionable to praise Apple even when it falls …

Ideas are indeed worthless today. But to believe that completely is stupidity. Internet, as of today, is a gold rush. Anyone worth his programming skill can work on an idea and get…

Could it be that he got fired from Facebook for the same reason as well? For founders, this seems like an easy way to guard themselves against dilution. Nobody is perfect. Be it li…

I very much agree with the last point. Objective evaluation of a developer is much more than burned down points. I worked at Amazon and could see evidently that Scrum was turning g…

> What if someone else has an important piece of information that the dev and the architect don't? That isn't good enough justification. You are too much erring on the side of caut…

At last some sanity sets in. That button really made no sense at all. In a typical scenario, I will decide whether I like or not only after visiting the page. And to visit the page…

All that is really no excuse for not developing a foolproof system. And if you know that you don't have a great system to catch fraud, then you should simply leave some money on th…

Seems like a very tough business to be in. Guess, how do upcoming bands manage to make it through given that most people on the band are pretty much committed to it full time.

While Hacker News is a great place for finding great links/articles, it cannot be subscribed to (unlike a blog). This makes it difficult to read this through devices like Kindle. S…

While Hacker News is a great place for finding great links/articles, it cannot be subscribed to (unlike a blog). This makes it difficult to read this through devices like Kindle. S…