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by prayag 15y ago
MobileWorks is YCS11 company. We are really passionate about making a positive impact in the world using technology. We are also hiring if anyone wants to join us in our mission.
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by prayag 15y ago
I think you are missing two crucial pieces of the puzzle. The 3 months sprint and peer support. Those are the biggest outcome of an incubator. You work your ass off for 3 months to sprint towards a product while helping your peers with thei
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Help us help the world, MobileWorks is hiring (Berkeley, CA)
1 points by prayag 15y ago
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by prayag 15y ago
I was only looking at acquired companies it seems. Sorry.
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by prayag 15y ago
I am surprised you missed Brian and Joe from AirBnB. Both went to Rhode Island School of Design and AirBnB is probably valued higher than all these companies combined.
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by prayag 15y ago
Nope. We are talking about the same India. I don't know if you have actually read the Constitution of India but the right to expression in India comes with riders. From the Constitution of India Part III Section 19. This is the foot-note ab
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by prayag 15y ago
I disagree. I think Sibal is one of the smarter and honest guy in the government. I do think people take him seriously. He is the person behind the $35 tablet, he is moving the country from an absolute points based system of grading to rela
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by prayag 15y ago
I am justifying anything. I am telling it how it. People in the US think of freedom of speech as a fundamental right which it should be. This is not the case with most other countries. It's the same as people in other countries thinking tha
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by prayag 15y ago
Ok, I will play the devil's advocate here because someone has to. This has been going on since the pre-internet era. India unlike the US and like the UK doesn't have unlimited free speech and have fairly strong defamation and libel laws. Th
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by prayag 15y ago
First of all, it makes you take it seriously. It's not a side project that you are doing. You think of it as work as something that is going to pay your bills at some point. You work harder, you take smarter decisions and you start thinking
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by prayag 15y ago
>you're doing is not startuppy enough to count I have always had a problem with that. A start-up is a start-up if you decide it's a start-up and want to transform it into a viable business. There is no magic line that you have to cross
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by prayag 15y ago
From the article: "Request: Please don't email me to educate how this analysis should've been done. I know that it's limited. Instead, can you please do the analysis yourself and share the results in order to benefit everybody?"
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Ranking of HCI conferences based on average citations per paper(oulasvirta.posterous.com)
4 points by prayag 15y ago|1 comments
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by prayag 15y ago
Just wanted to plug in my start-up. For basic data mining tasks over the web you can use application built over top of the platform https://excavator.mobileworks.com and you wouldn't have to hire anyone. More apps coming soon. Email suppo
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by prayag 15y ago
I tried to comment as a fellow YC S11 alumnus but got a message saying "You are not a participant in this round table." It seems like an invite only thing. Anyways, so I'll put in my comments here. Before we interviewed we had been pitching
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Immigrant Creates U.S. Jobs, Gets Boot Over Visa(abcnews.go.com)
12 points by prayag 15y ago|0 comments
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Turbocharging MobileWorks: Job management, webhooks+callbacks, and HTML5 support(blog.mobileworks.com)
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by prayag 15y ago
Actually it's true. Apple removed Scratch from their app-store because "Apple wants to focus on consuming media using these devices, not producing media."[1] [1] http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/apple-removes-sc...
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by prayag 15y ago
Speed of light as a limit on speed of information or matter is a universal constant. There is a reason why it is called a universal constant, no amount of observation or experimentation would change this universal fact. Of course, the scien
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Tagstand (YC S11) Raises $1.1 Million To Help Take NFC Mainstream(techcrunch.com)
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by prayag 15y ago
Not to mention that Steve Jobs was so much younger than Ritchie. It's always sad when a great innovator dies but its doubly sad when he dies young. Steve's kids are much younger than Daniel's and are unfortunate to have lost their father at
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by prayag 15y ago
This probably the best Jobs's obituary. It's very personal. The admiration and respect that Eric Schmidt have for Steve is heart-warming and the eloquence is impressive.
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by prayag 15y ago
"as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well." Doesn't Google compete with Apple? Why would Steve do that when Google is the number 1 competitor of Apple?
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by prayag 15y ago
I read this in comments when the last time CmdrTaco posted on HN. Full points for ethics. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058565
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by prayag 15y ago
Adding to what anandkulkarni said, some people have proposed very innovative applications on top of the MobileWorks. Applications such as spam-filtering, object recognition etc. can revolutionize what is possible using software.
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by prayag 15y ago
Co-founder here. MobileWorks is a YCS11 company. I can check in from time-to-time to answer any questions HN'ers might have.
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by prayag 15y ago
MobileWorks (YCS11) is hiring Platform engineers/Platform interns http://www.mobileworks.com/jobs.html Berkeley, CA
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by prayag 15y ago
Stripe is simply amazing. We've been using them for many weeks now and things just work. Setting up payments was so much easier.
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by prayag 15y ago
I bought a Windows machine from Amazon. The reason that I wasn't able to install Linux was acceptable enough for Amazon to pay for return shipping.
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by prayag 15y ago
As someone who've taught before (I was a TA at Berkeley during grad school). It's awesome to monitor the classroom and see if what you are saying even makes sense to the class or not. Kudos!

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