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by soupboy 14y ago
They used to have something similar back in the days of Orkut. The Orkut name would get set as the Google Talk name. People used to change their Orkut names a lot to say something "cool". Then suddenly they stopped syncing the accounts with
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Three strikes rule has 'halved piracy' in New Zealand(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by soupboy 14y ago|0 comments
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by soupboy 14y ago
Couldn't help noticing the line "Mayer received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and her M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in artificial intelligence for both degrees. She is credited as an inventor on several pate
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Yahoo Appoints Marissa Mayer Chief Executive Officer(investor.yahoo.net)
26 points by soupboy 14y ago|2 comments
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Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem(slate.com)
217 points by soupboy 14y ago|174 comments
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by soupboy 14y ago
From [1] - "Our users volunteer their idle compute resources because they want to be part of something valuable to the world. We believe that this is a motivator far more powerful than paying people a small amount of money every month.". Ye
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EU court: Workers sick on leave can get extra time off(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by soupboy 14y ago|0 comments
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by soupboy 14y ago
In what way did the anti-trust case help other companies? Or how did the bundling of IE hinder other companies like Apple? I was too young and in a country without internet access at the time to remember what the deal exactly was. But it se
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Microsoft introduces Windows Phone 8(engadget.com)
131 points by soupboy 14y ago|186 comments
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by soupboy 14y ago
It is interesting that some of these same criticisms have been applied to Wikipedia and the reasons remain the same too
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by soupboy 14y ago
Can someone compare this with buying an equivalent amount of Apple stock at the time and seeing which gave a better return?
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by soupboy 14y ago
I saw your comment about the word "evil" and how you are using it after I wrote my reply to you. That all sins are equally evil is not something I believe.
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by soupboy 14y ago
Your argument is weird. The fact that people are not just good or bad but in between is exactly why I said the jurors felt bad giving this verdict. They saw Gupta as someone who has been close to good most of his life (he was at McKinsey fo
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by soupboy 14y ago
If I were sending a 60+ year old man to jail for what could potentially be the rest of his life, maybe I would cry to. A thing to keep in mind is that Mr. Gupta does not come of as an 'evil' person. He has done quite a lot of good in the wo
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by soupboy 14y ago
I think you are overreacting. Are you serious about using the public folder for "rapidly iterating front end mock ups"? Why would you want to put sensitive and confidential data for everyone in the world to see?
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by soupboy 14y ago
You may be interested in reading [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_a_Father_to_His_Da... ] - letters from India's first prime-minister Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter Indira who later became India's first female prime-minister an
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by soupboy 14y ago
"It is estimated that a total of 73,000 man-years have been spent working on the code." That is such a mind-boggling number that I can scarcely believe it.
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by soupboy 14y ago
I've had a pretty good experience with Dropbox and Amazon. And more recently with Dell (surprise!)
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by soupboy 14y ago
I know this is almost impossible, but can it be that the interrogator with 22 years of computer experience asked him those questions out of professional curiosity. Again, even I think it highly unlikely to have been the case. But were I to
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by soupboy 14y ago
I wonder if [ http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/05/find-facts-and-do-res... ] is related. It looks similar, but I can't verify as docs is blocked at my workplace.
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by soupboy 14y ago
This is a really really old hack. [ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/29/google-beatbox/ ] EDIT: Better guide - [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356 ]
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by soupboy 14y ago
He wants control of the board. And at this point, he probably does not care much about the executive team or the stock price. The lower it goes, the more he can buy and thus put even more pressure to get his people on the board.
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by soupboy 14y ago
Does this mean that if Oracle loses the case, the question of whether APIs are copyrightable will not be answered in this case? Or will the judge still give a ruling on that once the verdict is entered? The former being a big win for Google
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by soupboy 14y ago
It was estimated that they will sell 11.9 million iPads and they sold 11.8 million. So wouldn't say they missed by much. Also, the new iPad began selling on March 16th and the quarter ended March 31st. So the real effect of the new iPad sho
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by soupboy 14y ago
I get the feeling that this is also going to force Amazon to lower their S3 prices. To store 100GB on S3's standard storage costs around $12/month right now [ http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ ]. Even if Dropbox were getting the best price
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Motorola Mobility Wins Ruling in Microsoft Xbox Patent Case(bloomberg.com)
2 points by soupboy 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Reports Sales Growth, Indicates Shares Valued at $30.89(bloomberg.com)
2 points by soupboy 14y ago|0 comments
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by soupboy 14y ago
It is Intagram, not Infogram. And the purchase price was $1B, not $300M. Facebook's trailing 12M revenue was a billion dollars, so it's not as if they have cash problems.
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by soupboy 14y ago
Makes one think if Microsoft was acting as an intermediary for Facebook all along, maybe because AOL wouldn't sell the patents to a competitor?
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by soupboy 14y ago
No. Apparently the company hosting MU's servers is keeping them up at their own expense

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