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by jyothi 17y ago
I think it is back up. at least my server on hived.in is up.
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Comparison ads is new - they are starting with mortgage, they will get into everything where you pick one out of many based on some criteria. With this google gets closer to the online PoS to say. They tried a shot earlier with Google Produ
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by jyothi 17y ago
heh. It is actually fascinating how strong crowd sourcing can be. You would logically opt the manual root & surprisingly lot of times esp for cost and simplicity of solution 5-6 hrs of a good developer == 1 month of 3 ops in India or el
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by jyothi 17y ago
An interesting app. Airtel, a leading telecom provider in India had a SongCatcher service long back (3 yrs ago) http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Catch_a_Catchy_Song_with_... I never tried it - may this one worked for a predefined set o
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by jyothi 17y ago
To note: "While it's not clear what Bezos did with his piece of Google, Swisher notes that his stock would be worth $1.6 billion today.
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by jyothi 17y ago
and guess there is opportunity here. FBI agents can be excellent trainers for issue tracking and documenting projects. One of them should start a blog.
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Ask HN: Facebook Advertising Platform
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by jyothi 17y ago
And being more optimistic is the scary part especially when you don't have enough money. I wouldn't care much about how much money the guerilla's have got. Have been through both positive and negative end result on two different products. O
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Game theory says give, not receive the limited stock of flu vaccine(futurity.org)
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Infinite Monkey Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jyothi 17y ago
This is fantastic. And the initiative speaks volumes of why US is the hub of startups. I would any day opt to move to US and build a company over there given US is relatively a superior matured market segment for online businesses and more
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by jyothi 17y ago
Agree the proposal is a bit too absurd on giving green cards right away and the mandate on funds/VC buy in. There is a more viable proposal of offering B1s to start a company and extending it beyond 6 months based on evaluation of startup.
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by jyothi 17y ago
This sounds like a damn cool place to work. A startup with government and supreme security divisions as clients is definitely something thing different and impressive. It also impressive to know that they took the plunge to take technology,
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by jyothi 17y ago
Reminds me of PGs "Founders Visa" article - http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html It is a win-win for America and hundreds of entrepreneurs in other countries where the startup ecosystem doesn't exist and ofcourse many would want to
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by jyothi 17y ago
I must have missed a lot of your comments. I just went through all your threads. I must say they are tremendously useful. Thanks! There was a time when HN first page would be more full of startup material (in which case you would have been
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Google Caffeine: Some Big Brands Will Gain, Some Will Lose(mediapost.com)
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by jyothi 17y ago
One notable observation from morning watching top searches of a client: A lot of websites which "were" high on SERP based on links are now gone. This also connects well because of the recent change google announced in the way link juice is
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by jyothi 17y ago
My account was once temporarily suspended. Reason was probably because I used to have 2 different gmail id one for personal and one for office adwords, adsense, analytics, webmaster etc. Had a very similar experience of realizing how much w
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by jyothi 17y ago
"The purpose is to award the most miserable employee in the world" Lets get creative - the cubicle need not be messy to be miserable. It could be of a MS employee with a PC with a blue screen on it.
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by jyothi 17y ago
If you disagree please tell me why. not blindly down vote. I avoided being rude for a "suggestion" which was not solicited nor rational let alone appropriate.
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by jyothi 17y ago
My problem is the misuse of facilities that is happening in the country where I live.
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by jyothi 17y ago
agree. but it is definitely not for political power. If he wanted to I think he probably had a good chance to win standing for MP elections in Bangalore. I guess getting the political power was more of necessity here because without that au
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by jyothi 17y ago
And you have quoted Nilekani, what more would do you expect. You need to appreciate he is taking this up giving up a definitely more profitable & less frustrating job of heading an IT major. Given this is not a no-brainer job and involv
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by jyothi 17y ago
Knowing what Indian Media is like I would rather not want this to be debated. Given Nilekani is heading it and the fact that the government is actively working to bring in any relevant person or advise I would assume they would do a good jo
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by jyothi 17y ago
Actually we would need 2 set of numbers from PG. [1] ycombinator visitor OS breakdown [2] ycombinator visitor OS breakdown of people who actively contribute by voting/comments. (note intentionally avoiding the ones who post) Given what user
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by jyothi 17y ago
I live in India & I agree - there is horrendous amount of corruption. And the unique identification number project might not change anything when it comes to illegal immigrants, terrorists. However as the article highlights this would g
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Interesting numbers on engagement on Social Networks: 2008 vs 2009(mediapost.com)
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Purpose of Depression: Why you should listen to it rather than let drugs dull it(shine.yahoo.com)
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How to hack your body: Can you get fit in six minutes a week(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Frugal innovation: What GE does in Bangalore(business.rediff.com)
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