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by sriramk 14y ago
Consumer vs enterprise makes a big difference here - there are a lot of successful repeat entrepreneurs in the enterprise world. the success of consumer startups, especially one that relies on network effects, are often random. That's why s
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by sriramk 14y ago
A few months ago, I would have told you that there is no way that anything like this is possible at MSFT - especially the crypto world at Microsoft where everything is extra locked down (it is kept separate from the rest of Windows). Howeve
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Why do employees leave startups for big companies(quora.com)
1 points by sriramk 14y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 14y ago
Same here. He seems to be on PR blitz - there's a newly created blog and Twitter account. Could be something to do with the Grizzlies sale and needing a more public profile.
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Silicon Valley's newest billionaire - wireless wonder Robert Pera(forbes.com)
70 points by sriramk 14y ago|16 comments
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by sriramk 14y ago
I have a soft spot for VB6 - I learnt to code using VB6 back in school. I had loads of fun building these simple apps that I then distributed to my friends. The highlight was when a magazine (PCQuest? Digit?) distributed one of my apps on t
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by sriramk 14y ago
I bumped into Gary on my very first Airtime call yesterday, a really awesome designer from Color and other interesting industry people. Not sure whether it is going to last but it definitely pulled some great folks from my extended network
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by sriramk 14y ago
Here's a question for the HN crowd. When you do a redesign, how do you know whether it'll play out like the FB newsfeed (1 out of 8 million users joined a protest group, ultimately one of the best features of the site) or the Digg v4 redesi
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by sriramk 14y ago
Amazing work. Also good job by Sahil in helping his customers make money :) (just saw the checkout experience and the name of the OP).
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by sriramk 14y ago
How does the app know who I am without asking me to log into Facebook? Is it guessing somehow from my FB app's login + UUID? Or am I missing something basic
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by sriramk 14y ago
Also irrelevant to whether this case has merit or not. Not saying you're implying it does, but I see a lot of commenters on Techcrunch and other places making that jump.
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by sriramk 14y ago
This isn't a judgement on ads. This goes to whether I can move networks if I choose to.
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by sriramk 14y ago
No such convention. Windows does some funky detection of when the exe might need to elevate privs but it detects anything with the word setup in the filename.
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by sriramk 14y ago
The text at the bottom says 'FUSE Labs'. FUSE stands for 'Future of Social Experiences' if I remember correctly. This was a team Ray Ozzie created to experiment with social behavior. They have some of the smartest people around in MSFT (and
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by sriramk 14y ago
Since this is from Lili Cheng's team, I suspect this is a MSR/Labs effort as opposed to a full-blown 'product'. That team is spectacular -she built one of the first social networks to ever exist - Wallop, all the way back in 2003-2004.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Argh. Deserved that.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Ignition aborted, launch failed. Sigh.
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by sriramk 14y ago
The funny thing is jwz's DNA Lounge broadcasts from their venue at all times - and this is a feature . I have to admit that my wife and I once used that to figure out whether we want to figure out whether we want to go or not.
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by sriramk 14y ago
My favorite Blizzard launch story actually involves Microsoft. Years ago, before the days of the cloud and well-understood fail over mechanisms, a very enterprise-y product happened to share datacenter space with Blizzard. One fine day, Bli
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by sriramk 14y ago
The rumor I heard from trusted sources is ~90m
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by sriramk 14y ago
I don't think Microsoft will make the mistake of falling behind on the web platform again. In fact, their latest moves (both tech, organization-wise) show them throwing more weight behind IE/HTML and less behind .NET/SL/Win32 (this is from
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by sriramk 14y ago
My feeling here (ex-MSFT employee, so maybe biased one way or another) is that Mozilla is going after the soft underbelly of Microsoft, because they can . Mozilla is already locked out of iOS and they have failed at getting Apple to budge.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Apple isn't the only one. Microsoft has an office in Reno for exactly this purpose ( they deal with all licensing).
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by sriramk 14y ago
FB's email policy is equally braindead. My email address used to be mail@sriramkrishnan.com - they disallow names like 'mail', 'admin', etc. So I had to come up with a new alias just for FB. But I keep getting hit by this in odd ways. Like
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by sriramk 14y ago
I got it to work pretty easily on Centos.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Also tells you how difficult it is to figure out who is going to make it big. picplz had Dalton Caldwell, both an Android and an iPhone version and a several month head start. You can't blame a16z for picking them. Besides, it looks like th
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by sriramk 15y ago
I think you'll see a slew of these closures. - The PaaS space is getting squeezed on all directions; from the bottom by CloudFoundry and from the top from people like Heroku, Amazon and from startups like Parse chopping off verticals. Buil
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by sriramk 15y ago
All social platforms need time to find their own voice/posting behavior. Think of how Instagram evolved it's own etiquette instead of being yet another place to dump your photos. I'm with Google here. Allowing people to use the API and cros
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by sriramk 15y ago
To be fair, Sarah Lacy has done more in covering startup ecosystems around the world than any tech journalist I know.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Oh yes, thanks for the link. Everyone, please go buy as many copies as you can ;). Seriously though, all the royalties go to charity. I'm a bit sad how quickly portions of the book went out of date. I've been asked to do a second edition bu

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