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by vmurthy 6y ago
Great post! I’ve been reading a book called “Unlocking the customer value chain” [0] which talks about three waves that the Internet brought along : Unbundling , disintermediation and decoupling. This post on unbundling is a great startin
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by vmurthy 6y ago
It helps to know what "making sense" means to you? If it means "Will my job be safe for the next 12 months", the reading will be different. If it means "What 10-15 stocks are poised to give me great returns in the n
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I had the pleasure of reading “The prize” (0) last year. It gives an overall picture of the oil industry and obviously the Saudi-American relationship. Should pair well with this insider view. (0) https://www.goodreads.com/b
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by vmurthy 7y ago
If you must use Google, I suggest you use a couple of settings in uBlock/Adblock as detailed in this 4 day old Lifehacker article [1] From the article, - To remove the favicon: google.com##.xA33Gc - To remove the URL: google.com##.iUh3
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by vmurthy 7y ago
It’s been sometime since I last checked out either but the last time I checked they were all wired and Windows specific? I know I can re-map keys and all that but was holding out mainly because I need to keep the keyboard on my lap.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I don’t use my iPad much so that doesn’t matter. Thank you for the suggestion of k810. I’ll check it out !
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by vmurthy 7y ago
As someone suffering from RSI, I’d buy this in an instant if it worked with MacBook Pro and connects wirelessly (so that I can rest the keyboard on my lap). Promising !
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Thank you for this. Really intriguing how they do it: "All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts. We then rank the links based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of
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by vmurthy 7y ago
As an Indian who isn't in India at the moment, I empathise with you. I just googled for "Guru arrested" [0] and there seems to be a ton of results for the search term. It is really unfortunate that a lot of people are abusing
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Satire warning :) Written well , some below the belt punches but is it HN material ?
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Adding AI Super powers[0] to my reading list [0] : https://amzn.to/37TmtXC (Maybe a referral link. I copy-pasted from the website)
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by vmurthy 7y ago
One of HN favourites (?) DropBox : https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-pro...
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Hmmm... this article seems like a real world demonstration of the principles outlined in "Influence:The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini [0] 1. Reciprocity - check 2. Social Proof - check 3. Authority induced bias - ch
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I am a Hindu myself and I am NOT an atheist. There are two ways I understand the situation: 1. You could argue back to the priest that your organ donation is going to save lives which God would appreciate anyway and have your way :D 2. More
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Nah. The OP mentions "Hindu" priest.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I can't imagine the uncertainty and the pain you would have gone through but this news is truly something that gives everyone goosebumps :). Good luck for everything ahead, mate!
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I am thankful for a wonderful family. We have our moments of despair but I don't know where I would be without a loving wife and an overly curious 5 year old kid :) I am thankful for coming across a habit that makes me think about what
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by vmurthy 7y ago
In addition to the great suggestions below, one of the things I would add ( this gels with the whole problem solving skills suggestion) is to introduce them to algorithms. It needn't even be in a specific language. Being able to think
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by vmurthy 7y ago
tl;dr The FDA will review on priority if the clinical trial (details here -> https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03866174 ) succeeds. For people outside of the US (like me) who don't know what "Brea
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by vmurthy 7y ago
"Of that total, 552 were from Google domains. That's a mind-boggling 23.8% of the total. To put that into perspective, the second entry on the list of blocked trackers was Facebook, which represented 3.8% of the total. (It's
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Sorry if this is slightly off topic but a great time to revisit this great primer on Unicode [0] by Joel Spolsky. [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
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by vmurthy 7y ago
For someone reading only the headline and wondering if old means Butterfly keyboard : NO. Thank God for that!
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I’m somewhat in your camp. Why I’d like the ad industry to die is because they’ve collectively decided that privacy is a relic of the past. I’d rather they work with the likes of DuckDuckGo and share context based ads. Context does NOT in
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by vmurthy 7y ago
One of the things that might help you is this: Understand why the resistance is. It may be true that things are working today but if your suggestion means that you only make it better/faster/whatever in support of whatever your
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Has a bunch of PMs or whoever decided that they'll f * up the business in the long term chasing OKRs? It looks like they introduce these sort of "features" every now and then which should spark more outrage but looks like p
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by vmurthy 7y ago
> it doesn't hurt that hardware now is so fast and scalable that performance and efficiency can take a back seat to usability and clarity. Agree. Unfortunately , the users of even the new usable systems may be loath to take up the
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I really wish you all the best jmstfv ! The website is obviously great but I love the fact that you have shared such great tips at https://tryhexadecimal.com/costs for solo founders/ small business owners.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
From this link [0], it appears that the site uses Netlify. I'd love for the OP to point us in the direction of the theme and/or setup details as I am fairly new to Netlify [0] https://tryhexadecimal.com/costs
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Somewhere near the very bottom of the article is this gem. Emphasis mine. "And it wasn't because it was working for them. ... But there was one group of advertisers with a valid reason to purchase own brand name ads. Not that they
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Quite possibly related to the first book you mentioned : “Prisoners of Geography: 10 maps to tell you everything you need to know about World politics ” I’ve only read a couple of chapters but it’s best read along with a physical map :) ht

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