vsiva68

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by vsiva68 15y ago
Does it make more sense for +1 to be part of the browser, as opposed to the website?
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by vsiva68 16y ago
Even without working for Google, I can fully appreciate most of the issues and proposed solutions. Like in any big company, only the people "deep in the trenches" even see these issues, worry about them, and worry why management is so cluel
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by vsiva68 16y ago
Another way of saying the same thing is that GAE is perfectly fine if you know all the requirements of your app before you build it. In a perfect world, you know exactly what you want to build, everything you want is available with GAE, the
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by vsiva68 16y ago
This is a beautiful piece of work. Any chance you might be able to explain the background architecture that might allow others to replicate some of this? From what I see: - extensions are coded in Python, and there is good documentation on
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by vsiva68 16y ago
This paradox of choice is very real. The situation is no different than with laptops. You can expect certain quality standards out of Macbook's. You might be able to get something far cheaper, with more features from others, but there is cl
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by vsiva68 16y ago
This post has to be taken in context of everything else that Piaw has been saying for a while: Google is an excellent place to work. It may not be as nimble as it used to be, but it is still better than most other big companies and most oth
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by vsiva68 16y ago
That is very true. Google's interests are very simple to fathom: They want more people on the internet. Anything that helps (in this case making it easier to develop internet oriented products) towards that is a worthy product to develop.
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by vsiva68 17y ago
Sorry for this OT question, but does anyone know of a replacement for Omnisio ( http://www.omnisio.com/ )? They had great integration of slides and video and how you could browse to a particular slide. Another Google acquisition that hasn't
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by vsiva68 17y ago
Yes, I've read the book, and I would recommend it. The book makes multiple claims: The first is that given the proper environment (physical & mental fitness), we can run very long distances. This I think it proves very well with the Tar
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by vsiva68 17y ago
"Born to Run" has popularized this notion that the human body evolved to run long distances. However, there is no strong proof for it. The recent discoveries from the Ardipithecus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardipithecus ) stories sugges
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by vsiva68 17y ago
Now that thousands of (intelligent) people have wasted hours discussing Joel's insane article, can we all just move on? Please stop posting any more of the duct tape articles.
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by vsiva68 17y ago
My sentiments exactly. Joel's article is just unnecessarily long with very little real content. There are many different ways to develop - Some people like C++, some don't, some do TDD, some don't. You can never say this is the ONE true way
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by vsiva68 18y ago
I've heard this sentiment echoed numerous times (esp. by people who love Python).Could you guys clarify more as to the different things to keep in mind while writing "good" Java? Are there examples of Java projects you'd consider good and w
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by vsiva68 18y ago
I'm surprised by the comments about low salaries. From the public records, it certainly looks like Google pays somewhat higher salaries. The difference though is that there is a huge variance. http://envy.appspot.com/?q=microsoft|google&#3
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by vsiva68 18y ago
Yup, I filed issue #901: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=90... Seems like a serious bug, but I haven't seen any updates as yet.
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by vsiva68 18y ago
The source data is linked to in the About section in the website. I don't have the original HN thread, but the blog post itself was this: http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=70
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by vsiva68 18y ago
A while ago on HN, someone posted a link to the Data Disclosure site. After surfing through it for a while, we thought it would be interesting to provide a simpler view to it. Hence this webapp. Do let us know your thoughts.
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Feedback on website comparing salaries(envy.appspot.com)
1 points by vsiva68 18y ago|3 comments
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by vsiva68 18y ago
The fact that someone in Google wrote an application in lisp does not mean that lisp is now an approved language at Google. Wonder why the author came to such a conclusion.