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SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring an Electrical Engineer in SF
1 points by varunsrin 13y ago
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SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring an Electrical Engineer in SF
1 points by varunsrin 13y ago
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by varunsrin 13y ago
Stack ranking at Microsoft has a min populaton size (x) - you generally walk up the org chart until the number of employees >= x, and then apply stack ranking to that group.
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SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring engineer #1
1 points by varunsrin 13y ago
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by varunsrin 13y ago
This would be received very poorly by most of the sub-continent, and apart from being just controversial would be impossible to actually enforce. Those familiar with the political tensions in the South (especially Tamil Nadu) between Dravid
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by varunsrin 13y ago
loceng, we try to avoid that - a simple equalizer will create an amplification of frequency bands without gain control, so you get a sound of higher amplitude/magnitude, which can have a negative impact as you pointed out. We use some
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by varunsrin 13y ago
Alex (my co-founder) had this exact problem except in both ears, and he uses our app every day for the same reason - hearing aids just don't play well with earbuds or headphones. Thanks for signing up whbk, it's always great to ge
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by varunsrin 13y ago
keiferski, SoundFocus doesn't do this today. But stay tuned, we are working to help people who have single ear hearing loss as well. I'm actually interested in learning more about your particular use case, I'll drop you a lin
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by varunsrin 13y ago
Co-founder here - thanks for the great feedback Osmium. You're quite right in that the number of people who have unilateral hearing loss is pretty high (it's close to 40% from some recent studies). We're working on developing
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by varunsrin 13y ago
Thanks Muraiki - we'd love to hear what your friend thinks of the app.
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by varunsrin 13y ago
Co-founder here - thanks for the well wishes, 6thSigma. We've seen people significantly improve their quality of life once they find a solution for hearing loss, but most people are reluctant to go out and find one, because they'r
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SoundFocus (YC S13) Launches With an App for ‘20/20 Hearing’(techcrunch.com)
87 points by varunsrin 13y ago|35 comments
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by varunsrin 14y ago
The Azure Dashboard is here, for anyone looking for updates on this: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard...
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by varunsrin 14y ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure I was using Firefox 0.7 in 2003 or early 2004, so that November date must be about 1.0 release. EDIT: It was called Firebird back then, too
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by varunsrin 14y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by varunsrin 14y ago
It's kind of silly to say that - Apple under Jobs did make several mistakes, over the history of the company. It's just that your recent image of Jobs is someone who was consistently successful, but even there Ping is a good counter example
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by varunsrin 14y ago
People probably feel that it is hypocritical to sue one company for copying your designs, and then turn around and copy designs off someone else, especially when they happen right a few months apart. Personally, my moral compass immediately
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by varunsrin 14y ago
Samsung has invested a ton of money in developing the Galaxy brand through billboards, TV ads and so on. While you can definitely argue that many of their UI elements bear a striking resemblance to Apple's, they take every opportunity to re
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by varunsrin 14y ago
Every once in a while, a publication will run something like this about major companies [1][2]. It seems to be standard practice among large corporations. As a company, if you are allowed to save large amounts of money by using existing loo
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by varunsrin 14y ago
Interesting that there is a link back to the HN thread from the post - I've seen it happen a lot on personal blogs, but this is the first time I've seen it done by a company.
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by varunsrin 14y ago
I've found that Dota2 has a very good implementation for multi-monitor behavior. When you're in a menu or waiting to find a game in queue, you can move your mouse off to the second monitor, and click on something and the game will minimize.
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by varunsrin 15y ago
I find progressive trance great music to work to - some great artists in this genre are Ace Ventura, Gaudium, Lish, Zen Mechanics & Space Buddha.
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by varunsrin 15y ago
To be honest, its like a matter of OCD to me - for instance, I like keeping my desktop completely free of icons (even though I don't need to). In a similar way, I like only looking at the code that's relevant - if the method I'm working on
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Hiding code is actually quite useful - its not meant to obscure code that doesn't belong, as you imply. Say for instance, I'm working on two methods that are expansive, but i'm trying to debug a small part of those methods. To make watching
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by varunsrin 15y ago
WP7 is the acronym used instead of WinMo
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Gates didn't lift his head up and decide to give to charity. Read some of his earlier interviews from the 90's - when asked what he would do with his wealth, he often stated that he would spend his 50's & 60's giving a large portion of
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by varunsrin 15y ago
No, I don't think the article is an attack on just one quote (and quite didn't say that). I agree with you about almost all your points - its just that in your original post, you basically said 'leave Jobs out of this', and I'm merely point
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by varunsrin 15y ago
Jobs is relevant to this discussion, because the article is based around the following quote: "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology"
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by varunsrin 15y ago
This is a technology demo, not a concept video. The difference being that stuff demoed here has been built, and is somewhere between the concept & product stage.
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by varunsrin 15y ago
I was refuting his anecdotal claim with mine - I meant this to illustrate the futility of using anecdotal evidence, but the words didn't convey the sentiment as well as I intended. I fully understand there is most likely some of normal dist

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