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by babul 18y ago
It is fantastic to see a programming community venture between Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood take off. I am so looking forward to this and my expectation is already very high which is amazing considering there is no hype (yet).
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by babul 18y ago
If you are good, but play in the wrong types of playgrounds, it can be... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2473691/Computer-hack... ...life without parole, even!
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by babul 18y ago
From what I have seen... Client business: * Often end up with 100 projects doing 1 unit of work. * Often repetitive (new client, but same old ecommerce/CMS site). * Often low progression in adopting new tech as most clients usually go for s
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by babul 18y ago
Competitions. Prize can often be trivial/small, but competitions that are fun and involve the userbase often get great response in my experience.
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by babul 18y ago
In general, I think it is better to write your story and ask, than ask then write your story ...unless you want to build anticipation. I am sure most people here would be very interested to know more and well written, objective, thoughtfu
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by babul 18y ago
The Silicon Valley ecosystem is too well established? (...even people from the other side of the planet are looking to Silicon Valley if they are into tech and coming to America).
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Give again for more chances to win(whatisleft.org)
2 points by babul 18y ago|0 comments
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by babul 18y ago
I still think reason stories like this make the papers is because they are so rare. Yes, it sounds easy, and get rich quick, but the graveyard is full others not so fortunate. Turning any business around effectively still requires skill and
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by babul 18y ago
Or was Zenter faster?
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by babul 18y ago
Is this the fastest liquidity event for a YC company? Well done all at Omnisio!
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by babul 18y ago
Perhaps a feature like facial merging (a la http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=260642 ) of the couple to show potential cuteness/ugliness of babies is something to consider. The crowd then chooses couples, and votes on results, and hence
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Amazon Outsources Its Checkout Cart(techcrunch.com)
1 points by babul 18y ago|0 comments
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Media face web censorship at Beijing Olympics(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by babul 18y ago|0 comments
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by babul 18y ago
about thesixtyone.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153856
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by babul 18y ago
Productivity and time management tools seem to be a popular topic, so I've added one of my favourites. Explanation: http://davidseah.com/blog/the-printable-ceo-iii-emergent-tas... More Resources: http://davidseah.com/blog/guide_productiv
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by babul 18y ago
So, in summary, don't talk to people or look at things you don't have to and focus on the task at hand?
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by babul 18y ago
Google has had a lot of time and resource to index your content. So it is not a fair compariosn yet. Give Cuil time to develop/index and then see the results. On a side note, Cuil takes forever to load compared to Google, and search results
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by babul 18y ago
This question occurs often and the short answer to finding the talent/co-founder you want is to go to the watering holes they frequent i.e. conventions, events, meetups. Network, get known, know people, find a compatible match. Also http:/
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by babul 18y ago
Too many envious eyes? ...people often think an idea sucks until they see how much money it makes, then suddenly it looks good and the competitors begin to mushroom up. Hence, sometimes it is not good to give out too much information?
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by babul 18y ago
It's really cool to build a community around your product and even cooler that they build things for you e.g. plugins. Just goes to show if you make things people want, they will make things you want too. :)
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Sun dropping out of OpenOffice.org development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing(derstandard.at)
2 points by babul 18y ago|0 comments
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by babul 18y ago
The article seems to boil down to timeframe and the idea VCs want to make money now. (nothing new there) If you really are passionate about and believe in what you are doing, you'll do it anyway even if the market/segment is "small". Small
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by babul 18y ago
Plus you will find many other typical problems with remote and distributed teams (cross-communication, misunderstanding, less bouncing of ideas, bonding, agility/speed of change, etc.) to be other big bottlenecks once/if things get moving.
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by babul 18y ago
With "zillions" of users they will find a way to make money eventually. It is a pattern used by many others (both online and offline) and it is easier to create leverage once you have a large established userbase (especially if you are able
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by babul 18y ago
It is greed that will become the downfall of Google as they comprise many aspects of their service to generate revenue. Honesty, integrity, reliability, trust, et al, are values they should not compromise to push their products. We know "do
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Domain Names, New and Old - Everybody Sells(sevenmile.com)
2 points by babul 18y ago|0 comments
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by babul 18y ago
In many countries, such as India, there is actually a rise in women in Computer Science, probably more to do with the fact that in most cases they start off on an equal footing to boys in terms of exposure to computers pre-college and secon
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by babul 18y ago
"Rock Star" in a job ad should only be used for Rock band auditions.
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by babul 18y ago
But is there correlation to creativity, productivity, and creative environments like this. I can (and have) see people getting very distracted with all the funtertainment around. Without wanting to be a joykill, it really only works where y
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YSlow Shootout: Social News Sites(hostscope.com)
15 points by babul 18y ago|0 comments

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