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by pavs 16y ago
> But I do think everyone should work at a restaurant at least once in their life. It's a customer-service learning experience and gives you an appreciation for the staff when you patronize restaurants later. Done that and I agree with
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by pavs 16y ago
> They're actually on the pulse of the tech industry, unlike say Wired or Gizmodo or whatever, that don't really report anything original of worth. I think you mean "startup news" (which is open to debate). AFA actual "Tech news" is con
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by pavs 16y ago
Surprise no one is calling out TC on their BS, yet again. Lets face it, TC is a tech tabloid and HN's fascination with TC (majority story makes FP) is akin to teenager's fascination with celebrity gossip magazine. No substance, nothing insi
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by pavs 16y ago
Also hero worshipping. This is one thing I absolutely can't stand in reddit and now I see that it is also very common here in HN. People seem to up-vote users with "high score/past reputation/YC funded member" on virtually any comment they
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by pavs 16y ago
If I were to take your analogy seriously than it would right to argue that all operating systems are just OS, it makes no difference whether you use windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, solaris. The reason yor analogy doesn't work is because condoms a
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by pavs 16y ago
why would anyone in their right mind use a native gmail app when you can use it in to iphone mail client for multiple accounts.
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by pavs 16y ago
I swear, this might be hard to believe for some, this is EXACTLY the reason I tried out tumblr and ended up having a permanent blog there. It gave me the impression that tumblr was doing something right for posterous to try to "snag" their
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by pavs 16y ago
I can only speak for myself. I personally user tumblr (only started few months ago) for private ramblings about random stuff that comes in my mind. My tumblr is blocked from search engine and I have not shared the link with anyone. I also b
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by pavs 16y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one'
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by pavs 16y ago
tumblr also allows posting by email, not to mention large amount of desktop publishing software that can be used to publish posts on tumblr. I have never used the tumblr homepage to publish blog post and I know quite a few people who doesn'
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by pavs 16y ago
No one in his right mind, outside the HN hivemind, things posterous is a serious challenge to tumblr.
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by pavs 16y ago
Can you be more specific here, minus the buzzwords, what "deals" and "traction" does justin.tv have that google/youtube can't hurt them? HN tends to go gaga over YC funded company for no obvious reason and often (but maybe not in this case)
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IE9 team asks Reddit for feedback...(reddit.com)
4 points by pavs 16y ago|2 comments
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by pavs 16y ago
People who generally comment on reddit's childish comments based on their time on the main reddits and rarely visits the meat of reddit, which are the specific and targeted sub-reddit, are fly-by users. They never truly experienced reddit.
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by pavs 16y ago
I think they accept such salaries because they know that the total compensation is much much higher. If there were no bonuses they would not accept such salaries. http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/ceopay/
886.
by pavs 16y ago
You wanna make money but don't wanna work for it?
887.
by pavs 16y ago
> And in any case, most CEOs don't make a HUGE salary. You should check out the banking industry.
888.
by pavs 16y ago
Youtube is profitable since this year with ~1 billion revenue: http://mashable.com/2010/03/05/youtube-revenue-2010/ I don't know about gmail specifically, but gmail which is part of Google Enterprise solution is "very" profitable as a uni
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by pavs 16y ago
Adsense is both a medium to generate profit from existing products and a successful product in its own right. Is YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, Android not successful? All these products has very large user adoption and Google is earning mo
890.
by pavs 16y ago
I think its fair to say google has more than one successful product.
891.
by pavs 16y ago
Whether this proves to be right or not, you should always be skeptical about indian government's frivolous claims. From my personal experience I can tell you its not limited to the government, this kind of attitude it very common among busi
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Mark Shuttleworth » Reflections on Ubuntu, Canonical and free software adoption(markshuttleworth.com)
8 points by pavs 16y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurs Rise in Ashes of India’s Caste System (nytimes.com)
24 points by pavs 16y ago|12 comments
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by pavs 16y ago
yup faulty memory, I tried to be more clear here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1670968 No malicious intent, after all, I did ask you for verification on twitter, linking here.
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by pavs 16y ago
This could very well be, I remember one of the problems they were having is not having enough resources for cache or something similar. But I could be wrong I will ask them on twitter and see if they can comment here on it.
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by pavs 16y ago
I agree, I don't think highly of kevin as an entrepreneur.
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by pavs 16y ago
How does it make investors happy? Why would investors care what kind of database you use?
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by pavs 16y ago
I wonder if its easier to get funding (and later position yourself to get sold out), if you show that you have quite a few people working for you. Personally I have no idea nor do I see any reason for that many people working for digg, but
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by pavs 16y ago
According to reddit admins some of the recent downtimes in the last few months were due to cassandra and they were having some bad performance and stability issues. I can look it up if anyone is interested but it will be a bit of a work, si
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by pavs 16y ago
As someone who have been involved with chess engine community for the last 15 years or so (not anymore) I can tell you that, until recently, almost every single new engine, that has been written from scratch instead of copying an OS impleme

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