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Ask HN: Which city in Canada is the best for Internet startups?
4 points by skowmunk 16y ago|4 comments
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by skowmunk 16y ago
agree.... I hope the wireless careers can give some stiff competition to the wired incumbents like comcast, road runner and their ilk.... that did be nice!!!!!!!
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by skowmunk 16y ago
There are a lot of areas which need critical breakthroughs to solve the increasingly critical circumstances casued by increasing population, increasing buying power and limited resourcs. The list would be a very very long. But the single ar
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Thank you all for the suggestions. Its given me a lot of food for thought.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I am not sure if this is a direct answer, but I think it can be indicative of possibilities. I worked with a contractor on Odesk, he was based in India. This is what used to happen - I used to pay him through Odesk, he had a paypal and XOOM
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Ask HN: What are some good books for understanding OOP?
22 points by skowmunk 16y ago|25 comments
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by skowmunk 16y ago
A question you may have to answer yourself might be: 1) Are you looking to have a safe job type career? or 2) Are you trying to build something that you have in mind?
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Isn't history repeating with the mobile OS?
4 points by skowmunk 16y ago|5 comments
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by skowmunk 16y ago
That was very funny!
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by skowmunk 16y ago
That was good advice. Thanks. I guess thats true, at the end its like any other relationship. Like the ref to "I love you, Man", watched that movie. I see what you mean.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
quite often, in such company sales as well as in stocks/real estate and many other forms of investments, the sale price is a function of future earning potential. Of course, the future earning potential is not often the sole factor, but pro
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Nice reply, also gives a good idea on the complexities/challenges involved in scaling up a startup to global markets.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Around 5 years ago, I read an interview given by Bill Gates. In that, the inteviewer remarked about Gates' reputation for having in-depth knowledge on diverse subjects. And the interviewer asked, if Gates could just understand anything and
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Ask HN: Is there really anything such as 'intelligence'?
4 points by skowmunk 16y ago|3 comments
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Couldn't help adding this on: Don't go on in the fear of another burnout. It will severely curtail your pushing yourself to your limits. Its only by pushing your limits and breaking them that you expand your limits. And it's by expanding yo
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by skowmunk 16y ago
It would depend on what I am tuning my life for at a particular period fo time. Earlier, I used to tune my life with the purpose of filling two of my biggest bottlnecks to reaching my dreams, experience(/knowledge) and money. I used to work
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by skowmunk 16y ago
"....BioNectar4534.... " of Merc - that is so funny. Where do they come up with names like these? The energy density of batteries is probably going to be the single most critical deciding factor for future car weights. The day the battery
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by skowmunk 16y ago
got a thought I had to unload: What if there were a site where non-profit orgs, non-government orgs or charity orgs can post 'jobs' (unpaid) on a website and people can volunteer themselves to particular jobs? I believe there are sites for
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by skowmunk 16y ago
good question. a compact answer to that question could be either "yeah, the market is limited to those who have already discovered the gains in productivity by using multiple screens and are addicted to screen space" or "Well there is resea
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by skowmunk 16y ago
if the same miniaturization technologies as Ipad were used, wouldn't the 15" have a lesser weight/unit screen area, when the computing electronics/battery components are removed? Or for that matter another pure screen gadget the same size a
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by skowmunk 16y ago
so true and in some completely different areas too - the vhs-betamax wars, the HD/Bluray. Probably one is going to be brewed up between bluetooth/wifi direct or mebbe its already won, before it even started.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
that indeed would be a problem. I wonder how much power the Ipad screen uses. hmm... mebbe a regular power cord would be required.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
wouldn't a permanently attached second monitor increase the form factor of the laptop itself?
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by skowmunk 16y ago
That did be a great idea by itself. Still, when wanting to carry a really small laptop, an ipad is quit an additional weight.
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Ask HN: Likely demand for a big monitor extension for a small laptop?
3 points by skowmunk 16y ago|12 comments
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I am not very surprised......I like to use a combination of physical and digital copy of a book. Sometimes I just like to write down notes, hell lot of them while learning something new from a book, makes it lot more interesting and engagin
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Its a great idea. It might even boost the already good cooperation that I think exists amoung the start ups. Somehow, the idea that having this cross equity holding is going to be damper on one's motivation to build their own start-ups seem
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by skowmunk 16y ago
I would pay with a very significant part of my life and current resources to get my dream job - running a profitable business that would make enough money for me to experiment with more ideas that would in turn help me make more money :) (G
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by skowmunk 16y ago
Dunno abt poor people gambling more, but they sure can get educated more - so that they can at least calculate their odds better.
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by skowmunk 16y ago
very good article.. some incredibly powerful (yet simple) statements... somehow... I think the nature of engagement with religion of the very intelligent 'believers in religion' is probably very different from the type of engagement of the

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