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by ultimoo 13y ago
The most important differentiator between Google Now and Siri is that one is visual and text based whereas the other is only voice activated. I do not speak English in an American, British or an Australian accent and I disabled Siri on my i
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I didn't know that US News were considered a reliable source of ranking schools (if schools can be ranked at all). Isn't US News a for-profit magazine that has figured out SEO really well?
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Having worked in India for more than 3 years, most developers I knew hadn't ventured outside of the MS ecosystem. Xerox's business services divisions (who made this statement) likely satisfy large enterprises working on MS technologies for
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Yes, as far as I know Apple hosts their iCloud jointly on AWS and Azure. Which is a great strategy for disaster recovery or failover I think, considering both the cloud services are the largest and are owned by financially stable companies
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I like how wikipedia presents its contents in a usable way on IE5. This is awesome and most likely a part of their mission to make knowledge as accessible as possible . I have seen old, low-end donated PCs that are rife in elementary educa
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Although I am not certain about it, the way browsers are expected to handle encryption may have also changed in 14 years -- making payment gateways on these websites wither unusable or risky.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Nicely done. I'd love it if it also supported modifying the URLs, since they are so readable. For example, if I delete the 199 from the end of your URL [1], it should still show me Valencia St. on the map. However, in its current state, I d
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Nice! If only I had known about this before April fools!
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Great article. Does convey some of the harsh realities. However, I didn't understand why outline such a well written article with a meaningless sensational headline. "Drowning in its own excreta", really?
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Why do you dismiss this? I didn't investigate into it, but does Amazon not run its infrastructure on coal power? Anyway, if Amazon does, then what the OP did was justified in their own ideals. While most of us do not think in this direction
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by ultimoo 13y ago
My CapsLock is mapped to Control and I use 'C-d' to forward-delete in OS X.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
This is really cool, thanks!
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by ultimoo 13y ago
This was on the front page?
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I confess that I understand very little of this. Can someone explain what does this mean in layman terms? I did understand that Apple is going to invest more money in its own shares, as a result of which, the portion of Apple, Inc. owned by
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by ultimoo 14y ago
I have a friend of Indian nationality who settled in the valley after finishing his education in India and has actually done pretty good for himself. I have heard him mention more than once how prejudice stemming from alma maters comes into
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Did anyone else find the style of this article distractingly idiomatic and puffed up? Anyway, this is a great move for apps like Uber and taxi drivers as well. Considering the article about the low limits on the taxi medallions that was pos
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by ultimoo 14y ago
I agree. I liked the opening line though: "C is memory with syntactic sugar." It is a good introductory article for someone who has never used C -- CS-1xx Intro as you said.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
I am surprised the article doesn't mention anything about alcohol and its effect on sleep. Does anyone want to chime in on this?
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Since you are well-versed with this issue -- I know that Amazon offers tenancy options while creating virtual machines. Is this option not utilized because the price of single-tenancy is higher than the headache of "bad neighbor test"?
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Yes, the year of the blog should definitely be present in the HN title. That said, what is the deal with the internal network latency and the other points the OP touched upon today? Did Amazon get around to resolving things, or have things
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Nice. So both times that you noticed this, was it malice on someone's part due to which the tools were patched? I have just never heard or encountered such a situation and am frankly paranoid about something like this happening to one of th
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Not to disagree with the point you are making, but just to add to it -- I'm sure the personal nursery bit was a part of the employment terms that Mayer must have negotiated before joining Yahoo!.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Wow, he actually patched 'netstat' and 'ps'. It must have been to hide certain processes and port numbers from showing up. I wonder how may one go about understanding if they are using a 'hacked' version of something as non-trivial and comp
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by ultimoo 14y ago
I heard about this from a friend earlier today. However, while reading this, I found the concluding piece very interesting and it quite changed the way I was thinking about Baidu. I mean, if Glass is successful, everyone is going to clone i
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Thanks for summing up the story till now so succinctly.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
This is a great piece. Conveys the harsh cold ground reality of a bomb blast. I lost a good friend in the German Bakery bomb blasts that struck Pune, India in 2010 and this story made me well up. We are all just meat bags held up with a few
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by ultimoo 14y ago
This was kinda the same conclusion the reddit community came to when this frontpaged 3 days ago [1]. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1c7y2y/a_murder_near_my...
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I think there is more context to the situation than what is discussed in the original post. Is the company generally an honest entity who always put their customers in front of everything and this was a one-time mistake? Or do they routinel
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Buyers and Sellers leaving feedback for each other doesn't necessarily carry the symmetric property of equality. A Seller has more to lose or gain from feedback than a Buyer does.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
I agree to your position of not storing the CC in the consumer database. However, it cannot be in a write-only state since usually consumers have to billed periodically without having to ask for their number.

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