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by random42 16y ago
Good to know that you are not counting your chickens before they are hatched. Best of luck! :)
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by random42 16y ago
We have raised over $6M and while YC helped us and we are extremely appreciative, the hard work we put into CarWoo! and our determination to build a huge company was the key to our success. raising venture capital != success. Not for a sc
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by random42 16y ago
The latter is how democracy was supposed to work (in the ideal world).
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by random42 16y ago
I think its a cultural thing. Most people in the US (In my very uninformed opinion, mostly based on television/movies), are very explicit in their political stand. In India, its assumed almost sinful to ask for political stance/ "Who are yo
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by random42 16y ago
I take fundamental issue with the idea that a single metric should be sufficient to disqualify a student. Typically, other than exceptional cases, usually there is a bare minimum requirement to meet(on some criteria or other) to avoid dis
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by random42 16y ago
You are right. My (Extremely badly put :() point was, why does it matter so much to make new hires productive as a race to zero countdown? If a employee going to work at an average for 2 years, to me, it feels OK to give them sometime to ge
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by random42 16y ago
While I am not sure how effective/good 8pen solution is, the problem space they are working in ("touch screen typing"), is bound to produce a winning solution in next few of years. Interesting times.
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by random42 16y ago
I am all for empowerment and making devs productive, but taking it to an absurd level ( making devs push code to production one day one) is not good. Making employees feel empowered is much more than one day show. Hopefully, its going to b
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by random42 16y ago
Its not feasible to "test" knowledge always. Many degrees, are the qualification to practice a particular profession. Think about how bad it would be, if medical degree holders do not know how to treat people, pilot license holder do not kn
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by random42 16y ago
The bottom line is that a doctorate is not an easy thing to get, it's stressful and some people probably can't take the stress. Then, Unfortunately, they should not get doctorate. (I realize this sounds awful and unfair, but it is actuall
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by random42 16y ago
Would it make sense to show average karma on profile page of a user too? (This is question, NOT a feature request, as I presume that Karma at HN serves the purpose of moderating the quality of content, rather than being a redditesque user-s
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by random42 16y ago
I do realize that he is not say this article, however I just feel that there is a lot of false sense of grandeur associated with being a entrepreneur.
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by random42 16y ago
I don’t care if you’re a billionaire. If you haven’t started a company, really gambled your resume and your money and maybe even your marriage to just go crazy and try something on your own, you’re no pirate and you aren’t in the club. I
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by random42 16y ago
In not any particular order, 1. Good quality true "Web scale" work. 2. Top benefits (and I suppose a decent paycheck too). 3. Smart peers. 4. Realistic chances of hitting the IPO/Acquisition jackpot through equity. Whats not so great at wor
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by random42 16y ago
The two startups I worked in so far (Incorporated in the US, working in India), have offered me stock options, so its certainly not a "Valley only" thing.
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by random42 16y ago
I wonder what gandhi would have to say/do on this.
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by random42 16y ago
Which kinda makes sense, given Facebook is pre-IPO.
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by random42 16y ago
You dont base your principles and stands on winning or losing, you base them on what is the right thing to do.
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by random42 16y ago
I hope this is not an "out of context query", but why/how does money affect creation of laws in the US?
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by random42 16y ago
I dont get the big hoopla about NoSQL. Its a different way of doing things than traditional RDBMS (which very successfully served us well for over 20 years). Why cant we just choose the best tool for the job, after looking at pros and cons?
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by random42 16y ago
For which use cases this compiler would be helpful? I believe python and JavaScript are typically used for different purposes. That being said, it looks fantastic. :) Disclaimer - I do not know JavaScript.
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by random42 16y ago
I work for a small shop, so I know very little about how big players work, but I was under the impression, that every company takes data in account, while making product decisions.
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by random42 16y ago
hammering things out on your own is great. That’s almost an entirely different class of learning, and it works well in the majority of cases. I am deliberately taking this para out of context to point out how learning by "hammering things
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by random42 16y ago
Yeah they are. My comment meant for "their revenue model wrt flash".
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by random42 16y ago
Its heartening to know how adobe is trying to co-exist with HTML5. Their revenue model historically based upon flash content tools, and not flash as technology. and Now they are focusing their energies to make better tools for HTML5, not fi
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by random42 16y ago
Please tell me you made them make the url live with important content.
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by random42 16y ago
I was just thinking, before reading your response, that python would suck for the blind, because of its strong preference of "beautification" of the code. So your response actually surprises me. Do you think having braces over indentation w
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by random42 16y ago
They ended up reverting and undoing revert due to non-verification. Also, paper calculations to be certain about the effects, are not supposed to take a lot of time.
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by random42 16y ago
How is rolling back one of software component, without knowing/calculating whether it will "play nice" with the rest of the architecture/services is acceptable/reasonable? Am I missing something here, please let me know?
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by random42 16y ago
All I am trying to say, it only makes sense to do/know effect analysis of your changes, before actually doing it. I fail to see, why they need to revert a piece of code, and then realize, OMG... this version of code does not fit well with

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