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Interesting. Although how much of this debacle can we attribute to conscious thinking along the lines of "we know this is high risk - high reward stuff, but let us do it to a point…

Assumptions the article makes: 1. People are stupid, they cant and dont adapt. 2. The market system is rigid and exploitative. Can we expect the three people who were hired instead…

You are right that this article talks of a "wider applicability" of the business model where services are cross-subsidized by advertising. But, there's more: The article emphasizes…

Excellent point. I guess the challenge is in first determining whether adopting the strategy to give pages with semantic info a higher rank, a good one. In other words, will this i…

I am not so sure this reasoning will hold given the highly price elastic nature of the demand for IT. In other words, will US companies look to spend as much on IT in a recession?

Validation. http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

I agree. Striking the right balance between abstractions and low-level details, is the mark of a genius. Put differently, the size and nature of the building blocks a person uses, …

To be honest, I somehow missed the possibility that it was a parody, as well. Which brings me to something a little 'meta' as far as this goes: What are some good heuristics / algo…

I think I misunderstood you there. You are right, from a "User Experience" perspective dividing up the web application's pages into sections for viewing and other sections for prin…

Perhaps you are being a bit too strong here. I might hold an uncommon contrarian view for news.yc but, here goes nothing: "It teaches its victims to use the excreable "viewstate" a…

"The odds of a hit versus a miss do not increase over time. The periods of one's career with the most hits will also have the most misses. So maximizing quantity -- taking more swi…

What you say is true. However, my reference to Wikipedia's view on NLP by no means meant anything conclusive or dismissive. Given Wikipedia's social aspect, it was just another way…

What do you guys think about NLP? Wikipedia says that it is still scientifically unvalidated. I'm not so sure what to think of all these self-help bestseller books/systems that hit…

nandan.naik att gee malee dott comm, please.

LOL :)

I regret having waited until I m 26 before I took concrete/tangible steps towards my own start-up. A large part of the blame goes towards thinking that there will be a "right-time"…

absolutely brian. :) "Atlanta could be primed to become the next hot spot..." - lets make that a self fulfilling prophecy ;) i have been lamenting over how there is not enough trac…

i second midtown! :) perimeter is a little too far for me to be able to make it on a consistent basis. my email address is nandan.naik (at) gmail.com

Count me in. :) My email address is also in my profile.

Yes, but the videos are not there; only the audio recordings are.

It would be nice to have access to the videos for the event.

"Equity is like shit. If you pile it up, it just smells bad, but if you spread it around, wonderful things will grow." - Jerry Kaplan talking at Stanford http://edcorner.stanford.e…