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Google gave original Mac designer free rein on new Google+ UI(appleinsider.com)
12 points by kinkora 15y ago|4 comments
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by kinkora 15y ago
That is actually an excellent suggestion. Would you have mind if it was an automated canned response?
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by kinkora 15y ago
Oh cool, you found the discussion. Though I wasn't asking about the moderation exactly, I posted a similar question earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704833 I just reviewed the guidelines and my feeling as to why it was remove
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by kinkora 15y ago
oh, so i wasn't dreaming about the post. :) Assuming they were censored, I wonder what the reason was. Could it also be possible that the OP deleted it himself? Nevertheless, you're right. It was quite an odd move to remove the post.
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Ask HN: What should a startup not do when posting a job ad?
7 points by kinkora 15y ago|8 comments
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by kinkora 15y ago
I have two. The first is my own experience of being turned down for a part-time engineering role because the company didn't think it was safe or good for me to travel so much. From where i stayed at that time, it would have taken me roughly
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by kinkora 15y ago
While I'm not saying that a cheaper "lite" iPhone version is not possible, anyone else feels that this could be a fabricated rumour by Apple to rat out internal leaks? I once came across a (half-drunk) guy in a bar who apparently works for
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by kinkora 15y ago
If you use an Android phone, I would recommend using Firefox on both your phone and as your desktop browser. The latest FF builds (v4 and v5) have a sync feature which synchronizes all your history, bookmarks AND open pages in your browser.
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by kinkora 15y ago
Agree with showing visible comment scores, disagree with karma of a scorer adding more weight to comment scores. Ok first the agreement. When I was a non-member of HN, I use to skim through the comment thread and pick out good comments base
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by kinkora 15y ago
Someone correct me if i am wrong but i believe the money raised wasn't exactly "capital" per say. From what i've heard, investors for that round were basically buying stock from the founders. Think of it as a private stock market or more co
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by kinkora 15y ago
A lil off topic but somehow when I read this, the first thing that leapt to my mind is the LikeALittle HQ @ Palo Alto. Have you seen it on techcrunch? http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/04/tc-cribs-likealittle-lal/ I can imagine the sights and
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by kinkora 15y ago
For a web-based company, I would add Amazon Web Services(AWS) at the top of the list. AWS is relatively expensive but if you are a startup with a limited amount of capital and need to scale quickly, it allows you to utilize a corporate grad
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by kinkora 15y ago
I wasn't referring to AirBnB specifically but the gist of my comment is I don't see how an AirBnB clone can justify $90m worth of capital. So maybe my usage of the term "pushing humanity forward" may be a lil bit grandiose but i certainly d
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by kinkora 15y ago
While i've nothing against Wimdu (or AirBnB), I am against putting insane amounts of money into something that not only is a "clone" of another business, it is also what I define as a business that does not exactly "push humanity forward".
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by kinkora 15y ago
While the use of app + smart cover is ingenious, what I am more excited about is that this opens to a possibility of a whole slew of "smart accessories" + apps that utilises the magnets on the iPad screen. Which got me thinking...what sort
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by kinkora 15y ago
I'll disagree with the notion that "Social networks are a winner-take-all game". I, and i'm sure many others do too, use different social networks for different group of friends. I.e. I use Facebook primarily to keep in contact with my fami
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by kinkora 15y ago
If you ask me, it's another amazing homerun for Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and not to mention Reid Hoffman! And assuming that the stock price goes up pass the $100 mark, this will put Reid Hoffman in the billionaire club.
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LinkedIn IPO: How much everyone got(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by kinkora 15y ago|1 comments
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by kinkora 15y ago
<i>"ome Silicon Valley veterans fear that companies are overpaying for talent and that some of the acquired employees will defect as soon as they can, perhaps because they will get restless in a corporate environment. And venture ca
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by kinkora 15y ago
yea, i saw the github repository and even though they relatively active there, they have gone unusually quiet so was just wondering how their progress has been so far. 1 year in the tech industry is a fairly long time. :)
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by kinkora 15y ago
That will be awesome! I'll love to see how far they have gone. Anyway i can contact you without posting my email add here?
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Anyone knows what is happening with the Diaspora guys?
7 points by kinkora 15y ago|9 comments
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by kinkora 15y ago
A long time ago (about a few months after the acquisition of techcrunch by AOL) i came to the conclusion that arrington is trying to get himself fired by AOL. I happen to show some techcrunch articles to a psychologist friend of mine becaus
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by kinkora 15y ago
"They also avoided all towns where someone would detect them based on noise and make a phone call, or, god forbid, tweet." you mean like this? -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505610 edit: changed link. did not realise i was li
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by kinkora 15y ago
it's common practice for many media outlets to maintain "obituaries" of famous figures around the world before they die. If i'm not mistaken, I think it was in 2008 where Bloomberg accidentally published Steve Job's obituary which sparked a
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by kinkora 15y ago
nothing to replace it? See SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.
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by kinkora 16y ago
While the article was an interesting read, this is hardly surprising at all. In almost every company founded in this world, there is bound to be a forgotten founder, worker, investor, etc. Here are a couple of examples:- 1. Apple - Jef Rask