pramanat
Re:U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High
on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:02PM (#30289117)
can someone explain this?
Re:How to Hire a Winner? Try a Game of Ping Pong
on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @07:02PM (#7707678)
Reminds me of Gulliver's Travels where the Emperor of Lilliput appoints court officials by their rope dancing skills.
http://www.shmoop.com/gullivers-travels/the-lilliputians.htm...
Re:First full-resolution images of the Martian surface
on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @05:14PM (#4358123)
Looks like the image was stitched together from multiple images, judging by the jagged edges at the top and the "fold" to the right of middle in the image. Very neat, nonetheless.
Re:Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere
on Thursday June 21, 2012 @01:32PM (#4143184)
Perhaps a corollary could be that incubators also follow a power law distribution?
Re:Learning the hard way: Moving from NYC to Palo Alto and back in 1.5...
on Thursday September 29, 2011 @06:17PM (#3054573)
Josh, you might want to look at the Tokbox API to get the MVP out: http://www.tokbox.com/opentok/api
Re:Reed Hastings responds to criticisms and announces Qwikster
on Monday September 19, 2011 @01:28PM (#3014393)
Aren't there some synergies they would be missing out on by splitting into two companies? For instance, their recommendation engine.
Re:Yahoo buys IntoNow for $20-30M
on Monday April 25, 2011 @01:10PM (#2482005)
Intonow was spun out of Auditude which developed the audio fingerprinting technology, and Auditude has been around since 2006.
Interview with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Re:Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google
on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @10:00PM (#2362466)
Very cool and a bit creepy at the same time. I'm thinking about Hitchcock's Rear Window. I'm able to see what my office building neighbors are doing (I think...).
Re:Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google
on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @09:57PM (#2362455)
Just tried it. Works. Don't know if the photos I'm seeing are from the neighbors in my office building, though.
Re:The worst program I ever worked on
on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @01:44PM (#2333010)
Reminds me of my first programming job. One of my colleagues used variables named after baseball players.
Re:Your own company? You can do it
on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:05PM (#2289792)
"If a high school drop-out with nothing but a typing diploma could do it, so can you."
I want to believe it, but not necessarily true. We all have different abilities. The author is very talented and has acquired (and/or was born with) the ability to do business.
On the other hand, there is no way of really knowing, unless you try.
Re:Poll: How old were you when you started programming?
on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @02:49PM (#2049926)
Age 12, BASIC on the Apple II at school. I learned from some books that had cartoon robots in them. Anyone remember these?
Re:RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007
on Monday December 27, 2010 @05:31PM (#2043863)
Good article ... looks like the author predicted something like the IPad.