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by samratjp 17y ago
Hmm, at $250 a pop, OLPC is on the price range of a netbook. iPad is a few steps away as well. It's very much possible that the iPad could get to this price range, if not even cheaper with the economies of scale for a project like OLPC. Yes
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by samratjp 17y ago
BYO with Yahoo BOSS. Here's an example app: http://zooie.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/twitter-boss-real-time...
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by samratjp 17y ago
Definitely, MIT has spun off some great companies to be sure. What caught my attention the most was Campbell's soup - thanks for that share. Wouldn't have ever guessed that.
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by samratjp 17y ago
Please refer to http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for "gray area."
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by samratjp 17y ago
So much more realistic this way. Thanks for the share :-)
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by samratjp 17y ago
nostrademons, you have a terrific memory and you are right. But, this particular thread calls for Silicon Valley. Let the poor school have it's moment in the SUN :-)
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by samratjp 17y ago
Obligatory: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/
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by samratjp 17y ago
No sh*t, "When you think about this approach, however, this is the same thing that Microsoft has been doing for years. While they do not have hardware specifications set in stone like Apple, the ability to run applications is based on some
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by samratjp 17y ago
The physicist Werner Heisenberg was once asked if he knew where Stanford University was located. "I believe it is on the west coast of the United States, not far from San Francisco. There is also another school nearby, and they steal each
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Statistical Data Mining Tutorials(autonlab.org)
74 points by samratjp 17y ago|2 comments
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College Grads' Outlook Grim(online.wsj.com)
5 points by samratjp 17y ago|3 comments
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by samratjp 17y ago
The scalability of their cohesive culture shows in their apps too. The Google account is so much more valuable than MSN/Hotmail or Yahoo ever did. It's almost as if their hiring process seems to translate to their apps itself i.e. each app
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by samratjp 17y ago
For such a "green"ish feeling that this project exudes, I am going to say that you should just wait for your existing bulbs to die and then use that instead. In fact, I wonder if bulbs could be recycled in this manner and spur a new busines
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by samratjp 17y ago
I like the sound of "Code Writers." How about "Codies"?
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by samratjp 17y ago
I thought this was the luckiest: http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-...
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George Washington's $300,000 library book fine(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by samratjp 17y ago|0 comments
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by samratjp 17y ago
Looks like this meets YC's RFS #5 :-) http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html
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Iceland volcano: Airlines 'to lose $200m a day'(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by samratjp 17y ago|0 comments
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by samratjp 17y ago
So, for the longest time my bookmark landed on YC homepage. And PicWing started with this one picture with an empty noodle bowl and my mind automatically has been assuming it was probably Pad Thai for the founders livin' on ramen. So, there
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Recipe - Pad Thai(nytimes.com)
2 points by samratjp 17y ago|1 comments
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by samratjp 17y ago
Doesn't iTunes support PDFs as well? I remember seeing http://lifehacker.com/240447/geek-to-live--organize-your-pdf... As about Zotero, I have mixed emotions as well - it's a nice feeder for Mendeley from firefox. Other than that, not too
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by samratjp 17y ago
And this guy seems like he could be hired by Apple's Official Blog - "So, it's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing
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Visor - a system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key(visor.binaryage.com)
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by samratjp 17y ago
And that is exactly why I found the whole fiasco amusing :-) What I don't understand is why Apple didn't leave an 4g option open for other carriers (clear, etc).
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Open Source Dynamics Engine (ode.org)
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by samratjp 17y ago
I think the volcanic ash is going with the mostly easterly winds
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Palm Bribes Key Employees to Stick Around as SVP of Software Jumps Ship(gizmodo.com)
2 points by samratjp 17y ago|2 comments
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IPad taken apart then re-assembled in under four minutes(youtube.com)
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A Magazine, Long Gone, Is Given Digital CPR (nytimes.com)
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by samratjp 17y ago
Any HN'ers stuck in any of these places? EDIT: Adding related article - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/europe/18ash.html

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