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by sriramk 15y ago
No it doesn't. Their reputation rests on their users, one of whom is trashing them in public after a bad experience. Arrington/TC have published pretty much everything Chesky have told them, including letting them do a guest post.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I can't believe I'm defending Arrington here but for once, I think PG is off and Arrington is right. Arrington's editorializing has been fairly tame in this story. A lot of the mess has been due to EJ's posts and Airbnb's attempts at damage
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by sriramk 15y ago
PG - I can't believe I'm defending Arrington but it is hard to say that he's the one at fault here. - Most of the damaging content is from EJ's blog. The original TC article only has a couple of bad parts where it says "Airbnb’s response so
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by sriramk 15y ago
If that AirBnb co-founder really asked her to tone down her post because it would mess with future financing, that's just sad. Talk about inappropriate timing and priorities
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API lessons learnt from Microsoft's cloud platform (ex-Windows Azure API guy)(sriramk.com)
9 points by sriramk 15y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
In case folks don't realize, the image changes on reload
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by sriramk 15y ago
In that case, what does the text in my comment mean? If law enforcement is asking you for content, they'll always have some legal paperwork to back it up. Those rare exceptions are pretty much the rule when it comes to dealing with LE.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm not sure how they plan to stick to this part "we won’t share your content with others, including law enforcement, for any purpose unless you direct us to". If Dropbox gets a sub-poena to hand over some user's content, can they really as
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by sriramk 15y ago
Based on feedback, I've added comments and a submit feature. Send me those corporate mumbo jumbo posts :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
Done. Not terribly sure why I'm getting downvoted here. But atleast one other person likes it :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
I love RIM - they're the gift that doesn't stop giving for my new Tumblr <plug> http://corporatebs.tumblr.com/</plug&#62 ; :)
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Corporate B.S - a new blog documenting bad corporate speak(corporatebs.tumblr.com)
5 points by sriramk 15y ago|1 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
Sergey has one under a psudonym which his friends know about (Stephen Levy mentioned it recently)
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by sriramk 15y ago
I doubt they process customer feedback in the matter of a few days :). Besides, there's a history of AMZN doing things just before or just after a Windows Azure announcement. See their announcements always timed the week before MIX or PDC o
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by sriramk 15y ago
Alright, I can't take this anymore. I started a Tumblr blog to capture all these corporate mumbo jumbo. Have a few examples there already http://corporatebs.tumblr.com/
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by sriramk 15y ago
This is probably a move in response to Windows Azure dropping its inbound data transfer rates to zero last week. When I was back in Windows Azure, we would often see AWS try to do a price-match whenever we changed prices drastically.
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by sriramk 15y ago
If you see the OP, the woman behind the lawsuit seems angry that she had to find out about it in the news rather than with Dropbox informing her. That is a serious mistake and one that Dropbox should take heat for. Bugs happen but not commu
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The state of the publishing world (and how it is similar to tech)(sriramkrishnan.com)
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm a big fan of the 5 P's and the author does a great job talking about them. My very first week at Microsoft, I was looking through internal videos when I saw a video from J Allard titled something like 'How to be a PM at Microsoft'. It m
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by sriramk 15y ago
To be clearer, Windows Azure can run any code that can run on Windows. So if you have x86/x64 code that runs in a Win2k8 OS, you're good to go. And most languages can do that, some with Cygwin. The major ones (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Erlan
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by sriramk 15y ago
windows.net is the root URL for all the Windows Azure storage services. Back in 2008, we knew that Windows Azure was going to have the 'Windows' part of it's name. Since Microsoft already owned windows.net, this made it an obvious choice. S
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by sriramk 15y ago
Same as Google style I guess (though I think Microsoft buildings are quite uniform and almost all look the same)
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by sriramk 15y ago
I have to admit, that life does sound awesome. If any of the Dropbox folks are around, why not wxPython everywhere? Why the switch to the PyObjc?
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm going through a similar experience. I haven't posted my resume anywhere and I'm not even really 'looking' right now. But I've got a ton of emails from people who've seen my tweet on leaving MSFT or better, from a post on HN about it.
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by sriramk 15y ago
It gets worse - Silverlight is now the development story for WP7 while HTML/JS seems to be the premier way to write apps for Win8 (though I assume there'll be a way to get SL/C++ working with the new stuff - I'll be stunned if there wasn't)
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by sriramk 15y ago
Biggest part of announcement was the HTML+JS part. Let that sink in- HTML+JS is now the premier way to write Windows apps. Who would have thought this day would come?
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by sriramk 15y ago
I read that same bit again. Kudos to Dropbox - I would have agreed with that statement if Dropbox hadn't existed
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by sriramk 15y ago
This is fascinating for many reasons. For one, I've never seen Steve do a talk on primarily developer technology.
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Steve Jobs speaking at Microsoft PDC in 1996 (previously unseen footage)(channel9.msdn.com)
9 points by sriramk 15y ago|4 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
I left Microsoft on Friday but it has nothing to do with the reasons that seem to be spoken about on this thread. To be honest, I have seen a ton of ex-Amazon folks show up on my team and in other teams :). There are only a few players in S

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