kulkarnic

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by kulkarnic 16y ago
I'm sorry I don't buy this argument: When someone searches for "sushi stockholm" on Google, they aren't saying "Show me a map with all the sushi places in Stockholm". They are saying "I want to know more about getting sushi in Stockholm. C
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by kulkarnic 16y ago
I actually inherited this book from my grandfather. It's actually quite a nice book, and for the times, seems like a introduction. I remember being pretty impressed by punch-cards for some time after I read the book--my attempts to find one
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
I agree it's a useful tool. However, I'm usually choosing a bunch of colors, and it helps if you're seeing the colors in context. What I'd really love is a color-dropper plugin that lets me choose a random color on a webpage, and change eve
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Well, from the past few months of use: * C# (and possibly others) compile faster * Startup slower than VS 9 (marginal) * Human perf is higher due to better auto-complete etc Bottomline, if you're happy with VS 9 on your machine (you don't f
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
I'm surprised noone brought this up, but this has been done (several times) before: the one I remember is called DateLens by Bederson et al at UMD (See http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=972652&dl=GUIDE&#3... ) It's interesting how
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Similar effects have been seen for non-dollar figures: people anchor to numbers on Wheel of Fortune, for instance (Kahneman's 1974 paper). However, this anchoring is definitely weaker, so your point is taken.
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Here you go: http://www.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/3/3509/Papers/Ariely.pdf Btw, note that initial anchors grossly affect the decision; subsequent anchors are less effective. So, if the interviewer already has a figure in mind (or worse, has wri
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Because most people want to look reasonable at a job interview. However, one thing people miss is that the anchoring can be to any number whatsoever, so you don't even need to talk about what you want per hour. I remember a paper that ask
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Yeah, you're right. Streams are tricky- music and network too. I think Android solves it using services; would be interesting if Apple comes up with something different (I don't like daemons on my phone personally; but maybe it doesn't matt
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
To a consumer, having interleaved tasks might appear like multi-tasking while it technically isn't (which you point out).
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Well, not everyone agrees on the definition of multi-tasking. As a consumer, interleaving of processes seems quite adequate to me (i.e. no apps running in the background; apps are suspended on minimize), but an app developer may not agree.
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
I wonder if people are missing the bigger point here- this isn't just about selling your car, it's about understanding your real needs and living within them. Few people have the courage to do this. Fewer still will resist going back to the
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
I'm actually quite tired of people telling other people how to be successful. First, it's quite a vain goal. Second, and more importantly, consciously knowing what actions lead to success/failure does not translate into one taking/avoiding
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
You raise some great points there- the best is qualifying what kind of research is actually a good thing. It may (I'm skeptical though) that an agile business can thrive without investing in research. But then, who invents the future (say t
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
You raise some great points there- the best is qualifying what kind of research is actually a good thing. It may (I'm skeptical though) that an agile business can thrive without investing in research. But then, who invents the future (say t
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
You raise some great points there- the best is qualifying what kind of research is actually a good thing. It may (I'm skeptical though) that an agile business can thrive without investing in research. But then, who invents the future (say t
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
I'm somewhat familiar with the research models afforded by both companies, and have a slightly different view. Research at IBM is mostly product-group driven. Microsoft affords more flexibility- allowing more academic research, for example.
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Not really. If you were following the company in the 90s, two quick examples are Windows 95 and Internet Explorer 4 (Remember when IE was actually _praised_ for better standards-compliance and developer-features?)
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
As someone who's worked at MSFT himself, the author certainly knows what he's talking about. However, there's a couple of factors one must reflect on: 1. It's a HUGE company (80k employees?). When you get to that size, it's hard to ensure a
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Yes, I got somewhat emotional(?) too. It was a birthplace of so many great ideas-- Java being the least of them. I personally feel "The network is the computer" was one of the most important ideas of the last century (the other being "a com
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Oh, it is called "Sequel Server" within Microsoft, but Wikipedia says "S-Q-L" for the language. Strange... I remember it saying "sequel" some time ago. Is the received pronunciation now C-O-B-O-L too?
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Wellll.... I don't know if it's meaty at all. Nothing in there actually is revealing: yeah, they do eye-tracking. So does every serious outfit. They store all the data they create: yes, it's nearly free to do that (relatively speaking), and
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
That was my precise first thought. But he's really talking of a scripting language in general: think Javascript (browser)or Perl (computer). Since the discussion before this line was about PHP, I think it tends to trip you up.
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Somehow, this reminds me of an Asimov tale. A planet called Solaria, in fact: The Solarians specialized in the construction of robots, which they exported to the other Spacer Worlds. Solarian robots were noted for their variety and excellen
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Not true in India either (and from what I know) in a lot of countries based on the English Common Law.
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Ask HN: What would you build an email-heavy webapp on?
6 points by kulkarnic 17y ago|3 comments
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Actually, this is Photosynth (rather both use th same base tech.) In fact, city-wide synthing has been possible for some time now- the crux is matching up the photos fast enough, which has now been reduced to a day (for 1M photos). For the
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
I don't know: HN is rapidly replacing my feed reader; and I think the news is interesting in its own right (may not have anything to do with "hacking", but still).
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
And if you are using a JIT that optimizes frequent code; how easily the branches are predictable and a host of other factors. Also, I don't think this comparison is even useful: clearly if-else and switch-case have different use-cases. Some
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Well, I actually meant bloated as a framework. Too much magic, too many APIs and too many ways to do the same thing. Actually, I don't know if it is true, but I wasn't happy with Rails the last time around, and I want to learn something dif

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