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ritwikt
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About ritwikt
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Ask HN: Leading indicator metric for measuring “Technical Debt”
Would love to hear thoughts on how to have a metric that acts as a leading indicator of Technical Debt in services/code we write. Specifically, moving the metric should correlate t…
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Comment #9395691
1. You have not failed in life 2. The tone of the post seems like you have emotionally accepted that your current endeavor has failed and you are looking for external validation - …
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Comment #8780578
Have been on similar boat and started my own ~7 mos back. Here are couple of points: 1. Be prepared for your savings to Last >1yr, unless you can get seed funding now 2. Is your gf…
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Comment #8012746
Would be nice to know why RabbitMQ/ZeroMQ didn't fit the bill [scale/speed?] -- I can somewhat understand the not relying on SQS but then there is anyways a reliance on EC2 right ?…
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Comment #8000997
In plain english can one explain whats broken with iMap/current email and how Inbox fixes it ? I m missing something sure here
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Comment #7582304
Please get a legal counsel and fire the CTO. At this early stage trust and respect is the only glue and he seems to have none for you at least.
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Comment #7541726
The point to discuss not really looking for a perfect answer :)
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Ask HN: What in Digital Ocean's business plan convinced top VCs to invest?
They sure have 1. An awesome team 2. An amazing growth story but they are primarily differentiated by price in a highly capital intensive market [building out DCs is not cheap]. Th…
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Comment #7533951
@bmull you might want to check out what we are doing in the space @ http://www.informion.com - we are essentially using relevance as a key driver for engagement. Would love to conn…
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Comment #7532062
Excellent post on lifting the opt-in rate for push .. The opposite side of the spectrum is user annoyance and app abandons when these channels[specially push] are used to spam
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Comment #7509772
Didn't work with my LinkedIn .. bug or too early for that? Gives me At the moment, your network is not eligible for full access. You can try to integrate more networks to improve y…
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+1 to that Bizspark is an awesome program for startups. We are running linux on it w/o any issues [~3 servers come free] Best part - there are no restrictions on what s/w stack you…
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Comment #7498016
This if done right could really be a game changer - think getting an API where I could send a word and get back what it meant ...
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Comment #7498009
AirBnB and Oculus create value one by disruption and the other by innovation ... They are better left off from King lane which is more ephemeral .. '99 was more of a tide where eve…
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Comment #7496671
You might want to answer what you want from the accelerator - you seem to be hinting @ growth - you might want to qualify that further since you seem to be covered on market access…
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Comment #7496660
Coffee-script is awesome but suffers from it's roots as a preprocessed layer on top .. and that essentially leads to poor overall tool chain support .. I actually enjoyed writing c…