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Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read?

Posted by johnhkg on Saturday October 03, 2015 @01:54PM
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Re:Amazon Elasticsearch Service on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:08PM (#10319787)

How would this compare to Algolia ? Does anyone have experience with elasticsearch and algolia to shed some light on this ?

Ask HN: What do companies do to protect source code?

Posted by johnhkg on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:08AM
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Yes, there are NDAs and legal agreements to discourage rogue employees from sharing source code in the public.However, do they have specific processes to ensure that employees don't have full source code on their machines / laptops ?I have read that some companies like Facebook and Google don't allow employees to check out code on their laptops. Code is checked out on developer servers and...

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Re:Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silenc... on Monday September 28, 2015 @01:09AM (#10289002)

Netflix seems like a great company to work for. Recommend reading Reed Hasting's presentation on their culture: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

Re:Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing f... on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:38AM (#10286310)

I have observed that non-tech people find the App Icons sitting on their home screens to be very convenient to access a service they use, kinda like bookmarks.

Re:Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:25AM (#10286285)

> My company (at the time) ended up hiring a fulltime person to manage the complexity (ie an Atlassian admin) plus a few consultants to get the workflow stuff down

Offtopic - I have recently been trying to break into full-time consulting / contracting. May I know how you went about hiring the consultants for the migration ?

Re:Lyft Moves Customer Support Team to Nashville to Combat High-Priced... on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:21AM (#10286277)

Asking employees settled in a place to move to a different state, and then take a pay cut, seems like a big deal.

Re:Creating charts and graphs on iOS using Workflow on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:08AM (#10286251)

Workflow is an awesome tool. Great work by the author. Checkout his recent talk on Reverse-engineering iOS Apps: https://realm.io/news/conrad-kramer-reverse-engineering-ios-...