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by achow 11y ago
This. I was in Microsoft, part of an org which pulled in billions of dollars in double digits annually. When doing planning and visioning exercise, time and again we would never focus on scenarios which seemed to be ‘trivial’ (translating t
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by achow 11y ago
I compiled some Q&A from YCombinator partners that were relevant for me. Is this US-only? Nope, welcome to apply from anywhere. But.. Unfortunately we don't have the bandwidth to get involved with visas before or during the progr
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by achow 11y ago
>access to its network which is worth much much more than $12K Very true. But do not forget that this time there would be aspiring candidates from outside USA too. For them $12K would be a huge enabler (Ex.: adjusted for purchasing pow
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by achow 11y ago
For those who are interested in knowing about the working behind this Life Pro Tip - It works because of Google's 'First click free' arrangement with the newspapers. First click free: We've worked with subscription-base
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by achow 11y ago
For some reason accessing the same via Google news shows the full article (does WSJ or other such sites have exception for traffic originating from Google news?): https://www.google.co.in/search?q=India%E2%80%99s+Micromax+C.
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by achow 11y ago
The human angle behind these stories transcends way beyond the business one. Its uncanny how these two founders articulated about the pain in almost the same way as each other: 99Dresses - Nikki Durkin: Many startup folk say that failure s
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by achow 11y ago
Or, China, Hongkong, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Egypt, Israel, & Dubai.
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by achow 11y ago
If you do a really good job, then the first thing Google would try is to acquire you. Google cannot 'engineer away' the loyal user base that you would have by the time you hit 'roaring success'.
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by achow 11y ago
You could be right. But if that is the case then why doesn't the outside pane fog up?
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by achow 11y ago
Agree, the answer to the question was not articulated properly. Right at the beginning they should have said that the hole is for "releasing the moisture from the air gap and stop (most) fog or frost from forming on the window."
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by achow 11y ago
> If you shrank a 777 to the size of a soda can, its skin would be about four times thinner than the average can's. My take.. The difference between inside and outside of soda can is approx 175 (kPa). The difference between insid
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Lolly Wolly Doodle – The Startup That Conquered Facebook Sales(inc.com)
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by achow 11y ago
One crucial difference - in a corporate your superiors may quit, get promoted, transferred, re-orgged. If nothing else there is always skip level manager whom you can take your complaints to. In quite a few progressive corporates I have hea
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by achow 11y ago
That is more remembering things and not for 'quick thinking' per se - OP's goal. There is a very interesting book on the concept of 'Memory Palace' (on which 'artofmemory.com' is based on): Moonwalking wit
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by achow 11y ago
Take up Yoga. My personal experience is I benefited on the points that you have mentioned and then some more. Would sound corny but the best way to describe the experience is like what was shown in the movie 'Limitless' - it was o
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by achow 11y ago
Data makes the move look compelling.. "From Zero users a year ago, currently about 95% of Myntra’s traffic is being channeled through its mobile app. Mobile accounts for 70% of its total revenues.. Of the total time Indians spend on th
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by achow 12y ago
It is too obvious to have been overlooked (Windows Phone for example has this from very early). Could it be to do with that somebody has it patented and Apple doesn't want to license that? Quite often these kind of simple ideas are n