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by aneesh 18y ago
You can always nitpick, but compared to what 99.9% of engineers put at stake when selling a product, putting your finger in the blade is quite the vote of confidence.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Wasn't there a YC startup ClickFacts that was tackling this problem? Anybody know what they are upto?
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://studentbusinesses.com
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by aneesh 18y ago
That's not a normal post -- it's a special job posting only available to YC companies. Comments aren't enabled for those posts.
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by aneesh 18y ago
This is too long to read in one sitting, but it seems like a great overview of many of the problems facing the world today, and what the Gates Foundation is doing about them.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I think this is an interesting idea. I decided to throw together a quick-and-dirty webapp for this purpose, inspired by an HN post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426127 ). I'm taking a little detour & learning Python & Djang
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by aneesh 18y ago
The proper spelling is Gandhi.
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by aneesh 18y ago
The way you might implement these abstract concepts in an application might have changed over the past 3 years, but the concepts themselves are still pretty applicable.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Because (rightly or wrongly), the stores have concluded that the gain from making it so easy to buy something with a credit card is more than the loss they face from the fraud that you describe.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Just don't do what Aleksey Vayner did: http://www.veoh.com/videos/e1336748NgyMqyG
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://exp-platform.com/ is an A/B testing platform used internally at Microsoft that will be made available externally at some point.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Its absolutely drives you nuts because everything, from business information, to server configuration, and even even the interface - menu items, buttons, page layout, links, is stored in the database." There's a good reason for thi
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by aneesh 18y ago
If it's out there, it's fair game. But that said, you have nothing to be ashamed of: it's a nifty little app, and any press is good press.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It takes a couple hours for the DNS to switch over, but overall it's pretty painless.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Namecheap seems to be a popular choice. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=339823 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186369 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561
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Write an airline reservation system for $1(mturk.com)
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "To many, Vista was 99% visual changes and 1% detrimental functional changes. But at least it brought the unwashed masses a calc.exe that had shaded buttons and a translucent title bar! Conversely, a lot of the excitement about Windo
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by aneesh 18y ago
Probably. Amazon's market cap is ~$21b now, which makes sense with "the message I received from the CEO of the $25 billion retailer".
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by aneesh 18y ago
One caveat in A/B tests -- you have to be careful in deciding what metric you use to pick the winner. They used the number of immediate conversions. But maybe they just increased signups of freeloaders who will abandon the account within
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'd recommend getting started in the following order: 1) Familiarity with Unix & shell scripting 2) A scripting language (Python/Ruby/Perl) 3) C If you have more time, learn C++/Java, and a functional language. From a motiva
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by aneesh 18y ago
True. But you're not really "buying" either. You pay this MBA $80K, and he adds a certain amount of value (presumably more than $80K). It's all dividends. There's very little fixed cost (training, a couple weeks to get up to speed) that
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yep, lots of people already do this -- it's called A/B testing.
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by aneesh 18y ago
2. The next version of Excel will be online. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_14 )
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by aneesh 18y ago
Excel is actually a reasonably complete program. That said, I would like to be able to: 1. Build predictive models from data I've entered in Excel. I find myself exporting from Excel into R a lot to satisfy this need. Microsoft partially
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yes, but it's not linear. It looks more like a "step function." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_function ) If you currently use a heater for 1 hour/day at home, and then you turn it up to 2 hours/day, you do need about twice as much en
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by aneesh 18y ago
I think it's just a giant directory of MAC addresses & locations. If you used a wired connection (and disable your wireless), Loki can't find you because it needs to find a nearby wireless access point that it knows the location of. He
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by aneesh 18y ago
Not the same thing. The energy consumed by your home scales (roughly) linearly with usage. The energy consumed by a computer does not scale linearly with the number of http requests -- most of the energy is just to keep the machine up &#38
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, the marginal environmental cost of me doing another Google search is pretty close to zero -- those servers are already running anyway. How many requests/sec per server do you think Google handles? Then we can try to guess how many
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by aneesh 18y ago
Not sure if this is still the case, but McDonalds made more money off real estate than from selling food. Apparently McDonalds franchises don't own the restaurant property they sit on. McDonalds rents it to them -- and that accounts for a
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by aneesh 18y ago
If you succeed, then probably not much. But don't assume success -- desires can change. If you get frustrated with the startup and quit, then all of a sudden you're just a person who hasn't gone to college. Also, the types of places that

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