Hacker News: smysore

New comment by smysore in "What Are The 2 Most Important Traits in An Entrepreneur?"

smysore — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:52:53 +0000

I'm curious as to why you think charisma is sometimes a negative influencer of success?

New comment by smysore in "If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?"

smysore — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:03:46 +0000

How old was Paul Graham when he started ViaWeb? I don't think it was mid-twenties -- maybe 30 or 31?

Real artists ship

smysore — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:45:51 +0000

Article URL: http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2225209

Points: 23

# Comments: 11

New comment by smysore in "Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO"

smysore — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:45:42 +0000

yup -- there's a thin line between "Don't be evil" and "Do good"

New comment by smysore in "JavaScript Interview Question"

smysore — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:42:28 +0000

why hasn't anyone suggested this: els[i].addEventListener('click', new Function("","alert("+i+");"),false);

it works fine and it's much shorter and easier to read than nested function declarations

New comment by smysore in "Asia's new aristocrats"

smysore — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:52:33 +0000

What's interesting in India is that you'll often find a slum right next to a super luxurious hotel like the Oberoi or the Taj. I've never been able to understand why squatting "sticks" there but not here (I've seen police trying to "clean up" the slums -- you'd think the violence would scare people away).

New comment by smysore in "JavaScript Interview Question"

smysore — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:57:18 +0000

is it silly of me to think that this doesn't seem hard enough to be an interview question? i'd be more interested in whether (and how quickly) someone could grasp a complex problem

Salesforce makes another acquisition: DimDim

smysore — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:35:42 +0000

Article URL: http://www.dimdim.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2077316

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by smysore in "Show HN: Craigsforms for better craigslist ads"

smysore — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:48:11 +0000

I don't meant to be critical in any way (I just want to offer a genuine perspective) -- I really didn't like it. Not sure if it was because of the bright yellow color or because I just took a long survey before checking out the site (which was another long form).

New comment by smysore in "Netflix: Culture of Fear"

smysore — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:35:02 +0000

The culture slides on Netflix's job site do make it seem like a scary place to work but at least they are transparent about what it's like to be employed there..

New comment by smysore in "Heroku: The Next Level (Salesforce.com acquisition)"

smysore — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:57:13 +0000

I think it has something to do with the fact that Microsoft had just invested close to $10M in Heroku in the weeks prior to the acquisition (making Microsoft the biggest investee in Heroku). Right now, Salesforce is positioning themselves against the Microsofts and the Oracles (versus the smaller CRMs like ZoHo, Sugar, etc.); the Heroku purchase was probably more strategic than anything else...

New comment by smysore in "Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash"

smysore — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:53:28 +0000

I think this is one of the reasons why Salesforce has agreed to let Heroku "run themselves" instead of taking over and ruining the party. It's also a good sign for Heroku customers since it's unlikely that Salesforce will make a ton of changes to Heroku's service until they can figure out how best to integrate the two services.

New comment by smysore in "Thoughts from my Google tour"

smysore — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:31:24 +0000

The culture at Google is probably also driven by the fact that it's such an academic environment (in addition to the fact that there's a lot of pro-engineer sentiment). Facebook has an engineer-driven culture and it's apparently an awesome environment for programmers but according to Paul Buchheit (who has worked at both places) it feels a lot more like dorm room hacker culture and is totally different from Google.

He talks more about company culture here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/11/facebooks...

New comment by smysore in "Ask HN: Why are many Techcrunch and Mashable submissions from the same users?"

smysore — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:38:31 +0000

And the TechCrunch posts always get upvoted and make it to the top. Isn't there a way to make these "worth less"?

The crazy things that IE8 did to render web pages...

smysore — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:24:30 +0000

Article URL: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ie8-mode.png

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1899543

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smysore in "Ask HN: Best Business Credit Card"

smysore — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:04:04 +0000

I second American Express -- awesome customer support.

World Wildlife Fund uses augmented reality to save tigers in Russia

smysore — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:02:57 +0000

Article URL: http://mattermedia.tumblr.com/post/1210160376/world-wildlife-funds-augmented-reality

Hacker News: smysore

New comment by smysore in "What Are The 2 Most Important Traits in An Entrepreneur?"

New comment by smysore in "If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?"

Real artists ship

New comment by smysore in "Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO"

New comment by smysore in "JavaScript Interview Question"

New comment by smysore in "Asia's new aristocrats"

New comment by smysore in "JavaScript Interview Question"

Salesforce makes another acquisition: DimDim

New comment by smysore in "Show HN: Craigsforms for better craigslist ads"

New comment by smysore in "Netflix: Culture of Fear"

New comment by smysore in "Heroku: The Next Level (Salesforce.com acquisition)"

New comment by smysore in "Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash"

New comment by smysore in "Thoughts from my Google tour"

New comment by smysore in "Ask HN: Why are many Techcrunch and Mashable submissions from the same users?"

The crazy things that IE8 did to render web pages...

New comment by smysore in "Ask HN: Best Business Credit Card"

World Wildlife Fund uses augmented reality to save tigers in Russia

Poll: How many HN users also use Quora?

Browser based Super Mario Brothers :)

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