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by mukund 20y ago
hmm good point. I was just wondering that its a pain to read long mails and that it would come handy. Just select some voice which is pleasant to hear and then put it as default. I dont know how to get this on but it was just a thought
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by mukund 20y ago
I know that pal, i was trying to highlight the fact that "the fear of failure itself is the greatest fear". I was just curious to know what kind of reactions i may get.
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by mukund 20y ago
Suppose you spend your time and energy focussing on building a startup and suppose you get unlucky and your startup ends up in dust. Will the investor/industry forgive you? What is the life after the bust? Can you get a job? Do people look
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Another Question?
1 points by mukund 20y ago|4 comments
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by mukund 20y ago
ah this reminded me of an incident when a prof joked ..... A wrong answer is always unique :D If it shows up in many papers then it either means you all copied or my answer manual is wrong
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by mukund 20y ago
Freedom and independence minimum intervention, flexible timings, stock options, % share in profits, clean non-political environment and above all suggestion box type model where one is ready to listen even to the bottom most ranked employee
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by mukund 20y ago
Many a time, i get long mails and i just cannot help but to skip things. So wont it be good to embed a voice based email reader which will do a secretary's job by reading it to you when u carry out other talks? Whats the hard part in implem
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What do you think of this one?
2 points by mukund 20y ago|8 comments
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by mukund 20y ago
Actual Karma is defined as "The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.". In hinduism there is this concept which says that whateve
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by mukund 20y ago
YC is clear in its approach. It says helping idea materialize and also says that its not a charity type org.
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by mukund 20y ago
But still people can open multiple accounts or ask their friends to log in and hike up the karma? They can manipulate the reviews and swing it in their favour
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by mukund 20y ago
Number 1 problem is privacy, how safe is it to put in things?
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by mukund 20y ago
O man , they did lose out by not able to understand the business model. Bad analysts? They must hire some fortune teller instead who could predict future of companies :-))
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by mukund 20y ago
Ruby on rails + Postgres
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by mukund 20y ago
Open source tools, low cost on bandwidth and storage space have all triggered low cost and overhead involved in starting something. When you have a passion for what you are doing and costs are way too low, then any wise person would run it
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by mukund 20y ago
Or is khosla saying every normal person needs to hone further to excel? I think there may be 1% born hackers. Now how will those 99% get on par and get sharper? Education may be the key. I understand it as a general statement
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by mukund 20y ago
What will happen if people form a cartel and hike up or lower karma? How do u plan to take care of this mischief?
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by mukund 20y ago
Product reviews help common people lookup and see what are advantages and short comings of the product. But i have seen quite a lot of them biased. One such example being movie reviews, its alll hyped and tampered with. Be it movies or prod
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by mukund 20y ago
People always copy that which is popular. Only difference being that they are giving space. This is so obvious that they are pushing to attract the crowd. But there is one thing they missed out, anyone with solid idea and attitude will get
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by mukund 20y ago
Impressive stuff. All these humanoids and robots used to be forte of japanese and its good that there are more advanced stuffs in here. One japanese guy had joked to me once saying that all those outdated stuff in japan comes to US. Now i t
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by mukund 20y ago
for that u need a good AI bot.
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by mukund 20y ago
Instead a model that would help them reach people, casual surfers can be made potential customers, educated customers would spread it around. This food chain will make everyone happy. I dont know if it would go as planned but still whats th
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by mukund 20y ago
Smarter part of social networking is get your employees for free ;D If you employ people and engage them in content management or info retrieval..it would end up being a costly affair. Instead allowing users to push in content is a smarter
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by mukund 20y ago
Sounds interesting. I have my pet project in more or less same field, which i would implement once i get some cash inflow.
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by mukund 20y ago
LOL people snooping on PG and reading the contents? Well this only shows that they could better spend that time in building better things
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by mukund 20y ago
Well when i said PG, i meant PG + Team at YC. As long as i get advice from ppl at YC, i would be glad
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by mukund 20y ago
RMS, This is my viewpoint, i have always gone for either best or nothing, just like 1 or 0, there isnt any thing in between. I stand by what i say, even though i have no proof to show or say that i applied to YC and no where else. But i am
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by mukund 20y ago
Well with the amount of fees i shelled out in here, buying a computer, installing linux and learning it wasnt easy. So had to go for computers provided by schools with no admin rights :(
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by mukund 20y ago
oh ok. Well the model will be cool if an user can stream songs for others to listen. Say buy rights for the song and if someone has to listen to same, he can request trade or buy the song for airing it. This way he or she recovers money and
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by mukund 20y ago
BLS you are missing a point. Money isnt the only thing at stakes. You need good mentors, advisors and backing of them to actually built a sturdy one. This $15k or $20k isnt what one wants, it works the other way, we are using YC/PG et al to

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