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myprasanna | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?

My best guess would be a bunch of friends in a crypto lab cooked it up. It's not that there were no leaks. There were reviews done in the cryptography mailing list and changes were made. Just that they happened publicly online. The first idea was proposed in 2008, while the client was first launched in 2009.

myprasanna | 15 years ago | on: The CEO's job

Agree with Ted. I've heard so many horror stories from people who thought this way in the beginning. Yishan Wong, would give you good stories about, how zuck tried the contracting route when Accel funded them and very soon pressed the hard revert button.

Jessica - I'm a YC founder too, and most people have strong opinions on this. (http://bit.ly/9uDFfe); Maybe, you should ask pg, what he thinks.

myprasanna | 15 years ago | on: Picking BackType

Victor - I'm the co-founder of likealittle.com; Curious to hear about how you saw our growth, and your experiences in the dating market. Would love to get in touch: [email protected]

myprasanna | 15 years ago | on: Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

I've just recently spoken with my friends, and I know for a fact that it atleast takes a month from point of checkin to review/test/stage/production. If you disagree, I think what you are talking about, is probably an exception and not the norm.

Being secretive about release cycles is pointless stealth.

myprasanna | 15 years ago | on: Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

Got it :)

I still know for a fact that, it takes at-least a month on average, for a search change list to reach production. Would you disagree Matt?

myprasanna | 15 years ago | on: Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

Matt, How long would you estimate, for a search changelist to hit the production at Google? I've got friends working there. Prepare to be surprised.

myprasanna | 15 years ago | on: Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

I'm the author of this post and by no means I expected this to be on the top of HN today. It was a surprise. I din't do any good editing on this, since it was my personal blog and I had sent to Michael Arrington, who wanted to edit/publish it. For some reason, he backed out at the last moment and it din't make it to TC. Welcome to the world of citizen journalism.

Sorry about the typos/errors. I'm looking into this now :)

myprasanna | 15 years ago | on: PG about to speak at Facebook, partnership announcement to follow

A quick question: Is instant personalization just removing a click that is otherwise required by an application to access all this data? Is there any new data that I can't access via the api, that is coming here.

Maybe devs who work with FB connect more often can clarify.. Thanks in advance.

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