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by bgurupra 11y ago
Here is a detailed crowdsourced answer to the interview question ""What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?"" https://github.com/alex/what-happens-w
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by bgurupra 15y ago
I think it is time to move on with the critique of Jobs' bio and life.I read the whole bio and the net net I got out of it is that 1)Awesome design not just has aesthetic value but also a lot of practical business value 2)Focus Focus Focus
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by bgurupra 15y ago
In a way I owe my job @ IBM which I got right out of college to that book.Of the many many C books at that time , K&R was obviously the one that was head and shoulders above the rest in terms of explaining C and how to write C programs
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by bgurupra 15y ago
The same thing can be said for pretty much every invention/innovation ever made even if it was a huge leap from the prior art - but then he was the one who did it and I guess that is what matters at the end
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Steve Wozniak Interview (youtube.com)
1 points by bgurupra 15y ago|0 comments
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$35 tablet: From prototype to reality(gadgets.ndtv.com)
1 points by bgurupra 15y ago|0 comments
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Google's first retail store(forbes.com)
67 points by bgurupra 15y ago|24 comments
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How To GET RICH IN EUROPEAN TECH(businessinsider.com)
1 points by bgurupra 15y ago|0 comments
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by bgurupra 15y ago
easy to say that in hindsight - IBM hired Lou Gerstner when it was at the brink of sinking and his previous experience did not have much overlap on what IBM did - he still managed to turn things around
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by bgurupra 15y ago
The reason in my mind leadership is so valued is that there are problems worth solving that are too big for any one person to solve- anything from building companies to conquering vast swathes of land (which was considered a good thing a lo
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by bgurupra 15y ago
I have seen several such posts on why working in a start-up type environment is great and I do agree with the points in such posts but what is missing is any appreciation of the challenges of running a large company vis a vis running a star
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Neurobiology of god(alternative-doctor.com)
2 points by bgurupra 15y ago|0 comments
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by bgurupra 15y ago
can anybody explain how is Google able to do this or point to an explanation of it?
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by bgurupra 15y ago
Interestingly India has so many people in qualifiers but none in the finals, now I don't know what that says about India!
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by bgurupra 15y ago
Unrelated to the content of the article but by the UI - is it just me or does have pitch black background with white text is a bad design for the eye?
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by bgurupra 15y ago
The whole idea that we try so hard to believe in "Everybody is born equal and we are the masters of our destiny" maybe be evolutionary in nature .I was reading a book introducing evolution (and I forget the name but can dig it up if somebod
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New IBM computer chip mimics the human brain(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by bgurupra 15y ago|1 comments
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by bgurupra 15y ago
Sometimes I wonder , what if there is no free will ( Its not like we know Free Will exists for sure yet) - This whole charade of using your drive and determination or the lack there of to do things may be just the way nature always wanted
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by bgurupra 15y ago
No great thing was ever accomplished without being passionate.Even the research field which is all about intellectualism needs you to be passionate about your ideas and ploughing away at them even though they are just untested hypotheses ti
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by bgurupra 15y ago
Einstein is an extreme example of such a case - when I read his biography the thing that caught me as very interesting is that he was able to immerse himself in physics irrespective of all the problems in terms of not finding a job, his mot
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by bgurupra 15y ago
I have had several instances in my life where I dived into what were difficult things for me with gusto - for example when I was in school and was trying to write a program in C to calculate all the anagrams , I did not even have a computer
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by bgurupra 15y ago
I just don't see what the experiment was about really considering the audience entirely consisted of people who can afford coffee - I just don't get it! The only explanation is a viral marketing scheme in my mind
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Google+ Suggested Users, learn who to follow on Google+.(recommendedusers.com)
1 points by bgurupra 15y ago|0 comments
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by bgurupra 15y ago
actually I can see how this will get down voted - but if a person has a smart phone what are the chances he can't really pay for this coffee? (not a rhetorical question but a purely probabilistic one) - so maybe this experiment may not test
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Google - Klingon(google.com)
5 points by bgurupra 15y ago|3 comments
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New Fossil May Prove an Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs(newsfeed.time.com)
5 points by bgurupra 15y ago|1 comments
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Electricity restored at reactor No. 2 | The Japan Times Online(search.japantimes.co.jp)
2 points by bgurupra 16y ago|0 comments
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by bgurupra 16y ago
Einstien was born on 14 March 1879 - so the date there must be his birth date Edit: the second date there is 1896 which makes him 17 years but that marks sheet seems to indicate 3 or 4th grade - so not sure exactly which grade the marks she
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by bgurupra 16y ago
I think condescending feedback = insecurity is a bit of a generalization.Maybe sometimes it is true but not all the time - for example Linus' "feedback" on CVS was pretty condescending but I doubt that was because he was insecure
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Friday the 13th, 2029 - NASA Science(science.nasa.gov)
1 points by bgurupra 16y ago|0 comments

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