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by surferbayarea 14y ago
surferbayarea@gmail.com
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
It's not that hard actually, there are many hacks possible with the current immigration system. I am a tech founder from India, been in US 10 years and funded by a top tier valley VC. My green card application has been in progress forever..
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
Here's what I do. The login page on my browser is sent to my phone which creates a https session with the remote website and then hands over the session back to the browser. The mechanics to do this are a bit tricky but like a few days of c
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
And this is interesting why? echo 'hello world' | mail -s "message" <number>@cingularme.com
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
ebay will go into oblivion in a few years. The current generation barely uses them. As the last generation users slowly fade away, they will see the business dwindling. Add to it incompetent management who stifle innovation.
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
This isn't a case of eventual consistency. They don't bother to update the cache(if that is the reason) or update the database used in newsfeed. The deleted posts persist in the newsfeed database many hours(maybe forever) after the delete e
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
Facebook's privacy settings have a ton of bugs. Here's another one: 1. Make a stupid status update post. 2. It appears in all your friends newsfeed. 3. You realize you said something stupid and private. 4. Panic. Delete post 5. Breathe sigh
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
Agree, as real data point here: Indian entrepreneur, with graduate degree from a top US univ, with 6 years experience at a top valley behemoth, working on their core infrastructure. Now raised seed funding for so-far bootstrapped business f
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
that's just ~12 queries/sec..not that huge a deal..
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
This is a great idea!! Also there is a lot of useful content already on the site, even on topics like programming/startups. This was the missing link in the hiring chain.
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
The issue is that facebook and twitter have derailed from their earlier stated mission of connecting people and facilitating communication. Their goal as public businesses is making money from advertising, anything else is just feeding into
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
would this guy be ok if someone 'reverse engineered' his email password. Every product wants to protect its IP in some sense...google won't like if someone reverse engineered their search ranking, apple won't obviously like if someone hacke
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Why Facebook's Network Effects are Overrated (mako.cc)
4 points by surferbayarea 14y ago|0 comments
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
Cool! I've lost some love for google maps since they started showing the sponsored link as the first result. What was before a one search, one click activity is now one search, zoom to distinguish between the sponsored and real listing(ofte
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
:) no data is being witheld ! Both facebook.com/zuck and plus.google.com/zuck are public pages. As with all other docs in google's index, they should just use signals like click-data to decide which page shows up. This has nothing to do wit
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
search for mark zuckerberg in google. Which is the first social network page that shows up in the search ranking(ranked by google based on publicly available data and its own click-thru data). Why dont they just show that page rather than t
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
> Do people disagree that social signals can add to relevance? If not, then how does Google get these social signals, if they're locked out of FB and twitter? Let's say fb/twitter release a public api to access the social signals. So t
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
brilliant startup idea: a gym that's also a strip club :p
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
I guess, my point is that when I come to google and enter a search term, I expect to see all the public information ranked by relevance. Just because you have a different UI treatment for the personalized results doesn't mean that they shou
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
Well! Google is a search engine. So if I search for my name, why should the google plus profile show up first, above the facebook or linkedin profile which probably has a way higher relevance score. Just because you decide to add a widget t
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
Google, you have now gone over to the dark side. The technical definition of "do no evil" was that google search would not promote any single entity based on who they are, rather they would let algorithms and data govern the core ranking. T
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by surferbayarea 15y ago
The technical definition of "do no evil" was that google search would not promote any single entity based on who they are, rather they would let algorithms and data govern the core ranking. This seems to be the first VIOLATION of this princ