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by ashu 19y ago
ironically, that thought exercise is necessary in order to make it full-proof (and fool-proof ;)
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by ashu 19y ago
To me, the problem is not that they are taking my gmail password, but that they show me this tricky "spam your friends" screen before I am even ready to know wtf this new service is! Regarding the sites getting my Gmail/Yahoo passwords, I
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by ashu 19y ago
heh, that is funny!
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by ashu 19y ago
isn't getting dates supposed to be _the_ reason for facebook's existence? :P
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by ashu 19y ago
you are right. nobody _should_ care. but anything involving facebook is news. pointless sensationalization.
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by ashu 19y ago
i agree with you to an extent, but one part of me says that if somebody really has the guts, (s)he can just go ahead, and do such a good job of it that google _has_ to acquire it. clearly, it's something a lot of people need.
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by ashu 19y ago
This is of relevance: Haifeng Yu, Michael Kaminsky, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Abraham Flaxman, "SybilGuard: Defending Against Sybil Attacks via Social Networks." Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Conference , September 2006 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~
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by ashu 19y ago
I just don't understand why some of these guys are so hell bent on disparaging YC. Whether YC is right or not, time will tell and it's YC that has to worry about it. But, what do _these other people_ gain out of it?
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by ashu 19y ago
not many, i would think... a lot of facebook's usage is driven by the need to have "public" communication - like the Wall, for example.
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by ashu 19y ago
Daniel: We really need to revisit the legalese, We already got rid of a couple minor clauses in there. But, it's just that lawyers are very conservative naturally, and development effort foreshadowed going over the terms very carefully. We
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by ashu 19y ago
oh i absolutely love this app. fantastically well executed. i had implemented a version of this - nowhere close to as pretty - for our internal use at CMU (our group still actively uses it), but i am going to switch now. please, please al
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Buxfer + Amazon = Transfer money online (Free till Aug 31) (buxfer.com)
31 points by ashu 19y ago|6 comments
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by ashu 19y ago
this is a huge troll and everybody is just feeding it. edit: including me, duh!
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The command line is back! (features Buxfer)(lifehacker.com)
4 points by ashu 19y ago|0 comments
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by ashu 19y ago
i think it would be interesting to see how much of it is dependent on content _columns_ being thin vs. the entire site being thin.
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by ashu 19y ago
Depends on what you mean by a major company. Does a startup acquired by Cisco qualify? Or Intel? Or Yahoo, even, in some cases? I know of a few small acquisitions Google has made where they purchased the research technology and not the foun
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by ashu 19y ago
PG, hats off to you. This is exactly the attitude I wish I had while I was doing research, even though the "must-produce-papers" part of academia teaches you otherwise. That's how you can produce useful stuff, anyway.
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by ashu 19y ago
I bet most people aren't thinking about eigenvectors when they are looking at Google's search results. The user does not (and should not be made to) care about sophisticated algorithms; only utility counts (in business, of course, not in re
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by ashu 19y ago
Fantastic!! Congrats, guys...
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by ashu 19y ago
Look at what Pandora has done. I think each of their ads looks phenomenal. I sometimes keep staring (and end up clicking!) at the ads just because they are so beautifully integrated with the site.
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by ashu 19y ago
fantastic hack!
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by ashu 19y ago
http://www.nickle.org/ Keith Packard has been working on it for a while...
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by ashu 19y ago
thanks for your comments! we will make what goes in the news-feed completely controllable by the users, as soon as possible. we don't reveal any other transaction details in the feed entry of course, but even what we do currently maybe too
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Buxfer facebook app released - comments welcome!(apps.facebook.com)
8 points by ashu 19y ago|2 comments
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by ashu 19y ago
you could be in acquisition talks not because you wanted to get acquired but because the acquirer approached you first and wanted to acquire you.
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by ashu 19y ago
quick impression: font letter spacing is a bit too much.
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by ashu 19y ago
those are two different things because the interests and constraints of your spouse will be quite different from those of your investors or consumers.
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by ashu 19y ago
Way to go, guys. Brilliant!
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by ashu 19y ago
"They may not like it, but part of being a successful entrepreneur is doing stuff you don't like for the good of your company." Very well said!
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by ashu 19y ago
Like all things, Facebook is not a solution for everything. Look at it as a marketing and exposure medium at best, and anything else you gain (users) is just a bonus.

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