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This is how my advisor and some of my family members try to convince me that choosing academia is wiser - they tell me that as a tenured faculty, (a) I will always be my own boss a…

A little off-topic perhaps but it is sort of crazy to see IEEE being so adamantly xenophobic since the start of the H1-B debate given that there are so many foreign-born authors in…

When you call something is rational, you automatically label it acceptable. So please stop trying to be coy.

You perfectly described why affirmative action will always exist.

So Brin is now the head of Google-Ex? ;)

Am I the only one who prefers Google Hangouts to Skype even for one-on-one calls?

Isn't listening to the talks at the Stanford Entrepreneurship class (podcast/iTunesU) enough?

From the article: "Regardless of the specific cause, the circumstances leading to his death seem unforgivable for a young man bent on proving himself. The hours he kept, though evi…

I have issues with people who whine about this G+ integration but are absolutely happy with services that require Facebook account or with the iCloud unification of Apple products.…

Chicken-egg problem: you gotta be known for your work for people to notice your blog but your blog is a vehicle to make your work known. C'est la vie...

Hmm.. let's not criticize the situation now because it was much worse in the past. But I'm not shocked you used that argument given your apologist comments on other posts related t…

I kinda figured that part but to me that's a very very archaic way of thinking given that a significant number of people will eventually break the NDA and hint about bugs.

I just never understood the grand benefits of imposing NDA on iOS/OSX pre-release versions. I can't picture this giving Apple a big strategic advantage over its competitors in mobi…

The root of this problem, I think, is that Apple requires the $100 membership fee (and thus provide a developer account) even for testing apps on one's own device. If Apple, instea…

I think Jeff Bezos will be bigger than Steve Jobs one day.

Or buy a Macbook Air.

IMHO, typing on iPad is stupid not necessarily because of the typing experience (I'm actually not terrible at it), but because the screen size above the virtual keyboard is too lit…

Need the usual disclaimer that you're a Googler :P

I often get 24 hours on my iPhone 4S (with a few things turned off). And that's what Moto-X is promising. So I don't define that as "crazy good".

People were mostly anticipating a crazy good battery and an unprecedented low on-contract price. Neither happened - time to move on.

Actually advertising and marketing optimization is a very critical problem that hasn't been completely solved yet, especially when privacy concerns are taken into consideration. It…

Should I start putting every substantial R/Python script I write, even if they are based on some tutorials, on the Github/Personal-Website? Is that how I "show"? I missed the Githu…

Should have studied harder in undergrad. All the current "Fellows" are from top tier schools :(