hsuresh

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by hsuresh 10y ago
> Do you have an accent? Google's voice recognition works extremely well, at least with certain accents. I'm from India, and it gets me right almost always. Not just that, it recognizes some ridiculously hard to pronounce names
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Steven Sinofsky on Building Your Product Team(blog.mixpanel.com)
3 points by hsuresh 10y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 11y ago
> That's what bothers me about this movement: it should be about giving poor people free access to the Net (which would just render Facebook's toy platform irrelevant - no need to ban it). You are assuming that Free Basics is t
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by hsuresh 11y ago
My guess is that India will likely leapfrog from cash to mobile payments - so in the long run that shouldn't pose as much of a problem to Amazon or any other vendor. There is already a lot of startups and established companies offering
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The Two Adams – Road to Character(gatesnotes.com)
1 points by hsuresh 11y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 11y ago
Nope, it was in the afternoon, between popular kids shows.
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by hsuresh 11y ago
I am new here in US, and I was shocked to see ads for sleeping pills on kids channels (Cartoon Network, iirc). Unbelievable.
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by hsuresh 11y ago
I agree. It looks like most interviews are aimed at finding "defects" in people - why they would not be a fit, than looking for reasons what the candidate can bring to the company/team if they were to join.
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by hsuresh 11y ago
I'll put it out early next week. It is a very basic rails app at the moment, and to avoid running background tasks, the endpoint exposed is a blocking controller. Email if you want me to notify you.
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What to Make of Amazon's Work Practices(bothsidesofthetable.com)
4 points by hsuresh 11y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 11y ago
Well, retail stores bring people to the store looking to buy things. App stores (not just Apple's) are mostly mandated by Apple/Google/Amazon. They do provide some value (trust, for the apps), but 30% seems quite high for tha
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by hsuresh 11y ago
I used to think VR was mostly for gaming, but with this, and expeditions that they demoed, I'm starting to get really excited about VR apps for the masses.
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A quick intro on creating good on-boarding emails(nudgespot.com)
1 points by hsuresh 11y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 12y ago
As much as i like technology adoption to go up, i am not sure if progress is really about replacing humans from jobs. I am not yet convinced that people don't need jobs. Besides, technology progress can happen much faster than change i
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The gig economy won't last because it's being sued to death(fastcompany.com)
2 points by hsuresh 12y ago|1 comments
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by hsuresh 12y ago
Congrats on the launch! How is it different from asana/trello and a host of other tools? Why should someone use this over those tools? All the best!
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The Riskiest Investment a Startup Can Make(tomtunguz.com)
2 points by hsuresh 12y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 12y ago
C-x C-b brings up a list of open buffers. Is that the same as what you are looking for?
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by hsuresh 12y ago
CGPGrey did a video on this subject recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU . But even this video isn't too optimistic about the number of jobs left to humans.
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Google's Physical Web(google.github.io)
8 points by hsuresh 12y ago|0 comments
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Rocket Internet bigger than YC?(cbinsights.com)
2 points by hsuresh 12y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 12y ago
Who is your target customer? You mention churches and non-profits, but why do they build/setup a website. How is your product helping them address this?
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A dashboard for onboarding your customers(nudgespot.com)
1 points by hsuresh 12y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 12y ago
Check out Wysihtml5. We've been using over the last few months and found it ok. We had a strict requirement on good quality HTML, and so far, Wysihtml5 seems nice. http://xing.github.io/wysihtml5/
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by hsuresh 12y ago
What other type of emails are you looking for? We'll try to add them.
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by hsuresh 12y ago
Have you seen Zurb's Ink templates? We use them, and they are quite nice. http://zurb.com/ink/templates.php
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by hsuresh 12y ago
Clickable link: http://nudgespot.com/nudges/schedule-a-demo?tag=saas
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Show HN: Email templates for onboarding your customers
6 points by hsuresh 12y ago|5 comments
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Why did ordinary people commit atrocities in the Holocaust?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hsuresh 12y ago|0 comments
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by hsuresh 12y ago
You are right about how our service compares with Mandrill. But, there are a bunch of companies that we've spoken to, who do send a lot of emails, and they've found the abstraction we provide to be useful. A big reason for the abs

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