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by arindone 13y ago
Anyone going to say it? DuckDuckGo searches are still really low quality. I WANT them to be a legitimate competitor in the space (in fact, I've been having similar hopes for Bing for years) but it's just not there yet.
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by arindone 13y ago
I'm surprised not many people are pointing out the antitrust concerns here...There are a few competitors in the space, but there may be a strong case that Google is essentially buying out that Waze's capabilities and niche are onl
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by arindone 13y ago
This is junk -- there is absolutely nothing that the companies can say to satisfy the critics. We're not going to get at the truth via conspiracy theories and making connections in the language of the denials. "Non-denial"???
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by arindone 13y ago
To be honest I'm still catching up on a lot of the details with these stories, but it's this comment that made me wonder if there is a bit of hyperbole going around. Companies make leaks all the time on the most mundane things (hell Apple c
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by arindone 13y ago
I don't think this is helpful or productive -- it's not the companies at fault, but rather the government that is making this compulsory.
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by arindone 13y ago
I agree 100% in theory -- but it's still a nice essay to have on HN given the million of other blog posts about the complete opposite reaction to Facebook that get upvoted to obilivion when they're also all pretty much annecdotal. Essential
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by arindone 13y ago
Agreed -- and I find your use case interesting, because when I hear of some obscure new social network that only works on web or some has some crazy obscure features that only rich white tech people care about, I think about the case of som
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by arindone 13y ago
There are too many people commenting on Techcrunch that are almost rooting for Zynga to fail and/or finding it amusing -- there are a still good number of people working at Zynga (with families and livelihoods at stake) and I hope they can
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by arindone 13y ago
Not necessarily true -- you can report/dislike ads anytime/anywhere on Facebook and Twitter (maybe Google+? I don't use it really)
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by arindone 13y ago
Some of the discussion here may be PART the reason...but only a small part. If you really think about what Facebook and Twitter are trying to do, they're trying to construct 'graphs' -- a social graph or an interest graph, depending upon wh
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by arindone 13y ago
Exactly -- if the general public really cared about this, Outlook.com would be more popular and Gmail would be in the basement.
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by arindone 13y ago
>Less kids get STEM scholarships and more H1B visas. And more taxes would just put well meaning hard-working fellow Tech community members out of work at Apple. It's not such a clear trade-off as you make it seem with your logic. And f
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by arindone 13y ago
I'm surprised no Microsoft alternatives are mentioned here -- Skydrive, Outlook.com, and Office 365 are very solid. I have very specific use cases for Google that prevent me from switching (long story) but if I could I would use the MSFT pr
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by arindone 13y ago
No love for Yahoo? I'm not an employee there, but even I find it annoying that even when there is solid good news there's a heap of people on HN trying to tear them down at every decision/move they make (let's not forget about the "forbiddi
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by arindone 13y ago
Dude -- I think Yahoo is cool again in my book. 1TB of pictures free combined with the blogging platform that is Tumblr is pretty potent. Unlike many haters out on the HN forums these days I'm actually really excited to see what comes of th
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by arindone 13y ago
Tumblr really has blown up in terms of users and content created (anecdotal evidence from some folks I know that used to intern there) -- however their issue is they waited too long to figure out how to monetize. And to be honest the formul
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by arindone 13y ago
I absolutely love the Windows Phone and think it's very underrated. I would use one all the time but our company phones are only iPhone or Android =(
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by arindone 13y ago
Ah that explains it. I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories in general, but it definitely was suspicious at first =)
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by arindone 13y ago
I don't know -- at the time of this reply 12/30 top links were Google related. Google does some interesting stuff but the Tech world isn't THAT small.
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by arindone 13y ago
I've said this before and I'll say it again -- why the complaints now, when Google has been doing this for years? Essentially, they can collect your information from emails, purchasing habits & financial information from Google Wallet,
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by arindone 13y ago
'There is no shortage of tech workers' != 'There is no shortage of GOOD tech workers' What has been bothering me about this study is that almost no effort has been made to quantify or even investigate the quality of these workers. A communi
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by arindone 13y ago
"How can you tell someone isn't on Facebook? Don't worry -- they'll tell you." I read this a while back on a HN thread and it resonates more and more by the day -- there are a number of dedicated haters such that such things don't suprise m
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by arindone 13y ago
Agreed - yet another article on HN that's all hearsay and uses no data to back it up (I actually love HN, but this trend, especially among a group that's supposed to be very technical, is often disheartening)
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by arindone 13y ago
I am really impressed -- With the results in their current state, I'm excited to see how they improve with scale (i.e. more and more people searching and adding data to the machine learning algorithms) I think a Bing vs. Google vs. Samuru c
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WhatsApp: Bigger Than Twitter?(allthingsd.com)
5 points by arindone 13y ago|0 comments
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by arindone 13y ago
Data? Source?
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by arindone 13y ago
But that's just hearsay and conjecture -- we don't know it was turned off for "profitability" reasons or whatever. In fact Ribbon's blog indicates that Twitter was very receptive to the idea: http://blog.ribbon.co/an-update-on-in-stream-pa
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by arindone 13y ago
1) The constant refrain from many in the tech community of "I would pay to use service X and therefore having a paywall is a legitimate business model" frustrates me to no end, because it's such a "moderately wealthy tech person from the We
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by arindone 13y ago
Some thoughts: 1) this article is based upon hypothetical notions about what Home "may" do, despite it being not even released yet 2) Google has collected user data for ages via Android for Google Now and few complained about privacy issues
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by arindone 13y ago
Depends on the OS -- Jellybean is different from Ice Cream Sandwich is different from Gingerbread is different from... If you want something like this on all Android phones, it's more than just making an app to put in the Google Play store

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