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by ajju 17y ago
They should be public but are behind a wall. Thus, the quotes.
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by ajju 17y ago
He crawled a bunch (780 Gigs / ~20 million pages) of 'public' court records that were behind some kind of auth (pay) wall via a free trial and opened them up. Likely as a result of this crawling, the free trial was shut down. The pages he c
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by ajju 17y ago
I see. In my experience people who take advantage of other people may gain in the short run but in the long run they always lose. Most people I deal with are not stupid (and I prefer it that way). They can tell when they are being taken adv
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by ajju 17y ago
Are you saying that being business savvy always requires taking advantage of other people?
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by ajju 17y ago
There is a corollary to this which almost runs counter to the author's argument. In my experience, if you work for a startup where you enjoy your work, and the startup gets acquired, chances are your work will start sucking within the year.
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by ajju 17y ago
In cases where the founder has started other companies before or the current company has been around for a while, you can (and should) ask former employees of the company how the founder and the work environment are. This saved me a ton of
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by ajju 17y ago
Yes (as far as I know). My wife got one yesterday and it was for wavesandbox.com. Edit: I was wrong. The new invites are for the production server.
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by ajju 17y ago
These are Sandbox invites. In all likelihood your gmail account will become your wave account and the sandbox accounts may or may not stay alive as developer accounts. Spending money on invites is pointless.
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by ajju 17y ago
I think the author's point is that this is no different from the mark as spam button in email. So basically wave and email are equivalent in terms of being at-risk wrt spam.
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by ajju 17y ago
If you have to accept me as a buddy before I can send you a wave, this will prevent spam but make it harder for wave to replace email. Incidentally, this is also why "solve this turing puzzle before I accept email from you" type of anti-spa
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by ajju 17y ago
True, however, as jgc points out, anyone can run a wave server. A wave server per botnet node would make sending spam waves trivially easy.
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by ajju 17y ago
Thanks!
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by ajju 17y ago
Looking at getting the "minimum required" liability insurance at the moment. Neither of our first two customers want it but the people we are renting office space from do. Any recommendations on providers?
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by ajju 17y ago
Wow. I suppose I have to scale down on my enthusiasm that this will be the first non bureaucratic incubator in India. Freeman, you should reconsider stuff like this. People you have met and qualified as able entrepreneurs, who, in a risk av
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by ajju 17y ago
You should look up Sridhar Vembu's posts on anti-credentialism. In fact he prefers hiring kids out of highschool and teaching them programming rather than hiring engineers (let alone engineers from the IIT). I love the IITs. Of the 5 enligh
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by ajju 17y ago
They are the top brains of India as judged by an entrance examination. The correlation of those test scores to entrepreneurial capabilities is unknown. As an aside, I know of no other school(s) in the world, a majority of whose students cho
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by ajju 17y ago
He is probably wiping sweat off his face on his sleeve. Bangalore and more so, Ahmedabad can get hot and humid.
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by ajju 17y ago
iAccelerator is in Ahmedabad (at least that's what the faq says). 500,000 is enough to lead a comfortable life. It is about 1.5 to 2 times the yearly salary of a fresh C.S. engineering grad in Ahmedabad. But remember this is 500K for a team
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by ajju 17y ago
Freeman Murray seems like a cool guy. iAccelerator doesn't seem to be bureaucratic like the other incubator type things I have seen in India. The best part is iAccelerator is also in my hometown of Ahmedabad. Go iAccelerator, I am rooting f
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by ajju 17y ago
Agreed. Which is why skill based immigration has to be a huge component. Canada does this exceptionally well.
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by ajju 17y ago
The percentage of founders that immigration issues cause problems for is a flawed metric. A very large number of potential founders do not go beyond seriously considering starting a startup once they look into how complicated the immigr
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by ajju 17y ago
Another distinction is that the EB-5 requires that the person desiring a visa personally invest $1M (not raise it from investors). Additionally, in areas where the limit is lowered to 500K, the person still needs to have a personal net wo
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by ajju 17y ago
"Sell them at auction" In which case there are enough millionaires wanting US residency that these will all go to millionaires setting up boutique companies just to get residency. See the EB5 visa.
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by ajju 17y ago
Actually identity is a HUGE problem in India. Each department from the DMV equivalent to the one that provides subsidized food to the poor to the passport office require different forms of identification. Since corruption is frequent and bu
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by ajju 17y ago
They actually argue that piracy (in the context of downloading music) is o.k. It's to hard to believe that they think using anonymity on the Internet to be a predator is o.k.
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by ajju 17y ago
This has to be a joke. iPredator? seriously?
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by ajju 17y ago
Facebook already has a marketplace.
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by ajju 17y ago
It was aimed at students all the way from kindergarten to high school seniors.
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by ajju 17y ago
So then you didn't really mean the talent part of "the reality is that Shotput's starting pool is..shall we say less..talented and motivated" ?
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by ajju 17y ago
What is your basis for assuming a 100% correlation between a person's desire to move to the valley and their level of talent?

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