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by vikram 19y ago
Buying the 1st generation of an apple product is never a great idea, if you are going to be pissed off about problems or future price drops. Its just something that hardcore apple fans expect from apple and love about apple. I try and let o
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by vikram 19y ago
The state of the art is better than the rest but still does not work in every case. I think there is a lot of room for improvement.
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by vikram 19y ago
try gmail
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by vikram 19y ago
people seem to confuse adding features to additions in the interface. Most of the times users are either subconsciously frustrated by a problem or that there isn't a solution for it yet (i.e. why someone else hasn't solved it yet). perfect
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by vikram 19y ago
What counts as not dying? If you drop the initial idea and start work on a very different one does that also count as dying?
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by vikram 19y ago
It might be a way to work out which idea is the most promising. I don't get the point of announcing the names let alone what their initial plans are.
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by vikram 19y ago
These guys aren't the finalists, they are invited for a one week interview only 5 get the cash.
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Which keyboard do you use?
3 points by vikram 19y ago|5 comments
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by vikram 19y ago
try it on safari.informit.com free for 14 days.
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by vikram 19y ago
That sounds good. I love jquery its so simple.
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by vikram 19y ago
index cards
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by vikram 19y ago
You really need to have a problem in your mind that you want to solve. That makes the task a lot easier. As you can see progress. Test out that understanding. I bet you know more than you think you know. The purpose of a book like PCL is to
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by vikram 19y ago
Which ever language you pick, try and pick up a book which shows you how to do functional programming in it. Try and do this before you start writing imperative programs. It's easier to go from functional to imperative than to go from imper
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by vikram 19y ago
I think as there are no examples of a unique type of application on these platforms, it's hard to see what the point of them is. More over developing apps is still left to programmers (and a select group of them who are always interested in
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by vikram 19y ago
Doesn't replicating the desktop metaphor only confuse things a bit?
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Dave Chestnut's seedcamp application (funny)(davetellsall.wordpress.com)
1 points by vikram 19y ago|0 comments
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by vikram 19y ago
Why not create www.startupnews.com? If you want the code, google 'reddit clone'. I think the lisp community wrote atleast a dozen reddit clones after reddit switched from lisp to python. I say this because a lot of people have a problem wit
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by vikram 19y ago
But that's solving a problem we don't have yet? I think this particular uproar is the liveliest discussion we've had on news.yc and even this isn't terribly exciting.
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by vikram 19y ago
I understand the idea, that creating a clone isn't the way to go. But I think their is nothing wrong with trying to solve the same problem. With the ipod, Apple realized that like with the mobile phone, how it looks is much more important t
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by vikram 19y ago
Maybe it's the other way around. Those areas are religious because they have more natural disasters. Things that are out of their control.
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by vikram 19y ago
I think Microsoft only took investment before it went public. It was already a very successful company by then.
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by vikram 19y ago
I can't doubt the motives. But I have a theory on why some days there isn't much to read and why reddit had great links in 2006. At that time people put the best of their bookmarks on reddit. Later there wasn't much good content left in th
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by vikram 19y ago
I've seen a bit of Dragon's Den. My observations, unlike VCs, these guys tend to be absolutely direct and say what they think about the idea and the ability of the founders. I've found that they tend to look for either business experience o
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by vikram 19y ago
I don't get it either. Probably a sign that I am older than I think. A few years back it was pokemon and WWF which my younger brothers were crazy about. Now it's Facebook. Getting old was never supposed to be easy, I guess I need to face up
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by vikram 19y ago
lisp + javascript
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by vikram 19y ago
I'm sure you are already doing this. But "The four best ways to manage your server Virtualmin offers four methods for managing your server: Web, mobile device, command line, and remote API. Virtualmin is always available, no matter where yo
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by vikram 19y ago
How does paying 60K for 1.4 million users qualify as a bubble. It's just a few months salary for one developer. Slide has now hired a developer who created something that 1.4 million people wanted. Think of 60K as signing bonus. Hardly a bu
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by vikram 19y ago
Can you clarify why you think it's not worth installing the libraries?
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by vikram 19y ago
Recently, I've been on a high when I got my lisp code to run 60% faster by changing 10 lines of code. I think I tend to experience relief more often than high while coding. Highs are like a promise that something good is going to happen soo
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by vikram 19y ago
Actually bookmarking is an issue with what I am doing so for now I'm using a redirect to get the url cleaned up. For example if you want to get timetable from London to Brighton then you search and the results are on a url like /timetable/l

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