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by mailarchis 12y ago
Search for jawed karims talk at CMU I guess. One of the key reasons of YouTube fast growth was the HTML snippet that you could embed in you MySpace page.
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by mailarchis 13y ago
And INTJ are supposed to be one of the rarest personality type. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ
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by mailarchis 13y ago
I did something similar few months. I've been developing webapps using django for a while now. But my frontend skills (html/css) had always been very rusty. I decided to improve it by building a personal website without using any
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Ask HN: Are there any good opensource android apps?
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by mailarchis 13y ago
Hi, I guess you can make your messaging more powerful if you add in an example automation code to show an use case. It looks like a cool idea. All the best.
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by mailarchis 13y ago
I struggled through the same thing for couple of months. Few things that helped me get back on track 1. Define your working hours and stick to it. Setup alarms and go to work at same time of the day every day. 2. Designated working place -
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by mailarchis 13y ago
mailchimp.com
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by mailarchis 13y ago
Trilogy at one point of time was among fastest growing software companies. Its training program for new employees called Trilogy University was covered by HBR in one of their case studies [1]. One of the reasons why so many Trilogy alums ha
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Why Big Opportunities Crush Small Companies(linkedin.com)
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by mailarchis 13y ago
Slightly tangent the new ui has no modal popups. Its either a new page or the ui element slides from up , down or sides. It makes an interesting redesign.
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by mailarchis 13y ago
I remember the 15 Year old me. I was an extremely introvert guy participating in school debate competitions for the first time. While I was speaking in front of the audience, my legs (hidden behind the dais) would be shaking (the first few
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by mailarchis 13y ago
Your answers raises the question that how does a country with people from different ethnic background become a nation ? So, can the Afghan issue be resolved by splitting the country ? And if yes, do the people of Afghanistan want that.
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by mailarchis 13y ago
True. Maybe, the small amount of money spend per person indicates that the government doesn't have sufficient money to invest in development of the infrastructure and human resources required for creating a developed economy. If you lo
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by mailarchis 13y ago
I'm not an expert in economics, so maybe someone with a better understanding can weigh in. But what I think the writer is trying to say here the economy (value of the total goods produced which is reflected in money circulated) is too
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by mailarchis 13y ago
I guess this is the core reason "It’s easy to paint all of the problems in Zambia with this brush, to talk about kleptocrats wringing their privilege for as much income, as many perks, as they can squeeze. But even if Zambia was run by
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Facebook redesigns its home page(tinypic.com)
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by mailarchis 13y ago
Someone wise once said.... The journey is the reward. All the best.
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by mailarchis 13y ago
I remember a startup that had presented a similar app couple of years back at TC 50 (can't recall the name) it had also signed up a US west coast city as one of their customers. I found it as one of promising ideas of tat year. [EDIT] this
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by mailarchis 13y ago
"The industry is struggling to find new COBOL programmers because few young programmers love the thought of maintaining decades-old enterprise systems where all data is global and GOTO is often the first choice in flow control." A significa
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by mailarchis 14y ago
There is a bit of irony in the timing. Living Socials first product was visual bookshelf. They pivoted to daily deals business. Fast forward 6 years, amazon acquires goodreads while all daily deal sites are struggling.
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by mailarchis 14y ago
Well you are not taking into consideration google glass and self driving cars.
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by mailarchis 14y ago
I guess the third approach breaks if one of the two numbers is 0
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by mailarchis 14y ago
You should definitely pick up Marty Cagan's "Inspired - How to create products customers love". That is one of the best books I've read on Product Management
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by mailarchis 14y ago
+1 carry a 3G dongle in case you need Internet on your laptop during power breakdowns.
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by mailarchis 14y ago
Am guessing this is something to do with windows store. "The belief in the development community is that Microsoft will make Windows 8 a closed system, an operating system that seeks to more stringently control, much in the way that Apple d
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by mailarchis 14y ago
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by mailarchis 14y ago
MSN is probably big in China next only to QQ. In India, msn messenger never caught up and people started with yahoo and then moved on to gtalk.
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by mailarchis 14y ago
Fav Quote "You want missionaries, not mercenaries –passionate, maniacally-focused founders who believe in a vision. "
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by mailarchis 14y ago
"Sport was never a priority for a majority of [Indian] parents and their kids," this line says it all. India doesn't have a culture that encourages sports. In a typical middle class family, the parents are actively involved in education of
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Ask HN: how do you manage your time in an early stage startup?
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