dotpavan

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by dotpavan 13y ago
Wall St. protests (mostly small compared to the others you mentioned) did happen.. People do express their dissatisfaction, though it seems to be dwindling with more acceptance of whatever is being thrusted upon them.. Just wondering how co
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by dotpavan 13y ago
if you append ?share=1 to the end of the url, its open again..
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by dotpavan 13y ago
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
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by dotpavan 13y ago
The whole premise of interviewing and opening to the pool of candidates is to evaluate and give every applicant a fair chance after passing a minimum bar. If the whole point was to favor or employ someone (pre-decided or friend), then why t
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by dotpavan 14y ago
Nice advice! One finds 2 paths I guess- to focus on the medium (code, framework, etc) or on the results for a MVP.. once the MVP gets enough traction, then even rewriting the whole app is not bad as long as we know the idea has potential.
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by dotpavan 16y ago
I am surprised to see ww.com in the list there. Unless I missed something in the recent past, wasnt it the webcam based venture he was working on?
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by dotpavan 16y ago
The trend seems to be that the long url is the actual webapp location whereas the contracted one is for the short url (ff.im vs friendfeed, google vs goo.gl)
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by dotpavan 16y ago
If searching in the appstore, "google voice" didnt bring up anything but "googlevoice" worked
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by dotpavan 16y ago
is the sliding back due to the need to do "something to wind down" or to get some buzz. If former, cooking and gardening have proven to be therapeutic to me, if later, then it is addiction. edit- spell
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by dotpavan 17y ago
After reading Siver's post ( http://sivers.org/punish ), this development seemed like a perfect data point (though I am unaware of the extent of threats etc which drove them to take the decision)
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by dotpavan 17y ago
to each his own, but what okcupid might be aiming at is something similar to comments-->leading to blog posts (if I strike a chord with your concise comment at HN, I would be more inclined to check your profile and follow links to say y
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by dotpavan 17y ago
related note: http://code.google.com/p/mail-trends/ provides great insights into our own and the recipients' mailing trends
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by dotpavan 17y ago
True.. I've been seeing something similar by uswaretech whose django posts (found on HN) are informative, showcasing their knowledge/expertise
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by dotpavan 17y ago
airbnb could get some nice coverage if your stay is done via them at some of the places you visit.. will chk your itenary on the new website.
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by dotpavan 17y ago
direct link to Reuters' President's blog post- http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/08/04/why-i-believe-...
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by dotpavan 17y ago
"out in the wild" approach- I had native friends who were more than willing to help me, by correcting my mistakes, and ofcourse making fun of it as well.. and referring to a book whose lines I would use in everyday activities, like buying g
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by dotpavan 17y ago
the 37signals post had one of the comments suggest the same, I chatted with a rep and found no OCR/search (though coming shortly ~summer, supposedly) and no reminder/alert (which would again be tied to the ocr capabilities)..
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Ask HN: Personal Bills Management (hosted) recommendation?
1 points by dotpavan 17y ago|2 comments
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by dotpavan 17y ago
"upgrade eligible" is the keyword.. for gen1 iphone users, the prices, as per the att/iphone website, calculated on the basis of my contract specs was the same as advertised, i.e., 99/199/299 edit: chk price eligibility here- https://buyip
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by dotpavan 17y ago
friday might be better..
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by dotpavan 18y ago
nice idea of converting blurbs/tweets about stuff people talk into a list.. It might be a nice idea if you had some kind of ranking with things that are most talked about on the top.. got the thought from tweetdeck which shows wordclouds wi
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by dotpavan 18y ago
You can- 1) If you initiate a call via browser from GC's site, you have the option of making the number of your choice (your GC or cell/land #) or 2) if you use GrandDialler app on iPhone, it too can make the call with your GC # as the sour
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by dotpavan 18y ago
good one. gist of keynote- dont be afraid to fail, there is lots to learn from it, follow what you genuinely love and use, and do what works for you best there is something so enchanting reading about github, 37signals, etc.. they are fille
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by dotpavan 18y ago
the site didnt seem bad.. all that matters is variety and price (primarily) for the customer (as it isnt a hobby site).. isnt craigslist or ebay bad (not Ajxified etc) as well, aesthetically?
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by dotpavan 18y ago
UNM, surprisingly had to point that NM was part of US! keyword 'Mexico' makes ppl jump to conclusions..
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by dotpavan 18y ago
the post says "However, we do recognize the upheaval and heartache that these changes may have on Google families, and that we may not be able to keep 100% of these exceptional employees." So that is <i>some</i> of the 70 em
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by dotpavan 18y ago
I recently (<1 month) switched to Mac from Debian. As others have suggested, the initial comfort period might be lil difficult to cope with, but it wont feel like a curve. Things are pretty the same (Eclipse, dir structure, shell etc.),