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by vijayr 15y ago
nice post. Can anyone share the tools/hacks that he is talking about? what worked for you, and what didn't?
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by vijayr 15y ago
#1 and #2 are both very very impressive. And Roy is funny too.
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by vijayr 15y ago
same way, why not charge $5 per month for facebook? paid users see no ads, their info would not be sold to anyone etc etc. If 1/8th of the people pay, that would be around 500 mil per month (assuming 800 mil members). I don't think either
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by vijayr 15y ago
"premium products at non premium prices" - second part is true, first part is not
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by vijayr 15y ago
ha, that is funny. I can't afford a ferrari, so it must be a bad car, super logic !! I've also noticed this - complaining about a product "not being waterproof" when the product makes no mention of being water proof, drivers not available
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by vijayr 15y ago
from the screenshots, the graphics look good. do you make the graphics too?
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by vijayr 15y ago
sometimes reviews at amazon are annoying. I was reading reviews for a men's gps watch. somebody gave it 4 stars and mentioned that (s)he would've given 5 stars, if "the product had women's model too". It doesn't make any sense. it is
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by vijayr 15y ago
+1, that is an amazing book. even if one is not a runner, it is still worth reading the book. The author goes to great lengths to track the tarahumara, and to organize the race, in a dangerous region.
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Ask HN - books/resources on distributed computing?
3 points by vijayr 15y ago|2 comments
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by vijayr 15y ago
may be we should stop watching the movies of the supporting studios (and giving them money directly or indirectly) - much harder to do, but would be quite effective
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by vijayr 15y ago
and then what? even if they did change their brand name, they'll still act the same way. I hope you aren't serious. Remember how Bank of America reversed their decision on the 5$ fee they were planning to impose, when people started movin
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by vijayr 15y ago
just curious - does it help? I mean, everybody knows the power of positive thinking etc, the theory is easy, it is practicing that is difficult, no?
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Ask HN - what interesting books did you read this year (including non tech)?
14 points by vijayr 15y ago|12 comments
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by vijayr 15y ago
The article says they raised 700M. Even if costs them 100M to build a data center, they can't use 1/7th of the money they raised, to build one? How exactly are they spending that much money?
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by vijayr 15y ago
I think they recently bought the company that makes gaug.es
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List of best free online learning sites(reddit.com)
145 points by vijayr 15y ago|13 comments
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by vijayr 15y ago
I quit fb long ago, but for different reasons. I was never into this 'my' thing (I hate posing for photos etc). My problem was scrabble. I was spending hours playing scrabble every day, and it was much easier to find people to play scrab
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by vijayr 15y ago
chrome store, not android
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Ask HN: know of any successful app in Google marketplace?
12 points by vijayr 15y ago|2 comments
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by vijayr 15y ago
60 a day, at 96 years old???!! wow, that is unbelievable
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by vijayr 15y ago
That would be a very interesting scenario. few hours of testing, and we get a report like this "Here bob, you can smoke these (a, b, c) but you can't smoke these (d,e,f). Also you can drink everything, except these (1,2,3). Now go have f
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Ask HN: Best affordable co-working spaces, coffee places in NYC?
1 points by vijayr 15y ago|0 comments
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by vijayr 15y ago
Is there any other product that is better than this, and in the same price range?
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by vijayr 15y ago
craigslist hasn't changed much either, it is still ugly. BBC looked good though.
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by vijayr 15y ago
cupertino.org seems to be down :(
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by vijayr 15y ago
why 10 cents? why not make those apps free, for those 10 days?
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by vijayr 15y ago
Probably. I wouldn't have noticed at all, except for the beep sound, every single time his phone read the barcode. He looked experienced in this, as he was going through 15-20 books a minute (never reading the title or anything, pick the
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by vijayr 15y ago
Last weekend, I was at a used books shop. I saw a guy with some iphone app, checking the price of each and every book in the shop (there were lots of books for $1). The store people noticed, but didn't say anything, at least I didn't se
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DNSCrypt Encrypts Your DNS Traffic Because There’s Always Someone Out To Get You(techcrunch.com)
4 points by vijayr 15y ago|2 comments
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Data.gov to be Open Sourced for World-Wide Deployment(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by vijayr 15y ago|0 comments

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