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by vibhavs 15y ago
Mountain View, CA Maginatics Inc. is hiring: http://maginatics.com/jobs.html We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems, security, an
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by vibhavs 15y ago
This title is incorrect and somewhat misleading. The link points to the homepage of an online book titled: "Small Memory Software - Patterns for systems with limited memory."
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by vibhavs 15y ago
This is only a 11-page (draft version?) forward to the book titled Birth of a Psychedelic Culture [1]. 1. http://www.amazon.com/Birth-Psychedelic-Culture-Conversation...
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by vibhavs 15y ago
Waiting to see what grellas has to say about this.
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Palantir worth more than $2 billion(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by vibhavs 15y ago|0 comments
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by vibhavs 15y ago
Here NEA refers to National Endowment for the Arts. Not, as I thought, the venture capital firm...
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by vibhavs 15y ago
Maginatics, Inc. Based in Mountain View, CA right next to the CalTrain station. (No remote.) We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems
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by vibhavs 15y ago
I store sensitive data in Dropbox using an OS X encrypted disk image in my Dropbox directory. It's not an elegant solution, but it gets the job done. I mount the password-protected disk image when needed, access the data, and unmount when f
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by vibhavs 16y ago
They forgot group buying.
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by vibhavs 16y ago
Tangent: So I'll be honest -- I was curious as to who the "jackass VC" was. After a little digging around, I think it's Ted Schlein: http://www.kpcb.com/team/schlein .
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by vibhavs 16y ago
Why downvote? I feel the comparison is inevitable.
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by vibhavs 16y ago
The name is a little too close to ZenDesk, isn't it? Especially since the two companies are in the same market.
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by vibhavs 16y ago
Protip: leave "Hide Ads" unchecked if you're using Rapportive. I installed this extension and scratched my head for a few days wondering where the Rapportive sidebar was. (In general, I'm a big fan of Minimalist Gmail to get rid of all the
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by vibhavs 16y ago
I wonder what areas are outside of that sweet spot. Hardware and enterprise software are a couple that immediately come to mind.
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by vibhavs 16y ago
So I had to go look up noatime. Here's what I found: "Linux [and presumably Mac OS X] has a special mount option for file systems called noatime that can be added to each line that addresses one file system in the /etc/fstab file. If a file
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The Kno Starts Shipping Tomorrow(crunchgear.com)
2 points by vibhavs 16y ago|0 comments
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by vibhavs 16y ago
Very interesting white paper. (I didn't realize that Clustix is a YCombinator company -- they're class of 2006.)
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by vibhavs 16y ago
Groupon supposedly earns $50MM/month in revenue. So this offer would be at ~8x annual revenue. Overpriced? Yes. Is Google desperate? Hell yes.
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by vibhavs 16y ago
I don't think the money just shows up in your bank account one day. From the TC article: "this means Google is handing over stock worth $3.5 million based on its value today, and that stock will vest over time."
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by vibhavs 16y ago
I'm in a similar situation as polymath21 as well. Shoot me an email if interested in meeting up.
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by vibhavs 16y ago
I'm not sure why he was downvoted. He appears to the author of the linked email. You can see at the bottom of the mail, he signed of as "Bryce Lelbach aka wash".
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by vibhavs 16y ago
416 West 13th St. Suite 203 New York, NY 10014
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by vibhavs 16y ago
Noobstories contains links posted from newly-created user accounts. The category is intended for moderation and tends to have more spam than others - the OP is asking you to flag spam articles on Noobstories to maintain the overall high-qua
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Goodbye Blog. Hello Letter. (davemorin.tumblr.com)
16 points by vibhavs 16y ago|19 comments
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Square hires Keith Rabois, Silicon Valley veteran and investor(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
5 points by vibhavs 16y ago|0 comments
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by vibhavs 16y ago
"...founder Max Levchin did the best out of the sale, making a comparable sum to the one he made from PayPal...[for] a total of $39m." Given that PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5b, doesn't $39m sound too low? Does anyone know how much he made f
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by vibhavs 16y ago
"If Slide cashes out for $1.5 billion, Levchin 'would regard it as abject failure'," Slide investor David Weiden of Khosla Ventures told BusinessWeek in 2007. source: http://www.businessinsider.com/if-slide-cashes-out-for-15-bi... edit:
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by vibhavs 16y ago
As you can tell by the date, it's about a month old. He has a follow up blog post titled "First week at Google": http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-week-at-google.... .
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by vibhavs 16y ago
Why not remove the icon and leave the text logo as is? FWIW, I think just the text looks good.
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by vibhavs 16y ago
I thought this was a valid point brought up by Anil Dash on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/anildash/status/17380509761 ): "Of course Twitpic should allow export, but Posterous calling others "dying platforms" is an unnecessary dick move. Henc

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