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Not sure what Marissa Mayer has to do with this. But please don't blame an entire company for the decisions of a single person: Vic Gundotra. There's plenty of engineers at Google …

People use Pro Tools because PT has been the industry standard for years. For tracking and mixing PT11 is pretty good. Some people master using PT, others prefer something like Seq…

Being professional means you leave emotions at the door (like in poker) and back your argument with data. The algorithm might be stupid, that doesn't make the person stupid. Ad hom…

Yeah, it didn't make any sense to me either. I'm all for running your own mail server but that alone will not make it any more secure unless you only communicate with people using …

Or you could just drink water which is way healthier.

This was really cool and informative, thanks for posting it! Was expecting some discussion about photoshop tricks and techniques but maybe people in HN are not that into photograph…

It's working fine now for me.

Surely the NSA has a pretty thorough screening process that you have to go through before you're allowed to work there. Also, when you think of the consequences of leaking ( basica…

I fail to see what this has to do with the protest or the 4th Amendment for that matter. Seems to me like you're treating the symptoms but not the cause.

Au contraire. This is exactly the Google of today vs back then's Google. The Google of today focuses only on social and mobile and, GoogleX aside, will not green-light anything tha…

Chrome also phones home all the time, which is why I stopped using it. I don't notice much performance difference between Firefox and Chrome anyway, and always use Noscript, Adbloc…

A lot of Googlers asked for reader to be saved as it was considered a very useful tool used by small amount of very devout users. The Google of today will cancel any product that c…

I do not use Google products either, but you need to add more companies to that. You can't use Facebook, or Yahoo products. Funnily enough I stopped using Google products because t…