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by aneesh 18y ago
Theoretically, but it's more efficient to let the police filter & route calls appropriately. Trusting 300 million people to manage it themselves can be dangerous -- you'll get both non-emergencies calling 911, and true emergencies afra
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, the under-the-hood tweaks were exactly what made Vista a disaster! So I'm glad they're leaving most of that alone and polishing the UI.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, you know best ;)
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by aneesh 18y ago
He made a lot of sense, except for one point. He said, "if you're not a developer, go out and find one on Elance for $15-20/hr." Sure, this could work out, but the chances of an arrangement leading to a successful startup are pretty low.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's a very nice design. It's been up for about a month now.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, from my anecdotal evidence, most emoticon usage is to describe personal events, not global ones. There's way too much noise in this dataset.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> When Windows 7 comes along, the press will be exactly the same as it was for Vista: Why switch when your programs already work on the old OS? Yeah, but remember, if you didn't switch to Vista, you'll still be running XP (which was rel
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'd be wary of proclaiming this as "the beginning of the end", as the article title seems to imply. There were two things wrong with Vista: 1) issues with 3rd party software & drivers, and 2) steep hardware requirements. The first was
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by aneesh 18y ago
Good suggestion. I'm of age, but don't plan on drinking. If we can get some more hackers & be more inclusive, I think it'd be worth it to try something like a coffee shop instead.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well said. The funny thing is, there's nothing about this argument unique to our generation. Both the WSJ article & Matt's response could've been written at any time in the past, and perhaps at any time in the future. Indeed, the mo
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by aneesh 18y ago
They clearly thought long & hard about whom they were building this for, and it shows. They picked a good problem: helping companies connect better with their customers. Well done!
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by aneesh 18y ago
Not necessarily. Often the best candidates are the ones you have to tempt out of their current position.
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by aneesh 18y ago
A sensationalist overreaction. It seems like she ran out of things to write about. To actually address her point, GMail isn't assuming its users are brainless cabbages, they're merely allowing you to reallocate your time & brainpower t
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by aneesh 18y ago
No one is born with brilliant ideas. A professor of mine once said, "If you don't think you have any good ideas, lower your threshold for what you consider good." Take any idea (even a bad one), and plan out how you'd implement it. Rinse
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by aneesh 18y ago
Just like a multi-touch phone, you can hold the device with one hand, and gesture with the other. What's the big deal?
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by aneesh 18y ago
His involvement in politics is largely limited to the past several years. His main contributions to economics, arguably, have come far before that. He's the author of the foremost textbook on international trade (Krugman+Obstfield), and de
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "I was charging for something that cost me almost nothing" Don't charge based on your (marginal) cost; charge based on the value you are delivering to your customer.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Now why did this take so long to happen?
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's a much more hands-off approach to getting things done, but RescueTime has been awesome. Simply seeing how you actually spend your (computer) time might just be enough to make you more productive.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Point duly taken, but he said "on average". Like you said, there are many more important factors (like your effort, luck, smarts, etc) that affect long term earning. But all else equal , it's probably better to enter the workforce in good
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by aneesh 18y ago
Interesting post, but he seems to stop halfway through -- he never answers the question implied in the title.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's a simple argument, but it's interesting if you extend it to securing personal information in the cloud. The amount you pay a company to store your data (incl per-capita ad revenue they make from you) is effectively a cap on the amount
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by aneesh 18y ago
This is a cool idea. If anyone is interested in building something like this as a side project on weekends, reply here or email me. I've done stuff with data mining/recommendations before.
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by aneesh 18y ago
"The CTO's primary job is to make sure the company's technology strategy serves its business strategy" Best description I've seen. Startups that follow the opposite scenario often die because they're little more than academic labs, and no
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Marc Andreessen (Pmarca) joins eBay Board(forbes.com)
7 points by aneesh 18y ago|1 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
> So how do you decide? By actually trying it. In fact, you could say the whole point of a startup is to run experiments to figure out if an idea makes a viable business.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yes, we got the joke. But suppose in 50 years we come up with a cool technology that is so good it drives cell phone penetration down to 1% (ie young people growing up then never buy cell phones). Then cell phones can make a comeback and
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by aneesh 18y ago
You missed cperciva's point. Any technology that passes 50% penetration can indeed double again if in the future it goes below 50%.
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by aneesh 18y ago
No. My least favorite part of HN is all the meta-debates about karma, downvotes, "is this HN?", etc. Can we just skip all the meta-debates, and focus on interesting hacker news? So what if you have 50 less karma than you think you should?
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by aneesh 18y ago
> You'd be out $25k. Only if JP Morgan Chase goes under.

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