rgovind

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   by rgovind 12y ago

   Back in 2000s, when companies were hiring Indian talent left right and centre, Java was main language being taught in new graduates. Learning Java, Core Java, Enterprise Java (whatever these words mean) meant you could get a job in US by ho
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   by rgovind 12y ago

   1) I would fight with government and fix bad driving and road accidents in India and China. India is the current world accident capital. 2) Build a quora like website where anonymous government employees explain about various happenings in
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   by rgovind 12y ago

   It is generally assumed that Bay area is more costly than most of China. Hence the quote. Of course, chinese people may know that it is otherwise....
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   by rgovind 12y ago

   There are too many startup related videos floating around. If you have watched them, after a point, you notice that they all say the same thing. Next step is to stop watching these videos and actually doing something. If you are already at
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   by rgovind 12y ago

   Five yrs ago we wouldn't have guessed Amazon would do tablets, its on OS, music service etc. We don't know what they will do five years from now.
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   Ask HN: MBA student wants internship in USA. How to get one?

   2 points by rgovind 12y ago|0 comments
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   Ask HN: List of all code schools in SF or South Bay

   3 points by rgovind 12y ago|0 comments
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   by rgovind 12y ago

   Can you please expand...I missed any reference...if you meant one.
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   by rgovind 12y ago

   All real estate news and websites are biased and always suggest you that buying a home is a god think. In the SF bay area, I hear real estate agents speak on the radio. Before recession, they said you should buy a home immediately so that r
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    Innovation will never be done. Some kid somewhere will find a new way of doing things. Anyways, for programmers, I would think something like this. Imagine you are coding/executing on command line and you repeatedly get an GCC error &
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    Once in a while in HN you see the question, "what side projects are making you passive money?". From my understanding, most of them are simple SAAS ideas fetching 200-300k. Eg, patio's appointment remainder app. Instead of s
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    You should she them just to find out why :P Btw, now that you don't care, can you please tell which company this is.
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    Did they take it back because of this post in hacker news or because they didn't like the higher salary request.
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    answering my own question, you can use Sabre or google QPX.
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    The popup is so that they can set cookies in your browser..which will then be used for affiliate tracking.
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    Ask HN: Please suggest an Airfare API that is free to use

    7 points by rgovind 12y ago|8 comments
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    Ask HN: Compiler testing: Do you know of any automatic test-case generator?

    2 points by rgovind 12y ago|0 comments
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    Ask HN: Macbook air for developing basic apps?

    5 points by rgovind 12y ago|5 comments
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    Ash HN: If you are hiring manager, how do you calculate a developer's worth?

    1 points by rgovind 12y ago|2 comments
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    What were some critertion used? I got a reject :(
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    I am posting this for my wife, who is looking for a QA position (manual/automated testing) Location: San Francisco Bay area Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Java, Perl, Selenium, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, Linux R
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    In principle, yes. In practice its tough. You can look for parallels in what happened with Cricket in India, where it is huge. A media mogul named Subhash chandra came up with the idea of "India Cricket League" (similar to English
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    I friend told me that Google wasn't acquired by MS because Google fully ran on windows...and integrating would have been costly. Dunno how true it is. In your case, , you should consider how much it would cost acquiring company to rewr
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    South Bay (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Jose, Palo Alto...etc) Full time/Contract/Part time. Stack: QA, QA automation, Perl, Java, SQL, Selenium, File system testing, balck-box/white box testing, Linux scripting. Resume link
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    South Bay (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Jose, Palo Alto...etc) Full time/Contract/Part time. Stack: QA, QA automation, Perl, Java, SQL, Selenium, File system testing, balck-box/white box testing, Linux scripting. Resume link
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    Problem: How do you identify what the keywords in a search term mean. A word like Shingles can mean shingles roof, or shingles disease or shingles concept in search engine. For this, you first start with a known set of documents (known mean
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    I came here to tell about haker dojo and you beat me to it. In Bay area Hacker dojo, agile entrepreneur meetups happen. Once a week (Fridays?), you give update to others in the meetup on what you accomplished, what you plan for the next wee
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    Yes. I get paid a princely sum of $25 per month. I been Thinkig on same lines as you but there are some challenges. You need detailed demographics information on per household basis(age sex occupation appliances in home number if cars educa
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    Nielsen ratings: Why has no one disrupted nielsen ratings?

    13 points by rgovind 12y ago|9 comments
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    by rgovind 12y ago

    I don't know about Amazon, but I do know some people who use it to get mundane but necessary tasks done. For example, if you have a forum and you want to seed with questions...you can use mechanical turk to get people that. Also, for a