jason_wang

The language immersion market is big enough for quite a few companies to co-exist. Time will tell.

This is definitely the more proactive method of landing an internship. But the more successful interns I have worked with all had an idea what they wanted and they went straight for it.

Frankly, I get the point the author is making. Personally, because I'm benefiting from Facebook's existence, I'm fine with them profiting from my contribution to the social graph.

I can't say that I agree with the move.

Now you just need to integrate with those smart fridges so an order with Amazon Fresh is automatically placed when I run low on something.

But you can't use Facebook AND demand wages from Facebook.

Can I demand lost time wages from http://wagesforfacebook.com/ because the text scrolls too slowly?

At my last startup, we grew from 0 to 65 employees without the help of Zenefits and it was painful. Employee on-boarding, HR paperwork, and healthcare enrollment were all done manually.

Now, Zenefits can handle all that for us. We could send new hires the paperwork they need to fill out before they even start. This makes onboarding so much easier.

(Note, I'm not affiliated with Zenefits. Just a big fan.)

This situation is simply about a mismatch in culture, expectation and personal value.

The company would be better off finding developers who are excited to be a hacker at the company and wants to contribute as much as they can.

The developer would be better off finding a job that allows the freedom he wants. It's clear to me the developer values freedom over pay and he should find a company with the same value.

Trying to get the developer and management to meet in the middle will simply prolong the agony.

It's really simple and frictionless if you are using Gmail.

Though the developers at WebMD team may not be very happy if every piece of data is stored in a compressed BLOB. For each record lookup, you'll have to retrieve the entire compressed binary object, decompress it, find the record you need from some kind of a data structure. And if you are updating a record, you'll have to do all that, plus send the compressed binary object back. Performance might be an issue :)

All kidding aside, our system is optimized for fast lookup of secure data. For a site as popular as WebMD, our JSON Store really is the way to go.

Box is cloud backup for files on your computer.

TrueVault is an application backend that mobile apps and web apps are built on top of.

We have customers switching from Box to TrueVault because 1) our API is specifically designed to be called from a mobile/app rather than targeted for file backup use cases and 2) Box has a user based pricing that doesn't make sense if you are building an app rather than backing up files.

I have observed that when you have a highly motivated group of people, they will subdivide into teams automatically as well as add and subtract team members without outside direction.

Beyond the CSS layout, you typically have to cut up the assets and put them in an image sprite. An automatic service wouldn't be able to cut up images correctly if the PSD is flattened. Even with layers, overlapping layers would give the automatic service issues (or bad CSS in the end).

PSD2HTML is more art than science.

The Newlywed Game: Just warming up for The Jerry Springer Show.

Since it is near impossible to determine if a visitor is a California resident or not, sites/apps will just implement the necessary notices and features to comply with DNT for everyone.

That's not what pg is saying at all.

Eric's question wasn't if female founders can be found. Eric is asking if there are non-hackers out there, just waiting to be found, so they can start the next Facebook. pg is saying you can't just go out and find non-hackers and turn them into the next Mark Zuckerberg.

On a side note, I think the transcript is poorly transcribed. Many sentences are missing keywords allowing sentences to be easily interpreted in different ways.

This is beneficial both ways:

* A smooth transition can be made. They get to wrap up their last project at the company and have enough time to do a proper knowledge transfer

* We get a head start on hiring a replacement. Typically the person leaving gets to help out during the interview process as well.

* I get to help the person leaving on picking out the right next opportunity and more often than not, help the person negotiate his next job offer.

With a vesting schedule in place, parting with a co-founder (voluntarily and involuntarily) is much cleaner.