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by sachinag 17y ago
Google's fascinating when it comes to categorization. I think it's pretty clear that they make software. What's awesome is that they, as you say, don't monetize that s/w by selling it (like 37signals or whatever other internet company); t
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by sachinag 17y ago
Bullshit. They're all 8742 companies. http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/siccodes.htm
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by sachinag 17y ago
This list is shit. CSC, Capgemini, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and ACS don't sell software. They sell consulting, of which actual software coding is but a part.
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by sachinag 17y ago
They got a majority in the House to vote for a bill that reverses a federal court allowing GM to shed dealerships in bankruptcy. Can't say I blame them - dealerships are the biggest source of sales tax revenue in every single rural area th
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by sachinag 17y ago
Terrestrial radio stations in the States don't have to pay performance fees in the United States - essentially, a fee to the record label that owns the recording of a song. Say, Whitney Houston's version of _I Will Always Love You_. In al
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by sachinag 17y ago
The interests of people on this board are exceptionally low beta to general business conditions. People here aren't looking at corporate tax rates and support costs (which is pretty much the entirety of that list).
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm glad that there's a quantity discount. Just wish I didn't have to fill out an RFQ form when there's a listed price. I should be able to just check out with my credit card.
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by sachinag 17y ago
If promotion isn't sufficiently less valuable than the pay-for product, then the promotion isn't actually promotion. It's just free shit. You can hate the labels and the RIAA all you want, but at every single step along the way, they've m
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by sachinag 17y ago
I lost my iPhone, so I can't use this, so here's my question: if I bump phones with someone, does their information go into my Address Book? You have to earn your way into my Address Book on my phone by getting drunk with me or being relate
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by sachinag 17y ago
The right answer to "why" is "because they couldn't get corporations and organizations to pay for Google Apps with a beta tag attached to any of the core offerings of the suite offering".
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by sachinag 17y ago
The biggest risk is identity theft where the culprit uses your SSN to gain credit in your name to buy stuff. You can protect yourself by placing a "freeze" on your credit report. This is essentially what LifeLock does (simplified). But y
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by sachinag 17y ago
Does something like Mixpanel do A/B testing better, or is there a hosted solution that you'd recommend? (Anything to not have to roll one's own because laziness is a virtue.)
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by sachinag 17y ago
I love clueless product managers who have no idea about communities that they reach out to. This shit is not hard, folks. If you are going to try to crowdsource something, you don't wave it in the face of the paid professionals. It's like
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by sachinag 17y ago
SarbOx has something to do with starting up small businesses? I'm glad to see someone's (Craig Barrett, in this case) parochial interests being so poorly disguised as a prescription for American economic woes.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I know nothing about physics - I took a class in high school, and that's it - but there are a couple of explanations: 1) These are old lecture and the whole particle/wave thing, while known, was just thought of differently back in the 1960'
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by sachinag 17y ago
You really don't want people in a large call center out in the middle of nowhere who are unaware of local landmarks and surroundings answering 9-1-1 calls. It's a huge public safety issue where you're dealing with distraught people and the
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by sachinag 17y ago
Well, the thing is we can easily figure out balls/strikes with a combination of the overhead cam and the side cam. The issue is that you can't really air those in the run of play and the networks generally only show those angles when they
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by sachinag 17y ago
You won't get free boot-stomping journalism, but you can get free analysis (see DeLong, Yglesias, Instapundit, Duncan Black, McArdle, Archpundit, I could go on). Example: there's someone out there who can explain why Daley flopped on the
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by sachinag 17y ago
I am the other Sachin Agarwal (at Dawdle.com), and I know nothing, but I will say this: I will bet you a beer that you're wrong. As an acquiror, you want to do a deal as cheaply as possible. Given that Slinkset never really took off while
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by sachinag 17y ago
Um, Brad, you employ one . Sure, it's not strictly a Chicago story, but the hits would be nice.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Well, that's one way to get exceptional coders (I assume Garry and the other Sachin made them sign employment agreements).
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by sachinag 17y ago
Please link me. I would kill to buy this for my grandfather.
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by sachinag 17y ago
This. How on earth you could have an explanation that's essentially "I relied on my memory to figure out the quoted cites after the fact that I deleted the cites because I couldn't find a fucking cite format " is insane. The dude pretty
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by sachinag 17y ago
Just for the record, the first two return posts were posted before the WSJ story broke. Both the post about heaven and the one that clearly refers to harvesting body parts (and the first comment made it crystal clear). Make of that what
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by sachinag 17y ago
Slackers are now hipsters; same basic sense of entitlement.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I don't think I've ever seen Facebook go after Google so aggressively before - the "surveillance society" language actually made me whistle under my breath.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Frankly, his complaints are why the West has nothing to fear from India any time soon. As an Indian, there is nothing more important than external verification of one's social status. For example, in India, they ISO certify everything .
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by sachinag 17y ago
In a vacuum, I'm not in favor of registration requirements for VC firms - but we're not in a vacuum. We're about mitigating systemic risk to the system. Given that the legal structures are the same, how do you propose to regulate the peop
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by sachinag 17y ago
The dot-com bust, while perhaps having something to do with the wealth effect that jacked up asset prices, neither posed a systemic risk to the financial sector nor affected non-participants in the market (housing excepted, as always). To
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by sachinag 17y ago
As a former analyst at a venture capital firm, with all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about. Regulation doesn't make VC any less attractive for LPs, who provide the funds. As long as there are people who want to commit

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