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by ajays 16y ago
I think they may have been a bit ahead of the time here. One problem with Yahoo is that they aren't able to lay out a vision: here's something cool, and here's why you will like it. Steve Jobs is the gold standard here, of course.
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by ajays 16y ago
Once again, Yahoo was ahead of the curve by 3 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Live (the other recent example being Instant Search).
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by ajays 16y ago
This is just but one example. I could give dozens more. The reality is: using MSFT products _often_ leave one frustrated and exasperated. These little paper cuts add up.
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by ajays 16y ago
I think it's not the presence of middle managers; but how they are evaluated and incentivized. I don't envy their jobs; the upper managers have entire teams with clear tasks; the engineers on the other side have stuff to do; the middle mana
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by ajays 16y ago
To quote Steve Jobs: "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they
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by ajays 16y ago
"no i know that bacon goes well with everything" Unless you're a vegetarian or vegan, of course. :-)
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OK, you have a point: the homeless do get some benefit from City services. Though even that system is broken. I pass by several homeless people lying in the doorways every day.
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by ajays 16y ago
No, I don't love the City's services; I love the people who LIVE in the City. The streets are full of potholes. The public transit system (MUNI) is chronically broken (why? because 70% of their cost is personnel!). There are 9000 City emplo
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by ajays 16y ago
In San Francisco, a 2-BR condo goes for around $800K. At a 1.16% property tax rate, you'll be paying $9000/year in property taxes. How's that for a tax rate?
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by ajays 16y ago
I think the main difference between India and, say, the West (US/UK) is that in India, students pick a profession based on the earning potential, or what their parents what them to do. Very few people pick it based on what they want to do.
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by ajays 16y ago
IMHO, this entire 1.5% payroll tax should go. And while we're at it, lets bring the property tax below 1%. And sales tax should go back to the 8% that it used to be. Yesterday I got an email from SEIU (the government employees union), aski
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by ajays 16y ago
Is it possible to get the positions of all the vehicles in 1 shot? I would hate to hit the API for each vehicle, in every route.
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by ajays 16y ago
Even a 1 hour recharge is not bad. After driving for 350 miles, I wouldn't mind stopping for a nice lunch. While you're having lunch, the car's batteries get recharged, for much less than the price of the lunch.
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by ajays 16y ago
From my experience in working at another large Internet company, my advice to Google would be: get rid of middle management. Get rid of the people who are not actually touching the product (in terms of code, design, testing, etc.). The impa
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by ajays 16y ago
Interestingly, a large chunk of the traffic comes from SF and the Bay Area. That leads me to believe that Quora is to a large extent a Bay Area echo-chamber.
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by ajays 16y ago
http://housingmaps.com/ is the granddaddy of them all. IIRC, it was one of the first such mashup apps with the newly launched Google Maps API (well, it was one of the first to become popular, at least (for the pedantic crowd who hasn't ha
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by ajays 16y ago
"People usually give bribes when they've done something wrong, not when they are entitled to something." Oh how wrong you are. In India, if you don't bribe, you won't get the service you need and are entitled to. I can give examples, but HN
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by ajays 16y ago
FTA: "The spreadsheet contained a zero-day exploit that installs a backdoor through an Adobe Flash vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609)." How many times has Adobe been responsible for such backdoors? I mean, they can't even put out a decent PDF "r
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by ajays 16y ago
Did you notice that the herd of villagers did more damage to the crops than the elephant?
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by ajays 16y ago
"was there really a point to the illusion of wrapping the entrypoint main() function in a class (I am looking at you, Java)?" Far be it for me to defend Java (I hate the damn thing), but: main is just a function in a class. The class is the
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by ajays 16y ago
That would January ... 2010. This article is from June 2010.
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"They are a stealth-mode startup"
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Here's their Publications page: http://research.yahoo.com/publication Yahoo Research people regularly win "Best Paper" awards in web-related conferences. For example, from this page: http://research.yahoo.com/node/3443 "For the third y
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by ajays 16y ago
Where are the groupies (the hot chicks)?? I've heard they're a common fixture of the Valley Startup scene.
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by ajays 16y ago
You might want to put "(2005)" in the title. I'll pick a nit. He writes, "According to Church's thesis, all programming languages are computationally equivalent. They all do the same things, and only the syntactic sugar is different. In thi
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by ajays 16y ago
I hope you don't take offense, but: I think you're being extremely naive. Here's how the logic works: MSFT does business in these countries. These countries have a sudden desire to monitor some citizens' communications (which include Hotmai
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by ajays 16y ago
Looking at the list, I bet they included Congo, Nigeria, etc. to hide the fact that most of the countries in that list are currently in some state of turmoil. It would have looked really ugly if they had done it just for those countries; so
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by ajays 16y ago
If I could draw an analogy: Twitter is like AIM. Can we put together an open service, like XMPP, which interfaces to TWitter, but is distributed and free?
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by ajays 16y ago
FTA, quoting Andy Rubin: “To make our schedule to ship the tablet, we made some design tradeoffs. We didn’t want to think about what it would take for the same software to run on phones. It would have required a lot of additional resources
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by ajays 16y ago
> Map is generated using SVG I thought the map was a static PNG image: http://glow.mozilla.org/maps/world_4.png Edit: I stand corrected. I missed this call: http://glow.mozilla.org/maps/world_4.svg

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