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Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012(forbes.com)
123 points by prayag 14y ago|87 comments
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Build hacker culture at MobileWorks and help people in need
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Build hacker culture at MobileWorks while helping people in need(mobileworks.com)
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by prayag 14y ago
I think he was joking.
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Build the Hacker Culture at MobileWorks(mobileworks.com)
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Come build the hacker culture at MobileWorks (S11)(mobileworks.com)
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by prayag 14y ago
I adjusted the settings on my Nexus 4 (T-Mobile in the SF Bay Area). I saw a marginal increase in my bandwidth (going from preferred WCDMA to LTE/GSM/CDMA/(PRE) in the menu entries. It is no way a scientific test but the results are a consi
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by prayag 14y ago
>That's not the same thing as a performance clearly tied to the song; one in which the particular song is a key element of the video. What performance? Would you really call a kid dancing to a song a "performance"? Do you think the kid
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by prayag 14y ago
This is a great (and funny) way to announce funding. RapGenius' was one of most popular presentations during the YC prototype day exactly because they successfully pull off fabulous antics like this.
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by prayag 14y ago
Can we please not try to attack the credibility and language of the OP here? Can we please not question his language? He is venting. That's the language you would expect from someone who is extremely frustrated with the harassment he has ex
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Twitter account shared by developers and artists all over the world.(zoelt.com)
2 points by prayag 14y ago|0 comments
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MobileWorks is looking for a Growth Hacker/Marketing Intern(mobileworks.com)
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by prayag 14y ago
TechCrunch is not the only press we get. A TV station in Jamaica covered us and we got a lot of workers from there. Even when we are in press in the tech circles we get a lot of worker growth by the workers are referred from the work at hom
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by prayag 14y ago
As Anand said we have a separate workforce. We have a bunch of algorithmic and social elements that we have developed for improving quality. In fact,we have written an IEEE paper on how to improve quality in crowdsourcing. http://www.cs.be
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by prayag 14y ago
We have workers in about 40 countries including the US. Most of them join us organically after hearing about us in press etc.
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by prayag 14y ago
We are also launching a new and improved API today. https://www.mobileworks.com/developers/
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by prayag 14y ago
>Unlike turkers, grad students produce much cleaner data and also see the data first hand. Which is important. I consider mturk/offshore as a necessary evil, rather than a panacea that will "make research easier and speed it up". This i
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by prayag 14y ago
>since a lot of great research (at various universities, including MIT) is now a lot easier due to easily available human task workers This is very true. A lot of researchers today are using MobileWorks and other crowdsourcing platforms
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Human Workers, Managed by an Algorithm (technologyreview.com)
80 points by prayag 14y ago|28 comments
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by prayag 14y ago
Wow! All the praises aside (which Mr. Yuanqing deserves), it's interesting to see because he has ensured the loyalty of his employees to himself and to the company. It's not just a good personal move but an awesome business move too.
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by prayag 14y ago
ISPs have very complicated sharing agreements in place when it comes to BGP. At BGP level, contracts take precedence over technology.
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by prayag 14y ago
The referral link that these guys followed might be a spammy link just to harvest emails. That's only one of the possibilities.
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by prayag 14y ago
It's not certain that these leaks were FROM Dropbox. These might well be but there is no confirmation of this. This was discussed here a few days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255927
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by prayag 14y ago
exclusion != racism. Racism has power dynamics associated with it. If exclusion (or special inclusion programs as I would call it) leads to a more racially and gender balanced community it is a good thing.
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by prayag 14y ago
>Are poor, uneducated whites less worthy of help than wealthy, affluent blacks? Of course not, but in most cases poor uneducated white people are not poor and uneducated because of the racial dynamics. In a lot of cases, the poor black
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by prayag 14y ago
Your comment is a study in contradiction. You say > You can start your own website today much easier than it was to publish a pamphlet in the 18th century. Then you go on to say, > We need Facebook, Google+, Twitter, we need indepe
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by prayag 14y ago
Though the article is full of hyperbole and superficial sound-bites but it does raise a serious question. What is the responsibilities of a tech company towards free speech and it's not as straight forward as you may think. What if the app
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by prayag 14y ago
Why do you say that. This video shows the office environment which is fun. It's funny with a lot of nerds trying to dance and look cool without looking awkward. In the hindsight, Digg might have made some wrong decisions but this doesn't sa
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by prayag 14y ago
> While we can’t make any guarantees, acquisition is always a possibility. I am not sure why this was made explicit? People shouldn't join their fund to get acquired by MS, they should aspire to build a long-standing business.
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by prayag 14y ago
Fabulous post. Thanks for writing. One point it misses though is to test your backup strategy often. When you scale fast things break very often and it's good to be in practice of restoring from backups every now and then.

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