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by slaxman 13y ago
Having views of only successful startups on HN will lead to select bias. I would prefer to see some articles here of the startups going through rough patches since they are so under-reported.
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by slaxman 13y ago
Interesting argument. I guess he's trying to emphasize the importance of selecting the right investor/ accelerator. Many startups see VC investment as confirmation of what they are doing is right (thanks to all the media hype) aft
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by slaxman 13y ago
did you take a snapshot or have automatic backups enabled?
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by slaxman 13y ago
Wow! This really saddens me. But I experienced something similar. When I got married a couple of years ago (in India) I really wanted my one cousins (who I was really close to) to come to my wedding. Unfortunately, his lawyers advised him n
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by slaxman 13y ago
Open textbooks don't always work. The reason for this is that courses differ slightly from university to university. Using an open textbook then becomes and exercise in identifying the parts that you don't require at this stage, which in it
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by slaxman 14y ago
I generally use Heroku for an alpha deployment, but then migrate to DigitalOcean for stable production deployment. I feel Heroku can get too expensive as the application scales up.
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by slaxman 14y ago
It's a magnetron. It what makes our microwave ovens work.
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by slaxman 14y ago
What's App is huge in India. The standard term here is "Whatsapp me". I almost stopped using sms & almost entirely use whatsapp. Simple and clutter free. One thing that worries me with Google's purchase is the ads. Google will want to i
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by slaxman 14y ago
Very good point. In fact, I have noticed the exam same issue while teaching. We need to refer multiple books. There is no book which covers the entire course in an understandable manner. One has to then resort to writing his own notes for t
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by slaxman 14y ago
They did. But I believe it's still somewhat a gray area. They are more in the form of Geographical Patents (such as Darjeeling Tea) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Patent_Office#Geographic...
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by slaxman 14y ago
I believe this is where India has got it's patent system right. I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it, the Patent Office (Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks) rejects patents that are obvious and not a genuine invention
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by slaxman 14y ago
> Does being smart comes with bigger responsibility and do you feel stressful of being really smart (as a developer maybe)? Being smart increases others' expectations of you. They expect you to show miracles from time to time. Of course
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by slaxman 14y ago
I don't think it is wrong for a professor to recommend his book for his course. But it is definitely wrong for him to force his students to use them. We had a lot of profs in college who had written books and recommended them. But if you at
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by slaxman 14y ago
Basics: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web & http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/ (Though I am sure you already knew that, but still...) Advanced: http://cssdeck.com/codecasts & http://thecodeplayer.com/ (Do awesome stuff w
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by slaxman 14y ago
I agree the colour change is too tacky. The moving screen slideshow seems more like an ad and the eyes automatically ignores it. Check this link out if you need guidelines for how to build a landing page http://unbounce.com/landing-page-ex
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by slaxman 14y ago
This is powerful stuff!
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by slaxman 14y ago
I think he did it pretty fast actually. Think about it. In 1996 Apple was 90 days from bankruptcy and around 15 years later, it is the most valuable tech company ever? How many CEOs can guide their companies so?
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by slaxman 14y ago
Well running around with a watermelon helmet is catchy, isnt it? ;-) Anyways, I do not intend to say that having IIT tagline makes anything different. But I am aware of the quality of students there. (I do not mean that there aren't quality
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The 'Real' reason why few IITian's do a start up(ubiquitary.wordpress.com)
12 points by slaxman 14y ago|3 comments