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by sriramk 15y ago
When I wrote my book on Windows Azure for O'Reilly, they originally assigned me some bird which I hated. I wanted them to pick a pug or some dog (because Azure was originally code named 'Red Dog'). To my surprise, they hunted down a dog tha
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by sriramk 15y ago
[Disclaimer - I'm married to one of the founders so very biased :) ] I'm a huge fan of their approach. They're taking a hardcore CS approach (recommendation algorithms, machine learning, etc) to a space that rarely sees lots of tech appli
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by sriramk 15y ago
reposting my comment from that post I find the show distasteful but it is as accurate a portrayal of Silicon Valley as Jersey Shore is of that particular geo/demographic. In a way, this shows you how mainstream Silicon Valley now is - inste
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by sriramk 15y ago
If they weren't doing this, I would advocate firing whoever was running dev marketing/partnerships. MSFT needs to jump start its dev ecosystem and using its bank balance is one of the easier tools to deploy. Now I would love to know how muc
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm an ex-Yahoo. I have friends there and have sympathy for how hard today must be. But I strongly think this is the right move for the company. They had way too many people, more than what they need/afford and were the cause of much overhe
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by sriramk 15y ago
Rent the Runway stocks the clothes themselves while this and My Dress Affair (another competitor) are a peer-to-peer marketplace.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I love how this story shows that all startup 'rules' can be broken. 1) The founders hadn't met/worked together before. 2) Neither of them have an engineering background, they outsourced all engineering/design to a remote team. There are man
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The story of One Kings Lane(techcrunch.com)
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by sriramk 15y ago
An old patent years before they acquired Skype, one among thousands Microsoft files, doesn't mean that it has any plans of actually doing this. Sigh, tech press.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Also a great exit for Bain Capital.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I do know of term sheet offers within 30 minutes. However, not for such a high valuation though. But it isn't outside the bounds of reality, especially during particularly 'frothy' times - like mid-last year.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Several execs have left. I think people at Yahoo have made peace with the situation or have a strong reason for staying there. I know some people who are there because they feel that the tech/scale they work on won't be possible at any othe
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by sriramk 15y ago
I was at MSFT and I used to hear the exact same thing - on it being used for defensive purposes. That changed in a hurry.
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by sriramk 15y ago
As an ex-employee of Yahoo, I find this sad and disappointing. Also - unnecessary. Yahoo still has great people, great userbase and great tech. No good can come out of this long term.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Don't know about KDE but I have the same problem with Unity. I wound up physically moving my monitors around because Unity really, really likes to be on the extreme left.
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by sriramk 15y ago
My issue with the active corners is that they are impossible to use with multiple monitors. Fitt's Law actively works against it; instead of being able to slam your mouse, you have to gingerly move it to the right spot.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I left Yahoo three weeks ago to do my own thing. There are lots of talented people at Yahoo - there are not too many companies which deal with the kind of scale and tech Yahoo does and a lot of people like that. Some of them have been there
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by sriramk 15y ago
Slightly tangential note - Square has the most gorgeous product videos I've seen from a startup. Their jobs section even lists an open position for doing these so I guess they do them in house. Very impressive.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I actually defend Github on that front too. Let's take the long view here - Github has a growing code base and this won't be the last 0-day exploit they face. Do they really want to signal any future person that they're ok with being broken
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by sriramk 15y ago
The parent shouldn't be getting downvoted. Let's not downvote important comments in the conversation just because we disagree with them.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm sorry but I have to defend Egor here. Here's how you actually report a vulnerability, demonstrated by dfranke here on HN -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976 What Egor did was to violate sensible disclosure rules. He shou
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by sriramk 15y ago
This is not a white hat hacker does. A white hat would have contacted Github in private with a PoC done with a dummy account and a test repo. There is a reason responsible disclosure guidelines exist.
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by sriramk 15y ago
The Zuckerberg Washington Post(Graham) and Accel situation is one counter example - Zuckerberg walked away from a handshake deal and I suspect it didn't exactly hurt his reputation.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Nobody adopted them (my opinion, not sure what the official take is). Don't think anybody understood them either.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I have a bit of a history with SSL client certs; I'm the reason the Windows Azure management APIs all use SSL client certs for auth/security. Looking back, I think it's a bad idea. - Most developers don't understand them. - Library support
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by sriramk 15y ago
Disclaimer: ex-Windows Azure person, no insider knowledge on this particular outage That's typically because the 'service management service' typically kicks in when it needs to do things - allocate capacity, restart things when stuff goes
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by sriramk 15y ago
I don't think that's true. Because I remember giving somebody a lot of pain for exactly that when I worked there. Of course, it might have been gone down for other reasons.
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by sriramk 15y ago
This is very sad. I worked at Yahoo until a few weeks ago; I have great respect for what Yahoo can build, the company and it's people. This is such a sad turn of events. It's also very weird given how much Yahoo has been talking up the succ
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by sriramk 15y ago
This is very sad. I worked at Yahoo until a few weeks ago; I have great respect for what Yahoo can build, the company and it's people. This is such a sad turn of events. It's also very weird given how much Yahoo has been talking up the succ
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by sriramk 15y ago
There's a non-zero possibility that the engineering org did report back to the CEO that they could build it. I've many a large company M&A scuttled due to NIH syndrome from engineering. And almost always they massively underestimated th

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