codelust

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by codelust 15y ago
I can completely understand the way you feel, used to feel the same way many moons ago. What changed it for me was to look at it differently: 1. If all products that were ever built were 100% good and successful, we'd be living in a differe
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by codelust 15y ago
Unrelated, but relevant point to the discussion: pay for good long form content. It costs quite a bit to produce it. If you love it, buy it. I have worked almost a decade in the online media industry in my previous life and I don't find thi
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by codelust 15y ago
Of course, they should. It is not whether a company should be profitable or not that is the important question, it is when it should be profitable that is more important. Depending on a variety of factors, companies have runways of differin
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by codelust 15y ago
I think you are mixing up the cases here. The Sibal affair was the one from the government. If you read the linked story you'll find two cases - one civil and another criminal - which are behind the directives by the courts. The government
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by codelust 15y ago
The temptation here to go on a tirade against a party or the government is way too overwhelming (it is a private criminal case), but I would urge everyone to take a different view of this. The laws and the legal system in India are ill-equi
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by codelust 15y ago
Been a customer for a few years and love them. They really know their stuff and are one of the rare shared hosting providers to actually encourage to go and compile things you need. I am surprised to find not many more people using them. Th
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by codelust 15y ago
Strange, recently posted elsewhere on a similar topic. This quitting thing must be catching on and may soon become the in-thing. This month I completed a year of deactivating my FB account. I have signed into Twitter only thrice in the past
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by codelust 15y ago
If ThemeForest uses a split license in the manner you have specified, it falls well within what the Software Freedom Law Center's interpretation of the GPL. Themes get stolen and copied all over the place. I often have a hard time advising
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by codelust 15y ago
There was this famous spat in 2009 when one of the popular themes was being distributed under a different license: http://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/ As long as the themes and plugins are GPL-licensed, it should be fine
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by codelust 15y ago
Absolutely correct there about Facebook being the primary destination to find Facebook friends. Point I am trying to make is that Facebook being open to being indexed by Google also contributes to Google's growth. Searching for most names o
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by codelust 15y ago
I don't agree with the author on many counts, but I wish that everyone who makes the point about Google being threatened by "social networks, targeted searches, non-web searching and information discovery" would elaborate a bit further. Let
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by codelust 15y ago
It is not limited to just creation, we seem to be giving up easily the ability to grasp that not everything is black or white. There was much to admire and like about the man, there was much that was flawed about him. But, for most, it is e
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by codelust 15y ago
This post http://bechalis.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-dont-care-about-e-com... absolutely nails why the e-commerce scenario is different this time from a customer's point of view. Obviously, it is not at a massive scale yet, but you can see th
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by codelust 15y ago
They were one of the earlier ones, but not the earliest. If my memory serves me right, a VPS as a viable option first gained publicity with Johncompanies.com, who were one of the early sponsors on kuro5hin.org following the famous DOS-attac
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by codelust 15y ago
If you are talking about the post here, it was not made by me, so not sure how the title can be edited. I don't see a problem with it, though. I don't think the point is that Indian companies don't get bought in the US.
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by codelust 15y ago
Quite presumptuous is it not to say that nobody is grabbing every little opportunity here? I quit a well-paying job during the downturn to explore this side of life, so, yes, risks are being taken, but that is not my point. I'm not saying w
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by codelust 15y ago
YCombinator works in very mature and evolved market/ecosystem where efficiency and filtering provides a major advantage as there is an oversupply of decent concepts. Thus the money invested itself is only a relatively minor factor, compared
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by codelust 15y ago
Agreed that the market is global and that PG, the team and the philosophy is a major factor. I'm trying to point out the underlying fundamentals, other than the above factors: Supply of quality stat-ups, the size of the investments and mark
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by codelust 15y ago
Lots of programmers need not equate to programmers who can build products. It is a mindset thing. The lower burn rate theory has already been tested with a company called True Sparrow Systems in Pune, who were the building team behind Socia
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by codelust 15y ago
I'm the author of that post, can't recollect many exits from web-based companies in India to companies from outside in India. You could, I guess, point at sosasta.com (acquired by Groupon), but the deal flow certainly is not there.
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by codelust 15y ago
User acquisition will always peak at some stage for most companies (the universe being the total number of people with access to the internet), so the attempt drive more usage is not surprising. I do believe, though, that Twitter has lost i
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by codelust 15y ago
Good presentation by the team on their scaling challenges. They run Django, PostgreSQL. http://ontwik.com/python/disqus-scaling-the-world%E2%80%99s-... Quite impressive that they run ~100 servers to serve about a billion page views in a m
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by codelust 15y ago
Actually, it is essential for Facebook to have its content crawl-able by everyone - which is why there is the constant push towards downplaying privacy. A quick look at Facebook on both Compete and Alexa says that they get ~8% of their refe
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by codelust 15y ago
Spot-on there. Found myself leaning more towards the latter party, so I have started sitting out most of these debates. Disabled my account in Dec 2010 and what I have figured out is that while Facebook is a powerful platform, but it is als
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by codelust 16y ago
Moving from a start-up to bigco: Most important change - you can go from VP/head Engineering (in a 2-man team) to something significantly smaller, especially if you don't have many years of experience. Career credit: Depends entirely on wha
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by codelust 16y ago
Thanks :) I am a convert - from an eternal pessimist to a nouveau-optimist. But, even that does not spare me from being very pessimistic about the eventual fate of Twitter. The company, apparently ( http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-ap
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by codelust 16y ago
The past year and half, Twitter has given me the distinct impression of being the dog that chased a car and actually got the car, now it does not know what to do with the car. For a more reasonable analogy, Twitter is the equivalent of a te
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by codelust 16y ago
I am not sure the Windows precedent applies here. At the height of the reign of Windows the landscape as far as the competition goes was extremely different. To point out one of the many contrasts - Apple did not have the kind of money it h
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by codelust 16y ago
Which of the following scenarios are unlikely? 1. iOS triumphs everything else as the one mobile OS to rule them all. Everything else dies. 2. Android triumphs everything else as the one mobile OS to rule them all. Everything else dies. 3.
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by codelust 16y ago
I'm someone who thinks that Facebook still has massive scale and hype on its side, but will struggle to deliver on the potential it has. But, I don't agree with the 'X is dead' contention - the media and start-up community seems to have emb

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