My takeaway is that most people assume a university professor never "brushes up against the floor of society" (as you put it). This article is good for enlightening people that this is far from the case.
> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya Ballmer made several missteps: 1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia and Windows Mobile and Windows Phone…
Long story, short: 1. Realize the world is moving beyond Windows 2. Cede mobile OS to Android/iOS, that battle is lost. 3. Realize, next great revenue stream is the Cloud (Azure).
> It's not even really a city, but more just a place where exurbanites congregate from 9 to 5 to conduct commerce. Definitely not the case. Lots of people live in the city of San Francisco, though it's also true a lot…
I think the part that you may be missing is that View 1 (embedded view) is hosted on DocuSign's domain. So the view may be designed by the client, but it's not hosted by the client. It's hosted on DocuSign. Then View 2,…
Even if they added this feature, the API bug would still remain (it would just be covered up by the UI). A sophisticated enough client user would still have access to the all data associated to the API user.
I'm curious as to how HelloSign guards against this. Do they have some sort of session token that sends you back to the signing page on refresh? (i.e. similar to guard to avoid submitting shopping cart purchases twice).
When I read retrospectives like this, I wonder how many apps have this bug and don't know it.
Whether an API is "good" or "bad" often is dependent on the requirements of the calling client. At the beginning of projects when client requirements are unclear, it is often hard to determine whether a supporting…
On the flip side, many of the previous generations of parents would kill to have the choices their kids have. They simply never had those choices when they grew up.
John Romero was largely responsible for the stories and designs of the old school iD games from back in the day. Carmack brought the tech brilliance to make it happen.
"While I personally believe they did break the NDA by showing the hardware with the demo Carmack cooked up, the amount of money awarded is beyond absurd." That all depends on if the demo was the deciding factor in the…
They also made a number of "free" games that were published by SoftDisk. This was all pre-modern software era though. If that happened today, it would end up very similarly to how the Occulus case ended up.
Yep. Check out 4:06 from this scene from "The Aviator": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1pPyarKhA Lady: "We don't care about money here, Mr. Hughes" Howard Hughes: "That's because you have it"
Now, let me just dispel a myth you stated. You believe that "Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more." This works for people…
Also easier to be a genius, when you have an actual genius (Wozniak) creating things the world had never seen before.
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"But it is downright chilling to watch the leadership team throw around buzz phrases from business best-sellers with minimal focus on the nuanced requirements of applying these principles to the education ecosystem…
On some level, I hate articles like this because of all the unanswered questions: [1] What did you spend that initial $100 on? (Even the cheapest overseas programmer can't do jack for $100) [2]You mention $400 million…
Thank you for answering. And wow, amazing results from using the default "marketing" you get with the Mac App Store (especially given the difficulties that so many others have reported).
Agreed. In fact, there was a HN thread a while back about this very topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494016 It's unbelievably annoying when this happens. I have a number of bookmarks to incredibly insightful…
After reading this book, I realized I had WAAY underestimated Romero's impact on iD. Point blank - without Romero, there is iD Software (it was his idea to form a new company). There is no Doom. There is no Quake.…
I think for some years, companies didn't realize how high the cost of running on EC2/S3 actually is compared to, say, a dedicated rack colocated somewhere... But this ignores the cost of paying someone to setup/maintain…
"As for commute, this much is true and is a particular problem in the Valley. For me, my commute is a 7 minute walk to work (in NYC). YMMV. :)" I might be going way out on a limb here, but I think this kind of thing is…
Like I stated, wherever this is acceptable behavior, it's because the concept of successful project is redefined to accept this. The reality is that you didn't really hit the deadline, you just strongarmed everyone into…
My takeaway is that most people assume a university professor never "brushes up against the floor of society" (as you put it). This article is good for enlightening people that this is far from the case.
> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya Ballmer made several missteps: 1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia and Windows Mobile and Windows Phone…
Long story, short: 1. Realize the world is moving beyond Windows 2. Cede mobile OS to Android/iOS, that battle is lost. 3. Realize, next great revenue stream is the Cloud (Azure).
> It's not even really a city, but more just a place where exurbanites congregate from 9 to 5 to conduct commerce. Definitely not the case. Lots of people live in the city of San Francisco, though it's also true a lot…
I think the part that you may be missing is that View 1 (embedded view) is hosted on DocuSign's domain. So the view may be designed by the client, but it's not hosted by the client. It's hosted on DocuSign. Then View 2,…
Even if they added this feature, the API bug would still remain (it would just be covered up by the UI). A sophisticated enough client user would still have access to the all data associated to the API user.
I'm curious as to how HelloSign guards against this. Do they have some sort of session token that sends you back to the signing page on refresh? (i.e. similar to guard to avoid submitting shopping cart purchases twice).
When I read retrospectives like this, I wonder how many apps have this bug and don't know it.
Whether an API is "good" or "bad" often is dependent on the requirements of the calling client. At the beginning of projects when client requirements are unclear, it is often hard to determine whether a supporting…
On the flip side, many of the previous generations of parents would kill to have the choices their kids have. They simply never had those choices when they grew up.
John Romero was largely responsible for the stories and designs of the old school iD games from back in the day. Carmack brought the tech brilliance to make it happen.
"While I personally believe they did break the NDA by showing the hardware with the demo Carmack cooked up, the amount of money awarded is beyond absurd." That all depends on if the demo was the deciding factor in the…
They also made a number of "free" games that were published by SoftDisk. This was all pre-modern software era though. If that happened today, it would end up very similarly to how the Occulus case ended up.
Yep. Check out 4:06 from this scene from "The Aviator": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1pPyarKhA Lady: "We don't care about money here, Mr. Hughes" Howard Hughes: "That's because you have it"
Now, let me just dispel a myth you stated. You believe that "Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more." This works for people…
Also easier to be a genius, when you have an actual genius (Wozniak) creating things the world had never seen before.
ding ding ding
"But it is downright chilling to watch the leadership team throw around buzz phrases from business best-sellers with minimal focus on the nuanced requirements of applying these principles to the education ecosystem…
On some level, I hate articles like this because of all the unanswered questions: [1] What did you spend that initial $100 on? (Even the cheapest overseas programmer can't do jack for $100) [2]You mention $400 million…
Thank you for answering. And wow, amazing results from using the default "marketing" you get with the Mac App Store (especially given the difficulties that so many others have reported).
Agreed. In fact, there was a HN thread a while back about this very topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494016 It's unbelievably annoying when this happens. I have a number of bookmarks to incredibly insightful…
After reading this book, I realized I had WAAY underestimated Romero's impact on iD. Point blank - without Romero, there is iD Software (it was his idea to form a new company). There is no Doom. There is no Quake.…
I think for some years, companies didn't realize how high the cost of running on EC2/S3 actually is compared to, say, a dedicated rack colocated somewhere... But this ignores the cost of paying someone to setup/maintain…
"As for commute, this much is true and is a particular problem in the Valley. For me, my commute is a 7 minute walk to work (in NYC). YMMV. :)" I might be going way out on a limb here, but I think this kind of thing is…
Like I stated, wherever this is acceptable behavior, it's because the concept of successful project is redefined to accept this. The reality is that you didn't really hit the deadline, you just strongarmed everyone into…