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by subbu 15y ago
This is what I always think whenever I visit John Gruber's blog (daringfireball.net).
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by subbu 15y ago
I tried to solve this using WhoIsWorkingOnWhat.com (hn submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1979671 ). It didn't get much traction. I was obviously a no match to Joel. I am thinking of open sourcing the app when I get some time
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by subbu 15y ago
if Apple had acquired Dropbox it would be to funnel Dropbox's talent off to the iCloud team and let Dropbox itself wither away That would be the most expensive talent acquisition at $800 million.
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by subbu 15y ago
Its surprising there are so many tube's.
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by subbu 15y ago
The founders should have taken advice from one of their older advisors before proceeding further.
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New javascript visualization library from Protovis guys(mbostock.github.com)
4 points by subbu 15y ago|0 comments
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by subbu 15y ago
Their explanation about the transition from Protovis to d3: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/tutorial/protovis.html
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Protovis is no longer under active development. Spins off new lib, D3(mbostock.github.com)
3 points by subbu 15y ago|1 comments
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by subbu 15y ago
But the intended meaning is 'so cheap'.
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by subbu 15y ago
One of the reasons could be its founder/CTO, Ilya Grigorik. Check out http://www.igvita.com/ . He is brilliant.
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by subbu 15y ago
I don't use PostRank but I read all of Ilya's articles. His articles are awesome. He is awesome. Congratulations. You deserve a pay day.
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by subbu 15y ago
Underscore.js and Prototype.js both define this function. You can include this and use map. Underscore delegates it to ECMAScript 5's native map if available.
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by subbu 15y ago
I don't use Slicehost anymore but I use their articles to setup any Linux machines. I am so dependent on these articles that I have saved an offline copy of these articles using HTTrack.
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by subbu 16y ago
But it slumped. It had to call back Jobs to become successful.
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by subbu 16y ago
I was very happy when SICP in Clojure was announced. It offered to kill 2 birds with one stone. But it has slowed down over the months http://sicpinclojure.com/?q=content/current-status
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by subbu 16y ago
Watch out for Flipkart.
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by subbu 16y ago
Looks like the negative feedback about the name didn't stop someone from registering it. Any other good names?
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by subbu 16y ago
http://bettween.com/
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by subbu 16y ago
Benevolent dictator
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by subbu 16y ago
Slightly off topic. But mundane tasks like dish washing help you unwind. I enjoy dish washing, pressing clothes or cutting vegetables at home because all those activities give me a lot of quite time without needing much effort from brain. T
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by subbu 16y ago
Apples to Oranges. Zappos is a support oriented culture whereas folks at 37s need a lot of quite time. I can't imagine Jamis Buck writing all his awesome maze algorithms while surrounded by balloons and tents everywhere.
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by subbu 16y ago
Here is the older discussion on the same link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1532067
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by subbu 16y ago
I have used NetBeans both on Windows as well as on Ubuntu. I haven't noticed slowness on Ubuntu (with 4GB RAM) apart from the loading time. I have switched to VIM since then and haven't used NetBeans in the recent months though.
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by subbu 16y ago
Wanted: A webapp/dashboard that tracks money you have spent acorss Amazon services.
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by subbu 16y ago
The article doesn't consider India where Nokia is the dominant player. But most of the phones they sell here are low-end to mid-range. They aren't that popular for smartphones. I don't have any statistics to show for this just my experience
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by subbu 16y ago
Beautiful design. It definitely addresses a problem. Pricing seems to be on the higher side. But then again I wouldn't mind paying that if my own product had revenues and could afford it.
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by subbu 16y ago
He is talking as a business owner and not as a programmer/coder. You should also consider his background in Lean Startup Circle. Fundamental rule of MVP (minimum viable product) is to get your product out there in the market as soon as you
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Max Levchin's lessons learned as a young entrepreneur(quora.com)
2 points by subbu 16y ago|0 comments
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by subbu 16y ago
Isn't A/B testing a micro-step of validating your hypothesis? You test your hypothesis and you get certain results. Then you use A/B testing to fine tune your hypothesis and test it even further. Keep tweaking them until you get your desire
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by subbu 16y ago
I fell for this trick with twitter-alike url. 2 things did it for me. The link was from a friend of mine (of course he didn't know that was phishing site). And, it was a replica of Twitter. To make things worse it was shortened using bit.ly

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