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db42 | 15 years ago | on: The Android Developers Union

"our demands are not met, cease Android development in favor of other more open platforms,"

To other more open, like .... iOS, Windows mobile?? And, please don't say Symbian and Maemo..

db42 | 15 years ago | on: Simple and fast file sharing with ge.tt

Even after seeing "Tell me more" flash, I don't think people will still be able to appreciate all your services. Maybe you can come up with some promotional videos on the line of 'google voice', 'google priority inbox'(i know, its all google, but they make their videos really good).

db42 | 15 years ago | on: What would you do if you were CEO of Google?

Well, no one has talked about technologies related to distributed computing i.e. Mapreduce/Hadoop, BigTable/HBase/Cassandra etc. Google deserves the credit for developing these technologies in the first place. But Yahoo did the trick by providing open source implementations of these technologies. By providing them as open-source(may be first open-source product from yahoo),hadoop has quickly grown to what it is now in a very short span of time. Currently, almost all the big players in the web market are adopting these technologies for their use and, at the same time, contributing to these technologies. Facebook and twitter, both are now dependent on these tools. I know that internally Google may be far too ahead than the current distributed computing technologies available in the market. But google is just using them internally, they are not using them either to offer them directly or by offering some other service depending on these technologies. I think, google need to think in this direction.

db42 | 15 years ago | on: Google, Facebook don’t innovate

Yeah, they were all developed by Google. I don't think you have any idea about these technologies. Do care to 'google' them.

db42 | 15 years ago | on: Google, Facebook don’t innovate

And also, all the technologies created for distributed computing by google i.e. Mapreduce, GFS, BigTable. Currently most of the web is using Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra and other tools which are all inspired by google work.

db42 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Inspirational movies

I'd prefer reading the book "The Accidental billionaire" instead of watching the movie "The social Network".

db42 | 15 years ago | on: Best linux

I like the "if your use case need that, to build your own linux from scratch" part.

db42 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Linux from Scratch.. Should I try it?

Well, if your aim is to understand the basics of OS by engaging with its code then you can try "Pintos". It was designed to introduce undergraduates to concepts in operating system design and implementation by requiring them to implement significant portions of a real operating system, including thread and memory management and file system access. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintos 2. http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos_1...

db42 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your goals for October?

I want to finish a linux files managing application that I have thought a few days back. Though I haven't started coding yet, I hope to complete it by oct end.
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