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by abhaga 14y ago
They seem to be identifying and banning active bots. I don't think they worry about fake accounts that just sit around and follow others without generating a lot of tweets.
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by abhaga 14y ago
Seems like. From the post: > All I did was change pricing for new customers in the backend and updated the marketing site to reflect the new pricing tiers.
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by abhaga 14y ago
Who are the four people who were originally granted the patent? I tried searching for them but all I got were either patent grants or the news about them suing other companies. I am interested in finding out the technical credentials of the
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by abhaga 14y ago
Did anyone compile the data to check if the premise of the article is even true? Is the percentage of IITians starting their own businesses significantly less as compared to other engineering colleges? Is it less than all undergraduate prog
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by abhaga 14y ago
I went to CMU LTI and they don't have a candidacy exam. As per this link: http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~gsc/phdProgramComparison.htm UTA and UMD don't have one. I checked Univ of Edinburgh and INRIA across the pond and they also don't seem to h
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by abhaga 14y ago
> PhD students have to advance to candidacy, which requires completing a set amount of coursework and passing a qualifying exam This varies from university to university. Some of them do not have the qualifier exams and you are working
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by abhaga 14y ago
Reliance, a big Indian conglomerate, wants to own '.indians', presumably because they own a cricket team called "Mumbai Indians".
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by abhaga 14y ago
PageMaker is for book layout, predecessor to InDesign.
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by abhaga 14y ago
Thank you for taking time to put it on Youtube also! I really liked the website example. Reaching to the right code in the right file gets cumbersome pretty quickly in a project of even medium size!
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by abhaga 14y ago
An iteration with huge improvement. Would you say if Google wouldn't have happened, we would be fine searching on Yahoo, Altavista and Lycos? And webmail would be fine and dandy with Yahoo Mail and Hotmail if there was no Gmail?
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by abhaga 14y ago
I think you have left out the brand advertising, advertising that needs to hit the customer much before he is looking for something and do so repeatedly. That is the segment where Facebook seems to have a clear edge. Google can get into act
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by abhaga 14y ago
You will be hard pressed to find an Indian who believes that we have progressed because of our government or system. The question is how far can we go with the burden of a corrupt system and what happens once we hit that limit.
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by abhaga 14y ago
This. In India and probably in many other countries, a lot of beggars operate under some gangs and most of their income goes to them. Especially true for beggars one sees at the traffic signals. So if you pay them, it is added incentive for
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by abhaga 14y ago
> It's really not the same as giving refunds to a customer. Keeping your customers happy is really important. Reason for giving refunds is because it is the right thing to do. That is what should be the basis of decision. Otherwise you
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by abhaga 14y ago
Aviary ( http://www.aviary.com/ ) comes to mind. For the book production, PressBooks ( http://pressbooks.org/ ) is an attempt to simplify the process and disrupt the CS based tool chain. I am also working on something in the domain. Hoping
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by abhaga 14y ago
A good source of NLP goodness is http://nlpers.blogspot.in/ , written by Hal Daume, a CS prof at UMD. He covers recent NLP conferences and also his own work. Some of it is in the area of domain adaptation which is of interest to anyone try
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by abhaga 14y ago
> BTW, History / Recently Closed Tabs is one of my favorite FF (only) features. Chrome also has the "Recently Closed" list.
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by abhaga 14y ago
Network effect means that the more people use a service, the more useful it becomes. That doesn't seem to be the case here. But there is the built-in marketing aspect since every user must send a lot of people around them to Gumroad in orde
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by abhaga 14y ago
A similar trend is visible in India too. Headgear(type varying by the region) was quiet an essential part of the dressing. There are parts where a lot of men still wear headgear (rural Maharashtra for example). But it is gone from majority
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by abhaga 14y ago
My biggest takeaway from the essay: > So it’s worth thinking really hard about finding the single best distribution channel. When thinking about the distribution, I always think about all the possible things we can do and try to do at l
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by abhaga 14y ago
> When you search on Facebook you only get results that are Facebook pages. Actually, you can get web search results on Facebook through Bing. It is one of the side tabs on the search page. But I can't imagine many people doing that.
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by abhaga 14y ago
> Oh really? How many successful entrepreneurs have you heard of without ideas, just totally empty heads and whole bunch of hustle? This is because we are going about it backwards. A successful entrepreneur obviously became successful b
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by abhaga 14y ago
I don't have a very good answer to that but in India, our education system is certainly a big shareholder. And the job security afforded even at low skill levels due to outsourcing, another.
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by abhaga 14y ago
This is like saying, "Want diamonds? Pay for them!" which, I agree, is an entirely valid statement. But the reason the diamonds/good programmer are so expensive has little to do with their inherent value. It has more to do with lack of supp
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by abhaga 14y ago
I am from India, have a server with them and was not asked for any documentation. May be it is a recent change. Given that you pay for the server in advance, a VPS is essentially zero risk for them. I am also surprised by this requirement.
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by abhaga 14y ago
Some of the announced course are due to start as late as February 2013. Since the academic calenders in most universities are prepared well in advance, they need to sign up the profs much before the actual course date. Announcing the course
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by abhaga 15y ago
> Tools like PageMaker, InDesign or MS Publisher are tools for fliers, notices, and invitations. I have no experience with MS Publisher but the other two are certainly not. They are tools for professional typesetters, have a very steep
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by abhaga 15y ago
> A long time ago I read a very interesting book on business failures. I don't recall the exact title. It was something like "Why good companies fail". That would be "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen.
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by abhaga 15y ago
The argument regarding the VM based languages is not correct. Having a JIT allows you to use dynamic compilation so you can adjust the running code depending on the context. For example you can do heavier optimization for hot code paths. Th
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by abhaga 15y ago
You are right when considering an individual. When you consider a group of people, the probability that all of them saw the vandalized version on Wikipedia site goes down as the number of people increase. With the offline version, it stays

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