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by shrikant 13y ago
Anecdotally, when I worked at a 'startup' and we were about 50 people, the CEO and other founders were always very open and forthcoming about all the details of the organisation. Once we grew to over a 100, IMHO, a combination of
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Technology and the College Generation(nytimes.com)
14 points by shrikant 13y ago|24 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
Looks like Braintree will have to change all their "we're not PayPal!" marketing now.
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by shrikant 13y ago
[Insert discussion here on the propriety of hidden affiliate tags in short URLs.]
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The good, the bad and the ugly about going to India…(christianheilmann.com)
6 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
Sorry, you're just misinformed about this: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
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by shrikant 13y ago
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
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by shrikant 13y ago
"Temporarily embarrassed millionaires" syndrome?
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The Troll's Puzzle: A SQL Fable(bradsruminations.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
1. Keep Excel spreadsheet in a shared network location 2. Set to autogenerate webpage on every save 3. Clean up crufty HTML with jQuery 4. Display using DataTables 5. Proit! This hacky hackerson of a hack was great way to get around having
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by shrikant 13y ago
...which is actually http://www.thisiscreativeservices.co.uk/websites/EXT-glouces... served up in an iframe. Wat?
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by shrikant 13y ago
Facetious means flippant, not mean. OP was spot on.
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How to use the Hacker News API (pythonforbeginners.com)
1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft-Nokia Deal: A Tale of Desperation (tech-thoughts.net)
3 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
This one annoys me as much as "bare with me"..
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by shrikant 13y ago
Clearly they take that sort of thing seriously - they're hiring for a "Privacy Technologist": https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oJOkXfwy
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Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly(tkcs-collins.com)
91 points by shrikant 13y ago|23 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
There were acquisition talks in June 2013 which fell through because the price wasn't right. Elop just had to bide his time. http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2013/06/failed-microsoft-nokia-...
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by shrikant 13y ago
By the same user, no less!
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Founders' Accents(paulgraham.com)
508 points by shrikant 13y ago|348 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
"splitting bulk purchases somehow" is exactly what retailers are doing for you now. This is called "bulk breaking". http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Bulk%20breaking
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by shrikant 13y ago
Maybe we should formulate a Microsoft equivalent of Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion about Microsoft grows longer, the probability of an ex-Microsoftie bringing up stack ranking approaches 1." ("Ballmer's Law&
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by shrikant 13y ago
I remember the Microsoft deal with Conduit [1], but can't dig up anything that links Microsoft with Babylon. Interestingly, that link implies that Conduit had a deal with Google before they got a better deal for switching to Bing. [1]
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by shrikant 13y ago
The Nokia App Wizard (now called the Xpress Web app builder[1]) was exactly the same. All it did was let you "app-ify" a website or a feed. There were LOADS of junk apps on the Ovi Store at the time built using this wizard. It did
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by shrikant 13y ago
Reminds me of this apenwarr post on "A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754531
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by shrikant 13y ago
I personally use https://www.inoreader.com/ and found it to be a simple and brilliant Reader-like replacement.
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by shrikant 13y ago
By hiring large team they might have accidentally hire someone who would pick up the vision and carry it further. Please don't use this hiring advice.
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by shrikant 13y ago
Oh dear, you're right -- the article has two pages! I was a little puzzled to see no mention of the origin of the name at first.
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by shrikant 13y ago
The name "Dread Pirate Roberts" is (quite cleverly, IMHO) picked up from the character from The Princess Bride [ aside : go watch the film -- it's great fun!]. It is possible that this "person" is much like Satoshi
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Nanocubes: Fast Visualization of Large Spatiotemporal Datasets(nanocubes.net)
1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments

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