sunir

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by sunir 15y ago
Your comment didn't add anything that taught anybody else.
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by sunir 15y ago
Missing the first week of first year is a bad idea. 80% of college is meeting new friends. Initiation week (frosh?) is pretty awesome experience you will never get again. Money alone isn't everything.
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by sunir 15y ago
They do. They are called waivers. You sign them all the time when using the health care system.
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by sunir 15y ago
You cannot pay to "jump the queue" in Canada if the health care procedure is covered by public health insurance which includes most things you'd expect a doctor to do or prescribe. You can only pay to jump the queue by leaving the country,
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by sunir 15y ago
Teach, don't snark. Snarking only teaches that the teacher is a snark.
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by sunir 15y ago
The general impression is that the founders sold their shares to a VC fund with the intention of the VC fund returning their capital with an IPO.
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by sunir 15y ago
It's a fallacy to complain that Airbnb is a new idea or not. It doesn't matter if they are a new idea! It only matters how much business they are driving.
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by sunir 15y ago
IPOs are good for the ego because it allows founders to liquidate their equity without selling control of the company to someone else. You will need to cash out eventually. Dividends may not be lucrative enough. Also, eventually your employ
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by sunir 15y ago
One of my favorite interview questions for software developers is "how many lines of code have you deleted in one day?" The question helps assess their maturity. It throws some people who think software is about adding continuously. Senior
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by sunir 15y ago
100%. There is no point having a rating / review system if customers can't trust it to help make decisions. If an old review is faulty because the software has changed, the vendor should be able to reply. That helps the customer know a) the
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by sunir 15y ago
A commenter on this blog, L. Zhang, made an excellent point that most of Google's cash is trapped overseas. Repatriating it to the US to buy US companies would cost them 35% in tax. Borrowing US money at 3.75% to buy US companies is far che
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by sunir 15y ago
Compare this to Apple whose cash reserves (~$66B) exceed the market capitalizations of RIM (~$22B), Motorola Mobility (~$9B), and Nokia (~$32B) combined. That's pretty amazing any way you think about it. http://www.asymco.com/2011/04/26/28
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by sunir 15y ago
If I may take the conversation up to an academic level here, I always like Conway's Law: "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." (c
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by sunir 15y ago
Very interesting story. I am reminded that tax software made it feasible for governments to make much more complicated tax codes. Legal software combined with the increasing acceptance of arbitration for civil suits could create this future
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by sunir 15y ago
It's doubtful this is even legal, which should raise serious red flags. In many jurisdictions, if you're not (reasonably) compensated, the intellectual property belongs to you. In California, they have to pay you if you're doing real work.
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by sunir 15y ago
How successful is Plaxo, really? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/plaxo.com/ I think they had their greatest moment when Joseph Smarr negotiated the OpenID+OAuth hybrid protocol with Google. Google subsequently poached him. They don't see
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by sunir 15y ago
I wonder how long before people get 'viral' exhaustion from this crap. I suppose it would not be inappropriate to extend the analogy to suggest people are going to become immune to 'viral' apps. Is there anyone out there that has built an a
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by sunir 15y ago
There was a time before SMTP. Vint Cerf was there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf The historical analogy is sound and worth considering.
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by sunir 15y ago
Skype already has enough market share that bundling with Windows is not likely to generate enough growth to justify the purchase alone.
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by sunir 15y ago
This is a breakthrough and a welcome one. From a end user point of view, it has a couple major implications. First, I believe this reveals the complexity of the parser, which implies a complex syntax, which implies a complex user interface
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by sunir 16y ago
My goal for http://bibdex.com is to be this. I based the software on a wiki (original name was Bibwiki). The idea was to build lit reviews on topics that you could reuse and share with colleagues privately or publicly with the world. I re
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by sunir 16y ago
Idea 3. Enlarge space. There are too many people in the common agora, so split up the community into smaller, more focused spaces, akin to Reddit. For instance, there are natural categories here around news, programming, business, science,
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by sunir 16y ago
You could make the charge wall control: * posting a comment * voting on a comment * submitting a link / question * voting on a submission Each of those are debatable. For instance, submission voting might be open to all but com
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by sunir 16y ago
I just wanted to float this option out there for discussion to see if people thought a tighter clique would be better. I would also be cut out of the community if it were invitation-only. I note that the /old experiment (a Hacker News whose
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by sunir 16y ago
Idea 2. Restrict memberships like Gmail invitations. Give finite invitations to your YCombinator classes and alumni. Have them pass out invites to people they know. Give out more invites when you think you need them. At least this reroots t
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by sunir 16y ago
Idea 1. Charge for memberships like Metafilter. I believe in the Quaker rule, "Only speak when you can improve the silence." Other people think speech is like squatting on land. You have to speak to gain footing. By charging people for the
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by sunir 16y ago
The problem is the data model may change between versions so the URL hierarchy will change. Or instance you may have split customer and staff into separate concepts but later decide your service is better imagined as a network and thus only
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Google Apps joins The Small Business Web(googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
12 points by sunir 16y ago|2 comments
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Discounts & Software-as-a-Service(freshbooks.com)
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by sunir 16y ago
Armchair psychology is inappropriate.

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