sidmitra

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   Ask HN: Share your resume

   6 points by sidmitra 17y ago|2 comments
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   by sidmitra 17y ago

   You don't mention what type of applications you're interested in, Web apps or something else. The most fun programming i ever did was for my Digital Image Processing class, mainly because the output was so visual. You might try something vi
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   by sidmitra 17y ago

   >Maybe Microsoft knows a little about marketing after all... I am starting to see pattern in their marketing, this plus the windows 7 launch party video, seinfeld ads... these were so bad that they got people talking. It might be an exa
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   by sidmitra 17y ago

   >startup event conferences in india are a joke man! True!, i've seen the same things regurgitated each time and imagine a "startup" with more than a dozen products at a time. That's what i saw at some of the conferences, for example the
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   by sidmitra 17y ago

   Just out of interest, what is the maximum price point that will still make you pay?
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   Ask HN: Any meetups, hacker-spaces in India?

   5 points by sidmitra 17y ago|4 comments
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   by sidmitra 17y ago

   It must be hot in there!!
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   by sidmitra 17y ago

   Redmine.
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   by sidmitra 17y ago

   For years i've been reading up on improving productivity but nothing worked untill i started on the Pomodoro Technique, with a s/w timer. I don't follow it religiously but enough to get work done. Some Tips: Once that clock is set honor it
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    Just to name two out of the many i love: Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy and The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    That maybe true in most cases. But the author made SQLite, which i think is one of the simplest products ever. I found fossil to be on the same wavelength.
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    I can't do multiple tabs inside one window. The mess on the taskbar really hurts my eyes :-)
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    i'm on Win XP so: 1. PomoTime: One of the new things i'm into for productivity based on Pomodoro technique Although i don't follow it religiously, but i still get manage to get a lot more done than before. 2. Microsoft OneNote: i jot down
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    have you tried Fossil SCM. It's distributed version control/bug tracking etc in one.
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    >is that business people tend to want to say "yes" to everything, while software people tend to want to say "no" That is so true, and i see that every single day. I guess NO is a bad word in marketing/sales, whereas it's actually a pret
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    Read the bipolar lisp programmer, it's quite an interesting insight. http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    You might wanna try redmine (as an alternative to trac). It has a wiki, news updates, file uploads, with plugins you can do twitter like status updates, besides all the project management things. Look at the plugins list on their site. You
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    For arranging your personal collection of papers, you might look at Mendeley. For searching papers, look at CiteULike
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    >"they get all the data related to being a cheif including how to take care of burns, fires, or things like that that don't necessarily have the word cook in it" This seems almost impossible to pull off, unless you can tap into some dat
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    Bet your twitter followers. There's a though :-)
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    "I have only really shared them with non-tech people or my tech friends that are far too lazy or otherwise oriented to ever do anything with them." I guess your concern is valid. But, most people are that way, the ones that really are motiv
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    In my opinion, ideas bred in isolation usually need a lot more work, polishing up to actually bring them to fruition. "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    >Try to market them to someone with the skills and resources to bring them into the world? It really isn't the idea, but the execution that's essential. There have been lots of ideas, which i thought were stupid and too simple to be pro
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    "Surely, You're Joking Mr Feynman" was a fun read.
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    Ask HN: What web apps/online services do you use for your startup?

    1 points by sidmitra 17y ago|0 comments
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    http://flowingdata.com/ http://junkcharts.typepad.com/ for examples.
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    well, it just brings us a couple of steps closer to an answer for "life, universe and everything"! :-)
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    I think it would make things more interesting. So many problems that would then be solvable in polynomial time.
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    I use IMAP on gmail with opera. I need a desktop client, for times when i'm not connected and quickly need to search an old email for some small little detail. I just use it as an offline backup, and keep it synced.
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    by sidmitra 17y ago

    Opera. Mainly because it's open almost the entire day on my laptop.