aniket_ray

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by aniket_ray 8y ago
Google needs less of so called product-"leadership" (like PMs and management) who are usually drivers of the aforementioned politics. The engineers need to have control to actually let engineering and metrics drive these decisions
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by aniket_ray 9y ago
>The successful applicant will be hired as freelancer (independent contractor) through the Mozilla Foundation’s third-party service Upwork (www.upwork.com). Not knowing much about Mozilla, is this the norm there?
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by aniket_ray 9y ago
If you are interested in the linguistics of food names, might I recommend: Daniel Jurafsky's The Language of Food[1] [1] - https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Language_of_Food_A_...
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by aniket_ray 9y ago
Actually it's relevant. There is a fair bit of research about people being unconsciously biassed against short leaders.
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by aniket_ray 11y ago
I've been comparing and buying on either Jet or Amazon recentlly. As a result, I've been buying on Jet more frequently. Jet has a smaller selection but they usually have a good enough range on the price-value curve that it's
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by aniket_ray 11y ago
Unfortunately this posturing is not because of any independence in Mozilla or any new revenue generating ability. Instead, they've just to switched to Yahoo/Bing's side now.
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by aniket_ray 11y ago
No, just no. A candidate is taking time from their busy schedule and are considering making a contribution to your company/team/project. You should appreciate that more. In the real world, shit happens. There are an inordinate amo
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by aniket_ray 11y ago
So was Myspace when AOL acquired it.
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by aniket_ray 11y ago
> Reader was hugely successful, which is why the outcry on its closing Umm, no. Reader was not hugely successful. Users loved the idea of using Reader but they did not actually use it.
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by aniket_ray 11y ago
Google has a lot of internal discussions in town halls, G+, TGIFs, memegen etc. You don't have to know someone personally to know how they approach issues. Also I can completely understand why the Googler on reddit chose to remain anon
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by aniket_ray 11y ago
The photo was probably clicked to attach it to some sort of internal candidate feedback form. Photos ensure that the interviewer does not make a typographical mistake while entering it in. Also production quality code is usually interview s
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by aniket_ray 12y ago
I think his point was that Code and Code Search are/were different products.
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by aniket_ray 12y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted as opposed to OP but this thread is full of people who don't realize that Google is truly a place where employees are encouraged to speak up when things are bad. Frankly, organizations would never be abl
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by aniket_ray 12y ago
Personally, I think all of them are bogus decisions. Apple might be well within their rights to make bogus decisions but that does not automatically make them not bogus. Note taking app should not have custom keyboard. Bogus. Apps are not a
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Mike Elgan explains Google+(plus.google.com)
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by aniket_ray 12y ago
Care to cite that? I could find no source that Eric Schmidt is claiming that.
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by aniket_ray 12y ago
Well a Google SVP is not "random", certainly not Sundar Pichai.
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by aniket_ray 12y ago
I think you've already started on the right track. You've stated that you regularly perform activities that you enjoy. Most people find this step hard. Now that you know what you enjoy: a) Join meetups that do those things. b) Org
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
And it turned out that Google was correct. Guardian backtracked on their original story and changed the story to NSA surreptitiously stealing user information rather than claiming tech companies were complicit. In response, Google enhanced
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Thanks for understanding. The reference you point out was a one-off event from 2010 though, and a lot of our systems and checks have developed in the subsequent years to prevent a recurrence. I'll concede the point about my blanket sta
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
I am not looking for a debate here but your points are related to Google's algorithms analyzing user data. Google developers do not have access to that data and Google does not reveal data to anyone. Yes, I consider our handling of thi
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Google does work extremely hard trying to protect the privacy of its users. Yes, we might miss the boat sometimes but let's not make blanket statements like yours. D: I work for Google.
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
These protesters are skirting the real issue which is that they cannot afford prime SF real estate anymore. When these protesters, themselves, were uprooting the original inhabitants they did not really care but now that they are being upro
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Google+ is Google's social layer. Commenting is an inherently social activity and it makes sense to have a common layer i.e. G+ here to handle them. Changing the temperature is not a social activity. So no the jokes are not real concer
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
"bad guys at Google or Bing" I just thought personalized results are better for users. Does that make me a bad person? PS: I work at Google though not in search.
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
>(Youtube) to promote G+ Google+ was never intended to be a product in itself. Google+ is Google's social layer. Providing social features to other Google products was always the plan for Google+.
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'm the right person to share more insight. I don't work on the network team but data between data centers flow on our own network. Data between a client's machine (machines on external networ
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
What do you mean? Care to share more details? AFAICT, Google has been completely transparent about giving users control about how their data is shared. It's been ahead of the pack in protecting its users rights even going to courts to
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Employees at Google are not tracking you. Programmatic algorithms on some Google properties are processing your data to show you the most relevant content (search, G+ posts, mail, news etc) and advertisements. There is a big difference betw
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Off OP's topic but I find this post on every HN post about Google launching something and frankly this post adds little value to the discussion. Google Reader is dead and it's not coming back. Reader usage was extremely low and it

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