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by pratik661 13y ago
Wow that was one of the most informative interviews I've ever seen.
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by pratik661 13y ago
Wow this is amazing!
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by pratik661 13y ago
Nice. How did you get there?
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by pratik661 13y ago
Well Silicon Valley does need America's consumer market, legal infrastructure, security, and skilled work force. The author of the article is not wrong in that sense. How successful would your start up be if you had to waste time worry
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by pratik661 13y ago
There are different categories of corruption: 1. Bribes for government service 2. Government officials siphoning off resources 3. Government officials offering lucrative contracts/appointments to their friends or to people who bribed t
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by pratik661 13y ago
Food is a major part of our culture. It doubt that it will be completely replaced by supplements like this. However I can see genuine use cases for this. I can see this might be useful for certain military operations, such as reconnaissance
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by pratik661 13y ago
This looks really interesting. If anyone is interested we could start a chapter in Dallas, TX.
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by pratik661 13y ago
I agree. The "make an iPad app" camps have a very narrow focus and appeal. Are we really changing the world with an iPad app? I just had a cursory glance at the website and saw one kid claim that he wanted to build an autonomous g
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by pratik661 13y ago
If I wanted to see idiotic pun threads/snarky irrelevant comments I would go to reddit. I don't want to be rude but I want HN to be a site for serious discussion on mostly technical topics.
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by pratik661 13y ago
20%? In a country as business friendly as the USA, only 10% of businesses last over 5 years. India is a rougher business environment so I would assume the rate of success is way below 20% (probably 5%)
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by pratik661 13y ago
Please don't sell my email address to marketers.
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by pratik661 13y ago
It should be a risky venture for the company (ie a new strategy). I think gambling in Las Vegas would count as fraudulent.
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by pratik661 13y ago
I think keeping a picture is a bit extreme, but there were several times when I thought "Hmmm... what would Elon Musk do..." and pursued that course of action.
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by pratik661 13y ago
I've noticed that people in the game industry make significantly less than other software engineers. Why do you think that is? The few software engineers that I know who work the hours that are the norm in the game industry make even m
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by pratik661 14y ago
Hmm I wonder if there is a way to bypass your graphics card and use this as a GPU?