simplekoala

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by simplekoala 12y ago
Refreshing to read. Her answers are not carefully rehearsed and perennially regurgitated sound bytes you hear all the time. From my observation, it seems this gap is prevalent mostly in engineering (not so much in HR, Marketing, Sales etc).
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by simplekoala 12y ago
or don't accept status quo. Improve the current system by 10X and solve real problems and position yourself as a great company.
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by simplekoala 12y ago
As a top technology company, Uber should have had some basic measures to ensure safety of their rides. In this specific case, the driver turned off the GPS, and took a detour. At the very least, these incidents should have triggered alerts
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by simplekoala 12y ago
Hmmm..shouldn't Uber banned in whole of India instead of just Delhi, till the Govt of India figures out how to allow Uber to operate with better safety measures.
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by simplekoala 12y ago
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and helpful information!
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by simplekoala 12y ago
Check out his list of awards on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Satyarthi . None from India?
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by simplekoala 12y ago
It is a shame that Indian government never even conferred a Padma award to Kailash Satyarthi ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma_Shri ) but was bestowing these awards in abundance to corrupt and classless politicians an
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by simplekoala 12y ago
Feel humbled to read about him. Floored!
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Australian Telco Telstra Acquires Ooyala For $270M(techcrunch.com)
1 points by simplekoala 12y ago|0 comments
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by simplekoala 12y ago
I suspect the opposite is true. Mostly IIT CS/EE majors get into the top CS PhD programs. Many non-CS folks, sure change professions to being programmers but rarely graduate with a stellar PhD from a top 5 (10?) computer science progra
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by simplekoala 12y ago
yes, yes. Thanks!
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by simplekoala 12y ago
It is remarkable that top 4 IITs combined make up 5.2% of undergrad degrees of CS professors right after MIT 5.9% and ahead of Harvard at 3.1%. What is even more impressive is the fact that these four IITs admit around 140-150 students into
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by simplekoala 12y ago
There was post on HN of a blog post link which contained a list of all free machine learning/data mining books. Wondering, if someone can post the link to it. I am unable to find it through search.
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by simplekoala 12y ago
I haven't done much assembly (barring some FPGA programming I did in an undergrad course, and writing an editor on a Motorola processor). This code so eminently readable. Is this the norm or is it Woz working his magic writing incredib
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by simplekoala 13y ago
It looks like Brian Acton, Whatsapp's founder was turned down by Facebook in 2009. What a comeback! This must be even sweeter! https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383
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by simplekoala 13y ago
When you get a chance, would you be kind to write a "how to" blog post about how to build and wire one yourself, so others without any clue about how to do this can have a shot at learning and doing it themselves?
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by simplekoala 13y ago
Interesting you chose Scala. I have built and managed Jetty based adservers to talk to bidding exchanges and wondered how would the system perform if the adserver was written in Scala instead. Going with Jetty initially was the right choice
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Culture at Amazon.(venturebeat.com)
2 points by simplekoala 13y ago|1 comments
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by simplekoala 13y ago
You have a typo: Brandon Eich -> Brendan Eich. Not nitpicking, am compelled to point out since it is a name.
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by simplekoala 13y ago
You think they are not technically savvy to understand that the system is obsolete. It is deliberate. They defer payments, so they can hold up the cash for a few weeks; This gives them a working cash-flow pipeline they can dip into. There i
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by simplekoala 13y ago
Is it Werner Vogels (Amazon's CTO) who submitted this story?
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Rocket Fuel nearly doubles stock price on first day of IPO(techcrunch.com)
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by simplekoala 13y ago
Agree with this advice. There are many immature, egoistic, self-absorbent founders (consciously emulating wrong traits of Steve Jobs) that it is always better to play it safe, and leave like a professional instead of risking back-lashes, bu
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by simplekoala 13y ago
Thank you for making the valley a better place (and hope you make a good return on your investment in the process)
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by simplekoala 13y ago
I think the situation has started to get better with software start-up infrastructure costs going significantly down, angels and incubators eating traditional VC's lunches (to a point where firms like Sequoia had to initiate stealth sc
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by simplekoala 13y ago
The structural and core part of the issue gets muddled due to poor education/know-how among engineers (partly due to excellent marketing by VCs). See below an excerpt from Alex Payne's article at https://al3x.net/2
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by simplekoala 13y ago
There is a treasure trove of wisdom in this article for all starry-eyed engineers coming to valley with dreams to eventually start a company someday. I realize that starting a company by itself is a poor goal and slightly narcissistic but I
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by simplekoala 13y ago
Apologies for shooting from the hip. Never meant to say I can come up with a better design than mechanical engineers. You seem to suggest that building this table requires some serious engineering chops. May be there is some truth to it. As
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by simplekoala 13y ago
I have a simple(minded) idea here. Connect a damn horizontal rod between the two pistons/moving-legs on each side
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by simplekoala 13y ago
Why should it be made of wood? Any composite material will do. We just need to build one which is affordable. It looks like a niche product right now, and a whole lot of average americans cannot afford to purchase one. It looks like one of

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