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by prayag 15y ago
Is it just me or was it a god-awful write-up. There is very little extra information in this article other than the headline. What happened to researching, talking to people and writing a good article?
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by prayag 15y ago
If DropBox is being valued at >3-4 Billion, it only seems fair that Box.Net which is a legitimate competitor to Dropbox and has a strong presence in the enterprise world would fancy itself at atleast a Billion Dollar valuation.
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MobileWorks (YC S11) is Hiring (San Francisco/Berkeley)
1 points by prayag 15y ago
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by prayag 15y ago
It's great to see Newspaper industry trying something different. I don't know if this will save them but innovation is almost always the step in the right direction.
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by prayag 15y ago
Not to forget, "stay-in-the-closet.com" very popular among the politicians against the LGBT rights.
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MobileWorks (YC S11) is Hiring (San Francisco/Berkeley)
1 points by prayag 15y ago
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by prayag 15y ago
That's a great point and fairly accurate from a bird's eye view. However, MobileWorks does much more than connecting developers and humans. MobileWorks lets developers define the tasks and then makes sure that the workforce comes to the rig
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by prayag 15y ago
Let me check this for MobileWorks platform: Low effort, high reward: You can use MobileWorks' simple API to use humans to do some tasks for you which may not even be possible for complicated AI algorithms. So, check. Enable multiple points
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by prayag 15y ago
Can someone (or the author) explain to me how this is different from what I get from Django-Debug-Toolbar. DjDT tells me what queries are run and how much time each took.
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by prayag 15y ago
>whereas Heroku runs Django apps just fine How?
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by prayag 15y ago
Gondor looks fantastic. I love the fact that PaaS is picking up and there is more competition. It is such a fantastic idea. We have been hosting on DotCloud for our django apps and are extremely happy with it. The fact that we can scale up
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by prayag 15y ago
We are right in the middle of a round. Sorry, can't say much.
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by prayag 15y ago
MobileWorks (YCS11) is looking for idealist, enthusiastic and capable engineers and engineering interns in San Francisco. http://www.mobileworks.com/jobs.html
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by prayag 15y ago
>Do most YC company founders go in debt / use savings / use most of the YC money, to cover personal expenses while they do this? For us Yuri and SV money investments covered everything and gave us enough to stash.
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by prayag 15y ago
I agree completely. If there is a conflict of interest, it should be disclosed. (I don't know how there is a conflict of interest, I am not aware of how the investment graph looks like.)
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by prayag 15y ago
Copy pasted from below: "I happen to know Kieran Farr quite well. http://www.vidcaster.com/ was one of the first companies in our Co-op incubator. And, I have no doubt, that Kieran is going to be far richer than some reporter who still ma
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by prayag 15y ago
>I also don't understand your ignorance comment. Vidcaster and Vidyard are two competing companies. Ignorance on the part of Sales executives who upload their videos on youtube.
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by prayag 15y ago
I refuse to get into any more debate with you because seeing your comment about over-population, I am compelled to believe that you are just a troll.
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by prayag 15y ago
>What I don't get is why TechCrunch seems to give YC companies more coverage than 500 Startups companies. I suppose it's nice to have Arrington as the LP of one of your investors (SV Angel). That's just bull-shit. Just because they cove
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by prayag 15y ago
>Microsoft Windows desktop market share: 90+% A relic of last decade. A case of momentum. >Internet Explorer market share: 40-50% A side-effect of the above. I hate to be sidetracked by my perceived opinion of Microsoft. I am not th
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by prayag 15y ago
They are not inversely related.
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by prayag 15y ago
Second place after merging the service with the service in the second place (Yahoo search). Google wasn't the most successful, lucrative and well-capitalized technology when it started. Google was the case of one company completely dominati
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by prayag 15y ago
>Well, how much software have you paid for lately to help view your files and directories in a graphical tree, defragment your disks, compress the data on them, or scan that data for viruses? As me how much Microsoft software I've used
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by prayag 15y ago
I think it's important for start-up to understand that generating wealth is utmost important, a lot of fun and of course a legal fiduciary duty of the founders. However, it is possible to both make a lot of money and make a positive impact
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by prayag 15y ago
Awaaz.de is not a non-profit. It is a for-profit venture and is making money. I think it has more to do with the reporting than the companies.
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8 start-ups that are changing the world(mashable.com)
39 points by prayag 15y ago|26 comments
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by prayag 15y ago
I read it as a Humble Indie Bundle: an XBLA horror story and thought it was a story about Humble Indie Bundle. It's not. The story has nothing to do with Humble Indie Bundle. In fact this story goes on to show the need for something like Hu
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by prayag 15y ago
>If HP or IBM or SAP or Oracle wanted to do what, say, Dropbox does, they would throw effectively unlimited funding at the >problem until it was solved. And if there is one thing we've learned from Microsoft etc. is that throwing un
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by prayag 15y ago
I am on Linux_x64 and chrome. Can't click the GetStarted button.
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HP kills off WebOS, Tablets and Phone business(arstechnica.com)
7 points by prayag 15y ago|0 comments

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