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by sriramk 13y ago
Fred Wilson has a fantastic post on the funding story behind Geocities (wow, that guy's been around for a long time) http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/04/geocities.html
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by sriramk 13y ago
As an ex-Microsoftie, I'm really happy Skype is doing this. Instant messages are one of the best ways to spread bad things to other people's computers by getting them to click on things. This is going to protect a lot of people.
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by sriramk 13y ago
I don't know about Skype but I know other parts of MSFT would frequently try and classify links on whether they had malware, whether they were phishing attempts and so on. Doing this on IM networks was important as they could cause so much
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by sriramk 13y ago
Orchestra raised a bunch of money for their todo app. And then they pivoted into Mailbox.
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by sriramk 13y ago
One key bit here is Gary Flake, the founder/CEO of Clipboard is a industry legend and is a key hire (I believe he's going to become VP of Engg at Salesforce). If a talent acquisition, Salesforce is getting great talent.
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by sriramk 13y ago
I don't think either Hotmail or Office 365 use Azure in non-trivial amounts, or atleast they didn't in my time there until 2011.
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by sriramk 13y ago
They were two very distinct issues, both in retrospect, should have been preventable. One was a cert not getting renewed correctly (which is really more of an engg/ops process thing) and the other was a piece of code that did date checks in
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by sriramk 13y ago
I should also point out that Facebook is hiring not just engineers but also designers, product managers, infrastructure people,... I just joined a couple of weeks ago as a product manager and in the short time here, I've loved it.
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by sriramk 13y ago
I feel so sorry for the Tripathis. Apart from their son/brother being missing they just got put through hell for 24 hours. Sadly, Reddit can't offer up a collective apology. In light of what we know, this Reddit thread makes for such sad re
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by sriramk 13y ago
At Microsoft, I once wrote code for a public facing login system where you had to make sure usernames didn't contain some banned words. I was surprised by how many words on the list were new to me and how, err, creative people get. I always
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by sriramk 14y ago
The rumor is that they were raising another round at a big valuation which might explain this. They might have been play off Yahoo and the VCs looking to lead the round off each other. Still, a really high number for an app that doesn't see
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by sriramk 14y ago
Either way, they hold a hostility towards YC ( or anyone who rejects them) which is what such 'soft letdowns' are trying to mitigate.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Let's look at what a VC is trying to accomplish here. - They don't want to invest for reason {X}. Could be as trivial as someone not liking the founder or they could genuinely think they don't know whether the company will do well. - They d
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by sriramk 14y ago
This is a very interesting take on what Klarna has done in Europe. Since there is such high friction to completing a transaction on mobile (pulling out your credit card number, entering it on a smartphone keyboard, etc), anything that makes
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by sriramk 14y ago
The most basic one was that really large sets of people that would get emailed a long time before expiry by the central crypto/cert management system. Microsoft has a very streamlined system internally for obtaining/managing cents since the
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by sriramk 14y ago
I was involved with obtaining a previous version of the same certificate when I was at Windows Azure. There were several safeguards in place to stop exactly this scenario from happening. I'm wondering how they broke down.
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by sriramk 14y ago
James is amazing at getting together people inside these big companies. His talk series at MSFT was legendary. His asking me to present at his talks when I was just a couple of years out of school opened the door for many good things for me
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by sriramk 14y ago
Probably to be able to send push notifications for new email.
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Facebook connect outage redirects popular sites to an error page(twitter.com)
1 points by sriramk 14y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 14y ago
I just discovered Alias and my wife and I have been watching episodes back to back. The show does a good job of making the contents of various displays legitimate. In one scene, the 'tech guy' (Marshall) has to build some source code - and
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by sriramk 14y ago
[disclaimer: I'm married to the original tech/product co-founder who is no longer with the company] For the first time, I see a HN thread on a startup I know very well from the inside, how can I resist jumping in.? :) First, the OP is factu
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by sriramk 14y ago
On a tangential note, does anyone know what he's using to generate those bar graphs automatically from those tiny images? Nifty trick.
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by sriramk 14y ago
I'm wondering how many HN readers are looking at this comment and are thinking to themselves "That's a great problem for a startup to tackle".
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by sriramk 14y ago
Yes, this is inspired by BVP's antiportfolio. I love their humor about a topic that stings all VCs.
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Not fundable(blog.sriramk.com)
6 points by sriramk 14y ago|3 comments
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by sriramk 14y ago
Per month. It's a $1.99 app.
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by sriramk 14y ago
I make ~$200 from a browser app I wrote a couple of years ago. http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/17/windows-phone-7-will-work...
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by sriramk 14y ago
Everyone messes up. Every exploit can be made into an easy to distribute tool. As an industry, the idea is to help the people who make these mistakes fix it as soon as possible so users don't get hurt.
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by sriramk 14y ago
I'm shocked he didn't even try to contact Onity. He's trying ascribe motivations and possible behavior just based on his reading of the lock market - we have no idea whether Onity would have acted in this way. Perhaps they'd have scrambled
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by sriramk 14y ago
That book is a great read. Terrific look not just inside Benchmark but the late 90s VC world and some of the big startups from back then. One of my favorite bits is the aforementioned sell job to get Meg Whitman to join (I believe Meg doesn

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