psranga

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by psranga 17y ago
Great information, thanks! I take it the companies using Tcl and OpenBSD failed to get acquired. I didn't realize the technology used would deter an acquirer. This probably explains why most startups go with "safe choices".
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by psranga 17y ago
Did you have to interview again in October, or did they just reactivate your previous offer?
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by psranga 17y ago
$300/mo for rent and $2.50/day for transportation? Sign me up. FYI a single ride on the bus/light rail in the Bay Area (VTA) costs $3.75.
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by psranga 17y ago
If they've blogged about it, it's highly likely they are well in to the development phase this feature. Second, the challenge in most features is in implementing it on their infrastructure in a scalable manner. Scalable implementation on Go
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by psranga 17y ago
I flagged this.
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by psranga 17y ago
Thanks for the response and your hard work to build up and sustain a great community! Have you thought about hiding the submitter's and commenter's name for an hour (or twelve :)) after the post is submitted? Won't that solve the problem of
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by psranga 17y ago
My two cents: companies check references on their prospective employees. The ethical ones ask you for a list and claim to contact only them; the unethical ones will contact anybody they please. Your contacting the ex-employee is you checkin
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by psranga 17y ago
If you count early employees as co-founders, then fine (that's probably why you wrote "de facto"). http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/bezos_pr.html "Over blueberry pancakes at the Sash Mill Cafe in Santa Cruz, Bezos managed to convin
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by psranga 17y ago
Btw, A through D are false even with respect to the US. It is very rare for American companies to hire foreigners not already present in the US. They usually hire young people who've come to the US to study for a BS/MS/PhD. It's a myth that
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by psranga 17y ago
So basically you're using FB to build a public profile (i.e., your "brand")? IMHO, this is not the use case for most FB users. I use FB to talk semi-privately with my friends (my expectation is that FB be as private as unencrypted email, wh
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by psranga 17y ago
Interesting point. And conversely maybe they emphasized privacy earlier only to discourage public indexing so that they could be the toll-keepers and charge a premium for their data.
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by psranga 17y ago
I think most reasonable people would question your claim that you lose any reasonable expectation of privacy just because you shared something with your friends. I view Facebook as an easier way to communicate with my friends than by cc'i
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by psranga 17y ago
Really nice site. Well done. The example problem that showed up to me (equilibrium point detection) was not trivial, but didn't require advanced stuff which a halfway decent programmer wouldn't use day in and day out. I also like the way yo
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by psranga 17y ago
I think it works like this: Even if Amazon uses 'k' hdds for one EBS "disk", since you're sharing the real hdds with other users, you don't get 'k' hdds' performance, you only get a fraction. By RAIDing over 'n' EBS "disks", you are effecti
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by psranga 17y ago
Really surprised to see Netflix listed as neutral. If anybody agrees with the original parent, I would love to hear your thoughts. I see Netflix grabbing huge market share from the overpriced cable-TV companies and become the standard way t
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by psranga 17y ago
Unless am also confused about this whole thread and misreading your comments, your reply seems to have fallen in the precise trap that this thread is talking about. The percentage of human-emitted CO2 released into the atmosphere has rema
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by psranga 17y ago
Great site. Well done! I like it just the way it is.
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by psranga 17y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the note. I spent a lot of time on the signup. I'm glad you found it easy. One reason I kept the website barebones is that users of this service will rarely visit the website. But I know first impressions are important.
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Ask HN: Please review my webapp for Twitter over IM
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by psranga 17y ago
Tcl has reference counting and copy on write to minimize copies when passing objects to functions. Not sure if this is the case for slave interpreters (Tcl's term), but I would be very surprised if it were not. http://tmml.sourceforge.net/
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by psranga 17y ago
Sounds pretty believable and reasonable to me (except for launch date). Do you have further info on why the phone will cost about $300 to build? In comparison, the iPhone 3GS allegedly has BOM of $178. http://www.isuppli.com/News/Pages/iPh
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by psranga 17y ago
No, I got the same settings that Calacanis did. Looks like Facebook is either doing A/B testing or intentionally sending conservative settings to a small percentage of users to confuse discussions of this issue.
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by psranga 17y ago
Take a look at the note from the NoScript developer that was posted here yesterday: Maybe Google plans to implement the missing stuff later, maybe they’re still trying to figure out whether it can be done without enabling effective
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by psranga 17y ago
Go read the full Bruce Schneier article that was also posted on HN. According to you searching for an embarassing incident/health problem etc on Google is equivalent to putting your private diary on your coffee table? Well trolled. Privacy
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by psranga 17y ago
With a physical book, since it (1) costs money to make the book, and (2) rapid iteration of content is difficult, there's a huge infrastructure (editors, agents, proofreaders) to select the "good" from the "bad". With electronic publishing,
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by psranga 17y ago
I'll be out $5 (and I was expecting to spend more this weekend) if they cease the streaming service. Just today, Etherpad abandoned their product. If Lala follows suit, I'll probably never pay money or commit seriously to a small startup's
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by psranga 17y ago
You forgot to double-highlight the bare "including", which automatically implies "including but not limited to". Yep, unexpected. That's why I don't ever take up websites' offer to parse my address book.
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by psranga 17y ago
Good move. I've been using 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 for a while now since I found out a few years ago that cable/DSL provider's DNS servers are flaky. It's amazing how often I go to somebody's house or cafe and find DNS to be the weak link.
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by psranga 17y ago
Minor correction to your post: there are no( ) Starbucks franchises. ( ): except in certain high-traffic locations locations like airports etc where Starbucks co-owns the store with the property owner. http://www.starbucks.com/customer/faq
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by psranga 17y ago
The article was thin on facts and read like wishful thinking. The key piece of info was that the unbranded stores had 1/3 the traffic of branded stores. From this the author concludes that people dislike the Starbucks brand? I would have th

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