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by ankit219 7y ago
Might not be the best setup, but this gives me minimal issues. 1/ Chrome browser with extensions - Disconnect ( https://disconnect.me/ ), Ad blocker, and Anti-Adblock killer script with Tamper monkey. 2/ Cookies dis
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by ankit219 7y ago
This one might be a bureaucratic issue/miscalculation more than anything else. Even in the dark days when female foeticide was prevalent, it never happened at the same level. If the reporting is correct, and there is a high probability
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by ankit219 7y ago
It is not 100% non-geo blocked considering F1 had contracts for exclusive coverage from earlier. But, once those contracts end, it will be available everywhere. (as far as I know UK is one where its not available due to deal with SKY) The s
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by ankit219 7y ago
61M is the yearly salary of Lionel Messi. The top earner in Spanish League. 24M is the annual revenue of the smallest spending team in Spanish League.
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by ankit219 7y ago
One of those cases where both sides are in the mud. La Liga is struggling with piracy of games for long. They have been trying to make money of their product (football essentially features two of the greatest players to play the game in las
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by ankit219 7y ago
AWS once sent me reminders to clear pending dues and pay the bills else service will be terminated. The bill was of $0.01.
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by ankit219 7y ago
News needs to evolve. Right now, we are not frustrated with news websites, but with the way they try to make money, and put obstacles in the way of users getting what they want - news. Infact, for the most users, they are so used to website
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by ankit219 7y ago
Amex might be still dumb compared to google, but they have very rich user profiles obtained via DMPS. Infact credit rating companies have vast amounts of data which they provide to these companies for free. The data includes your credit car
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Would you prefer an open source alternative or paid version of certain software?
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by ankit219 7y ago
True that. Great minds really do think alike :) I came to the conclusion the hard way when I focused on UI/UX (it should look good) instead of focusing on providing the best possible solution. This is the most important learning I took
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by ankit219 7y ago
Of course, if your core value proposition is usability then obviously it matters. I think this is true for many of legacy Saas products. I was more talking in terms of b2c where there might not be a solution to a user's specific proble
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by ankit219 7y ago
My $0.02. If you feel like the problem exists, start building. But, if you think the problem is solved, then it makes no sense to proceed with it. For a startup, people use your product because they have a problem to solve. It does not matt
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by ankit219 8y ago
Initial disclaimer that I might be wrong about this and the space in general Have they cloned the API docs or the entire product? Copying API docs is stupid but I can see how that would have been done in a hurry. However, if I were buildi
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by ankit219 8y ago
Maybe, one more in valid reasons. - Less politics, and more autonomy (if you are given a certain role). - The dopamine or kick that comes with solving problems and the joy of getting results fast. Quite a few occasions, I have felt more inv
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by ankit219 8y ago
Maybe, if we popularize the part about data export enough, people will come to realize the kind of things google tracks. I took one data dump last year and unsurprisingly, since I had an android device, Google knew a lot about me. In that o
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by ankit219 8y ago
I guess this is something new even for legislatures and they have been slow to catch up as well. Regarding asking the question to CEO, well, his company made that decision to integrate the SDK/Cookie with the product so he is partly ac
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by ankit219 8y ago
The process is the same. You integrate the SDK and it will keep sending the data. No permission needed either. For a user, he would not even know what SDKs are integrated with the app, as it is never mentioned anywhere and no way to check i
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by ankit219 8y ago
This is not just facebook. This is what all the DMPs[1] in advertising do, and charge millions of dollars for it. There is BlueKai from Oracle, one from Adobe, and various others. The core proposition is to collect as much data about the us
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by ankit219 8y ago
A perspective from the interviewer's side. Since I run a small startup, when hiring, my first thing to determine was that whether I would be able to work with the candidate. Hence, I would come up with a puzzle, a maths problem, or eve
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Britsh Parliament have rejected eight different proposals on Brexit(bbc.com)
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by ankit219 8y ago
Based on this. > However, to me, it’s dubious how many startup successes, especially in India, have been great for, say, 20th to 50th engineer at those companies. Swiggys, Olas and Paytms of the country are infamous for not giving good (
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by ankit219 8y ago
If the company already has specialist people for all the roles, then it has already moved on from the traditional early stage startup where the rewards are higher and learning exponential.
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by ankit219 8y ago
Assuming he is from India, there might not be a translation to a high income job. Salaries in India frequently follow a %age increase in the last role, regardless of the position they are hiring for. There are some exceptions, like the glob
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by ankit219 8y ago
There is one more that most people can do but dont. You can disable the tracking from all those advertising and analytics third party apps by using addins like Disconnect. It stops them from collecting data and retargeting. Most of them are
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by ankit219 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but this order kind of defines the state of India. Whatever the issue is, there are always two sides both of which try to shape the narrative in their favour. One side arguing through twitter and some of self owned websi
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by ankit219 8y ago
Yeah, the cloud is managed by someone else who does all the hard work. Of course, security, safety, protection are the biggest challenges against this kind of service. Trust can be built gradually. What I imagine is, it will still use the e
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Ask HN: Would you pay to keep all your data on one cloud?
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You can't grow when you have onboarded most of the world with access to internet. (total users is 2B. When they are not even in China)
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Edward Snowden on Blockchains and Trust. (Great Interview)(aclu.org)
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by ankit219 8y ago
That is true. And I am in no way generalizing my experience with whole of India. But, in my experience, I have seen less crowds on Holi and Diwali. And taking flight has not failed me till now.

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