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It's uncannily similar to this! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sbi.SBFree...

scary... "remote: Unexpected system error after push was received. remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com! remote: Your unique error code: 7527a6e1bbc9fe126d51c97feac7b4e3 remote: Unexpected system error after push was received. remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com! remote: Your unique error code: 7527a6e1bbc9fe126d51c97feac7b4e3"

seems pushes are going into oblivion, but the client side gets a return code that the push was successful.

Ideally the ad exchange should be an independent and open system like the stock exchange. A user's private information should be carefully federated and controlled access given to various advertisers. This exchange should not be controlled by Google, but should be an open system. Just like you can buy shares for a business, you should be able to buy advertising rights to a user(or set of users). The money paid by advertisers should flow to the user.

And interesting thing is how people are all up in arms about the NSA tapping private information, but are completely oblivious to advertising companies doing the same. At least the NSA's objective is to fight terrorism, companies like Google/Facebook invade people's privacy for the sole purpose of making money from it.

Black Friday is a baby in comparison - just $1.35b

Strange how no-one here seems to have actually read the article. Do people have thoughts on how they handle technical debt and manage code quality? This was a well thought out way of structurally improving code quality in a code base that supports a big business driving 10billion$+ transaction volume. Do people have a better solution to what they should be doing?

RE:disrupting their business model, why is charging money for a service wrong? You cannot keep things for free by burning VC money. That only lasts so long...

The internet was built on open peer-to-peer protocols. Email was designed to be p2p, not client-server like gmail is. In the near future, the fundamental structure of the internet as we know it today will change. All of a user's data, activity log etc generated by all the 100 sensors + services that a user uses will be centralized in a repository that will be owned by the user. Different services and tools and devices will just get on-demand access to the data as and when they need it to provide a service to the user. It will also require them to contribute any activity data back to this repository. This will lead not just to solving privacy, but way better user experience and services that are not possible today due to data silos. It is sad how corporations with an objective to make money(which it should be) have misguided internet to become a siloed structure designed to benefit different corporations. This incorrect structure needs to and will be broken...

Travis Kalanick is the Frank Underwood of the startup world

Great article on the skills to look for in a technical co-founder. Dispels the myth that you need a rockstar machine learning expert from Stanford/Google to build your consumer app idea.

dtrace would catch the leak in 10 minutes!

canada has serious issues. I wanted to go for a conference there + meet a few startups. Turns out you need 2 months to get a tourist/business visa!

We had another issue, where the catch-all address started bouncing. Apparently they have changed the way they handle email routing. So if you upgrade to the 'new google apps', you better be very careful about your email routing rules. Went through a very similar experience with google customer care. Again turned out to be a bug in their system. But what sucks is for 3 days our emails were bouncing! And we're a paid google apps customer...Would be happy to pay 5X, just want some sort of customer service + acceptable SLAs on issues. And yes, please have a test team go over important features like enterprise email! I know it's Google policy to not have features go through a testing team, but maybe they should consider it for Google Apps.

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We are the Borg. Your differing viewpoint will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Lets look at the issue more deeply. Consider the other end of the spectrum: Say the govt collects no data, no surveillence at airports, no wiretaps, no monitoring of any online channels. Are we ok having our 'privacy' at the cost of security? The sad reality of our world is that there are terrorists, and they need/use things like email/chat/online forums/regular phones for communication.

So the question is where do you draw the line on what is acceptable/not.

The question needs to be looked at a deeper level. Sure, collecting data and having machines do data mining on it is not an invasion of privacy. Thats what these companies do anyway! What defines invasion is the usage. The Fourth Amendment needs a revision to account for the new reality.

Only acceptable use of data should be for detecting patterns that correspond to national/international terror threats.

Unacceptable uses of private data: - if you are evading tax and the government finds out, this data cannot be permissible as evidence in court and/or used to prosecute. - if you committed/planning to commit a crime, this data cannot be used as evidence or to prevent it - the data in general cannot be used as evidence in a court of law or for taking any form of civilian action against an individual

So there is a need to look past the blind 'down with big brother' attitude and decide as a society where to draw the line!

will be exciting to see how soon these servers become compromised and massive amounts of private information leaked. I would give it a year tops!

yes, because it also does other computation. Poiint was to illustrate that zlib can be used in a concurrent computing setting with high performance. The blog writer had claimed that zlib doesn't work in a multithreaded setting.

Have you even used zlib in c++? The largest ecommerce site out there uses zlib in a multitreaded c++ application(24 cores, 100s of threads, 1000s requests/sec/server) and it works just fine! Bet you erlang can't come within a tenth of the performance of c++...

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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...So I simply created a LLC and transferred my H1 visa to that. Super low-cost solution, better/cheaper than getting a green card or E2 or any of these funky visas. And this isn't just a fluke, a number of people in a similar situation have applied this hack successfully....

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 coding. The advantage: your password never ever enters your computer's RAM(or HDD/network)...take that keyloggers!

And this is interesting why?

echo 'hello world' | mail -s "message" <number>@cingularme.com

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.

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 event.

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 of relief that it is no longer showing up in your profile. 6. But wait a minute! It still keeps showing up in all your friends newsfeed. 7. Now that you deleted the post, you can't even modify it's visibility settings. Heck you can't even get to the url. But all your friends continue to see the post in their newsfeeds

So the way facebook implements a delete of any activity(status post/like/comment) is that the owner stops seeing it but everyone else keeps seeing it. That is simply the most retarded delete implementation ever!

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 from a top US VC firm. But due to visa issues, having to move most of the company operations overseas. As a founder, it sucks that there is no visa which I can get to run this startup! My H1 visa prohibits me from running a company where I have significant equity. This is just a f*ing stupid immigration policy !

that's just ~12 queries/sec..not that huge a deal..

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.

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 that. This kind of misalignment of goals results in end users experience suffering. A thing like a social network is part of the fundamental fabric of the internet As a result the organization running this infrastructure should have very clear goals. It doesn't have to be a non-profit, but the goal should not be to generate 30% growth and billions in profits. The goal should be to make it easier for people to communicate. Given the decrease in the cost of computing, there is no reason that it should cost billions of $ to run an infrastructure like facebook. What we need is a linux for the internet. Fundamental infrastructures like social network and search engine being run by entities with no hidden agendas! It will happen!

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 hacked the iphone to run android, intel won't like if someone was able to reverse engineer the chip design and then sell it for a tenth of the cost..heck would these guys like if I was able to hack their app and bypass the license check?

Certain internal software API's are as much intellectual property as is the physical hardware design.

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(often close by), then click. Pain!