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Comment · 11 years ago
As a native Turkish speaker: It actually sounds.. Turkish... They replaced clear words with their corresponding tones. I think with a little training, a native speaker can understand what he hear. It feels like listening a karaoke version of a well known song.
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Good point. But I would like to know other side of the story too, not just from the CEO.

Although, while I'm not an expert on France's labor laws, I agree laws in most EU countries are on the side of employees. But that doesn't mean when you hired someone, he/she will be working at the company for rest of his/her life without doing some work. Maybe someone who's expert on labor laws can clarify.

Edit: Also different countries in the EU has different laws. It might be difficult to `get rid of bad employee` but it might be easier in Spain...

Comment · 11 years ago
This made me think:

* Apple, Google, Microsoft et al. have many foreign workers (green card, H-2B, or maybe L1 visa) and it is easier for american citizens to move/work outside of US than foreigners to get work visa in US. So the question is, if a country (like Spain or Greece) promises tax advantage for next 25 years and makes easier to get visa for employees, would these companies move their hq there?

* If, say, European Union provides better shield, would Apple move its HQ to Germany or Spain?

* Infrastructure: I can say most European counties have better infrastructure than US and it looks like most us companies build their own if needed. With $500 billion on hand, what would prevent these companies to build a better infrastructure in a host country.

Comment · 11 years ago
I know it's fun to hack things together but wouldn't a smartphone with evernote be a better solution? You can use phone's speech to text feature and access your list anywhere online or offline.
Comment · 11 years ago
If I'm not mistaken: Altering a table can be costly and may cause a performance issues, specially if you have millions of records. Rows will be most likely locked and get updated and during this process other threads should wait until related row become "free".
Comment · 11 years ago
I wonder why they didn't allow to work on network folders. It looks like all files must be local, otherwise it can open the folder and list files in sidebar but can not open individual files.
Comment · 11 years ago
One thing is not clear: What happens if I want some people (friends of friends etc) find me on facebook but they or others don't see my information on their hello app when I called / miscalled them? Would there be an opt-out?
Comment · 11 years ago
One possible downside of this technique would be searching in previous "pages" would be difficult / impossible. Since element is removed once its out of view port, browsers' search function can not find given text. Although it should be acceptable if you have only images.
Comment · 11 years ago
I've checked their examples on http://t3js.org/examples/ and I appreciate the effort they put in but in general there is one thing I never understood with these examples :

Why most js frameworks relay on very simple examples while they promising the wonderland? I need an advanced sample than a classic todo to evaluate a framework. Something like does multiple async ajax calls, survives page reloads while juggling data / models, and gracefully handles the errors and/or initial states. An example close to a real world project would be much appreciated.

PS: If that matters, in my day time job I'm using Angular...

edit: fixed typo.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Have you asked them why they are started to writing a code in first place? Maybe, since it's a programming interview, they thought you are trying to measure their theoretical knowledge than their practical day to day knowledge.

You should probably reword your question and give a hint that a candidate can use any available tool. If it's a programming interview my first instinct would be writing a code, if it's a sysadm interview I would use available tools in the system.Context is important...

Comment · 12 years ago
It looks like they have html5 player too, which plays the following file

http://embed.wistia.com/deliveries/05b7d508543a1e8f7de01e27b... (900Mb, HD)

edit: Although, I don't know if they allow you to "Download" the video in sense of the licencing...

Comment · 12 years ago
Nice work. But I wonder how they handle table alterations, I couldn't see they mentioned on the docs. Is it possible at all? If it is, since pg_shard doesn't support transactions, what if alteration fails ?
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes they are actual issues : I had to renew one of my domains today and I'm really frustrated with the UI. I also realized I didn't checked namecheap for a while because I had same issues when i used namecheap last time.

I don't know why others didn't reported UI issues but in my case : Opening a support ticket didn't seem to be a good option, it was an UI issue and wasn't related to billing or some technical problem.

I'll check ssls.com

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