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811.
by zaidf 16y ago
I can't wait for the day we go beyond simply "privacy vs. no privacy" arguments. Privacy isn't a boolean thing. It's so much more nuanced than that.
812.
Ask HN: where can I get historical stock price?
4 points by zaidf 16y ago|1 comments
813.
by zaidf 16y ago
For all the heat yahoo gets, they are still doing reasonably well. There aren't that many billion dollar dot coms that survived the crash and moreover provided some real value.
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by zaidf 16y ago
I just moved into a 15th floor small cubicle office overlooking Madison sq garden for $300/mo. I couldn't find such deals in my non-NYC college town.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Safari will be the first browser to auto-block google ads. Jobs will send a one-liner "99% of people don't click on that crap." Watch.
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by zaidf 16y ago
As I found out on my recent trip, Blackberry is wildly popular in India. iPhone, not as much. On my trip before, there was no Blackberry in the market. Zero.
817.
by zaidf 16y ago
Because it is very hard to remain static. So your options are to grow or shrink. Understandably, most go for the former.
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by zaidf 16y ago
A failed purchase of a social network only proves my point, if anything. When google really believes in a company, they go to great extremes to grab it. See YouTube.
819.
by zaidf 16y ago
I do not understand why successful technology companies, seeing another different but also successful technology, realize "we can do that too" and immediately assume "and therefore we should". Is it really that hard to understand? Most co
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by zaidf 16y ago
Anyone else avoid getting into gov contract work simply because it feels like you almost have to break the law to get major contract or deliver on them? This isn't the first time I'm reading a story and thinking to myself but wait, I tho
821.
by zaidf 16y ago
Wow, such a good question. First things first, specific to design, almost no one cares about your degree in design. Almost everyone cares about your portfolio. Very, very few clients that I've done design work for even asked for a resume. A
822.
by zaidf 16y ago
Predictions on how long it will take before AOL acquires them? My guess: 6-10 months.
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by zaidf 16y ago
My pediatric surgeon dad who deals with kids everyday loves to chat with kids about their aspirations. In the US, vast majority of the kids want to become firefighters or cops. In contrast, when my dad practiced in India, majority of kids w
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by zaidf 16y ago
The counterpoint to that is if they don't grant the exclusivity, the cos won't be willing to invest money and resources to do the testing because the returns wouldn't be as strong. In these cases though, the counter-argument to that is the
825.
by zaidf 16y ago
Hopefully they will do the same for colchicine! So far, no cigar though and we(colchicine consumers) have a pretty active community that's been trying for years now to prevent this from happening with little luck.
826.
by zaidf 16y ago
I'm still optimistic. For some reason, while the general exclusive is for 3 years, for my condition(Familial Mediterranean Fever) it is 7 years. Yikes.
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This pill used to cost me 10c/pill, now it's $5/pill. I take it 3x day.(slate.com)
107 points by zaidf 16y ago|73 comments
828.
by zaidf 16y ago
Yeah, but on many platforms, you have a negotiated contract that is not one-sided. With facebook, you basically have a generic agreement that hundreds of millions of people click YES to that says they can shut down your account for pretty m
829.
by zaidf 16y ago
What exactly are you arguing here? That no one should ever goto India to do a start-up? That due to the conditions you describe(mostly true, I must admit), you cannot build a start-up and a flourishing company in India? Look, I think yo
830.
by zaidf 16y ago
On the topic of opting out, I personally like that the ads have become a lot more targeted in the past year or so. Especially the re-targeting stuff...I'd much rather see ads for products I already have some level of interest in than the
831.
by zaidf 16y ago
Simple: (1) spend 30M acquiring bunch of high-usage apps with lil revenue (2) collect anon user data (3) license / sell data to ad firms on ad exchanges and more Most of HN has no idea how crazy the ad exchange business is because they ar
832.
by zaidf 16y ago
Most API-related problems are business related, not technical. Twitter could decide to use a protocol but that does little to prevent it from pulling or limiting access via the protocol when it wants and as it wants.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Agree on all points! In general, I've found European talent(Romania, Poland etc.) to be more technically sound than Indian devs even if a little more expensive. This goes for both programming and design. The vast majority of Indian design
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"I just dont have the time on my hands to do it, so I need someone..."(o2h2.com)
2 points by zaidf 16y ago|0 comments
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by zaidf 16y ago
More likely, this Colors app is probably a very, very tiny part of what they really got funded for. Conclusion: no one really knows what they got funded for. Sure, a stealth company getting 40M in funding is bad; but getting 40M for an ap
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by zaidf 16y ago
I remain in two minds about idea of charging the kids. There is no doubt they did some things they should not have. And I don't doubt there can be a decent case built against them. But as someone who actually had something from his teen yea
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by zaidf 16y ago
75% of the kernel is written by corporate employees. And that implies what about the kernel?
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by zaidf 16y ago
Flagged.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Agree. Running into OOP as the foundation of AP Comp Sci cirriculum in high school almost made me hate programming ... and that takes some effort because leading to the class I was programming out of joy every minute that I could. If it was
840.
by zaidf 16y ago
Is there a way to get sum of the share count for all pages in a domain? This one only reflects share count of the specific page--or only the homepage if you pass a domain.

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