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pycassa··on Google faces up to $5B fine from Competition Commission of India
can you provide any sources to how they make so little money in India?

as far as I know, India is one of the countries where google dominates in search. Which is not the case in China, google is not a major search engine in China. I just can't imagine they pulling out of India.

They just recently had heart warming google advertisements in TV which is very rare for google to do.

pycassa··on Make the Type System Do the Work
Haskell has both. You can have type synonyms that are not distinct to the original type according to the compiler and new types that are distinct to the original that doesn't even 'inherit' all the type classes of the original type. You have to specifically instantiate all the type classes you need.
pycassa··on Vim Croquet
ewww
pycassa··on One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet
sorry for being off topic, but twitters pic flagging algorithms are crap in my experience.

I searched for huntermoore in twitter and I came across a nsfw picture of a man trying to cut his testicles. https://twitter.com/search?q=huntermoore&src=typd

twitter's safe picture algorithm is a fail in my experience, it fails to tag these gross gore and nsfw pictures but it tags all the pictures uploaded by fernando alonso formula 1 racer as nsfw by default, I never understood that.

https://twitter.com/alo_oficial click on any twitpicture and you will get a warning. make sure you have your profile set to not view tagged pictures by default, "tweet media settings"

I always found this annoying being a fernando alonso fan.

pycassa··on Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours: A Haskell Tutorial
Thank you, I was looking for exactly this kind of Haskell tutorial. I really liked learnyouahaskell, but realworld Haskell not soo much. Will give this a go.
pycassa··on What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?
personally my favourite is I mapped 'jk' and 'kj' in insert mode to Esc, to get to the normal mode from insert mode. type 'i' to get into insert mode and then just press my fore finger and ring finger at the same time on the home row, it can register 'jk' or 'kj' and takes me to normal mode.
pycassa··on Microsoft blames Google and makes 'adjustments' to IE11 on Windows 8.1
Hahahaha.. such a funny comment.
pycassa··on New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage
After moving to outlook.com, The only thing I missed is that after I signing out of it, it takes me to a landing page with a "sign in" button and some advertisement with people smiling, instead of login screen.

looks like gmail is getting worse instead of outlook getting better in this particular aspect.

pycassa··on Opt out of Google using you as an ad
Thank you, I just deleted my plus profile too. I didn't know I can still have gmail and youtube without having gplus.
pycassa··on Feds: Silk Road boss paid $80,000 for snitch’s torture and murder
some one in r/silkroad posted a block chain transaction link that seemed like the payment you are talking about.. around 1670BTC. i went there but the silkroad subreddit is made private not..

but luckily i found the blockchain link in my history..

http://blockchain.info/en/tx/4a0a5b6036c0da84c3eb9c2a884b6ad...

pycassa··on Microsoft’s Hardware, Round 2: Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2
some people do.. I can touch type, but sometimes when I need to press some key other than the alphabet I have to search for it.. back lit keyboards are very helpful when I'm trying to use my computer in the night without any lights.

but I do hope there is a hotkey(function key) to turn off the back light when I'm watching a movie or something.

pycassa··on The next generation of Instapaper
so an independent guy worked so hard on a project for years, i should just let him be, and work on some thing else..
pycassa··on Facebook buys Parse
i dont understand why people say g+ experience is superior to facebook.. every time i come across a g+ album i find it very annoying.. that i have to reach the top corner to close the slide show of the album.. and the fact that when i reach the last picture of the album and i click next i get suggestions to checkout some random g+ albums.. all i wanted was to go to the beginning of the current allbum..

and i can see more stuff in a facebook page, less scrolling..

i know this is subjective that people prefer different things. but it annoys me soo much that people are soo vocal about g+ being superior to facebook in design/usability sense.. i don't see it..

pycassa··on Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space?
define "full-blown computer"
pycassa··on Meteor 0.5.3 Released: Deployment Settings, Minimongo, Spark, Accounts
tunes.meteor.com doesnt look right in smaller browser.. http://i.imgur.com/oZQlG.png
pycassa··on 30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitted iOS addict
> Mail is a joke of an app on Windows.. What windows are you talking about? I agree that windows 8 mail app sucks.. but mail app on windows phone 8 is one of the best mail app on a smart phone..
pycassa··on I am Facebook friends with Ryan Lanza
Wow.. speechless..
pycassa··on I am depressed and I need someone to talk to
please don't delete..
pycassa··on Using Outlook.com with your own Web Domain
some one please explain what IMAP support means.. every time someone mentions outlook they mention lack of IMAP as its disadvantage. and also why it is such an important feature?
pycassa··on Most lives are lived by default
you have less than one month..
pycassa··on Facebook Hackathon Finals post-mortem
I know that feel.. keep building awesome stuff.. you will get there eventually :)
pycassa··on Microsoft releases tool for creating Windows 8 apps in the browser
correct me if I am wrong, but I dont think he said anything about the iOS safari and internet explorer on windows phone. More like.. Because of this web version, he went further with windows development than when he tried to start with actual windows phone 8 development on his computer..
pycassa··on What storytelling does to our brains
well, story telling has its place and timing. If all he does is telling stories people. It becomes annoying, unless he is really good at it.
pycassa··on Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"
wow.
pycassa··on Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
I wish J Allard returns..
pycassa··on Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
Can you tell us more about Larsen-Green? Can she deliver?
pycassa··on Scott Forstall leaves Apple
man behind skeuomorphism in apple's ios?

I remember watching him in a keynote showing the piano app on iphone when they announced appstore/iphone. I was blown away by that demo.. those were the days maan..

pycassa··on Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT
they want to fill the microsoft store.. so they wanted to get the rt version first.. and frankly no one will pay attention if any of the OEMs release an RT tablet/laptop.. simply, they wanted a successful RT tablet.. they decided to do it themselves..
pycassa··on F1 Indian GP in real time with Google Maps
can't wait for fia to block this..

on the other hand, although cool, this isn't a new thing.. slapping google maps is a nice touch, i prefer just the circuit.. its much more clear.. i don't have the link right now.. its a bookmarked in another computer.. but as far as i know, it was blocked recently as he's getting the telemetry data without the fia's permission..

pycassa··on The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle
So your first reason is, you wouldn't do it in the ocean? But logically that would be where I start.. and my explanation is that drilling an ocean so to speak is much more easier than drilling actual land. So I have an advantage over you in a way that by the time you reach the depths of oceans on the land I would be further down. Sure it is trickier to operate under ocean and, there are additional costs, but I feel like the above stated benefit is enough of a reason to do it on the base of an ocean.

I too don't know much about drilling.

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