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by babul 18y ago
For a start I would actually try and do something different from eBay initially just to offer USP/differentiation. However, assuming you want to create an eBay for use in your own site/society/community and competing with eBay is a non-issu
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by babul 18y ago
This will always be an issue unless you use a distributed/mirror/farm architecture with more than one data-centre. Most decent data centres are highly resilient and reliable (i.e. cheap solutions are not always worth the headaches if you ru
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by babul 18y ago
One of the best things about doing any degree is the people you meet and the interactions you have with them. Many a friendship/company/network are born from these relationships and often are beneficial to you throughout life. No matter how
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by babul 18y ago
It also removes many of the initial fixed costs such as dedicated servers, and will actually bring your projections down to lower levels making, in many cases, the proposition more attractive to investors (if that is what you are looking fo
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by babul 18y ago
Most decent hosting providers give detailed breakdowns of their service costs (servers/cpu-slices/bandwith/transfer-rates/limits/etc) so if you are able to approximate your usage levels e.g. by comparison to the patterns of other establishe
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by babul 18y ago
This may be helpful http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209870
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by babul 18y ago
First half-hour too focused on Microsoft/Bill wealth, but Bill is likable about it "in the next year I expect to give away $24BN back to society [i.e. Africa etc]", "money is not important, having a job that is fun ... and you like doing is
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by babul 18y ago
00:27:37 - Fiona Bruce "One of the things that critics say now [2008] is Microsoft is as agressive as a tiny startup fighting for its life" ...Bill Gates "...thats a compliment"
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by babul 18y ago
"Fiona Bruce presents the definitive profile of Bill Gates as he prepares to step down next week from full-time involvement with Microsoft" Microsoft 1hr documentary interview with Bill Gates,
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Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World (iPlayer)(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by babul 18y ago|3 comments
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by babul 18y ago
eBay seems to be its own worst enemy at times. However, their game, their rules.
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by babul 18y ago
For java development I actually like IntelliJ IDEA ( http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ ) more than Eclipse as in many ways it is much more productive and puts the fun back in programming. Its not free, but you get what you pay for.
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by babul 18y ago
Sliders was a good show. Sliding through wormholes and visiting alternate realities.
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by babul 18y ago
Congratulations to danifong and all the others from Mochi who are on HN.
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Mochi Media raises $10 million for Flash-based game ad and analytics platform(venturebeat.com)
7 points by babul 18y ago|1 comments
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by babul 18y ago
"focused too much on sales volume and company size rather than profit" In internet startup especially, I often think too many of us are too focused on growth and monetising "later" rather than slower growth which actually incorporates a rev
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by babul 18y ago
I can't see a reason to use this. I actually like your homepage ( http://www.paraschopra.com ) better and am more likely to visit that on a repeated basis.
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by babul 18y ago
In many ways Microsoft's valuation of facebook is a defensive strategy to stop other suitors buying it/in (now only those with very deep pockets need apply). It highlights Microsoft's well known insecurities regarding the internet and its s
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by babul 18y ago
I agree. Your points are well made. Sorry. Lesson learned (next time won't be so hasty). I'll make efforts to improve signal/noise and quality/quantity ratios :) Lastly, if you/anyone just downmoded the comment I wouldn't know who/why so wo
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by babul 18y ago
I mean in that it can sold on to third parties.
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by babul 18y ago
Did not want to be anonymous in agreement, but felt strongly enough that I wanted to comment and yet did not have time when commenting to go into reasoning (only had a few moments before I had to go elsewhere). Hence, the basic agreement. W
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by babul 18y ago
Although many people use LinkedIN, I don't as there are many things in thier T&C I am not happy with regarding the sharing of my personal information and those in my network.
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by babul 18y ago
hear hear.
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by babul 18y ago
...well you may as well ask why MVC (or MVP or similar) is important. They all share the base reasons, which is the seperation of concerns, which ultimately leads to systems/solutions being easier to develop/maintain/extend/change.
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by babul 18y ago
Tables should really be used for data that requires it e.g. number sets etc., and not for layout. True, using tables for layout in some sites is much simpler than CSS but people who do that usually do so today because they do not know how t
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by babul 18y ago
I like liquid layouts as I like things that make good use of the real estate they have. Liquid layouts also tend to print more correctly i.e. without bits chopped-off or missing.
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by babul 18y ago
The whole reason the movement away from tables began is because complex layouts (nested tables) do not render correctly in different browsers and it does not separate style from content like CSS does. Tables also makes it harder for crawler
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by babul 18y ago
Its good (s)he put this up. It does clarify things, and many people have missed it. For example, I only saw these guidelines for first time 11hrs ago, and I've been here for 39 days.
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by babul 18y ago
Attention to detail is important.
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by babul 18y ago
Another nice one... Experience is the product: http://www.slideshare.net/peterme/experience-is-the-product/

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