maverick2

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by maverick2 9y ago
Canada's is same way. I am from India, and been in US for about half a decade. US's process is completely old school. Canada had plans to integrate all citizen services through one account dashboard, curious to see how countries r
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by maverick2 9y ago
I am a BA(Business Analyst) with mostly traditional Project Management duties. My bachelors was in CS, and I still love to delve into technical details of a solution. I do some data analytics for my product. But have been interested in more
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by maverick2 9y ago
I think the sleep and productivity times vary with age, food, and stress levels. I used to be a late nighter almost all of my teen life into the early 20s. But have now become early(rather super early) riser. As expected light plays a huge
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by maverick2 9y ago
A couple of reasons for it. I was wasting my time in evenings on useless stuff and was mentally drained to do any productive work. I need to change the type of industry I work in, so I feel the solid block of time in the morning with a fres
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by maverick2 9y ago
Profession: Business Analyst / Product Owner [2:00] - Wake-up, coffee, and eat fresh fruit. [2:30] - Personal projects, read tech news in between. [5:00] - Exercise. [5:30] - Personal projects, read tech news in between. [6:45] - Write
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Ask HN: Moving from Traditional IT Business Analyst to High Tech
1 points by maverick2 10y ago|0 comments
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The 2015 Analytics Software Market(techcrunch.com)
1 points by maverick2 11y ago|0 comments
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by maverick2 11y ago
HN discussion from a little more than a year back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8059480
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by maverick2 11y ago
A product hunt type website but for adding features to current app/websites. User can thumbs up or down a feature request, and can also thumb-up a request with some small money tagged to it. The money collected will go to a non profit.
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by maverick2 11y ago
Good point. Amazon is kind of like it. But searching for a product on amazon is like searching of some info on wikipedia. However, Google search spans a across all of web. So, we do not have something that spans across all sites to hunt for
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by maverick2 11y ago
Order cabs on behalf of others.
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Ask HN: Web search is broken. It does not work for making purchases?
1 points by maverick2 11y ago|2 comments
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by maverick2 11y ago
What's up with buying though. Why can't their teams come out with new features themselves.
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by maverick2 11y ago
Like FB for Work,LinkedIn in for work is an 'easier' sell and a solid secondary revenue stream. They must be looking into that. If not, they should be.
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by maverick2 11y ago
Exactly, if we can root people to become vegan, oragnic and not by fur etc. Why not have campaigns to not support products made by countries with oppressive governments.
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by maverick2 11y ago
But when China is at par with what US has been, China's record of human rights and free speech worldwide will be much worse than that of US.
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by maverick2 12y ago
True, May be Google is still stuck in old ways of Internet. When early adopters drove the adaption. But Internet, specially Web has become too mainstream and there is a lot of noise. So being dependent on just early adopters might not cut i
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by maverick2 12y ago
Google is in dire need for a marketing unit, that educates regular consumers about the possibilities of the applications and products Google has. Otherwise Google always ends up with low traction for a lot of its products. And sometimes the
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To Revive Wallet, Google Tries to Wrangle Unruly Partners(wsj.com)
26 points by maverick2 12y ago|35 comments
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by maverick2 12y ago
Yep all off-shore people want is an opportunity at on-site. Not to learn new tech or experience a different culture or have better management skills. But to earn some $$$. There are some good companies that do really quality work at off-sh
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by maverick2 12y ago
I am an h1b working in US from past 3 years.Worked in India for 3 as well. I've always felt that all big companies should be doing their own IT. The only agenda outsourcing companies have is to increase the headcount. Technically, 95%
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Ask HN: What is the point in being a polymath?
7 points by maverick2 12y ago|4 comments
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India on the Verge of a Tech 'Gold Rush'(huffingtonpost.com)
5 points by maverick2 12y ago|0 comments
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by maverick2 12y ago
With these 'protectionist' measures and EU ruling on breaking up Google. Does it signify EU trying to muscle control and power when most of new world power is with US and Asia/China/India.
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UK announces a 'Google tax' to stop companies diverting profits overseas(theverge.com)
2 points by maverick2 12y ago|1 comments
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by maverick2 12y ago
ok, yep let me clear that. What I mean is -Companies should be able to own and trade their users data with other companies. This should be like a stock or ad exchange. More pull requests for certain data, higher the data connection price.
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by maverick2 12y ago
Scale has its advantage, products like Google Now or a Home Robot/Assistant is not possible unless there are a ton of data points available to be processed. I thinking breaking up is not a solution, but rather content(headlines include
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European parliament may propose search services split in threat to Google(reuters.com)
51 points by maverick2 12y ago|46 comments
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Ask HN: HN Badges for sale?
3 points by maverick2 12y ago|1 comments
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A 23andMe Patent(blog.23andme.com)
46 points by maverick2 13y ago|49 comments

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