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by varunsrin 15y ago
So, I'm still not entirely clear on this - did you change the post title?
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by varunsrin 15y ago
"But the truth is that this story only got the spotlight here because it had AirBnB in the submission title, but the events it describes are not really specific to AirBnB. It could have happened through many other rental services." That doe
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Can someone please explain why the post name was changed? If it was to 'protect' AirBnB I find that in poor taste - this is a legitimate problem that occurred with the service, though it is likely not a specific problem. if the OP (foxit) r
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by varunsrin 15y ago
I always found AirBnB's model based on a surprising amount of trust - I for one would never be comfortable just handing over they keys to my place to a total stranger. Even if they didn't ransack my place completely, as happened to the unfo
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by varunsrin 15y ago
"Facebook, or even Apple, might make a better home for Bing. " At this point, the article stopped making sense. Yes, bing is draining money, but why on earth would Facebook want to buy something they already have a pretty good partnership w
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by varunsrin 15y ago
This brings to mind a professor at my university, who used to handout textbooks with problemsets which were most of the course's homework. The problem sets would have answers at the back, but he would misprint some of them on purpose that h
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Microsoft Redesigns Bing Maps Interface(mashable.com)
1 points by varunsrin 15y ago|0 comments
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AmazonFresh app debuts on Microsoft’s Windows Phone(geekwire.com)
1 points by varunsrin 15y ago|0 comments
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by varunsrin 15y ago
It says Empire units (m/s^2), not Imperial Units. So its just SI Units.
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by varunsrin 15y ago
The article linked within the post was much more insightful than the post itself. http://www.realityprime.com/articles/why-microsoft-and-inter... It is however, incorrectly cited in the post as support for the author's argument, which it
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by varunsrin 15y ago
SkyDrive is a browser-based cloud store, not a desktop application. So you should be able to use it just fine on XP, provided you are running a modern browser.
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Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web, built using HTML5(windowsteamblog.com)
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by varunsrin 15y ago
http://gigaom.com/2011/06/10/apple-icloud-microsoft-azure-am... This article from GigaOm explains it better - Apple is likely using Azure / AWS as a CDN, because their data centers are centrally located (however this is not fact - we stil
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Having been shown the way by Apple, I expect Google to shortly do the same thing, adding automated backup, synchronization and migration to Android and Chrome Hmm? Google already does most of this stuff on Android, though there are a few
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by varunsrin 15y ago
This is a really poorly written, fanboyish article - not saying anything about whether or not flash is good, but do we really need articles like this one on HN? "Watch the smug get slapped right off of Narayen’s face after he laughably tri
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by varunsrin 15y ago
yes mapping India will prove to be quite the challenge - there are a lot of roads and alleys that are undocumented. Interestingly, the street my old house was on never shows up in Google, shows up on Yahoo (but is unnamed) & shows up na
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ComScore: Bing Market Share crosses 14%(comscore.com)
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Wonder if the 13 & 15" sizes have a higher percentage because of Macbooks
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by varunsrin 15y ago
well, Marissa Mayer of Google explicitly stated in a public announcement in October 2007 that it was going to be used for speech recognition algorithms. And many, many news blogs published that. http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-management/g
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Somehow, it doesn't seem like Google's plan was much of a secret, even back in 2007: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/goog-411-isnt-what-you-thin...
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by varunsrin 16y ago
The content seems very anecdotal - I see a lot of conclusions being drawn from a few examples in 'hot' startups like Facebook, Zynga & Color which represent only a fraction of SV startups (and are possibly outliers).
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by varunsrin 16y ago
"If they are a Windows Outlook user forget about it, rarely does it work – often they have to manually reply" If he means that when using iCal to invite someone on outlook then that's probably accurate, but Outlook 2010 has a pretty robust
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by varunsrin 16y ago
I'm a bit confused - how could a TEDx event charge admission for a livestream of an official TED event, to which they are not affiliated? Afaik TED/TEDGlobal/TEDIndia are not TEDx events. Did you mean that TEDx events could not charge for a
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by varunsrin 16y ago
"Laura Stein has set the TEDx licensee policy so that one cannot charge for attendance" This is incorrect, when we organized TEDxCMU in 2010, Laura Stein told us that some other events had sold tickets to cover costs. Here is an extract
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Gladwell Still Missing the Point About Social Media and Activism(gigaom.com)
1 points by varunsrin 16y ago|0 comments
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What if Visual Studio had Achievements?(blog.whiletrue.com)
155 points by varunsrin 16y ago|53 comments
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by varunsrin 16y ago
gah its down
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by varunsrin 16y ago
Is it bad that when I saw this I thought it was gonna be about git.
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Insights from the Gawker Password Dump(varunsrin.posterous.com)
3 points by varunsrin 16y ago|0 comments
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Re-purposing the TV Broadcast Spectrum(economist.com)
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