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by nandan 16y ago
Interesting. Although how much of this debacle can we attribute to conscious thinking along the lines of "we know this is high risk - high reward stuff, but let us do it to a point till we are too big to fail"? I am more inclined to think t
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by nandan 19y ago
Assumptions the article makes: 1. People are stupid, they cant and dont adapt. 2. The market system is rigid and exploitative. Can we expect the three people who were hired instead of John Ulviden to make the same "mistake" he made? Probabl
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by nandan 19y ago
You are right that this article talks of a "wider applicability" of the business model where services are cross-subsidized by advertising. But, there's more: The article emphasizes that the "costs" for an Internet Service, which hitherto ha
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by nandan 19y ago
Excellent point. I guess the challenge is in first determining whether adopting the strategy to give pages with semantic info a higher rank, a good one. In other words, will this improve users' satisfaction with search? I suppose it could s
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by nandan 19y ago
I am not so sure this reasoning will hold given the highly price elastic nature of the demand for IT. In other words, will US companies look to spend as much on IT in a recession?
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A Quirky Introduction To Number Systems(betterexplained.com)
8 points by nandan 19y ago|0 comments
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by nandan 19y ago
Validation. http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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by nandan 19y ago
I agree. Striking the right balance between abstractions and low-level details, is the mark of a genius. Put differently, the size and nature of the building blocks a person uses, in order to tackle a problem or to communicate with others i
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by nandan 19y ago
To be honest, I somehow missed the possibility that it was a parody, as well. Which brings me to something a little 'meta' as far as this goes: What are some good heuristics / algorithms to determine if something is a parody? :)
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by nandan 19y ago
I think I misunderstood you there. You are right, from a "User Experience" perspective dividing up the web application's pages into sections for viewing and other sections for printing is probably not very good. For some reason I thought y
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by nandan 19y ago
Perhaps you are being a bit too strong here. I might hold an uncommon contrarian view for news.yc but, here goes nothing: "It teaches its victims to use the excreable "viewstate" and POST when they mean to GET and pass volumes of unnecessar
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by nandan 19y ago
"The odds of a hit versus a miss do not increase over time. The periods of one's career with the most hits will also have the most misses. So maximizing quantity -- taking more swings at the bat -- is much higher payoff than trying to impro
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by nandan 19y ago
What you say is true. However, my reference to Wikipedia's view on NLP by no means meant anything conclusive or dismissive. Given Wikipedia's social aspect, it was just another way of validating that others too shared my deep suspicion of a
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by nandan 19y ago
What do you guys think about NLP? Wikipedia says that it is still scientifically unvalidated. I'm not so sure what to think of all these self-help bestseller books/systems that hit the market every so often. They seem to have really high r
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by nandan 19y ago
nandan.naik att gee malee dott comm, please.
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by nandan 19y ago
LOL :)
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by nandan 19y ago
I regret having waited until I m 26 before I took concrete/tangible steps towards my own start-up. A large part of the blame goes towards thinking that there will be a "right-time" for all this and a "right-idea". :) But, now that I have t
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by nandan 19y ago
absolutely brian. :) "Atlanta could be primed to become the next hot spot..." - lets make that a self fulfilling prophecy ;) i have been lamenting over how there is not enough traction in atlanta on startups for a while now. i even found my
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by nandan 19y ago
i second midtown! :) perimeter is a little too far for me to be able to make it on a consistent basis. my email address is nandan.naik (at) gmail.com
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by nandan 19y ago
Count me in. :) My email address is also in my profile.
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by nandan 19y ago
Yes, but the videos are not there; only the audio recordings are.
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by nandan 19y ago
It would be nice to have access to the videos for the event.
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Startup school 2007 videos?
8 points by nandan 19y ago|5 comments
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by nandan 19y ago
"Equity is like shit. If you pile it up, it just smells bad, but if you spread it around, wonderful things will grow." - Jerry Kaplan talking at Stanford http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=22
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by nandan 19y ago
are there any plans on putting up the videos for start-up school on the YC site?
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by nandan 20y ago
I ll be there (from Atlanta,GA)
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by nandan 20y ago
Ebay itself acquired StubHub. So I guess there are some mitigating factors to networks effects.