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The post on why medium.com could have been profitable as a lifestyle business but since it took VC money, it should resort to spamming users with recommendations etc

I am a software developer but trying to learn other aspects of building businesses, like marketing and sales. If you have a side project that needs marketing help, I will be happy …

If it is ok for managers to ask "Describe a time when you failed", it is fair game for interviewee to ask tough questions.

And you can never be sure what questions will be asked from you during an interview, especially, since the only thing job description says is "Rockstar frontend Engineer"

Since Greg was CXO at blekko, I would say for whoever is making search engine, its important!

Yes. In today's search engines, I cannot give you a blacklist and say filter out these results. If I am looking for tutorials, I cannot say no video results. If I am looking for ma…

can you please add an email at which we can contact you? I don't see one in the profile.

Is there a credit card out there that is "developer friendly"? Like, can I use an API to create temporary credit numbers, push messages to an endpoint when new charges are posted, …

i.e. you can be both investor and employee in the company. But you have to run payroll which means company must be generating money or be VC funded

Government runs hospitals in every town but only poor people use them(though they put up with bribes here). Rich and middle class typically use private health care as its generally…

If you go cheaper than that and wait, somebody else might snag them up!

For some of us in Bay area, we pay $5000 in rent, utilities, day care etc. I, by and large can't optimize on these things. I can only optimize on groceries, restaurant eating, vaca…

W.r.t askwhale.com, seems like it is a mashup of Quora/Reddit and video based Q&A. Given that there is greater friction in video compared to text based Q&A sites, who would be inte…

I find it quiet surprising that none of these startup classes teach how to do market research and market sizing. Yet when a new batch of startups demo every six weeks, the first th…

Lets say you have an ecommerce firm. When a user is browsing an item(diapers?), at a mimimum he/she expects to see images, description, reviews, cost, tax, delivery dates, promotio…

I believe Quora and Facebook tried it in various forms though there you could reach out just about anybody. I assume 21.co will do same thing going forward.

or a way for you to get into feedback from management. If you directly apply, you will never know why management did not pick up your resume.

Principal engineer in Linkedin, Google, FB etc?

An easy way is to walk up to a QA or engineer, tell him "We are reviewing some sessions by customer and we keep getting this error". can you please help me replay customer sessions…

Can I use it for audio streaming as well?

Is real shortage possible? If what I am willing to pay is limitless, won't people catch up, learn the skills and shortage willl be gone?

There is bigger question here. How many people are still make money from selling compiler/language tools? Like, write a static analyzer, or php optimizer or sell a Swift library fo…

There is bigger question here. How many people are still make money from selling compiler/language tools? Like, write a static analyzer, or php optimizer or sell a Swift library fo…