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by aneesh 18y ago
and? Money in WaMu CDs is still there, and insured as long as its less than 100K
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by aneesh 18y ago
Have you seen textmarks.com?
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by aneesh 18y ago
+10 if I could. This is much better than selling to students. I know a couple startups selling to schools, and there are difficulties there too (like actually closing the deal), but if you want to monetize, this strategy is worth a shot.
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by aneesh 18y ago
No, then you're in the content business. And students won't like you for profiting off their work.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yahoo! BOSS launched on July 9, 2008: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html Duck Duck Go's site says it was in development for about a year. If it was indeed built on top of BOSS, the developer must've spent 10 months doing pre
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by aneesh 18y ago
What did you use to implement the SMS service?
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by aneesh 18y ago
If you'd have said "review my app", I would've said it's awesome. Great job. But the moment you call it a startup, I have to ask how you make money. So, how do you plan to make money? Students are poor, and cheap, and I'm not sure ads wo
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yep, these are commonplace in India too. It seems like an easier & cheaper solution. Only thing is the government needs to invest in new lights. Audi got tired of lobbying/waiting, and took things into its own hands.
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by aneesh 18y ago
The Ivy League is an athletic league consisting of private schools in the Northeast. It was created for the purpose of playing sports ! I wish people would stop using the term for other purposes.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Definitely, Paulson knows more about this than Congress. But Paulson has the perspective that comes with being a former Goldman Sachs CEO, so he might (knowingly or unknowingly) be biased towards helping out the banks too much.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Working in Canada != working at a Canadian tech company I'm not sure about facebook, but Microsoft & Google (and others) definitely have offices in Canada.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I don't see any of Google, Microsoft, or Facebook letting technical people go anytime soon, whether you're in the US or Canada. On the flip side, now is a bad time to get a job in investment banking regardless of whether you're in the US o
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by aneesh 18y ago
There will still be a big war chest because: 1) The $40B buyback is over the next 5 years. 2) At least for the next couple years, Windows and Office are still the closest thing in the world to a money printing press.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Matt's right. A "Vista rocks" ad wouldn't be talked about this much. Case in point: see Mojave experiment a month ago -- all Vista, limited success. Even more than fixing Vista's problems, Microsoft needs to get back mindshare & brand
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by aneesh 18y ago
EDIT: It seems the parent deleted its post ... maybe because it had the facts wrong. And what is that "CNN article" based on? Random bloggers of course! Read its second sentence: "Bloggers and online media have suggested that the Redmond
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by aneesh 18y ago
If this is his personal blog, I don't see what's wrong with that. Paul Graham can promote YC in his essays, so why can't Brin promote something he believes in on his personal blog.
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by aneesh 18y ago
If it were successful, it would be (a substitute). I disagree with that definition of success. OCW is very successful -- its goal is fundamentally different from the degree-granting part of MIT. Success for OCW means that everyone who w
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by aneesh 18y ago
They've also innovated in logistics. You can get Coke in places where there's no running water. They way I see it, Coke's goal is: 1) to make you want a Coke whenever you're thirsty (that's the marketing), and 2) to make it very easy for
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by aneesh 18y ago
I think you're missing the point. Of course being able to ask questions would make a much bigger impact. That's why people go to school. This is not meant to replace that. > "This isn't all that much different from a textbook, is it?
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by aneesh 18y ago
It depends. I don't think anyone sees OCW as a substitute for going to school at MIT. I'd also argue that universities serve other roles beyond education. Universities are gatekeepers, and your degree has signaling value that free online
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'd say yes. Traditional universities are the best equipped to make this curriculum freely available, and the web is making it easier and easier to do so. As a side note, I think Omnisio would be fantastic as a way for students to annot
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by aneesh 18y ago
I bet you THIS is why GOOG-411 was launched. I was waiting for an announcement like this.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Where "lots of options" means advertising in different forms. Sure they can make some money from subscriptions, but Twitter is not a $50/month or even $50/year service in my opinion.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "The only issue I have with the whole thing is I wish he would do it, not ask others to solve his problems for him" Why do you have an issue with this? Isn't the whole point of a company to solve its customers' problems for them??
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by aneesh 18y ago
Seems very cool, but the 92% of us that aren't Mac users can't really try it yet. (ok, the Mac % is probably higher on HN, but still ...)
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by aneesh 18y ago
He didn't dismiss a product because it was pretty. He dismissed the people who buy products solely because they were pretty.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Or budget web-hosting today.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yes, PLoS is a huge step forward for science, and I hope other journals also adopt free access. But they still charge a hefty fee to the author for publishing.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I wish more people would do this math before launching a startup than plans to monetize via advertising. It's just a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation, but I'm surprised at the number of startups that naively think they'll get rich wi
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable." So is the idea that Fortune 500 companies would let data like this be in the cloud.

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