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lazy_nerd

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About lazy_nerd

Entrepreneur

Contact: hn [at] prokta [dot] com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #25251145

    If people in US can be misled by fake news, India stood little chance. Facebook and WhatsApp have been used effectively to brainwash the general public in India. As Barack Obama de…

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    Comment #8628752

    +N. Its equally telling about the CEO as it is about Emil Michael.

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    Comment #8328424

    +1000. You have hit the nail on the head.

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    Comment #6341412

    Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.

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    Comment #6341263

    Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?

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    Comment #6340938

    You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

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    Comment #6334890

    You mean, stocktwits?

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    Comment #6328707

    You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

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    Comment #6328680

    We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.

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    Comment #6328401

    Nope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.

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    Comment #6328387

    yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.

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    Comment #6328357

    We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twit…

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    Comment #5916833

    What was their traction and valuation when they raised this round?

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    Are dirty tactics like these that common in enterprise software?

    https://www.Facebook.com/scott.monty/posts/10151080784021625

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    Comment #4711396

    Lots of different analytics solutions suited for different scenarios mentioned in your list. Each one serves a different need even though there is some degree of overlap between th…

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    Comment #4225447

    Any comparisions between Pig, Hbase and Hive might help

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    Comment #3395265

    Interoperability between services is bound to be the next big thing. Nice job, guys!

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    Comment #2848903

    Is it going to be in Clojure?

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    Comment #2836642

    What this kind of scammers don't realize is that internet and subsequent proliferation of social media networks has leveled the playing field to a large extent. So, if people who a…

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    Comment #2801623

    India has also given people like Rajat Gupta (ex-Mckinsey Director) and others involved in the insider trading case.