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Totally agreed. Compete on products or results, not on legal process

Some of these system designs interview and algorithm interviews are just overrated. You are literally testing how much "alike"" this candidate is thinking like you do, which someti…

There are some cloud providers where you can allocate dedicated servers with virtualization on top. That way you can manage exactly what runs on each instance, while still have the…

The problems with economic model or most modeling are not the methods. It's usually dealing with the quality of the features or parameters. Even in a much simpler problem, no matte…

yes.. but for less adopted or emerging platforms, you have to be more conscious of the source of the library, and should look at the source to verify its functionalities

it's all depending on use cases.. that is why I don't think an API should be secured through SSL from day one.. here is an example how SSL can be unnecessary, if i am processing bi…

love R.. but have to say because it's open source, you do have to watch for the quality of libraries

Not sure why would you recommend SSL from day one. If the API needs to entertain high throughput and low response time, adding SSL means adding overhead.

I am curious where is the Group in Groupon these days. Groupon is more like a coupon company now than the group buying phenomena that made it successful.

There is no reason to love or hate a language. Every language has its strengths and weaknesses. C/C++ has its performance advantage but may require more skills and training. Php an…

Google captures your intent, Facebook captures your social graph. It's not Google and Facebook does it wrong, they just represent part of us. A service that tries to generalize the…

Funny to see how iPhone SDK has already forced on us how smart phone apps should look, just like what MS did to us with Visual Studio. I know the SDK developers want to make progra…

The challenge Google faces on how to improve the way users retrieve information from the web is actually limited by its own search interface. Google's simple search box interface h…