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by blrgeek 15y ago
Moved from one southern state of India to another about 600 years ago. If you're talking about moving between countries, I'd have to find out when humans moved to India. I did study in the US and then came back, so what does that make me :)
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by blrgeek 15y ago
0. 1st employee. 1.6%. Not much left of the company. Was also taking cut in salary.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Think of the post-PC tablets as replacing TVs/books/browsers/iPods in time spent consuming content. Content consumption devices (aka radio, TV, books, mp3 players) have not had a significant advance in decades. The browser was the first new
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Cache, since site isn't working http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Knowing when the time's right is key - everyone else made shitty stuff, some because the components just weren't ready, some because they didn't know how to make anything better (still true for many MP3 players). 1999 Can we sell this Table
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Taking engine weight into account for automobiles, electric cars have much lighter motors and the extra volume/weight can be used for batteries. Consider 30l fuel capacity = 30kg of battery. Petrol engine is about 300kg, Electric motor abou
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Outsourcing != offshoring. Notice GE GM BT Verizon etc don't have huge IT teams anymore? That's outsourcing. And it certainly worked. For many basic IT services even ofshoring works well enough. Jury is out on offshored product development
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Oversimplifying, Shannon's theorem applies to a single channel between source and destination. Current Wifi uses the same channel for all destinations, since there is no way to spatially separate destinations - thus the signals to different
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Not true - auction buyers have a network effect. More buyers ==> more sellers ==> more buyers. As someone who wants to occasionally buy something 'rare' or second hand, I would go where the most sellers are when I want to find somet
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by blrgeek 15y ago
My experience is consumers join as many daily deal sites as they want to. They are not loyal to one. The only cost of joining one more is an email a day.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
$60MM is non-recurring acquisition expense - capital expenditure is an asset - and therefore not an 'expense' this year. In his intro his statement that there is a problem with 'convertible bonds' refers to this $11MM non-cash interest expe
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by blrgeek 15y ago
I actually found this quite well reasoned and the acronyms are pretty common in any financial analysis. Must read for anyone investing in the market to see how companies cheat! tl;dr If Salesforce(ticker: CRM) is paying execs in stock, it s
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Is it time for you to earn or learn? Mark Suster put it better than I ever could! http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for...
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by blrgeek 16y ago
hackerstreet.in is reasonably active.
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Have you looked at Customer Development? So you have an idea for an app. Customer Development tells you what you need to do to see if the app actually has a market & what the market is worth. Things you need to do - and you can do all t
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by blrgeek 16y ago
8. Drink a glass or two of water just before bed time, so you need to wake up to pee at the right time in the morning :) Calibrate the amount so you don't wake up in the middle of the night.
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Did an MS in CS ;-) MIT OCW http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... First start on the OCW course work. The terminology, basic algos, etc. are an important base to build - so you are able to build on other work, an
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by blrgeek 16y ago
In design and usability, (iOS & Android) >>>> Feature phone. So for most people in the world moving from feature phones to Android is going to be a huge leap forward. The difference between iOS & Android is a roundin
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Would love to see a blog post on how you guys did this. And also some of the other industries your boss mentioned :)
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Some folks I know found that the best time for an email to reach someone's inbox to give it the maximum chance of being read was 8am Tuesday. Then it'd be at the right place in their inbox to get read! Wanting to catch execs for a sales pit
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Please post this as a reply on the blog too! This has much more detail & sense than the original blog post. And even in India, after the Tsunami, the problem was not so much as having aid/materials, as having the transport to get the ma
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by blrgeek 16y ago
There you go then! Just pick one, and start banging away :) http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/Idea+Dump+March+2011+Edition http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/Idea+dump+February+2011+editi... http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/Idea+dump+January+20
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Please read patio11's article again! The nuclear power plant is 160mi from Tokyo. You'd think that there's some difference in the conditions across that distance? When the 2004 tsunami happened in South India, a town on the coast would be d
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by blrgeek 16y ago
You need exercise?
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by blrgeek 16y ago
This is probably Apple having trouble adjusting their world-view. With the iPhone & iPad, Apple might have expected a level of success and market-share equal to the iPod. And without Android, they might well have gotten there! But with
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by blrgeek 16y ago
She could be a 'virtual guide' - http://guide.mygola.com/ I think they pay in US$ too. Not sure if this'll meet her budget req though.
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Been in this situation. Didn't let-go due to emotional reasons. Became much more messy later. Reduced entire team's performance. Still regretting it after two years. We could have used the budget for a better performer! It might help to thi
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by blrgeek 16y ago
That someone thought and made possible this kind of peaceful protest uniting these specific gangs is in itself incredible! The story of the people behind this strike must be fascinating.
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Different wavelengths of IR? Different strobing patterns? But that would be hw changes in the Kinect perhaps.
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by blrgeek 16y ago
6 yrs ago. -8 myopia to 20/20 now. No astigmatism. Rs. 25K two eyes in India, that's 350GBP to you :). Some 'glare' around bright lights at night. But otherwise, the best 25K I spent :)

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