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by ajju 18y ago
My own experience with the Kindle (I bought 20 books on it last year) and circumstantial evidence (Kindles being sold out half the time, other people who have actually used a Kindle loving it - although not all of it etc.) gives me reason t
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by ajju 18y ago
Yes, and I would like to have the option of auto-scrolling. Paging, regardless of how well it's designed still requires some interaction. Autoscrolling flows along at a speed you set without you having to interact with the device every few
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by ajju 18y ago
You're wrong. For titles available on the Kindle, more than 10% of sales are now via the Kindle [1] That's significant and about to increase now that content can be accessed on an iPhone. [1] blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2009/
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by ajju 18y ago
Kudos to Amazon for not letting Kindle's success delude them about their real business (selling books) or from doing right by customers yet again.
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by ajju 18y ago
I wish it had auto-scroll like some of the other reading apps on the iPhone which scroll faster when you tilt more and slower when you tilt back.
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by ajju 18y ago
I have been rightly shamed.
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by ajju 18y ago
I am saying that considering the average IQ of a country in deciding how difficult it should be for an individual (from that country) to get a visa would be stupid even if IQ was a good determinant of the value an individual brings to the
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by ajju 18y ago
That's interesting. I don't think many people know this (myself included). Source?
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by ajju 18y ago
I spent 3 months setting up the India operations for the startup I used to work for in 2006. The best part of the experience - Chai (and biscuits) served at my desk. Lunch was served too, but I prefer taking a break for lunch anyway. When y
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by ajju 18y ago
I have now heard of 3 cases of friends who are engineers (with graduate degrees from the U.S.) working at well known US software companies, being held back in India because the US consulate is taking months to do a "background check" after
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by ajju 18y ago
There are High-IQ countries? Must be the water! </sarcasm>
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by ajju 18y ago
The area around Varsity and North Ave consists of GT students, who are a very liberal community or people who are basically just poor. Unfortunately you will find that racism amongst poor people is higher simply on account of ignorance.
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by ajju 18y ago
No. Atlanta is diverse and tolerant by any Standard. I say that having lived in Atlanta, NYC and San Jose. Sure, we don't have as many Asians as either NYC or the bay area, but implying that Atlanta is not tolerant is just plain wrong. I
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by ajju 18y ago
First of all, painting the entire South with a single brush reeks of bias. Atlanta is not racist. I have lived here for 5 years and as an Indian American and I am yet to experience a single experience of racism. This has to be plain luck
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by ajju 18y ago
In Atlanta in particular this is not true. Two of the most successful companies started in Atlanta: CipherTrust and Manhattan Associates (although you may not think of the latter as a startup now) were started by Indians. I personally know
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by ajju 18y ago
The book is not exclusively about the making and selling of Hotmail. It's a collection of short vignettes about Silicon valley in the 90s.
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by ajju 18y ago
The best creations are the ones inventors are making for themselves. I agree with this, and this is something many successful entrepreneurs have said. But here's the dilemma I was pointing out (maybe not so clearly) in my previous comment
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by ajju 18y ago
An entrepreneur who caters to something other than a "customer driven market" is a rare one. And even if an entrepreneur can create a whole new market on their own by innovating, it will soon become customer driven. I am betting on the theo
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by ajju 18y ago
The most promising startup pitched at Atlanta's StartupRiot! Every second of this presentation taught me something :)
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by ajju 18y ago
And books are heavy . I'm in the middle of moving and books are second in weight only to heavy furniture. I do have a lot of them though.
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by ajju 18y ago
Who'll make the machines that automate? If there are a million people sitting on their haunches with nothing to do, don't you think some of them will find something constructive to build and employ the rest? The industrial revolution mass
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by ajju 18y ago
Let's examine your thesis by replacing Google with Microsoft in your third last sentence. Microsoft was massively profitable in the 90s. Why did nobody compete with them? Oh wait, Google did. Why did they not get crushed like a bug? Because
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by ajju 18y ago
Quite to the contrary, after recently becoming interested in history, I have found scans of rare first edition works on Archaeology on the web that no library within 500 miles of me had. The web cannot provide equal weight to old and new st
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by ajju 18y ago
Surround yourself with brilliance, talent, drive and passion in all aspects of your life Well put! As always with surrounding yourself with brilliance, talent, drive and passion, you will find that your life after that will not be easi
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by ajju 18y ago
At the cost of inviting controversy, there is legitimate argument as to whether Gandhi's insistence on the exclusive use of non-violent resistance worked in India's favor. To cite a prominent example, Gandhi suspended India's very successfu
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by ajju 18y ago
Also, this is not a Bollywood song. It is a poem by a 17th/18th century Punjabi Sufi Muslim poet Bulleh Shah performed here by a Punjabi Sikh called "Rabbi" with scenes from Hindu majority India in the background and English subtitles. So m
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by ajju 18y ago
It is astounding how little this liberal face of Islam is known outside of the Indian subcontinent and possibly the educated populace of Iran.
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by ajju 18y ago
Wonder what pg thinks of the article. There are some clear parallels with his "Disconnecting distraction" (although that was more prescriptive and didn't indict technology as...directly). Plus the author mentions the "noprocrast" option on
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by ajju 18y ago
Sharing your location is, at least right now, more of a feature than a product in users minds. If you have a google maps client on your phone already, you'll probably try it. Users probably won't download an app that does just that as readi
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by ajju 18y ago
Except fireeagle doesn't have a client with an install base as large as Google Maps' and is really more of a pipe/aggregator than a client in the first place.

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