kingsley_20

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by kingsley_20 16y ago
You're just too much of a flight risk - they see you as having too little at stake in India. I've had some friends have similar issues ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=851287 ). I myself returned to India after 8 years in the states pa
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
This is the traditional way of serving coffee in south India: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/3281237995_091cdeac67.jp... . Basically, you get a cup and a bowl to pour it back and forth with.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
HTC is differentiating quite nicely within the Android ecosystem on the UX layer.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
As an ex-immigrant (returned to India now to start something), I believe this is true. US immigration policy weeds out the chaff. The immigrant populations from countries like India tend to also be homogeneously upper class/caste.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Smartphones won't be Nokia's nemesis - indigenous innovation will. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/nokia-... A new generation of feature phones by Indian brands, at mid-low price points, with features designed specif
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Great idea. Would you consider changing the "pit" part of the name?
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Have to second Peter here (hi Peter:). I used to work there, and the only weird thing for me was that they were slow to get the social web for a bunch really smart technologists. It's the enterprise DNA I suppose, but that was the only thin
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
What you need is a half-hidden line of text or graphic near the bottom screen-edge. only way to hint at scrolling.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Pixel font's are still _very_ useful in icons, favicons etc.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I think martythemaniak is making a joke about Apple claiming that Android is not really "open."
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
If you've had a decent career for something like a decade, it's largely resumable, and the odds that a failed venture will help accelerate it are better than 50:50.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Yeah seriously. So much of the criticism is about his style and attitude that it made me wonder if this was really HN? Dave is a great guy in person. Yes, he's aggressive, super-cynical, outspoken,has a sense of humor and a good track recor
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Why not ask permission to transmit the last few searches and a snapshot of the results. I mean, I usually only hit "give feedback" when i'm not finding the stuff I want. You'll probably be able to discern a lot from that.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Another serious annoyance is that users can return your app in 24 hrs and get a full refund. Wipes out an entire ecosystem of cheap games that go for under $5. I understand that this is good for the consumer in a short-sighted way, but real
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Simply liking something does not let a developer get access to your friend list. You will have to give the app at least basic permission (aka "run/install", which will share your friend names and uids) or extended permissions will get you f
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Sorry, downvoted by mistake, without reading your entire comment.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Probably uses Adobe Flash storage in browsers that don't support a db.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I have a hard-to-test-theory involving the nodes with high betweenness-centrality that may explain regional popularity. The "most-connected" (eigenvector or page-rank) nodes may be much less valuable than the "more-diversely-connected" node
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
http://www.useit.com/papers/anti-mac.html is a 1996 paper by Jakob Nielsen & Don Gentner that criticizes too-literal visual metaphors in the Macintosh user interface. Good read.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Not quite the same. They're overlapping sets.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Serifs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif#Origins_and_etymology "The explanation proposed by Father Edward Catich in his 1968 book The Origin of the Serif is now broadly but not universally accepted: the Roman letter outlines were first
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I posted this here because I think the actual actions of the child, against overwhelming odds, are probably a more credible indicator of its future than any images of filth he may have encountered. If you believe that playing this game and
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I thought it was an interesting insight into a real child's mind, as opposed to the usual fearmongering that goes with such games usually. I thought it was cool that the child used his will against the overwhelming thrust of the game in an
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My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto(bitmob.com)
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I designed this product to solve some of my own frustrations as a product manager, so here're some of my thoughts: Apart from the huge PR value (Dell, salesforce.com, Starbucks & whitehouse.gov all got a LOT of press from these) that co
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
This is actually about 3 years old. I PM'd this product at salesforce.com, for which Dell was the first external customer. We initially designed it for salesforce.com's own community. The product is now known as Salesforce Ideas. I'm no lon
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Does anyone else thing that this was a massive experiment? I mean, Google MUST have lost some revenue. This is the first time that they've added anything interactive to the home page. They must want to learn something enough to do that. I
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I've sometimes subdomained a few, select third party services on the same domain. For example, if a third party hosts your landing pages and you wish to own the urls to those, subdomaining is the best way to handle that. That said, you shou
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
At the level that the intention is to let you use facebook safely, yes. My feeling is that it would be far easier to convince us scared geeks to install a privacy app that helps our friends and family (with little effort on our part) than t
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I left a comment on your other post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341519 ), but here's a proposal - why not make a privacy app for those who care about, that can monitor their as well as their friends' feeds and help them squash un

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