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sanowskion A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking – Facebook

This perfectly sums up my feelings on this: https://giphy.com/gifs/anchorman-lies-lie-EouEzI5bBR8uk

sanowskion Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results

where lies a myth? It's customer needs vs. tech that wins.

sanowskion Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click

a search for your question "all the floating point operations that can produce NaN" gave useful results for me.

sanowskion Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO

$200MM rev is crumbs when you're taking billions. I don't think this provides a good example of how it can work.

sanowskion Wal-Mart to Acquire Jet.com for $3.3B in Cash, Stock

Opposite to the armchair analyst opinions last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218654

sanowskion Upthere raises $77M to put a new spin on personal cloud storage

Then you're in the android ecosystem which is heavy Google.

sanowskion Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards

Maybe job board postings are down 40%

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2016/05/06/it-job-growth-slows-tech...

sanowskion How Intel missed the smartphone market

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

sanowskion Silicon Valley is broken and heading for social unrest

do these actually exist?

sanowskion Moving on from Picasa

do you have an example?

sanowskion Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet

https://www.blockspring.com/about/privacy

User Content. We collect your personal information contained in any User Content you create, share, store, or submit to or through the Service, which may include photo or other image files, written comments, information, data, text, scripts, graphics, code, and other interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible to you and other Users by Blockspring via the Service in accordance with your personal settings.

sanowskion Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft

there's no 'unwritten rule' for promotion timelines

sanowskion Why Did Amazon Make a Phone? A Conversation With Jeff Bezos

My point is that knowing Amazon's business model, It's surprising they are openly playing the margin game on this device and bleeding the buyer vs. recouping that $100 in Amazon purchases.

sanowskion Why Did Amazon Make a Phone? A Conversation With Jeff Bezos

Laughable! what is the cost of 16GB these days? Stopped reading after that answer, but keep going if you like advertorials.

Q. I was surprised that you weren’t competing on price so aggressively. This is essentially the same price as rival devices.

A. Well, it’s 32 gigabytes instead of 16, which is a big deal.....

sanowskion Suicidal Software Developer

I am in London, work in tech, and have some volunteer experience helping in this area. happy to meet up if you want to chat.