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by pherk 13y ago
This is so cool. It lets Facebook amass a massive amount of data about customer whereabouts and whatabouts. The incentive for merchants is quite compelling. However, Facebook needs to do a damn good job to convince the customers to use it.
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by pherk 13y ago
Very informative. We are a payments company ( http://www.juspay.in ) based out of India. We came to similar conclusion just after the inception of the company. Instead of building a payment gateway, we built a solution that acts a
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by pherk 14y ago
A vague generalization. Can you conclusively say that all the YCombinator (or any other similar incubator) startups are groundbreaking innovations? Given the transformation that technology is undergoing, there are too many low hanging fruit
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by pherk 14y ago
This is very good! I work for a payments service provider in India. And at our company, we have something similar but not so detailed as this. Ours is built on top of Pingdom - http://status.juspay.in/ . The bottomline here is that transpa
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by pherk 14y ago
Why such a great support to Apple even when it is so evident that the mini iPad is a first generation product? I think it has become fashionable to praise Apple even when it falls short and bash others even when they exceed expectations. Th
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by pherk 14y ago
Ideas are indeed worthless today. But to believe that completely is stupidity. Internet, as of today, is a gold rush. Anyone worth his programming skill can work on an idea and get funded. But then, with the passing of time, all the low han
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by pherk 14y ago
Could it be that he got fired from Facebook for the same reason as well? For founders, this seems like an easy way to guard themselves against dilution. Nobody is perfect. Be it life or work, we all do mistakes. It is easy to disillusion ou
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by pherk 14y ago
I very much agree with the last point. Objective evaluation of a developer is much more than burned down points. I worked at Amazon and could see evidently that Scrum was turning good developers into mediocre ones. But not many raised a fin
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by pherk 14y ago
> What if someone else has an important piece of information that the dev and the architect don't? That isn't good enough justification. You are too much erring on the side of caution.
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Little things that I cherish (in a startup life)(arnamath.posterous.com)
15 points by pherk 14y ago|2 comments
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by pherk 14y ago
At last some sanity sets in. That button really made no sense at all. In a typical scenario, I will decide whether I like or not only after visiting the page. And to visit the page, I have to leave the Google search results page.
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by pherk 14y ago
All that is really no excuse for not developing a foolproof system. And if you know that you don't have a great system to catch fraud, then you should simply leave some money on the table. See, the essence here is not to come up with a grea
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Amazon Misses; Q4 Sales Up 35 Percent To $17.4B; Net Income Down 58% To $177M(techcrunch.com)
2 points by pherk 15y ago|0 comments
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by pherk 15y ago
Seems like a very tough business to be in. Guess, how do upcoming bands manage to make it through given that most people on the band are pretty much committed to it full time.
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by pherk 15y ago
While Hacker News is a great place for finding great links/articles, it cannot be subscribed to (unlike a blog). This makes it difficult to read this through devices like Kindle. So last weekend turned to be pretty productive for me trying
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Show HN: HNKindle.appspot.com, get Hacker News articles delivered to Kindle(hnkindle.appspot.com)
4 points by pherk 15y ago|1 comments
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Out of Fuel: Why Hasn't Innovation Provided a Reliable Alternative to Oil? (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
41 points by pherk 15y ago|62 comments