aneesh

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by aneesh 17y ago
Just got back from the YC meetup in Seattle!
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by aneesh 17y ago
At the bottom-center of your Gmail page, there is a link to "turn off buzz".
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Ask HN: Dynamic DNS Hosting
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by aneesh 17y ago
Add Docs to the "bought" list -- that was an acquisition too (of Writely).
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by aneesh 17y ago
Just because you suck at something doesn't mean you should automatically give up. I think it's to Microsoft's credit that they're continuing to go after search. And they're making progress with Bing, albeit very slowly. I don't see anyon
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by aneesh 17y ago
Chill out -- marciovm is a great guy. Regardless of which side you're on, it's a healthy debate to have.
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by aneesh 17y ago
You're right - such massive population interventions (for the better) have little precedent, so there may be some consequences that we're unaware of. But I think you can improve lifestyle in two ways -- increase income like you mentioned, o
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by aneesh 17y ago
You don't mean mutually exclusive. You mean independent. If events A & B are mutually exclusive, it means that if A happens, then B cannot happen, and vice-versa
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by aneesh 17y ago
Annualizing Q1 revenues is probably a bad idea -- Q1 includes the all-important holiday season
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by aneesh 17y ago
Yeah, this is their version of "get 'em while they're young". There's also http://dreamspark.com which gives out free copies of Microsoft's developer tools (Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc) to students.
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by aneesh 17y ago
It would be cool if their script could blackout the participating sites only for visitors from Australia. I wouldn't do this to all my visitors, but I might do it for the small fraction of Aussie visitors.
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by aneesh 17y ago
If you're co-located, a whiteboard does wonders. I haven't seen a webapp that even comes close.
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by aneesh 17y ago
Why is this on Wired? (or HN, for that matter) It is nothing more than a plot summary, copied word-for-word from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots )
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by aneesh 17y ago
"But while these are overt ways to provide advantages for the wealthy, there are far more insidious and subtle methods of skewing the admissions process. Take early admissions. Early admissions account for 35 percent of the incoming class a
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by aneesh 17y ago
I'm working on my cricket blog Against the Spin ( http://againstthespin.com ), trying to apply sabermetric-style analyses to cricket.
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by aneesh 17y ago
What worries me about this technology are the corner cases. If it's 99.9% effective, eliminating the need for manual braking, the 0.1% of the time where it doesn't work, the user won't be ready to brake, which is dangerous.
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by aneesh 17y ago
I've found facebook to be better for interaction with users. I have ~800 Facebook fans, and ~150 twitter followers, and I get much more than 6x the page views/comments/etc from Facebook fans than from Twitter followers. With Twitter, your
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by aneesh 17y ago
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=31&q=python%2... -- In python, "hashes" are called dictionaries
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by aneesh 17y ago
I can access my dental records online. But you're right, that's probably not a common scenario. Since you have some experience in this field, could you imagine this situation changing in the next several years, so that there is a meaningfu
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by aneesh 17y ago
There are positive externalities from the use of EHRs, though. The whole health ecosystem benefits (including patients, other providers, insurers, etc), not just hospitals, so it's misleading to consider the hospital's bottom line as the o
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by aneesh 17y ago
True story I heard from some Amazon engineers. Amazon doesn't (directly) monitor whether their servers are up. They just look at the revenue graph in real-time, and if there's a noticeable dip, something's wrong.
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by aneesh 17y ago
> "The payment was supposed to be wired electronically, but because it needed to be made on an emergency basis on a holiday, Mitsubishi cut a physical check" So, on a holiday, the electronic systems were "closed", but the paper check co
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by aneesh 17y ago
This, while impressive, is not a routine occurrence. It was due to abnormally high winds. Consider the following quotes from the Guardian article: "High winds over the weekend supplied 53% of Spain's electricity" "Experts estimate that by
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by aneesh 17y ago
http://mon.itor.us/ It sends you an email when a site goes down. The free version pings every 20 minutes or so.
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by aneesh 17y ago
I'll probably attend.
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by aneesh 17y ago
> "I didn't expect it to share info when people had declined those events." Just to clarify, does this mean events you replied "No" to, or events where you clicked "Remove from My Events"? If an API call surfaces the the latter, that w
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by aneesh 17y ago
While we're picking nits here, n/2 is not an equation. It's an expression. An equation has an equal sign.
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by aneesh 17y ago
The funniest part is that its not just 43 flights. They're visiting 43 cities, and taking 90 flights!
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by aneesh 17y ago
If you're curious how scores from the two exams compare, here's a table (released by ETS - the folks that run the GRE) that converts GRE scores to GMAT scores, and vice versa: http://www.ets.org/gre/2008/9934/tool.html (Excel Sheet)
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by aneesh 17y ago
My understanding is that usually a significant part of the payout is in stock, which will vest over a couple years.

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