frosty

You need to translate things for an international rollout which takes time. Plus US is a known devil and easier to rollout and look at numbers to fix the glitches.

Also the headphone jack is available on all phones and if you develop for 30 pin interface, you have to design different hardware connector for different phones

A similar one for delhi (NCR)

http://groups.google.com/group/delhi-hn-meetup

Lets plan a meetup :)

He has a lot of passion and it shows. Also, he is awesome sales man to enterprises. Personally I like guys like him.

You put 5 geeks in a room and one guy like him to motivate and keep them happy once a week and rest of the week doing sales. Great combo :)

the issue i face is, when i start working on my side project at 8pm i just want to keep working on it and before i realize its 3/4am and now i am late for office next day :(

why will foursquare and gowalla in trouble. Apple's blog clearly says you cant get user location only for ads but if you are using it for other features you can get it and use it anyway you like.

well he paid a little bit on higher side. its normally less than 10k (i paid round 8k). Let me know in case you need contact who can do in India area.

in case you want a simple partnership then it can be done for 1k-2k but it has full liability

i will say unless you plan to make small changes, you wont get much out of studying the source code. fixing small bugs in an open source project will expose you to lot of portions of source code and also give you some rep in case you want to become a contributor later

if i had the money, i will increase my hiring spend as you can get much better people because number of new startups reduce and also less competition in hiring

wow! great step by myspace. this sure will irritate facebook like hell. might even lead to bidding war with facebook.

surprised by low price though. might be an investment?

If the screen which you want to A/B test is not the first screen, you can make background calls to your server and based on result decide which screen to show. Write to user settings when you want to permanently disable it.

Note:

i) Reasoning behind not having it as first screen as it really slows the application launch.

ii) You should make sure that if webservice call takes too long, just pick one default which is shown to user instead of waiting for result

iii) if you really want to do it for first screen, load and save the result in user settings for next launch while the application is running

this might work for games but for boring things like enterprise software domain, whats the ideal way to find testers and how much should i pay them?

have any of tried out on freelance or amazon turk etc?

he is not being sued as of now.

its a cease and desist order asking him to stop the spam, change name to not infringe on trademark etc.

Its a completely new backend they are using so ordering of results is different.

From searchengineland: "Based on the blog post, we can guess that this new infrastructure may include ways of crawling the web more comprehensively, determining reputation and authority (possibly beyond the link graph and what’s typically thought of as PageRank), and returning more relevant results more quickly, although Google’s Matt Cutts told me that the changes are primarily in how we index.Google’s new search is only infrastructure related and includes no UI changes."

http://searchengineland.com/caffeine-googles-new-search-inde...

bhindi = lady finger

you seem to be missing a very critical point in using financial projections.

Yeah, apple will keep gaining share in US but guess who will win in the emerging markets like China, India and Brazil. Microsoft will now start reaping rewards for its years of giving OS for free to these markets (basically by not cracking on piracy).

In these countries, its not about coolness or design. Its about the price.

Want an example? Guess how many iPhones sold in India?

There are no cockpit covers it allows the driver to get out (or removed by marshalls) quickly in case of fire (which was the biggest in old days).

yeah these days, risk of fire is quite less but still its a delicate balance which one has is more risky (fire or debris hitting drivers)

Yeah. Thats a nice idea. There is a service which does that for twitter trends (whatthetrend.com). Will checkout their api and try to integrate.

Clickable link for easy access

http://thinking.me/

i actually wanted to use HN from RSS reader but so many stories get pushed that it was practically useless. So i created a filter which pushes stories to rss only when they gain 20 votes or more before being pushed out of front-page:

http://hackernewsrss.appspot.com/downloadrss

it has around 60% less articles. add to ur feed readers if you find it useful.

get rss feed with minimum points threshold lets say 10 or 20. currently too many entries get pushed to rss feed :(

actually we were really facing issues after we recieved a flood of resumes. Finally ended up a quick solution myself over the weekend. Its working for now but could be better :)

by recruitment what i meant was basically whenever a resume is recieved by email, i) a separate entry is created for that person.

ii) Other people can change status like hired, called for interview, telephonic done, rejected etc

iii) Other employees can add candidate feedback and other things so that everything remains in one place

hey i registered with account frosty :). i had seen one comment posted in my profile which i am sure i had not posted.

mailing you pg