blacklife

Re:Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends. on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @05:17PM (#2228584)

How do you plan to monetize ? too early to ask but if you had something in mind since you are going to incur cost per sms.

Re:Ask HN: What if I missed the good stuff in my undergraduate education? on Monday August 16, 2010 @08:06PM (#1609769)

I also like "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" which essentially goes into thinking sort of questions that we today take for granted. For instance: 1) What arithmetic operations should one put into hardware ? 2) Do we really need main memory ? 3) How should I/O look like ? Fascinating read.

Re:Zendesk raises their prices 60%-300%, users predictably revolt on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @02:26PM (#1358470)

Nice read if you have account. Similar to what you are describing: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/21451/abstract

Short summary: anchor points play a great role in setting human expectations. When plaintiffs ask for exorbitant amount of money*, then usually will get more money than they really deserve because jury's anchor point is set high.

Re:Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:18PM (#1306283)

Memory ballooning is basically a mechanism for hypervisor to steal pages from the guest and yes, so it allows for over-commitment. Memory balloon driver is present inside the guest and hypervisor communicates how many pages it needs back to the driver. The driver allocates pages and sends it back to the hypervisor.

Ask HN: What should you do ?

Posted by blacklife on Monday January 18, 2010 @10:57PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Time and again you get such questions! I was working on a feasibility and use case of an indea since past 2 months, fighting with myself if it was valid problem and people would use it. I see today 2 startups have popped up. Should I just discard the idea or should I still go ahead ?

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