caprad

Well, it is good for a few laughs. You get a bit worried if someone walks around calling themselves CEO of a startup with 2 or 3 people in it.

This works if you already know how to code, and can come up with a quick 1 hour problem for them to solve. And it is a lot of work on your side as well. Filtering the list, checking the code, making sure they didn't cheat by checking github logs, pay someone else to review the candidates.

It would almost be quick to post the job online, break it up into stages, hire someone, check their progress, and move to the next person if their work is not satisfactory.

Now imagine if your family relied on you having this job? How awful would that be.

> That's a little naive.

Are you saying it is impossible to escape their devious plans, because I have managed to avoid a parking or speeding fine for the last 20 years, simply by following the rules.

Startups of any kind have a big problem in france. Most people are employed by these huge companies.

Also, if you need to start paying for whatever reason, these are the guys most of those users will go with.

Has google hired a lot of MBA's recently, because it look an awful lot like they are trying to cross-pollinate their main business lines, to improve vertical integration and uptake.

> Within the Android space they are exemplary

You will often see this with someone coming into a new space. HTC used to be like this, very consumer friendly, then when they start to do well they change and become assholes.

How would the carpet company even know, if they don't have their details?

All of the amazing websites and apps created here are just copies of other apps, localized for China. I don't see this as anything to be too proud off, creating the apps isn't hard, and china has a huge number of people so you have that going for you.

Show us were China is innovating, that is where the real story is.

Why is this cool and clever? It still only encodes 12 bits of data, it is just different to using the normal 12 bits of data.

Is this a more useful subset? I am guessing it is so, since they went to this trouble.

I guess, according to your logic, anything goes then at these conferences?

These all seem a bit ridiculous for 2014, maybe 2024. There are so many hurdles to overcome to get self driving cars, or private drones.

I used to get a lot of 'this role requires a Java expert, it also helps if you know jquery, html5, css'.