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by redmaverick 11y ago
I was born and brought up in India and have lived in the U.S for around 6+ years before finally returning back home recently. Living outside your own country for a significant length time is pretty mind expanding. This is what I have realiz
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by redmaverick 11y ago
This is exactly the same in India as well. We have Ola Cabs here which is an Uber clone and it is a billion dollar company. Likewise, we have flipkart which is an amazon clone and is another multibillion dollar company. We have plenty of cl
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by redmaverick 11y ago
Is it fair to give the Nobel prize to a single/two persons in 2015? Usually it is a team of people all working together collectively to solve a common problem.
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by redmaverick 11y ago
"There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants and the other is... .. getting it!" ~ Oscar Wilde
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by redmaverick 11y ago
You can move to Canada. I think Canada is like USA: The good parts 1. There is gun control 2. Universal Health Care 3. They don't start wars
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by redmaverick 11y ago
I read Ashlee Vance's "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" a while back. His personal assistant (for 12 years) Mary Beth Brown asks Elon for a raise. He asks her to take a 2 week break so he can as
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by redmaverick 11y ago
thanks, Soham, for sharing your experience. Will keep them in mind.
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by redmaverick 11y ago
"I often feel bad that I have zero experience with relational databases. Big gap in my skill sets." ~ John Carmack https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/457916010234777600 How can someone accomplish
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by redmaverick 11y ago
Hey guys. Spent quite a while working on this idea. I would love some feedback about the UI and your thoughts if something like this has the potential to take off. Basically, this is inspired by an article written by a twitter engineer. ht
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Show HN: InterviewHound.com Bootcamp for Interview Preparation(interviewhound.com)
1 points by redmaverick 11y ago|3 comments
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by redmaverick 11y ago
Hey guys.. I worked on this project for a while now. This is built based on this article: http://www.restlessprogrammer.com/2013/09/hacking-coding-int...
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Did it have any impact on your ability to do a good days work? Were you more focused? I wouldn't mind fasting if it makes me more focused and productive.
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by redmaverick 11y ago
So, what is the current system that you are using for GTD? I need to be more organized and productive but I really don't have the time/patience to read the book. So, if you can give the tldr; of your system or a web app that force
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by redmaverick 11y ago
Joe Biden's speech in 2012 touches upon similar themes that Sheryl writes about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwZ6UfXm410&t=5m10s "I have to tell you. I used to resent people. They'd come up to me and
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by redmaverick 11y ago
nice story! How did you get your first few clients/customers. Did you get investor funding for Datanyze?
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by redmaverick 11y ago
When I was going through the article, these two quotes came to my mind. “There are some people who just get what they want in the world. If you want to start a startup you have to be one of those people. You can’t be passive and wishy-wash
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by redmaverick 11y ago
For Portfolio and Practice: 1. Reddit Clone 2. Blog 3. To do List 4. Forums 5. Twitter Clone Ideas for apps:(Variation of the above 5) 1. SnapTweets(Twitter Clone): Disappearing tweets, as soon as you receive a tweet, it starts self destruc
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by redmaverick 11y ago
The secret sauce for me was to buy a treadmill and place a drawing board on top of the handles. I place my laptop on top of the drawing board and do stuff I normally do. Right now I am typing this comment and using the treadmill at the same
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by redmaverick 12y ago
Currently reading: Never Eat Alone - By Keith Ferrazi and Tahl Raz How to network? Basically, don't treat people like stepping stones. Make meaningful connection with them and always be an active go-giver without keeping score. Also, r
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by redmaverick 12y ago
"Jiro Dreams of Sushi" - Jiro is the John Carmack equivalent of cooking. Fascinating look into the life of someone who is utterly dedicated to his passion and life's work. "The Aviator" - How far one can go when one
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by redmaverick 12y ago
You can see the demo of the app working here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNjj_DcnacQ
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Show HN: Cleverbot with Hacker News AI(hnchatbot.herokuapp.com)
1 points by redmaverick 12y ago|1 comments
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by redmaverick 12y ago
This is my vacation hack. You can play with it here: http://hnchatbot.herokuapp.com Would appreciate feedback.
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by redmaverick 12y ago
There are different types of meditation styles. I had experience with a type of meditation mentioned in the article. It is known as mindfulness meditation. Even in mindfulness meditation there are different approaches. Mine is mindfulness t
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by redmaverick 12y ago
I checked out your website. You can try using a Bootstrap theme for your website. Check these sites out: http://www.littlelines.com/ http://symondsandson.com/
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by redmaverick 12y ago
This is the link to the site: http://www.InterviewHound.com/
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by redmaverick 12y ago
Steve Jobs was not heavily involved with Pixar like Elon was with his other companies. Pixar Myth No. 5: Steve Jobs Ran Pixar http://alvyray.com/pixar/PixarMyth5.htm
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by redmaverick 12y ago
Offtopic: Conventional wisdom says he who chases two rabbits, captures none. How is Elon Musk able to succeed on more than one Company? Even Steve Jobs is famous for focus. He once said, "I'm as proud of what we don't do as I
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by redmaverick 12y ago
I actually agreed with everything you say. You can be a really great Genius, much like Feynman/Einstein without needing to have a stratospheric IQ like John Von Neumann. Deep thinkers tend to be more original and there is actually a ne
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by redmaverick 12y ago
" This is related to another comment about two types of genius. There are people who solve a problem the same way that you do, just much much faster. You can imagine doing the same work they had done, but rather than an hour or a day,

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