aneesh

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931.
Ask YC: Souping up Ubuntu?
22 points by aneesh 19y ago|25 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
That's where the Economist ends the story, and Slashdot picks it up.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Investing in (great) employees is the best investment you'll ever make. To this day, Google still provides free food to tens of thousands of employees.
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GOOG-411 expands outside of United States(blogs.zdnet.com)
3 points by aneesh 19y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
I couldn't agree more. Needing to scale up is a GOOD problem to have. Many startups don't make it to that stage. Plan for the future (ie have room, and ways to get money for more servers), but don't live in the future (don't grow a serve
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by aneesh 19y ago
Make something people want, and then keep wanting :)
937.
by aneesh 19y ago
Yes, but he's set it up so that he only donates 5% every year. The rest is counted in his net worth.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Once I really get into the code, I couldn't care less what OS I'm on. I care about OS more for general use.
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by aneesh 19y ago
If you haven't done it in 6 years, I don't think you care enough about this particular idea. I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong though :)
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by aneesh 19y ago
Depends on many factors, but here's simplifying greatly: 3-4x is pretty low. A good deal might be 10x, and if you're facebook, you get 100x.
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How To Name Your Company(thinkvitamin.com)
1 points by aneesh 19y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
Oh the irony, it's pretty late at night (depending on which time zone arjunlall is in). But I'd presume most people on News.YC have a late-night schedule. Why should we "learn to live like an early bird" anyway?
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by aneesh 19y ago
Obama ['s campaign] is a 37signals user? I think he might be the coolest politician ever.
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by aneesh 19y ago
It all boils down to this basic principle: a happy employee is a productive employee!
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by aneesh 19y ago
thanks!
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by aneesh 19y ago
The Google chart API is also handy. It'll return a chart in response to a url -- very easy to use. Only drawback is they could theoretically pull the plug at some point. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
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Ask YC: How to get a domain name?
2 points by aneesh 19y ago|4 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
I'm a big fan of the 37signals software. Also Jott; Jott makes me feel productive, which makes me happy.
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by aneesh 19y ago
And Google Reader's feature is quite handy. I end up subscribing to over half of what it suggests.
950.
by aneesh 19y ago
Yeah, definitely worth a read. "Its quite easy to write software that doesn't need to scale." Amen.
951.
by aneesh 19y ago
Yeah, I've just been through the interview cycle as well, and I'd definitely focus on knowing as much as you can about: 1) data structures 2) algorithms 3) big picture: how would you build X? 4) math - be a good puzzle solver. the more
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by aneesh 19y ago
My high school created a separate CS class for girls (girls could be in the "boys" CS class, but not vice-versa). It was a flop by all accounts.
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by aneesh 19y ago
There's a lot of interesting graph theory there. Check out more about kidney matching here: http://blog.sciencenews.org/mathtrek/2007/08/kidney_matchmak... If anyone is really interested in this kind of stuff, shoot me an email. I'm wor
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by aneesh 19y ago
and plus, having started and failed at 5 startups, you learn a lot! your chances for the 6th one will definitely be higher than 10%.
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My 23andMe DNA Results(techcrunch.com)
67 points by aneesh 19y ago|19 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
healthcare is definitely ripe for change. but it is one of the hardest industries to solve problems in. the payment system is so complex, the customers aren't the decision makers, and they're not the payers either. so you have to keep lo
957.
by aneesh 19y ago
but only a small percent of startups succeed. whereas most people with a law degree can be "successful" lawyers.
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by aneesh 19y ago
well, the YC app asks at least 2 of these. so anyone who applies to YC thinks about them! What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get? (how so?) Who are your competitors, and who might become compet
959.
by aneesh 19y ago
Microsoft is actually more B2B than B2C. And yeah, Yahoo! was just making a list of links - hardly a challenging technical problem, but people wanted it.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Maybe some employers might mind (and you don't want to work for them anyway), but users definitely don't care how old the person that wrote the code was. Hack away!

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