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   Google Under Fire For Circumventing Safari Privacy Setting(techcrunch.com)

   2 points by csmt 15y ago|0 comments
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   by csmt 15y ago

   I was thinking of using Path as a personal diary. But not anymore. Just deleted Path app. I would suggest everyone to do the same. A lesson for Path and others.
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   by csmt 15y ago

   Thanks for assembling this list!
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   by csmt 15y ago

   Moved my hosting service out of Godaddy. Next is to move my domain name as well.
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   by csmt 15y ago

   This is absurd. Instead of not collecting data for children Google is blocking access to children. I am seriously looking for alternatives to Gmail. Any suggestions? I don't want my email account hooked up to a social network and advertisin
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   Ask HN: how was your experience with hiring developers on Odesk or Elance?

   6 points by csmt 15y ago|6 comments
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   by csmt 15y ago

   how come foursquare and twitter were not there in the list?
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   by csmt 15y ago

   I think Coda did a good job in posting Yammer's official position clarifying the situation and it's a captivating blog post. Many people (including some people on HN) started criticizing Yammer because they decided to go back to Java. This
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   How Google figures out user's home, office, and commute using location history (static.googleusercontent.com)

   4 points by csmt 15y ago|0 comments
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    by csmt 15y ago

    You are forgetting Google Buzz/Wave/Knoll, services that are shut down after launching with a lot of fanfare. Now days every time Google launches a new service I am not sure whether that service will be around for another year or so. Except
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    by csmt 15y ago

    There are three possible outcomes for startups: (1) failure; (2) marginally successful; and (3) enormously successful. In case of (1) and (2) employees hardly make any money, and early employees may make money in case (3). More than 99% sta
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    by csmt 15y ago

    I had similar experiences with Wikipedia. First time, I added some references and definitions related to a theoretical computer science concept and it was deleted for no reason. Since then I stopped making edits unless something is incorrec
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    A detailed article on Groupon(articles.businessinsider.com)

    2 points by csmt 15y ago|0 comments
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    by csmt 15y ago

    R in Nutshell is pretty good book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596801717.do
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    by csmt 15y ago

    I agree with you nirvana. I have been using Google search for 12 years and Gmail for 7 years. But recently Google has been trying to do each and everything. Google+ tied with enormous Google adsense+display ads reach is scary. Google has re
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    Fred Wilson on WSJ article(avc.com)

    3 points by csmt 15y ago|0 comments
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    Stevey's Google Platforms Rant(plus.google.com)

    8 points by csmt 15y ago|2 comments
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    by csmt 15y ago

    I am curious why would you blog about an interview. Most companies ask you to sign an NDA before the interview. Isn't posting a blog about the interview a violation of NDA?
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    by csmt 15y ago

    Google and many other companies route their overseas earnings to Bermuda through Ireland and Holland, and effectively pay 2.4% tax on that money since Bermuda doesn't have any corporate taxes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/googl
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    by csmt 15y ago

    I started keeping separate browsers for my gmail,FB accounts and the rest of the web. I signed up on Gmail to use the email, not for my identity management/profile for other things (say ad targeting). Google should let us choose disconnect