ChaitanyaSai

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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
I don't think they need to game the system. The lukewarm or negative reviews on RottenTomatoes are being bombarded with genuine fanboy vitriol. (Many of the commenters, at least on the first page of comments, have joining dates that suggest
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
That was a superb read. Thanks. Given my lack of more-than-basic economic knowledge, I find most economic analysis of the current predicament rather impenetrable. This one paints a rather distressing picture of a long-term slide that had it
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
Creating their own virtual worlds gives them access to their own real (virtual) estate that they can plaster with ads. Avatar based chats are probably better than existing text-in-a-window ones for multi-person conversations because of the
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Do think like a marketer: Fairness, idealism and other atrocities(latimes.com)
4 points by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago|0 comments
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
Pools of brainpower directed towards any task imply centralized planning. The market's probably better at pricing what must be done. P.J. O'Rourke has put this in more memorable words. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-orourke4-2
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
It might be better to hear the same advice unpacked by someone who has been through this as a teen. 'Everyone's the same' I think most introverts assume that, but at a more cognitive level . However, these calm, analytical thoughts are swam
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What movie posters tell us: A clustering analysis(discerniblepreferences.com)
1 points by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago|0 comments
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
That it is a good product and appeals to many goes without saying no matter who the investor is. Presumably, every investor is behind a product because he/she sees some merit.
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
This is a bit tangential: Every start-up that YC funds is potentially worth an essay. Isn't that why they are funded? They solve a problem that nags many. So I am not surprised to see Rescue Time linked in there (The title itself is a sure
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
As others have mentioned here, you definitely should add a visible email address in your profile. You are understandably hesitant about starting django from scratch. There's nothing to fear and you can pick it up. Most importantly, outsourc
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by ChaitanyaSai 18y ago
Clotaire Rapaille's (he is mentioned in the article) book "The Culture Code" is a pretty insightful read. It is hard to come up with a gist of what is in there, but if I were to attempt summarizing it, I would say that the thesis is that c
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
The title is misleading. The 17 month period is an extension you qualify for ONLY if you have already filed for an H-1B. This means you must already have gotten enough funding to prove that your cash inflow can sustain your salary. You can
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Dan Ariely, the researcher behind this, has done a lot of seriously cool work on human behavior (People call it behavioral economics, which makes it sound rather academic or wonkish). http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/chapters.shtml This
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
You are right. I don't mean to say they run the risk of bankruptcy. The amounts invested are only in the millions here (seed companies). However, the rationale that led a lot of risk assessors to view the bundling and securitization proces
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Will proliferating seed companies start looking like micro sub-prime mortgage traders? They operate on the similar assumptions: pooling small, high-risk investments hoping that these individual bets are unrelated, thus driving down the vari
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Articles of this kind always confuse me. Is the thesis that the US is now an unfavorable destination for money? Putting aside currency and liquidity flows, which also confuse me, how about talking about economic activity as a barter system
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Revealing the thought process as he did does allow me to draw conclusions about his general predictive success. My definition for a futurist is someone who is a standard deviation better or reasoned in his/her predictions than the median. L
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Research's always going to throw up some cautionary tales that the author will add as a caveat to not come across as a complete fool. Here are some of the claims he has made: http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554 There's a specific claim here
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
He needs one of those nourishment pouches that adorn marathon runners. His will have Ritalin. Also, listen to him and pay no heed to his ideas about the future; he wrote a book about why the internet was going to be a dismal failure.
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Using the Goldbach Conjecture makes it easier.
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
This is what I came away with after working on the Netflix dataset. Incentives, not perceptions, are what need to be changed for realizing better recommendation engines (or collaborative filtering algorithms; whatever you call them). Negat
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
The last bout of irrational exuberance gave us a lot of dark fiber and that obviously had positive effects. However, unsavory elements (porn) and respectable ones (news.yc ? :)) can coexist in peace because of the impermeable barriers of bi
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
What about a futures market that offers non-voting shares in startups (or Vegas-style wagers)? Startups relevant to the traded instruments can accrue some percentage of the option price. This gives you predictive power and funding. There mu
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
I wonder if trolls can be categorized automatically. Caveats and all, trolls are characterized by their participation in negative-karma two-person conversations and down-voting of their comments by a diverse and changing set of users. A si
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
It doesn't have much to do with hacker personalities. Unless you want to argue that Youtube denizens are hackers of some sort too.
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A guide to the ways of rich, white customers(stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com)
4 points by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago|0 comments
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Have you ever known, or heard of, anyone who has cried in wonderment at a demo? Even as an exaggerated emotion signifier, that expression is uggh. Scobleizer is the anti-lolchrist. He just inspired me to make that word up.
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Some seemingly minor issues make me wonder how bad a situation Yahoo is in. Google has integrated their messenger into chat well enough that you can search through chats, grouped separately, as well as send messages of either kind to people
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by ChaitanyaSai 19y ago
Fair warning to those who modded this up: These submissions are Y-combinator tests in disguise. Anyone voting for submissions from this classified pile, categorized as the-dumb-trap, is secretly disqualified from applying to the startup sch