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by ksolanki 15y ago
I fail to buy this argument -- Because Lisp is dead, I'll get better programmers for less money.
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by ksolanki 15y ago
Some of this may have to do with the quality of startups going in to the batch. As the reputation of YC rises, more and more good-quality startups want to join (rather than go on their own?). This of course doesn't take away the fact that Y
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by ksolanki 15y ago
is this going to suffer from the same problems as increased class sizes? less personal mentoring, for example? Probably NOT. The bar has been higher in recent batches and as a result, relatively more established companies make it to the
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by ksolanki 15y ago
Very nice to see a good computer vision app make it to the market. This has certainly brought the future closer to us :)
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Six Tips on Taking Outside Investors(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Why Mobile Users Aren’t Checking In.(mashable.com)
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by ksolanki 15y ago
Such a story may or may not make it to HN front page, but it sure is a risk that one has to take. And as pointed out, the offers from Microsoft et al are not going away for smart people. Of course, tonnes of smart folks would have taken the
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by ksolanki 15y ago
"Superstar" programming is a function of the talent as well as the environment. The standards set by the team during one's formative years has a lot of bearing on his/her eventual superstardom. I tend to look for motivation and willingness
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by ksolanki 15y ago
"Even if the property market crashes, you can always choose to default." There is always someone who loses here (investors who have put money in mortgage backed securities?). Intentionally defaulting is not the most ethical thing one could
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by ksolanki 15y ago
I agree that it's not the same for people as it is for companies. And it's ironic that the rash decisions (read high risk) taken by companies often affects individuals. Being debt-free is a good financially and mentally, as you say. It's in
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by ksolanki 15y ago
This is a good point. As a techie, I would not know where/how to find such a person. Anyways the founders should be allowed to represent the corporation, but apparently that is not allowed. Requiring to hire lawyers seems not to be true to
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by ksolanki 15y ago
You did get the basic idea -- content creators can basically make a world around them visually searchable. Say, a University or zoo can link their buildings or exhibits to more information. Any visitor can then look it up. The twist that yo
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by ksolanki 15y ago
I am not sure it this could simply be "worked out". I think this TSA issue could get nasty.
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by ksolanki 15y ago
I too quite liked the name. It incites a strong reaction, which is good...Guess one either likes it or hates it.
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by ksolanki 15y ago
Microsoft can keep this up until profits are growing. Here's hoping this research funding doesn't dry up like Bell labs' did. It is hard to quantify the benefits of spending on basic research. Apple puts a lot of focus on design, wheres Mic
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by ksolanki 15y ago
While I do not agree with the patent bullying especially because the said patent was very general, I would not go to the extent to say "they didn't even use computer vision or any algorithms for most of their matching". I know a couple of s
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by ksolanki 15y ago
You should never own stocks, never fly or drive, never snowboard, never start a startup, ... Never ever. Because all this is risky. OK, on a more logical note, I agree that people don't completely understand the game -- the factors, predict
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by ksolanki 15y ago
Image similarity search has been around since eternity (read early 90's), and a patent claim that Perform similarity operation to identify merchandise that is similar (510 -- 540) should not have been awarded in the first place.
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by ksolanki 15y ago
Hey, thanks for your insightful comment. I agree we should have a video of what it could do. Will have that up soon. The idea is to do more or less what Google Goggles does, but where users contribute to the content. We will use Flickr et a
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by ksolanki 15y ago
Here is a part story of what we learned from our YC interview, and how (thankfully) PG and team made us think hard about our assumptions. The rest of the post is about what came out.
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Us: Customizable visual search. YC: Wait, what? Why customizable?(linkapic.com)
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by ksolanki 16y ago
search for minus 42.