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by samratjp 16y ago
Hmm, they got synergy in there as well: Unsucked: Working together. An addendum would be: Leech-y, take advantage of a said synergy situation, etc.
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by samratjp 16y ago
Come on, Oracle, Google has used Java in more creative ways than you have - like running map/reduce on a Nexus One farm http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/04/pushing-the-limits-of-d...
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by samratjp 16y ago
I like how the search engine made by Bing :) (Click on Why? to find out)
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by samratjp 16y ago
Back of the napkin speculation: 1) facebook - 500 million users 2) Use facebook groups for random money collection 3) WePay => fb ~= PayPal => eBay 4) YC gets nice payout and WePay mafia fund a hot YC startup that solves micro-finan
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by samratjp 16y ago
Man, this was a long time coming - but I do hope twitter will embed links smartly - as in a la facebook style preview of a page snippet or play youtube from twitter itself.
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by samratjp 16y ago
They could obviously make it happen for other platforms and the API could be monetized :)
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by samratjp 16y ago
Honestly, the biggest thing that stopped me from using Bing was the interface and the left navigation bar. The subtle thing prevented me from transitioning from Google.
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by samratjp 16y ago
I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss it - the money could have gone towards this important acquisition http://www.flipboard.com/press/flipboard-acquires-ellerdale Obviously, iPad may not be the only platform, it seems good enough of a prototy
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by samratjp 16y ago
I thought that name sounded familiar - Evan Doll used to teach the iPhone class @Stanford ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18IT-t.ht... ). Sounds like the company has some smarts to make it.
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My Life in Therapy(nytimes.com)
3 points by samratjp 16y ago|1 comments
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SproutRobot - tells you when to plant and sends you seeds(sproutrobot.com)
2 points by samratjp 16y ago|0 comments
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by samratjp 16y ago
Probably would have to build a desktop with a 5x1TB HDD and make sure the case is super strong and water proof. Stick the machine in a fire-proof and water proof safe and of course, be sure to have formatted the partitions differently and h
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by samratjp 16y ago
On it now - am talking with the OpenStudy folks :)
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by samratjp 16y ago
Instead of email, I'd rather get growl or notifo like messages.
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by samratjp 16y ago
This is more exhaustive of Arduino + python: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Python
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by samratjp 16y ago
I'll answer the business question - it's simple - Twitter makes money from the Twitter fire hose APIs and whitelisting privileges. And these days, it seems twitter will purely survive from random #Bieber trends (yes, the tweens have found t
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Treat Your Mind as You Would a Private Garden(calnewport.com)
1 points by samratjp 16y ago|0 comments
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by samratjp 16y ago
Don't worry about the specific degree so much - you will realize someday that there are more important things like how talking to people and actually share their viewpoint can help you figure out what people want. Translation: get a feel fo
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by samratjp 16y ago
Maybe http://www.rescuetime.com/ could help with blocking distracting sites and more. If it doesn't have what you're looking for, shoot them an email, who knows they might listen to ya (besides, they're a YC company - show them your HN lo
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MIT OpenCourseWare pilots study groups with OpenStudy(tofp.wordpress.com)
40 points by samratjp 16y ago|5 comments
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by samratjp 16y ago
Or be the baby at daycare - babies are super creative and really need to adapt to their environment fast :)
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by samratjp 16y ago
Though I would advice anyone to get a designer if possible to make a good presentation, if you must, checkout http://www.noupe.com for random templates and designs and http://www.weebly.com for a simple drag and drop editor.
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by samratjp 16y ago
I'd like to see more datapoints for why you feel this way. And besides, one reason for a "layout" decision to keep prominent action buttons front and visible could be after successful A/B testing (see this for an example - http://www.abtes
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Where’s the Future? Will Ferrell’s Tour of Tech That Never Took(wired.com)
1 points by samratjp 16y ago|0 comments
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by samratjp 16y ago
Well Cnet, you seemed to have forgotten about Grooveshark as a point of comparison, for they are doing fairly well. Or how about anywhere.fm (YC S07), which was so damn good before imeem (now myspace music) ruined it. But, I guess TechCrunc
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by samratjp 16y ago
Checkout this thread I posted two days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570409 And I believe there is a weekend Hackathon for making a HN Office Hours App - they are using Django - http://hnofficehours.com/
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by samratjp 16y ago
It definitely looks cool (though the landing page main picture is too Microsoft Excel-y - as in not enough appeal). It struck me interesting how the TechStar startup is leveraging YC startup tech like Olark and will probably leverage WePay
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by samratjp 16y ago
Why can't they just have an iPod Touch like alternative with just wi-fi? That's probably a lot cheaper and even be easier on the students side thereby possibly spawning wonderful classes like the Stanford iPhone one.
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by samratjp 16y ago
1) I hope the final product will be OSS 2) To keep spammers out, we could enable a karma threshold parameter. 3) As about UI, I've always been looking for an excuse to look into SproutCore ('course, this is free) or Atlas (which does cost)
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Lifehacker's Gina Trapani - Non-obvious reason for Wave Shutdown(twitter.com)
1 points by samratjp 16y ago|0 comments

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