kul

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   by kul 16y ago

   Sweet, just exported 1002 contacts using safari on my iPad! This makes me irrationally happy.
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   by kul 16y ago

   I can still quite easily pretend to be harj
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   Silence of the dissenters: How south-east Asia keeps web users in line(guardian.co.uk)

   1 points by kul 16y ago|0 comments
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   by kul 16y ago

   We (Auctomatic W07) applied on a whim back in November 2006. We were in London, had no idea how YC would react to a foreign team, and worse, neither of us could hack back then. I remember discussing with Harj just that week that we really s
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   by kul 16y ago

   I have searchably.com if anyone is interested in search related projects?
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   Who are the Y Combinator Companies? (Summer 2006)(techcrunch.com)

   21 points by kul 16y ago|24 comments
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   by kul 16y ago

   What's also interesting to think of is all the other potential multi-billion dollar businesses that do not exist today because of early acquisitions? Delicious? We sold Auctomatic at a time when building on the ebay platform and ecommerce g
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   by kul 16y ago

   I disagree, it hasn't stopped being a force for good. Where is the evidence that his leaks have directly got people killed? When I see something like this, my first reaction is, who benefits? Who is better off with Wikileaks discredited? Th
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   by kul 16y ago

   Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
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    by kul 16y ago

    I'm pretty sure PG bought a lot of Apple stock in 2001-2003
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    by kul 16y ago

    I don't think it's a given that our brains are "ruthlessly inefficient". In a complex system of trade-offs, they are actually pretty damn good at what they do. Human vision alone is incredibly complex. Anyone interested in how difficult it
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    by kul 17y ago

    iPhoto online but better, sweet, congrats!
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    by kul 17y ago

    I would buy this except $200 seems a bit steep.
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    by kul 17y ago

    I was left feeling completely dissatisfied with this response. It came across as childish.
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    by kul 17y ago

    hmm, it may have been worth milking this for as much publicity as possible
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    by kul 17y ago

    He was definitely the most engaging speaker I saw. Like Tony Robbins, Mark spoke with emotion, which is what made what he had to say so interesting.
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    by kul 17y ago

    Craigslist works. People who complain about it being a crappily designed site are missing the point. It gets information to people who need it. See http://blog.topix.com/archives/000095.html
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    by kul 17y ago

    but what about when the 'interesting' stuff dries up and the new priority is building tedious features that your users want?
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    by kul 17y ago

    I especially like the point about you become like the people you hang around with.
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    by kul 17y ago

    Feynman would have more fun with this question.
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    by kul 18y ago

    Firstly, congratulations! I was in similar position once I sold Auctomatic and moved to Vancouver (but with much less cash). I'm now doing property in the states. My advice would be, convert as much as possible of your money into assets tha
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    by kul 18y ago

    You show a lot of interest in me.
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    by kul 18y ago

    Point, since you seem to know so much about me, may I ask who you are?
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    by kul 18y ago

    Excel on the Mac really sucks and I don't really want to install Windows just for that.
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    by kul 18y ago

    If you're interested in more analysis of 'talent', read this: http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_col... "Why talent is overrated It is mid-1978, and we are inside the giant Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincin
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    by kul 18y ago

    equity should also be split to reward risk taken. if the downside for one founder is much higher than for the other, he should be rewarded more. e.g. one co-founder can easily go back to college or consulting whereas the other really has to
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    by kul 18y ago

    these guys were our early boso.com competitors
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    by kul 18y ago

    funny how they labelled Taleb an economist, that must have riled him
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    by kul 18y ago

    Monte Carlo simulations is what they used to work out the odds of sub-prime defaults in their CDOs.
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    by kul 18y ago

    I’m irritated by this knee-jerk anti-bailout reaction (”$700bn to the fat cats!”). Check this diagram from the BBC ( http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45062000/gif/_45062415... ) There is no $700bn going into some Wall Street bankers po