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by sriramk 15y ago
Has the OP even used Explorer? The 'All my files' is done through libraries and has been around for ages. And I'm not sure whether Finder is more visually appealing but it sure is not a great file management tool by any means. The real ques
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by sriramk 15y ago
I've been taking a different approach. I started poring over books on people like Dieter Rams, reading about other design oriented fields like fashion,advertising (Ogilvy's book is amazing) architecture, etc. It's been hugely helpful and ju
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by sriramk 15y ago
I just sent some mail to my old colleagues in Windows Azure. If you're working on a cloud provider, a large one or a startup, you and your biz-dev/sales team should be out there actively trying to get people dissatisfied with GAE's announce
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm ashamed to admit that part of the reason for my wife (artithmetic on HN) and I to pick our current apartment in Palo Alto several months ago was because it was a stone's throw away from Jobs' house. He's been a long time hero of mine an
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by sriramk 15y ago
Can we please not have this on HN? Flagging this now.
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by sriramk 15y ago
You do have to wonder what the moves of the last few weeks mean for DotCloud. With Heroku launching support for many non-RoR languages and CloudFoundry being adopted by other PaaS players, you have to wonder whether small players like DotCl
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by sriramk 15y ago
Nice! Why didn't I think of that? :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
How do you guys get access to the trailers? Does that involve some licensing or are they freely available? Very nifty app btw - congratulations.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Yes and it was particularly painful since my blog was on HN's front page when my VPS went down
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by sriramk 15y ago
I still believe that too. Of course, when you work in a place for six years and have a lot of emotion connected to that place (see my farewell mail on my blog), it tends to bias your opinions :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
Submitted this and found out I was beaten by less than a minute :) Charlie is an extremely famous figure at MSFT for everything from COM, Windows Home Server to WP7. The first time I came across him was when I was in high school and I knew
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by sriramk 15y ago
I couldn't let that awful phrasing stand :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
And Linode has an outage in their datacenter which has brought down my site. Nice timing, Linode.
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by sriramk 15y ago
When using my laptop, I do the same thing using the VPS my site runs on. The VPN thing is just for iOS
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by sriramk 15y ago
Sorry about the terrible phrasing. Late night post written in the excitement of getting it to work. Didn't expect to find myself on HN in the morning :) If you're not using iOS, you should be using OpenVPN.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Author here. Like I said in the post, the third constraint I had was something that would work with dd wrt - and that doesn't support l2tp. Thanks for the bit on the offline cracking though.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Nice. We should meet up :) Also, another tidbit for folks here - Yuvi is following the startup lifestyle by taking a break from college and joining this startup. Which is a big, big deal in India. I'm very impressed
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by sriramk 15y ago
In case people didn't know this, this is based all out of India. And we have Yuvi Panda (HN:yuvipanda), one of the younger hackers around here, joining them. Can't wait to see how they do.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I think you're being harsh. This is no different from someone making people read Steve Blank's book when they join or some other book (a very common practice). Sales is hard.
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by sriramk 15y ago
First, minor nitpick - Apple is going after Android with various lawsuits as well. But let's keep that aside. Contrast these arguments - back in the 90s, MSFT was accused of killing off Netscape by essentially giving away a browser for free
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by sriramk 15y ago
Also note how responsive he is on Twitter (MG Siegler just tweeted him a question and got back an answer instantly). Somehow, we are in this weird world where MSFT is talking to everyone through a human face and Google has disappeared behin
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by sriramk 15y ago
Unfair is all relative - people think it is unfair Google is giving away Android for free by funding it with its search revenue. I don't agree with what MSFT is doing with Android patents but they have a stock answer which I'm sure they'll
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by sriramk 15y ago
Here's the response to this response :) http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/gentlemen-take-this-outside... On an unrelated note, this is a very different kind of MSFT PR, and almost completely brought about by Frank Shaw. In the old days, MS
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by sriramk 15y ago
His post doesn't address this - Google bidding alongside MSFT and winning on these patents would have taken these patents off the table as far as any future litigation goes, basically making these one less set of patents for either Google o
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by sriramk 15y ago
Ex-MSFT employee here, enjoying the fact that I can comment on HN on MSFT legal affairs for once :). I love Frank.X.Shaw's move here (hiring him from Waggner Edstorm was one of MSFT's best moves). Google is essentially trying to spin a situ
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by sriramk 15y ago
I've been using Gnome 3 for a few months now. When I started, people told me on Twitter to stick with it and that I'd grow to like it. I didn't. And after three months, I'm very tempted to turn on compat mode (something I avoid doing in mos
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm pretty confident that when the acquisition closes, Mr.John Luther (the author of the blog post) is going to get a nice mail from MSFT LCA (legal and corporate) on the implications of using VP8 :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
Stuff gets forwarded around, attached to various systems, etc. Having the entire thread, unmodified, has been a lifesaver for me more times than I can remember.
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by sriramk 15y ago
That's just standard Outlook email behavior. It works pretty well for corporate email
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by sriramk 15y ago
Bill actually mentioned this in in another interview (can't find that now, I think it was around the time of his retirement from MSFT - it could have been at an internal event). He basically said something like - I don't know why people thi

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