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by ajju 17y ago
Well written. Just one more point, the form link seems to have been redacted. Asking customers to fill yet another form is painful. But then topping it off with "The next message we'll be sending out will include when you are getting your W
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by ajju 17y ago
My family lived through the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India which was of similar proportions. Based on their personal experience, the things immediately needed after an earthquake are: 1) Heavy earth moving equipment (to get people out fr
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by ajju 17y ago
Others (on reddit) are interpreting this as flowers on Google's gravestone. A CNN reporter from China tweeted this image and translated the text as "Real Man" http://chinadigitaltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/imag...
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by ajju 17y ago
There are millions of programmers in India. Saying "Don't outsource to India, your project will be late and bug ridden" is like saying "Don't go to America, you'll be attacked by a bear".
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I have heard strong skepticism about official growth (and other) figures from China for a long time from folks in equity trading.
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by ajju 17y ago
Indeed. I once gave a presentation on the absolute futility of trying to time stock markets based on this excellent paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1032962 Given that and my long horizon, it is absolutely stupid,
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Amazon is leading two separate businesses that are growing very fast: online retail and cloud computing. It's sort of like being in the chain store business and the electricity business at an imaginary point in the 20th century when they bo
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What specific assumptions or speculation in this article do you find objectionable?
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So you think people are stupid enough that they cannot decide whether selling their privacy is a good decision, therefore the government should make this decision for them? How about health..we know that people are so stupid that they wil
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by ajju 17y ago
Uh..I don't agree fully with what he is saying here but 'tyrant'? When did Aaron acquire dictatorial powers?
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I think good filters, in search engines and at the users' end will make it really hard for mediocre and bad autogenerated content to ever compete with good hand crafted content. Autogenerated content, for example, will never be able to repl
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by ajju 17y ago
I dispute the generalization that good programmers, whether on H1-B or not, work cheaply. Obviously there are exceptions, some people are just afraid to negotiate. And yes, if you are a SAP code monkey on an H1-B with a degree in constructi
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by ajju 17y ago
If you think there are H1-B's out there rejecting positions by the droves because of low salaries, you are mistaken. Every H1-B visa comes with a few thousand dollars of legal expenses to file the visa, front loaded and then 10-20K more if
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by ajju 17y ago
Does the benefactor have to pay tax on that 5%? If not, this is an amazing deal for the benefactor!
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by ajju 17y ago
It may not be that simple to pull it off. If you are the smaller fish in competition with IBM and IBM offers to do a pitch without charging for it (which they can afford), it's unlikely you would get paid for it. Having some sort of agreeme
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by ajju 17y ago
Co-incidentally a very good friend of mine actually worked on the Faberge project at IBM, I saw a sneak preview about a month ago and it was very well implemented. I have sent him a link to your post. It is unlikely that he will be able to
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by ajju 17y ago
Groupon epitomizes simple, useful and profitable ideas. Sell things and services that are usually sold individually in bulk. Increase volumes for retailers, reduce prices for buyers, profit! I have personally used Groupon thrice in the past
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by ajju 17y ago
"the rich will get richer and poor will remain where they were before you went to india hoping to make a difference" If this were categorically true, capitalism as a system should be considered a failure. Let us say you go back to India and
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by ajju 17y ago
"When an Indian leaves the country to go west, he's made to feel like a traitor for leaving his "motherland"." By whom, exactly? I haven't had a single friend or relative imply that I am a traitor. Yes, many tell me I should come back becau
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by ajju 17y ago
America did not become the country it is because smart, entrepreneurial people from abroad emigrated to America to join its government. It became the country it is because smart, entrepreneurial people emigrated here to shine as entrepreneu
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by ajju 17y ago
This cannot be legal if Twitter had a half decent lawyer write their TOS.
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by ajju 17y ago
Now that I have seen the video and then reread the transcript: Yes, putting up with the slightly rambling nature of the talk was entirely worth it.
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by ajju 17y ago
Tarsnap is the one service which I log on to once in several weeks and go..Wha! How the hell did I spend so little money in all this time? ps. Note to cperciva - Speaking as a customer, please don't take this as a sign that you should rai
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by ajju 17y ago
Does anyone know anyone who works at Zynga? What is your impression of them? A friend has just begun the interview process with them and would like to find out about the culture and the direction of the company. Neither he nor I have any ot
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by ajju 17y ago
It doesn't have to be a boy. There are many poor communities around the world where fully grown men would be thankful for any job.
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by ajju 17y ago
Perhaps Yahoo needed a bit of discipline at the top, but "I wear a tie now" is a really bad example to illustrate "We have learnt from our mistakes".
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The stickers had symbolic value. The fact that you acknowledged my feedback with something more than an automated thank you email was what left a lasting impression. The reddit alien was my first bumper sticker. At some point I thought abou
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by ajju 17y ago
My first warning about this was my "Host down" sensor firing from the monitoring service, almost an hour after they noticed the issue. I really love Linode and my experience with them so far has been great but such a lag in communicating cr
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That's great advice. Thank you!
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I think paulgb has covered what I wanted to say. There are "blogs" and there are blogs. Enabling comments and responding to webcomics shows a willingness to engage the public which I would never have expected from the TSA (based on my past

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