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by amaks 13y ago
Truth to be told, the original Scoble's article is full of inaccuracies. First of all, not every Google employee is allowed to dogfood glass, it's only for the selected subset of internal and external people. Second, statements li
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by amaks 13y ago
AFAIK, Google doesn't have stock options. I don't think you worked for Google.
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by amaks 13y ago
Apparently you haven't worked for Microsoft. Google is engineer's heaven compared to MS.
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by amaks 13y ago
Ad proliferated news feed, selective update selection, photo resizing. The list can go on and on. Guys in FB have too much Koolaid.
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by amaks 13y ago
OK, I can understand the staying in touch part, but what kind of having fun do you have in mind? Watching video ads?
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by amaks 13y ago
Engineers at Facebook must be in an interesting position. Working on interesting technical problems behind the controversial social network offering the only way they can make world a better place is by contributing their products to the op
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by amaks 13y ago
Why not? It has all properties of a social network. Is Instagram a social network? Pinterest? Same principles, different look. It doesn't have to have "friends" to be a social network, you know.
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by amaks 13y ago
Few data points from someone who actually worked in the latest iteration of unified storage, WinFS (2004-2006). The first problem was the lack of clear vision, contradictory requirements (AKA solving all world problems). For example, the da
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by amaks 13y ago
You'll be surprised, but Google dominates social networking. Don't forget about YT.
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by amaks 13y ago
This will continue to be happening until a wedding or anything in US will be destroyed by the drones, by mistake. Until then, the public opinion in this country won't take these events with all seriousness.
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by amaks 13y ago
Huge difficulty of Microsoft CEO search is explained by a huge diversity of Microsoft business and existing problems (everything is tied to Windows, Windows popularity is declining in post PC world, weak mobile story). All candidates seem t
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by amaks 13y ago
And the reason is that UI is written in native code (read C++) using internal native APIs while 3rd party apps written in managed code (using different APIs. Of course it takes more time to launch managed apps. This is clearly a disparity b
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by amaks 13y ago
Microsoft first should make Bing to support, not even use by default, HTTPS.
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HW does fail over time and needs to be replaced. This involves shutdown of physical infrastructure at different levels.
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by amaks 13y ago
No, in that case scroogled.com would require a Google+ account.
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by amaks 13y ago
"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 don&#x
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Yahoo Outlook memo(theverge.com)
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That's an executive console.
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Because there are patent trolls, and there are truly innovative companies.
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Steve Jobs' advice was not (only) to maximize profits, but to consolidate the products, reduce the number of products "because Google was all over the place". That's from the Steve Jobs autobiography by Walter Isaacson.
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Google Search for Android now supports conversations(arstechnica.com)
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You'll be surprised, but most of enterprises use XP and Windows 7. They don't use Windows 8.x for variety of reasons: cost of education, existing OS is good enough, their intranet web sites designed against IE8/9.
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by amaks 13y ago
What if a datacenter which hosts these cloud services was in Germany?
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by amaks 13y ago
Actually, it's the opposite - users can buy cheap chromebooks and access virtual desktops running in AWS from them instead of buying more expensive Windows laptops.
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by amaks 13y ago
"At Microsoft, folks are given the hint early enough that they can explore other internal options before leaving the company entirely." Except that it doesn't work. No internal hiring manager will ever allow the interview loo
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by amaks 13y ago
It doesn't really matter. Most of the time you don't know which bucket you're going to end up in, so constant back stabbing is the modus operandi to stay on top. I'm more curious about the absence of the formal review cy
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by amaks 13y ago
It was NaCL which was previously available. This one is Portable NaCL which presumably can run the code built from the same intermediate machine code on various platforms (ARM, x86/64, etc). The immediate winner here is which runs on A
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Portable Native Client(blog.chromium.org)
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Paul Thurrott is a Joke(tech.itiswhatitis.biz)
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by amaks 13y ago
"Although there isn’t forced ranking in place, it does looks like Google one-upped Amazon in making it difficult to climb up their corporate ladder by having a promotion process based on pleasing everyone." This is not true. First

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