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by bigbang 15y ago
"the talent market in Silicon Valley is so hot right now, the only folks staying at Yahoo are the ones who have stopped caring" Or people who can't leave because of immigration reasons(such as a pending green card).
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by bigbang 15y ago
I believe they had 20,000 employees few years back. Now it should be much more, if not twice that.
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by bigbang 16y ago
Great. I think #2 though deceivingly simlple, works like a charm.
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Ask HN How to save time?
6 points by bigbang 16y ago|8 comments
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by bigbang 16y ago
Cool. Could you give more details? Not about the particular site(though that helps), but how do you sell sites often? Do you sell it in places like flippa?
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by bigbang 16y ago
Did the bill pass already? The article is not clear atleast to me, since it mentions "draft of the bill".
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by bigbang 16y ago
There are 2 companies which Yahoo! acquired: 1) Overture. If you look at the financial reports, nearly 50% of Yahoo's revenue is from search. They acquired Overture for ~1B 2) They acquired RocketMail (essentially Yahoo! mail). Most people
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by bigbang 16y ago
Converting the phone number to hex and then storing them as character bytes as opposed to long integers, might save even more space on disk at the cost of hex-decimal conversion :)
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by bigbang 16y ago
Thats an excellent idea. A startup could be made out of that. Sort of "private" stock market open to public? I'm sure this has already come up, but why can't there be a private unregulated "stock market", just as individual lending(as oppos
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by bigbang 16y ago
Right now 4702 liked this article on Facebook. Touche.
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by bigbang 16y ago
These days, when most of the founders are willing to cash out at an early exit, it doesn't make much sense economically to work in a startup(unless you are part of founding team with good equity). Ofcourse, work at a startup will be definit
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by bigbang 16y ago
Bing had search result preview window much before Google.
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by bigbang 16y ago
It saddens me to read stories like this(maybe I'm just jealous). There are lot of entrepreneurs that make sacrifices to make a much better product who would probably love to sell off for a fraction of the amount, yet they fail. Someone with
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by bigbang 16y ago
Some questions have more than one answers right and all answers have to be marked to get credit =)
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by bigbang 16y ago
Just to point out - "Please note that in general preference will be given to existing community contributors."
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How great leaders inspire action (video)(youtube.com)
2 points by bigbang 16y ago|0 comments
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by bigbang 16y ago
I switched my homepage to Workflowy when I saw it first here on HN and it has been a great boost to my productivity since. Maybe nothing specific to Workflowy itself, but just the fact of having a todo list as homepage.
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by bigbang 16y ago
Sorry to digress, but does an MBA in any way make the senior engineer to a management role go faster, in a software company?
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by bigbang 16y ago
Congrats Paul. Great news for startups in general.
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by bigbang 16y ago
One of the most beautiful apps I've seen. Wish I had owned an ipad.
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by bigbang 16y ago
"Mr. Schmidt wrote that company surveys indicate salary is more important to Google employees than any other component of pay, such as bonuses or equity. He added the company was moving a portion of employees' bonuses into their base salari
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by bigbang 16y ago
I liked one of the comments, there : "Now shut up and get back in your cubicle." No, thanks. I'll keep dreaming.
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by bigbang 16y ago
~10 glasses of water/day . ~2 coffee/day. 0.5 Redbull/day.
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by bigbang 16y ago
I pay 800$ for a single bed apt(~600-700 sq.ft) in Sunnyvale. Apartments which don't have gated community,pools,gym etc are cheaper. I realized I never used those anyway, so I moved to an apt which have none of these(but has covered parking
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by bigbang 16y ago
Cool. How do you find the related topics to a given topic? What api do you use for that? Google suggestions?
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by bigbang 16y ago
Here is an old blog post (not sure how accurate it is), but it has info on some other companies as well, http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator... Heres the summary according to the post, * YC S05 - 1 Active /3
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Video on Steve Jobs personality(bloomberg.com)
103 points by bigbang 16y ago|28 comments
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by bigbang 16y ago
An accurate title should be : "AOL Inc. and several private-equity firms are exploring making an offer to buy Yahoo Inc."
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by bigbang 16y ago
Maybe working at Google is better than Yahoo!, but both companies are notorious for killing acquired startups. Its hard for me to see any reason for the Yelp management team to take the Google offer when Yahoo! offer was almost 40% more. I
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by bigbang 17y ago
guest@xkcd:/$ top It's up there --^ guest@xkcd:/$ nano Seriously? Why don't you just use Notepad.exe? Or MS Paint? guest@xkcd:/$ vi You should really use emacs. guest@xkcd:/$ go down On our first date? guest@xkcd:/$

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