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by ajju 16y ago
Have you tried asking them why they are leaving? If you try to make it clear that you are seeking honest feedback (and not just asking as a formality, or with preconceptions), I suspect they will tell you.
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by ajju 16y ago
The irony is, I think they are hurting women by arguing that just because YC requires moving to the valley, it is wrong for women. Obviously moving is a burden on anyone who has a family and I am one of those people. It is likely, given tha
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by ajju 16y ago
It shifts the focus away from your argument. Think of the debate in the comments at YC as a debate at your University and of PG's thumb rule: Would you say this to the person on their face in that setting?
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by ajju 16y ago
Would you please try to keep the conversation here civil? The use of profanity eclipses the merit in your argument.
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by ajju 16y ago
Regardless of the amount, I have a philosophical problem with an incubator that compares itself to an angel fund / investor and then charges a cash fee for participation. You can do one or the other, but not both. The difference between Y
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by ajju 16y ago
From what I understand, he admitted he did. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/08/google-executive-wael-gho...
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by ajju 16y ago
Once he was arrested, I assume it made a lot of sense both for him and his family/friends to 'out' him(self) as a senior executive at Google. This may have even saved his life. This assumes the Egyptian police hadn't already found out his i
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by ajju 16y ago
I have a lot of respect for Google and perhaps I am just misunderstanding your point. Are you trying to say "People brave enough to face battalions of armed police while protesting against a totalitarian regime are very common in Google"? I
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by ajju 16y ago
Along similar lines, a friend of mine built a life map a few years ago: http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2010/11/15/lifem...
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by ajju 16y ago
Great post. The reference to Alfie Kohn is worth following up on. His book "Punished by Rewards" changed my world view about what motivates people.
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by ajju 16y ago
The documentation suggests basic admin things like transferring numbers to subaccounts require an API call. It would be nice to be able to do this using Twilio's web interface.
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by ajju 16y ago
Ha! So the lottery is paying for everything but education.
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by ajju 16y ago
It is disappointing that Startup Visa did not even get a mention, despite Brad Feld being on the panel.
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by ajju 16y ago
A while back as I was pondering whether to change my job or start my startup, I got a call from a Google recruiter looking for QA folks. I had just spent 2 years working for a very large software company as a research engineer after the sta
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by ajju 16y ago
Seriously, the lack of a flat fee model is the main thing that has kept me away from AWS.
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by ajju 16y ago
1) Often the perception that code quality is so bad that a rewrite is needed stems at least in part from the "not built by me/us" syndrome (related to the "not built here" syndrome). Developers tend to overestimate their ability to write go
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by ajju 16y ago
> traveling for business almost never generates more revenues This is not true at all. If you are selling expensive software to enterprises (or organizations of any kind), the only effective way to do it is to travel to their office and
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by ajju 16y ago
At the risk of sounding like a marketing guy for TopProspect.com (I don't work for them, own any stock etc.), they solve this problem too. You get paid what a head hunter would be paid for recommending a friend who gets hired.
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by ajju 16y ago
There is a startup that is doing this www.topprospect.com
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by ajju 16y ago
I think this lays bare the difference between a "LinkedIn recommendation" and an in person recommendation. I have only hired though recommendations from great employees so far (and never regretted it). But I always ask people multiple quest
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by ajju 16y ago
The story's "Everybody says Twitter played a huge role, but really Facebook's role was bigger" angle suggests that Facebook PR played a big role in pushing this one. This is not to take away from the truthfulness of the story or the awesome
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by ajju 16y ago
Thank you, we have only raised funding from Georgia Tech's incubator so we are seed stage. I am a python hacker and since our part time marketing guy just left I have the temporary privilege of claiming that every person at RideCell is a py
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by ajju 16y ago
I am the founder of a purely Python based startup. We will be attending Pycon and most likely Startup Riot as well. Is there a way for us to apply to be part of Startup Row?
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by ajju 16y ago
Maybe I could have been more clear. I was asking for a detailed description of what he saw, not a screenshot.
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by ajju 16y ago
Are you serious? Got an example?
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by ajju 16y ago
Warren Buffet's cash flows are from blue chip insurance companies. If the allegations in the article are true, the cash flows mentioned are far more ephemeral and far less reputable.
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by ajju 16y ago
Have a simple graph on the profile page showing how many minutes the user spent on HN each day in the past week and/or a number on the top panel showing minutes spent on HN over last 24 hours. I find that just measuring something is a far m
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by ajju 16y ago
I live in the Southern U.S. (Atlanta) and what I love the most about this place is how courteous people are. If I was walking towards a door and someone was there first, it would be uncommon for them not to hold it open, genders notwithst
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by ajju 16y ago
Your comment provided interesting historical context, but I'd be more inclined to consider Mr. Naggum's arguments if he didn't send out another email shortly thereafter calling pg names like 'cretin', "lowlives who could not program in Ada
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by ajju 16y ago
>How is the system able to decode it then? _Something_ out there has to know how to translate that back into a readable string right? Wrong. Password hashes are meant to be one-way and chosen specifically so that getting plaintext (read

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