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by prpon 17y ago
I agree with the fact that this is doomed to fail. AT&T does own Yellow Pages and they do have a head start in that regard. Wasn't there a story about Yelp being lousy for business owners on HN active list the last few days?
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by prpon 17y ago
I am an Indian, not sure about the relegious part. Karma at least in India/Hindu culture is tossed around more freely than in the west. Mostly associated to negative incidents. "I had a flat tire, its my karma", "Someone got kicked out of a
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How Diverse is Facebook?(facebook.com)
1 points by prpon 17y ago|0 comments
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by prpon 17y ago
I've always considered myself a 'global citizen' after living in the US for 15 years. During a 10 day trip to Germany. I was thrown out of a bar for asking directions in english, yelled at by some crazy dude in a train station for stealing
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by prpon 17y ago
There is only one failure and that's not trying. You could tweak a million things to perfection and stress yourselves about it but, I doubt the outcome would be much different. Whether or not this works out for you, you will have learnt a g
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by prpon 17y ago
Nicely done interface. A minor nitpick, if you send SMS to 646-863-9557, shouldn't the second screen have a different phone number? Or does all of the interaction you show there happens on the person sending the money?
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by prpon 17y ago
There's a crisis brewing every quarter year of your life, if you let them be your crisis. There are some crisis that need intervention and help but whatever happened to a simple kick on the butt to move ahead and go do something useful?
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by prpon 17y ago
So you are one of those who says "Please close the door right after I get in". "We came during the time when America needed new talent."...well, the kind of talent that got in is not cutting it right now. May be we need a new crop of immig
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by prpon 17y ago
"Once you submit your order for Membership, it is nonrefundable. Only in cases of fraud will the payment be refunded. This policy is in place due to an abuse of credit card chargebacks and theft of information. All requests for refunds due
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by prpon 17y ago
Makes me nostalgic and depressed at what we thought was cool at that time. In 1996, I made a javascript image slide show hosted on geocities for pictures of me and my girlfriend. She was really impressed at my thoughtfulness and effort. She
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by prpon 17y ago
For my local 7/11 or gas station, I 'repair computers'. For my relatives who are not into software, I am an 'Engineer'. Working on 'open source enterprise service bus' was the most nebulous thing to explain, even to programmers who were do
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by prpon 17y ago
Nice site. I would use it to decide which movies to watch based on the ratings. And I would like the movies playing now to be at the top (not the one's coming soon). During the process of deciding, I might encounter a movie that I watched,
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by prpon 17y ago
Is there a way for me to test drive the app without having to sign up? I do not want to give my email address then regret that this app is not something I am interested in.
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by prpon 17y ago
May be if Yahoo put up a contest and asked Flickr users to create a logo with Yahoo branding, it would have created a good PR, a better logo and time for Flickr users to digest the fact that this is coming.
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by prpon 17y ago
Here's an article from Entrepreneur magazine this month that talks about people who are successfully doing it. http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/octob... It would be hard to imagine being profitable (or sustainable) j
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by prpon 17y ago
Or you can find out whom you are gonna join when you get there :p
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by prpon 17y ago
And then you walk into a subway store and pick up a sandwich, the spinach you wanted for good health had E.Coli. You contract Gastrointestinal infection and then you die. My dad used to say "At the end of the day we all are alive because of
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by prpon 17y ago
Working for a startup taught me more of "how not to screw it up" than anything positive I saw the existing company/founders do. There were some great lessons learnt at the expense of my personal time.
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Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?(zephoria.org)
5 points by prpon 17y ago|0 comments
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by prpon 17y ago
Good to see that someone is acting on it. However, the following quote makes me worried about the bureaucracy. (1) set up a non-government board consisting of credible VCs, entrepreneurs, and lawyers to vet applicants. It probably is a bett
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by prpon 17y ago
Do it. It's no crazier than this girl who set out to the end of the world back on a tractor collecting dreams of people. A great interview on NPR at http://www.pri.org/theworld/?q=node/14897 and more information here: http://www.tractort
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by prpon 17y ago
In the example of editing wikipedia it mentions: "This imagined paradox is caused when the percentage is provided but not the ratio." We see this so many areas. China's GDP is growing 12% every year and the US has grown just 2% type of argu
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by prpon 17y ago
I guess 91% of us are saying "Don't sweat the small stuff such as a degree". However, I wish unlearning the college stuff would have been as easier as a switch to linux :)
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by prpon 17y ago
FYI, When I click on the link `Books` on the landing page, the URL it redirects to http://www.cookupbooks.com/my_books does not show up in Safari (version 4.0.2) , it appears ok in firefox.
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by prpon 17y ago
A startup I worked was started by HBS guys and hired professor from MIT as their first employee. They pretty much interviewed and hired folks from the top 5 math and computer science schools only. I looked up to these guys because of an in
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by prpon 17y ago
Very well said. I could be saying any of these statements and if these were things that were non-existent, it would not be as appealing. I would like to find out if Branson would fund me for the following: "Provide health care to everyone,
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by prpon 17y ago
I moved from Berkeley to LA several years back. I worked for a startup and was involved with the startup community in east bay. I have not involved myself actively with the LA startup community but I have to say, it does not come close. Her
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by prpon 17y ago
A conversation with my wife would probably go like this: Wife: Who is "Roy Fielding"? Me: Some guy. He’s smart. Wife: Oh? What did he do? Me: He helped write the first web servers and then did a ton of research explaining why the web works
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by prpon 17y ago
Good arguments. Anything taken to the extreme is bound to have negative implications, including meritocracy. I would disagree about how much choice we have once you are down and out. I would like to think otherwise but I'm where I am becau
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by prpon 17y ago
I've made use of Yodlee so much so that over the years, I've told it to anyone within earshot. The most common excuse I get from even the tech savvy programming crowd is "I do not want to have all my account information in one place, it's a

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