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by aniket_ray 13y ago
The complete tally for different companies is here: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
I think you're conflating two different issues. The government was defending intercepting emails and getting phone records. The government too never claimed that they can access data from web companies.
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
>Telling the truth' involves restating this truth in the full glare of worldwide publicity. The more they try to reassure americans that everything they did was 'legal'[1] and only targeted foreigners, the more foreigners
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
I'm sorry but if that's what you're getting from my post then I cannot help you. And yes if you examine the documents as much as my post you'd have seen that they are indeed based on little to no evidence. By the way hav
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer on the Google+ backend infrastructure team. I am not a US citizen. I've been an HNer longer than I've been at Google. These accusations are seriously getting out of hand. This is also seriously get
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
The WSJ article was about NSA requesting CDRs from Verizon. This is not the same as having unrestricted access to private user data as the presentation titled PRISM claims. The strange thing is that just having a presentation is usually not
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
I'm sorry but that article talks about how Google and NSA worked together when the accounts of Chinese activist were being hacked. How is that related to helping the US government spy on its citizens?
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know the truth about anything that's going on. First, I'm not a US citizen. So, it seems I just have to assume that NSA is certainly tracking me. Now to the topic of spying on US citizens, considering how
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure whether or even how real names could really help with increasing profits for online advertising. I'd say interests and preferences would matter but I can't see how the name would. Google+ does support nicknames and pse
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Disclaimer: As a Google Engineer, this is my understanding of Google+. I think Google+ could be understood better once you realize that Google+ is not a social network in the traditional terms. Google+ is truly a social layer across all Goo
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
Umm ... XMPP is not being dropped only support for XMPP federation.
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
It took me less than 1 min to move all my feeds from Google Reader to Feedly. There is not really much to figure out there.
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by aniket_ray 13y ago
I'll have to disagree on this one. In my opinion, bug trackers an excellent way to organize feature discussions. Sure, blogs posts are a more expressive medium but that doesn't reduce the importance of bug trackers. In this particular insta
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
The Android and iOS versions have always been different. Apple does not approve any browser apps that do not use the default UIWebView. It was this reason that Adobe could never launch a flash enabled browser on iOS.
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
Peter Kasting did it. Just check the G+ comments. "I have a copy of a May 18, 2007 (not April) email from Jeff announcing his project on a wide-distribution list. It does not have the subject line "Google OS"; it's actually called "Guppy n
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
On the contrary, is very relevant and this joke is an old one used many times in the codec community. Theora was supposed to be the unencumbered alternative, then it was VP8 and now it's Daala. Unfortunately, all these and even closed/paten
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
Not sure what you're getting at but as I mentioned there are way too few people in the weakest sections that they would be able to garner any political muscle. Also, your whole idea that only the affected should protest in a society is gros
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
I'd say apathy of the masses is the biggest reason that any of the things you mention haven't happened. In this article, for instance, only the poorest of the poor are truly starving and the vast majority just doesn't care enough to protest
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
This has been on the front page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4320147 and had received pretty negative reviews from many HN users as well. Personally, I don't think that looking like a newspaper/magazine and adopting a techmeme like
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
It seems like something related to Google+ integration. Today, my real name and the location that I had had in Google+ is appearing as my Google Talk name and status rather than the old nick/status that I had set.
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
I completely agree. Just to add to your last statement about internet companies being relatively bribe free, I've heard pieces (rumours) from well places influential people in the government that this is changing fast too. Allegedly, the re
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
I think you are entirely right. As Linux says "Kernel exists for its users". Pretty similarly, a platform (php/zend) exists for its applications. Linus has always been pretty adamant about not breaking API behaviour even undocumented ones.
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by aniket_ray 14y ago
All sites work fine for me using Google's DNS servers on Airtel.
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by aniket_ray 15y ago
Slightly tangential but I'm a huge fan of the dextronet's swift to-do list. I use a combination of swift's to-do list, gmail tasks and lazymeter to keep track of my TODOs. I find the todo list a very important tool in my productivity arsena
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by aniket_ray 15y ago
Yeah, the gnu libc and libstdc++ projects have been particularly bad at maintaining ABI compatibility.
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by aniket_ray 15y ago
Well based on the experience of when Adobe joined the Foundation, I'd say the impact is going to be pretty much zero. Support for the few pieces of linux software that they used to make (prior to joining the Foundation) has now stopped/ gra
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by aniket_ray 15y ago
Another negative comment here but frankly, I don't agree with the author's logic. Gruber had made a very unsubstantiated point and the commenters on that story had pointed that out. Apart from fanboyism, Gruber's comment is on pretty thin i
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by aniket_ray 15y ago
Disclaimer: Ex-Adober/Ex-Flash platform developer On many fronts including security, I think Adobe lost a marketing battle to Apple. Nothing to be proud of but for the last couple of years, Apple products have had as many security vulnerabi
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by aniket_ray 15y ago
Off-topic but in the past, tehelka has not been one of the most ethical publications so I would take their reports with a pinch of salt. They were one of the few publications who were extremely pro-IIPM when investigative bloggers were poin
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by aniket_ray 15y ago
Could you cite something about your assertion that Indian Muslims have had a raw deal? I have only one data point Azim Premji, who is one of the richest Indians and is a Muslim. I've heard that in some rural areas, banks do give loans on re

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