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by kartayyar 6y ago
The difference is the cut that Epic takes is much less than 30% - he is walking the walk rather than just talking about it.
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by kartayyar 6y ago
Would you be okay with if a web based company, say Google: 1) Delisted you if you didn't support their payment option. 2) Blocked any content that tried to criticize it. 3) Forced you to support their login as an option, and also didn&
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by kartayyar 6y ago
Fully agree with this sentiment - if there is anything which becomes so common place like say a road, then I think there should be some kind of oversight. Apple saying no to people being able to bring their own payment provider feels akin t
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by kartayyar 6y ago
I don't get the whole objection to mutiple app stores. Instead of clicking icon A, I click icon B and if I get a cheaper game, all power to Epic. I don't spend time in an app store. I spend time playing the game.
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by kartayyar 6y ago
I don't get how companies can blame Google for loss of traffic. Google is going to do what it thinks will produce the best results. And if you somehow think that gives you a right to show up in those results or be there if you benefite
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by kartayyar 6y ago
I am grateful that VS code is free and if they want to monetize this by having some kind of paid upsell to another product, then all power to them. They made a good product and if this is a way to fund improvements, I say it's a good t
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by kartayyar 6y ago
It's important to separate a leading indicator from a trailing one.
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by kartayyar 6y ago
The way Google: ship it and make it work really, really well. The product was so good that people noticed. They were able to take this and leverage this into being search for a really large property, like Back in the 90s there were lots of
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by kartayyar 6y ago
You as as a startup should be fully aware that a big player can enter the space at any time they want. This is not Amazon's problem. It's your problem. Also, it's a flawed abstraction to view large companies as a monolith: th
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by kartayyar 6y ago
Jeff Bezos too. https://imgur.com/a/Zd668ao
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by kartayyar 6y ago
"Promising" could not be a more incorrect choice of words. It almost sounds like Google did them a favor. This looks like a distressed fire sale rather than a good exit, considering the product failed.
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by kartayyar 6y ago
Bazel. I really like the workflow of how it only selectively runs unit tests.
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by kartayyar 6y ago
- Domain mastery is more important than being a jack of all trades. - Realize you are signing up to be part of a bigger machine, and there are things you will have less control over. This is both limiting and empowering. - Both people in sm
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by kartayyar 6y ago
The Pixels get a lot of hate from people who haven't used them though I think they are great phones and I'll never buy a Samsung phone again. There are so many nice software touches on them that you just have to experience to appr
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by kartayyar 6y ago
Thanks. Though don't many forums treat links as nofollow and thus don't contribute to page rank?
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by kartayyar 6y ago
How did you get inbound links for your initial blog content?
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by kartayyar 6y ago
I would suggest stop using a homegrown solution and use something robust like bazel. https://bazel.build/
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by kartayyar 6y ago
Try to build something. That really forces you to push yourself to make sure you understand something. And in particular, try to build things that force you do things from first principles vs. using a library.
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by kartayyar 6y ago
Google products ( and other tech company products ) are discontinued when they don't take off. Meet has a 100 million daily call participants. And really with video conferencing product, I don't get the whole trope of "but th
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by kartayyar 6y ago
As a counter point, the case is getting some pretty high praise here. https://youtu.be/rcfItdQddZE?t=71
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by kartayyar 7y ago
On average, a Google internal tool is better than a commercially equivalent tool elsewhere, especially if it's developer critical. For example the code search, testing, code review tools are amazing and better than any commercial equiv
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by kartayyar 7y ago
This seems to be violating the Maps API terms of service? https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms (a) No Scraping. Customer will not export, extract, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Se
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by kartayyar 7y ago
This happens with all american books with maps in India too - it isn't a Google problem. It's a government problem. I don't think this article has good reporting, because it suggests that the company has some hidden agenda, w
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by kartayyar 7y ago
You should first check hourly instance pricing for GPU instances before making this complaint. This is a very cheap price.
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by kartayyar 7y ago
I think they are different tools: Sheets -> Great collaborative experience for simple to moderate complexity use cases. Excel -> The heavy artillery.
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by kartayyar 7y ago
One litmus test that a former coworker applied was "how resource constrained is the application"? I think conceptually this is a better test, more so than say if you have access to a raw pointer - because more important parts of
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by kartayyar 7y ago
As a Xoogler who just wanted to get on topic product updates ( and Sergey jokes I guess - he really is insanely funny), I actually found it frustrating that it was an overloaded forum for any and all random topics. Were I working there, thi
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by kartayyar 7y ago
Microservices in action.
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by kartayyar 7y ago
Xoogler here who used the internal version of Bazel ( blaze ) extensively, liked it and now opted to use it for our 2 person startup ( at least for the backend ). You don't need a giant codebase to start benefitting from it. Even if yo
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by kartayyar 7y ago
Hi Hacker News, We are a couple of Xooglers who worked in Google Research now working on making a better multi city travel planner / travel search engine called Preso Trip. Live site: https://www.prestotrip.com/?source=

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