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by prayag 15y ago
I submitted the same story in one page here yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2735814 , funny how things work here. Having said that, this is a great read. What worries me about India is that we are producing a generation whos
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by prayag 15y ago
Having lived in Helsinki and gotten some taste of the start-up culture there, I still believe that Silicon Valley is far far ahead of Europe in terms of the start-up scene. What I noticed was that culture in the Silicon Valley is very organ
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by prayag 15y ago
Ron Conway is also an investor in YCombinator. Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator
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A summer in an Indian Call center (motherjones.com)
21 points by prayag 15y ago|0 comments
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by prayag 15y ago
Not true. Law-makers never intend the law to be ambiguous. In fact, it makes the jobs of the court much harder since the interpretation of courts constitutes a precedence and guides the future decisions of the courts. In fact the criticism
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by prayag 15y ago
AnyAsq is a great great site. I love the idea, the minimal design (though it's creepily similar to Reddit), and it's easily monitizable. I would do this full-time if I were you.
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by prayag 15y ago
Your anger against Loopt is understandable (not agreeable but probably understandable). What have you got against the Airbnb founders? I have heard stories of their hustle but none of them were even close to being sketchy or evil.
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by prayag 15y ago
Forgot to mention that Solomon and Jerome are extremely knowledgeable engineers and very helpful. They hang out at freenode IRC at #dotcloud.
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by prayag 15y ago
I have been a happy dotcloud beta user for a month. As a founder of a small start-up outsourcing the entire sysadmin work is a great advantage and .the support on the IRC has been very valuable. The pricing seems a little steep but I would
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by prayag 15y ago
Crowdsourcing is still almost languishing in the niche. Applications like this gives visibility to crowdsourcing as a viable, new and hopefully completely revolutionary computing paradigm. Kudos to Panos!!
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by prayag 15y ago
This is not even worth the time it takes to click and wait for the god awful page. Attention is what this guy wants. Why are we even bothering about this on the first page?
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by prayag 15y ago
This is actually analogous to that we teach in User Interface Design 101. There are distinct advantages of showing very early stage prototypes. When we show it to potential users they would be perfectly honest about what they don't like. Tr
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by prayag 15y ago
I also remember someone talking about airbnb airlifting breakfasts for the guest. That seemed like a weak link. I am kind of surprised that you didn't buy in the idea. Couchsurfing.org has been very successful
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by prayag 15y ago
Google API expect an entire file to be uploaded before it processes it, hence the need of a temp file.
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by prayag 15y ago
Just details.
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Speech to Text in 3 lines of shell script using ffmpeg and Google's API(github.com)
6 points by prayag 15y ago|4 comments
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by prayag 15y ago
Here's the problem with trying to establish real identities over the Internet-its very hard. Quora has had this problem, and so has Facebook. I can't believe websites still think its a good idea to associate a name with an account rather th
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by prayag 15y ago
I haven't read the judgment but I would think that the judgment can act as a precedence unless there is a rider associated with it. This probably probably has nothing to do with Federal/State law. The courts are generally very specific abou
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by prayag 15y ago
There is no arguing with the facts. Copyright does attach itself at the moment of creation and that limits other people's free speech right when it comes to using your work. However, as I was pointing out, there's a limit on your rights, li
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by prayag 15y ago
Copyright comes into existence the moment you create a work. You may do whatever you want with it. Society leaves it to your discretion. Yours is a moot point.
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by prayag 15y ago
I did not want to get into this debate but oh well. >Yes, and society has decided that the proper balance in >that tradeoff is to give creators the choice in deciding >when particular copies of their works are made available to
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by prayag 15y ago
This article is clearly biased and (not to put down the original author) borders on hero worshiping of India and her engineers. Some glaringly partisan comments "liberating Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) from Pakistan’s colonialism", "Indi
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by prayag 15y ago
Using open source in the title doesn't seem right since you are neither talking about open source start-ups or open sourcing the book. I don't think the word open source means what you think it means. It is a particular philosophy of writin
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by prayag 16y ago
The letters have started coming in. Good luck to everyone. :)
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by prayag 16y ago
I love stories like this. This would make an excellent movie.
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by prayag 16y ago
As an entrepreneur, the onus does fall on you to make sure that your elevator pitch is such that any layman can understand it. Generally, the Angels are smart people and are generally quick to catch up. May be you can go with a metaphor tha
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by prayag 16y ago
Another shot in the arm for the author's guild and the copyright champions of the world. Its just frustrating how we let these arm-twisting lawsuit-happy sleezeballs become the gatekeepers of the entire body of knowledge the human race has
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by prayag 16y ago
Exactly the opposite. Start calling your projects start-ups. If you don't take them seriously nobody will. Every line of code you write, every project you do should be done with a purpose of building something great and making money off of
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by prayag 16y ago
I am a couchsurfing member and have stayed and hosted a few people and have gone to the CS meetings and events. The community is extremely warm and generous and I've never met anyone who is sketchy let alone dangerous. Of course, you should
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by prayag 16y ago
OR just surf someone's couch at www.couchsurfing.org

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