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by maayank 14y ago
The more I think about it, the more I like it as a recruiting venue[1]: * A good way to measure the potential recruit skills * Gives a good fun experience to go over later at the interview, both verifying it is the recruit who coded it and
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Eric Schmidt: Governments pose greatest threat to the internet(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple iPen patent(patentlyapple.com)
2 points by maayank 14y ago|2 comments
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Foreigners in China: social sentiment going sour?(economist.com)
2 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
Funny you mention it, that is exactly the subject of a new Economist story[1][2] [1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/05/daily-c... [2] link from within the charts page above: http://www.economist.com/node/21555895
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How Tim Cook is changing Apple(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
193 points by maayank 14y ago|107 comments
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"Sorry, This Whining About Facebook's IPO Is Ridiculous"(businessinsider.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
"Underwater options and market reactions can destroy employee morale --- look at Yahoo." As are employees locked in for 3 months while seeing their stocks free falling.
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by maayank 14y ago
3 months in this case[1] [1] http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/facebook-going-public-inve... , Ctrl+F for "90 days"
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by maayank 14y ago
"I could play games, take pictures, send them to friends, surf the web, chat, "share my life" and meet new people with computers fifteen years ago. The iPad has made that process easier and better, and to some extent cheaper." and more acce
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by maayank 14y ago
It was supported: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-why-facebook... A possible reason why it reached 38 in the first place: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-facebooks-ipo-pop-fizzled...
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Live update on Facebook IPO(businessinsider.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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Israeli cellular market disrupted by newly emerged providers(haaretz.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
As an Israeli, and in continuance with netcan's good comment above, I could certainly see that happening here as a result of fragmented parliament. edit: I say it not to reflect on Israeli society or politics per se, but to agree that fragm
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by maayank 14y ago
In my experience this is still true... I still haven't found a word processor/presentation software for Mac OS X (including Office 2011) that is compatible with my university's word and ppt files. Moreover, the ministry of education is a bi
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by maayank 14y ago
To a much lesser effect, I find it true in Israel as well. I recently bought an iPad for my mom as she uses the computer just for browsing, emailing and skype. Turns out that even now, two websites she frequents (a workers' committee websit
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by maayank 14y ago
Already have it and already visited the place in Ireland and many of the places in England based on it :-) Visiting Bletchley Park was a true formative experience for me and Alexander Fleming's lab also really hit a chord with me, recallin
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by maayank 14y ago
What are some 'must have' (and 'must read' ;) ) O'Reilly books for programmers and entrepreneurs?
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by maayank 14y ago
At some point I really began to cringe with all the "this is all modeled after nature!!!" talk. It really seems like corporate marketing got hold of the design in a very bad way.
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by maayank 15y ago
How is €5000 per founder (max €15000/team) for 8% equity, compared to other accelerators?
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by maayank 15y ago
What you say is good and true, but it's important to remember that even behind the subsidization aspect others allude to, more uses of RasPi -> more things the child receiving it can do -> more appealing the device will be in his ey
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by maayank 15y ago
True. Moreover, with this price and features it is stupidly trivial to attach a computer source to your TV now. No excuses not to. Attach a cheap wireless dongle (<10$) and you got yourself a versatile streamer for less than 40$[1]. [1]
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by maayank 15y ago
Let's look at it constructively - what is new now with the Raspberry Pi that wasn't available by single board microcontrollers? (i.e. Arduino) Off the top of my head: * Easy[1] support for USB devices * Ready to be connected to TV/monitor *
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by maayank 15y ago
You can use a forwarding service like http://www.ukpostbox.com
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by maayank 15y ago
can you tell more about it? sounds like a story.
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Israeli hackers attack Iranian sites(ynetnews.com)
1 points by maayank 15y ago|0 comments
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Israeli hacker retaliates in Saudi-Israeli credit card debacle(haaretz.com)
2 points by maayank 15y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 15y ago
I downloaded one of the files yuvadam posted (not sure if it's the same one there now - the post was edited) and it had a password protected rar in a rar
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by maayank 15y ago
what's the password of the rar inside the rar? the page referenced in the "readme" file is unavailable
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Libraries make room for hackerspaces(npr.org)
6 points by maayank 15y ago|0 comments

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