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Any survey which ranks manufacturers according to their labor practices?
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Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s licensing restrictions on JavaME(betaversion.org)
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by movingahead 15y ago
This attempt proofs Google can do better in social results than what it is doing now. But, this also shows what great importance Google gives to Google+. They have made a conscious decision to compromise search quality to push users to Goog
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by movingahead 15y ago
The idea of sharing frequency is very interesting. I think this is one of the primary reasons that Twitter always seems more active and interesting than Facebook. Twitter has built a notion that high number of tweets are not a bad thing - 1
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by movingahead 15y ago
I am pretty sure Google, Facebook and others will appeal in a higher court if this lower court does go ahead with blocking. There are clear provisions in the Indian IT act which prevents the website from any damage until it cooperates with
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Ben Milne • The Road To Relevance(benmilne.com)
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by movingahead 15y ago
People are invested in Facebook with their updates, photos etc. Unlike what the OP contends, people are not going to switch over their usage to a competitor based on features. Bing is as good as Google for most queries, but how many people
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by movingahead 15y ago
@prayag : Right to Freedom of Speech is a legally enforceable Fundamental Right in India. Are we talking about different Indias ?
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by movingahead 15y ago
An elected member of parliament is not a member of government in India, and I guess, everywhere else. Legislature and executive are two separate parts of a democracy.
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by movingahead 15y ago
Do you understand that a country with a large population will also have a large amount of user-generated content? It is not people with low wages, but court of law which should have the power to decide what content is inflammatory. The mean
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by movingahead 15y ago
Can you name some companies which were using its API? Their developer site doesn't take any names.
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by movingahead 15y ago
Can someone who understands this situation better why we cant have Google Apps on the Kindle Fire? I know that a manufacturer has to go through a device verification process with Google to get your device verified and only then you have acc
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Adidas to launch one-dollar-shoe in India - DNA(dnaindia.com)
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by movingahead 15y ago
Facebook's seamless sharing has lot of privacy implications. There have been many instances where I have read something and felt that it was inappropriate to broadcast to my network. The value of sharing comes from sharing things which we f
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by movingahead 15y ago
GMail Labs has a "send in background" feature which does exactly this.
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by movingahead 15y ago
Its ok that they require verification through official documents but PayPal is known for locking people out of their accounts even after they have submitted these verification proofs. The Resolution Center is a farce. I have uploaded many d
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by movingahead 15y ago
Is this a common practice across most companies or something unique to Facebook ?
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Facebook Bootcamp (facebook.com)
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by movingahead 15y ago
Facebook can make a web browser - or just acquire RockMelt, with which it has worked in the past. Rockmelt is based on Chromium, so FB won't have to take care of the browser basics, similar to how Amazon has forked Android for Kindle Fire.
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by movingahead 15y ago
I have decided to try Diigo for the time being. Google doesn't seem serious about bookmarks and I like the suggested tags that Diigo throws up.
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by movingahead 15y ago
Google Bookmarks doesn't sync with Chrome Bookmarks. That doesn't leave it as an option then.
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by movingahead 15y ago
How does Google bookmarks work with Chrome ? Is there an extension for adding labels to links ?
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Ask HN: Which is the best free Delicious alternative?
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by movingahead 15y ago
From a student point of view, this is great news. If you don't have a personal subscription to the digital libraries of IEEE/ACM, the amount of hoops that one has to go through to access a research paper, is apalling. I believe that a peer
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Driverless Tractors & Farmer Drones of the Future(readwriteweb.com)
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by movingahead 15y ago
Agree. I am amazed at how most people just bash TechCrunch and leave the matter. No matter one likes it or not, they are the biggest tech blog and so very influential. TC's well-being is in the interest of the startup community.
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by movingahead 15y ago
Most of the editors at Engadget, another tech blog owned by AOL have left publicly citing AOL's editorial policy. I am surprised by the lack of support that Hacker News community is showing to Arrington. Even in the post announcing the sale
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by movingahead 15y ago
For the first time, I have seen someone calling his ultimate boss "Fuck you" on Twitter. Tim Anderson and AOL have handled this situation in the worst possible manner, but it is sad to see people questioning Arrington's ethics over this mat
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by movingahead 15y ago
I think this post is undermining the importance of both design and development. Design is not for people who are not interested in it. Surely, developers appreciate the importance of good design, but to expect developers to design it themse
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by movingahead 15y ago
When I tested Hadoop, the documentation suggested Sun JDK. Even Android asks for the Sun JDK. http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html I hope all these communities take active effort in supporting OpenJDK henceforth.

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