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by sandee 14y ago
His company is geared towards a clear mission which is very motivational to the engineers and managers in team. When a company drives towards a goal with a fanatical zeal, nothing else matters than achieving the milestones. Motivation towar
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by sandee 14y ago
The good man was trying the opposite. Which is to make things as simple as possible for early students and get them do the hardest thing they will ever do: "solve some problems using these tools" Instead of chasing after some title ("data s
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by sandee 14y ago
"We usually advise startups to pick a growth rate they think they can hit, and then just try to hit it every week. The key word here is "just." If they decide to grow at 7% a week and they hit that number, they're successful for that week.
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by sandee 14y ago
"should" be allowed OR is it "may" be allowed (if apple pleases).
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by sandee 14y ago
Another technique could be to split the ranking into two modes, a general mode and a power mode(where rules are much strict and biased towards a filtered set of core community users). Using the power mode, readers would view the community c
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by sandee 14y ago
Basically a solution looking for a problem. They are right, the complexity that big data caters for requires expertise at both technical and business level that would be costly (though may not be at infrastructure level). In the current eco
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by sandee 14y ago
congrats to guys. I subscribed some months back. Have been out of perl development since a year. This newsletter really helped to keep me updated. Infact i started re-looking again into cpan modules and filed a bug report recently for one o
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by sandee 15y ago
"We have already shifted .., from physics to psychology as the value-driver and resource-allocator. " While not agreeing to the article broadly, i agree to the statement above. Infact, i believe this is a desirable thing and we should see m
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by sandee 15y ago
>at night, over an ocean, in a storm, with no visibility, in possibly significant turbulance Instead of finding out strategies on how to fly under these circumstances, why can't the plane change its course, if they anticipate the flying
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by sandee 15y ago
Yes. Ask Stallman, Linus et al
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by sandee 15y ago
Yes. "Smart people make more money but don’t end up any wealthier" is the more accurate statement http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/smart-doesnt-...
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by sandee 15y ago
"The only institution that can provide immediate relief is the ECB. As the lender of last resort, it must do more to save the banks by offering unlimited liquidity for longer duration against a broader range of collateral." This line of thi
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by sandee 15y ago
> Links to any blacklisted site will get removed from US search engines, directories, and maybe even blogs through lawsuits. Google, Twitter, maybe even HackerNews. It doesn't work that way anymore. Google, fb , twitter etc operates ac
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by sandee 15y ago
Nothing wrong to marvel about getting 120K readers to your post.But in a startup community like HN, people put much more value on how many conversions happened, or in this case how many real critical comments from which you learnt something
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by sandee 15y ago
"Tweaking a button and seeing conversions increase 8-fold is a beautiful thing. Seeing an hour of work turn into 120k visits is magical." If you are a starter at HN, then do not get misguided by the quote above. If you are aiming for using
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by sandee 15y ago
Sorry, but a true geek never "pretends to know".
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by sandee 15y ago
There is something unique about tablets like iPad, which is tough to understand. When Steve Jobs released it, he emphasized that this was a major event. However at the time, it looked like a overblown iPhone. Personally for me, there are da
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by sandee 15y ago
"situation" is about putting a different level of constraints on them and asking them to optimize within those. And not necessarily involving only buying stuff.
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by sandee 15y ago
"He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit. " Instead of charity, if the billionaires or super smarts like gates, larry/sergey, bezos,pg etc can live in ordinary people situati
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by sandee 15y ago
That is only for sending the SMS of secret passcode for account security, right ? (Yes if they scrap someone's else phone and your phone number happens to be there then ya there is some issue. Is there any precedent of google scraping phon
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by sandee 15y ago
Is there really a YC list of 100 things that can kill a startup so they can be avoided ? Very interested to know
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by sandee 15y ago
The infographics data is deceptive. 1.8 Billion Minutes of Video calls (All people minutes on skype for year); 916 hours of movies made per year (movies made by production house); 9 years of average time spent on watching TV (Time spent by
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by sandee 15y ago
Why the date is shown as "Oct 1st 2011" ? (Current GMT is Sept 30, 6:06 am)
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by sandee 15y ago
Why treasuries and bonds are purchased ?
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by sandee 15y ago
" A real engineer applies physical laws to create a product with some certainty of functioning properly." "Most/all people who call themselves software engineers are not engineers. I'm not convinced that software engineering itself is actua
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by sandee 15y ago
Back in 2009, it was estimated that t Total US financial obligation is around 65 Trillion. Recently i read somewhere that the figure is excess of 100 Trillion now ! src: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88851
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by sandee 15y ago
"I believe the successor to the desktop is the room, that instead of thinking that the computer is just something on the desk that you go and sit in front of, [in the] future basically the whole room is the computer and you go in it." Think
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by sandee 16y ago
It will not be possible ever, to keep handling cases of escalating complexity one of top of other. When things get complex beyond certain level, a kill switch should be triggered. The Kill switch should not depend on If-else cases ...
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by sandee 16y ago
> At least FB is a little more fun to hype than Gold. There is no fun in hyping gold. That's simple because gold is not a hype

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