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stumbled upon (not that StumpleUpon) what seems to be a bucket test of the new Yahoo! Search interface over the weekend, while doing random searching about things.
Yahoo! Search and Google Search user interfaces have been identical for years (you know who copied whom ) and neither has been willing to adapt the UI […]

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checked out this amazing story on the blog Things you don’t see every day., which i totally love.
it reinforced my long-standing belief that there is really no reason to frown for anything in life., because no event, whatsoever is a disaster.
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it was a rare occasion that wife i get to watch tv together, so when we were glued to india batting in the t20 game against england last night, i was thinking this is special. and special it turned out to be!

First six - i was thinking, it’s about time they started swinging the bats.
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check out netflix vacation policy on their jobs site:
For example, our vacation policy for salaried employees is “take some” - there is no limit on vacation as long you get your work done. Similarly, our travel expense policy is “travel as you would on your own nickel.”
sweet. no wonder their product is top-notch (if you […]

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i am seeing large foreign m & a transactions pretty much on daily basis, mostly under $200M range. though not limited to IT companies, the software majors are participating in the trend in a huge way. check out the economic times article on what’s fueling the acquisitions.
“One way to look at the rupee impact is […]

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