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2020 Diversity Annual Report [pdf](kstatic.googleusercontent.com)
1 points by mehta 6y ago|0 comments
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by mehta 8y ago
One data point: it is not bad at all. I use Firefox as my primary browser(having used chrome on and off for many years) and it works well for almost everything. There are occasional sites that don't behave with ff and for those I go to
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by mehta 10y ago
A few points to point out: from your post, it sounds like Amazon never applies for h1b which is not true. They just don't prefer to use it for a person who is not already in USA. They do apply for the visa where it makes sense. If they
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by mehta 10y ago
not if there are multiple co-founders and possibly some investors involved.
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by mehta 10y ago
yeah, this is my line of thought as well. But it gets complicated when there are two co-founds in the same boat :)
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by mehta 10y ago
Thanks for the answer! A followup question: So would something like this work? Owner 1 (<50% ownership, say 49%) on H1b Owner 2 (<50% ownership, say 49%) on H1b Investor 1,2 (>0% ownership, say 2%) (I understand that things vary fr
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by mehta 10y ago
Hi Peter, Thanks for taking the time out to answer questions! I am from India and am in US on H1B with gc process underway in EB2 category. I (along with a fellow friend) have been thinking of doing something on our own but are always disco
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by mehta 10y ago
I had the same question. I clicked on a few links that I thought would lead to the product description but they didn't. Eventually I realized that the domain was open.buffer.com. Once you go to buffer.com, you see the product descripti
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by mehta 10y ago
A relevant podcast from sysk that aired recently: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-the-gender-pa... (not affiliated with them. Just a listener) They go into exactly the point you make and talk about how g
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by mehta 10y ago
Seems like Homebrew is doing many things right: - Anonimizing IP address. - Explaining what data is collected, and why - A way to optout Something that could be better: - Make this optout for new users and opt-in for existing users? - Notif
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by mehta 10y ago
They kinda do. Over time, the skills of a dev and SRE diverge a bit but at the core they are the same. I am a dev at Google but went through a program called Mission Control[1]. (It was a great learning experience and helped me do my job a
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by mehta 10y ago
This argument doesn't really make sense to me. What browser, OS and device are you using to post this comment? Someone made profit when you bought the device, bought the OS and/or browser. A healthy system needs some kind of motiv
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by mehta 11y ago
I thought this already worked. Okay Google... Play music will start Music app Okay Google... Start Radio will start NPR app
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by mehta 11y ago
I think that is just a habit(or reflective of my state of mind). They do not sacrifice employees for good reviews on Hacker News (at least not that I am aware of...). /note-to-self: I should really find out if there is a hidden room so
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by mehta 11y ago
Both. I have a 7 month old and just finished working on a decently sized project (amp-analytics[1]). Both my team and manager have been super supportive through the process. I don't remember when I worked full 40 hours a week (that doe
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by mehta 11y ago
You should visit Google - Orange county. It's an awesome office in a great location and it's family friendly :). (I work there)
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by mehta 11y ago
Why not make it simple for people and just use one name? How does the "technically different" part affect people?
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by mehta 11y ago
OpenSSL as you can guess is also open source. Having boringssl opensourced does not change anything.
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by mehta 11y ago
Even if it isn't evicted very often, the first time it is loaded, it will be ~3 times faster, it will take up less storage thus better for others and (probably) easier to render.
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by mehta 11y ago
I think you and the parent are confusing the display size with phone size. The phone height is >5 inches. The display is 4.7 inches diagonally. The device size diagonally will be more than device height.
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by mehta 12y ago
> [...] CJK unification[...] has never been a point of contention in the communities concerned with it. I am not very familar with the CJK unification project so take my points with a grain of salt. > more than not opposing CJK unific
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by mehta 12y ago
you could try image search. Image search based on an existing image is fairly easy with google image search. https://images.google.com/
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by mehta 12y ago
but it's not about Google only. It is about bing, yahoo and ddg too!
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by mehta 12y ago
Could it be your friends signing up for the service and sharing your information with them. I would assume a lot of companies do this.
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by mehta 13y ago
I don't think luck plays that big a part. But regardless, As you said, execution is very integral to the success of the project and since Linus, has executed the project so well over the years, it does say something about the execution
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by mehta 13y ago
Can you elaborate a bit? I have not used either and would love to know what is different between the two and why you prefer one over the other. Edit: I saw a few comments about original commenter being a MS employee. To be clear, I am a Goo
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by mehta 13y ago
> Google's implementation of Checkout was flawed from the start (esp how they handled/treated merchants).. So I'm not surprised it didn't go anywhere. As you say, Google's implementation was flawed from start. Doesn't it make sense then
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by mehta 13y ago
Not sure what you mean by "absolute best applications" since the app on ios is fundamentally limited by the APIs that are provided by the OS. I agree that ios has some of the better apps but I don't think presence of Google Now on ios is be
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by mehta 13y ago
You will see more "magic" happen as you your the app. I don't know the state of app on ios but on Android, Google slowly learns about your home and office locations, it learns about stocks you search for, places you travel to, movies you se
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by mehta 13y ago
Actually, that's not completely true. afaik, India - which is one of the largest democracies in the world follows the legal process in almost all the terror related cases. The fact that they try to adapt their laws to keep up with terrorism

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