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aniket_ray

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About aniket_ray

my first name is pronounced un-ee-kate. "un" as in unusual.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #17092157

    Google needs less of so called product-"leadership" (like PMs and management) who are usually drivers of the aforementioned politics. The engineers need to have control to actually…

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    Comment #16241543

    >The successful applicant will be hired as freelancer (independent contractor) through the Mozilla Foundation’s third-party service Upwork (www.upwork.com). Not knowing much about …

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    Comment #16135339

    If you are interested in the linguistics of food names, might I recommend: Daniel Jurafsky's The Language of Food[1] [1] - https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Language_of_Food…

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    Comment #14965296

    Actually it's relevant. There is a fair bit of research about people being unconsciously biassed against short leaders.

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    Comment #11151658

    I've been comparing and buying on either Jet or Amazon recentlly. As a result, I've been buying on Jet more frequently. Jet has a smaller selection but they usually have a good eno…

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    Comment #10633858

    Unfortunately this posturing is not because of any independence in Mozilla or any new revenue generating ability. Instead, they've just to switched to Yahoo/Bing's side now.

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    Comment #10471462

    No, just no. A candidate is taking time from their busy schedule and are considering making a contribution to your company/team/project. You should appreciate that more. In the rea…

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    Comment #10041560

    So was Myspace when AOL acquired it.

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    Comment #10038317

    > Reader was hugely successful, which is why the outcry on its closing Umm, no. Reader was not hugely successful. Users loved the idea of using Reader but they did not actually use…

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    Comment #9922522

    Google has a lot of internal discussions in town halls, G+, TGIFs, memegen etc. You don't have to know someone personally to know how they approach issues. Also I can completely un…

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    Comment #9642214

    The photo was probably clicked to attach it to some sort of internal candidate feedback form. Photos ensure that the interviewer does not make a typographical mistake while enterin…

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    Comment #9157764

    I think his point was that Code and Code Search are/were different products.

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    Comment #9051171

    Not sure why you were downvoted as opposed to OP but this thread is full of people who don't realize that Google is truly a place where employees are encouraged to speak up when th…

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    Comment #8719080

    Personally, I think all of them are bogus decisions. Apple might be well within their rights to make bogus decisions but that does not automatically make them not bogus. Note takin…

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    Comment #8506666

    Care to cite that? I could find no source that Eric Schmidt is claiming that.

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    Comment #8506654

    Well a Google SVP is not "random", certainly not Sundar Pichai.

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    Comment #7898241

    I think you've already started on the right track. You've stated that you regularly perform activities that you enjoy. Most people find this step hard. Now that you know what you e…

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    Comment #7471835

    And it turned out that Google was correct. Guardian backtracked on their original story and changed the story to NSA surreptitiously stealing user information rather than claiming …

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    Comment #7110268

    Thanks for understanding. The reference you point out was a one-off event from 2010 though, and a lot of our systems and checks have developed in the subsequent years to prevent a …

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    Comment #7109493

    I am not looking for a debate here but your points are related to Google's algorithms analyzing user data. Google developers do not have access to that data and Google does not rev…

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    Comment #7109101

    Google does work extremely hard trying to protect the privacy of its users. Yes, we might miss the boat sometimes but let's not make blanket statements like yours. D: I work for Go…

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    Comment #7103222

    These protesters are skirting the real issue which is that they cannot afford prime SF real estate anymore. When these protesters, themselves, were uprooting the original inhabitan…