azharcs

Totally true, My boss keeps telling me that, "Don't come to me with Problems, Come to me with Solutions" and I think this really is a good advice, but I don't how it makes you streetsmart.

reminds me of this funny XKCD http://xkcd.com/463/

I had recently seen an Amazing Documentary called "Life After People", I would recommend it to anyone interested in knowing what would happen to Earth without humans. http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people

It looks like a Google Sponsored Ad.

A great gesture by Senegal, In the age where countries are killing innocents over Land, there is a country in this world which is voluntarily donating land. I personally think Israel should learn a thing or two from Senegal and put an end to Mid-eastern crises.

I now hope Google stands up to other countries, mainly USA to whom they share their user data as well as log files. When Google does that, I will be a impressed by them, threatening to leave a market in which they don't really exist is not something hard to do, when you have realized that your operating costs are going to be much larger than money you're going to make (even in the long run), it is viable to quit the market. Lot of other companies do this all the time, it is just that they don't make a huge fuss about it or write blogposts.

I would say posting and getting upvoted on HN should be like a litmus test for the blog posts, write good blogposts, put your effort into it and post it on HN to see if people like it or upvote it. If they don't, get back to work and improve your writing or style enough to get upvoted by itself (not by rigging). By asking your friends to upvote your posts (which I am assuming are not good because if they were, you wouldn't need your friends) you might be able to get couple of thousand views to your website, make couple of dollars in advertising money and then maybe some discussion too, but you wouldn't learn failure and improvement. So all I can say is, treat your posts like litmus test and improve enough that they can't ignore you.

Be so Good, They can't Ignore you - Steve Martin

For those of you, who don't know, Who Tim Sweeney is?

Tim Sweeney is the founder of Epic Games and the person behind very famous Unreal game engines. John Carmack,Tim Sweeney have been some of my heroes from gaming world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_%28game_developer%2...

on a unrelated note, Steam is having a awesome holiday sale, where most of games are selling at a discount of 50%-80%. So all you frugal gamers should be buying now.

http://store.steampowered.com/

note: I am not related to either Steam or Valve in anyway, I just love Steam as it has made my life easier wrt playing and managing games.

direct link to namebench: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Perfect example of "Lets kick the guy when he is down", and Seriously why is this even here? I rest my case.

you missed me too, @azharcs

wow, I am actually amazed by the projects he has created, I actually knew him only for his 'Poignant Guide' and the 'Shoes'. He has created tons of amazing projects, Now I really miss him :)

Well this was the first time I've heard of Khan Academy, and wow they have a wide variety of topics and explained in a very simple manner. This is the kind of stuff, which makes me love Internet.

I was recently listening to one of the podcast of Ruby on Rails creator, DHH and he said, he started programming in the early 20's and he has certainly made a small dent in the universe.

I understand that, we are surrounded by successful stories of Programmers or Entrepreneurs who started programming at an early age but that shouldn't stop you from learning Programming. "It's better late than never".

Seriously, I really miss HN's quality. A year ago when articles like these wouldn't even reach the first page, now it is a top story.

Print version. http://www.cioinsight.com/index2.php?option=content&task...

The title of the article is "Inside Google: Eric Schmidt, the man with all the answers" and for the sake of the HN and its quality, lets stop giving fanboy spins to the articles.

I really wonder if this is anything other than a fanboy hate post. I am not going to dissect your comment and explain it why it is a fanboy post, you can do it when you are free.

I know its fashionable to hate Microsoft, but sometimes it creates a narrow-mindedness which results in, we Entrepreneurs or Hackers to miss out on good opportunities if we are going to be this religious.

This isn't a fanboy hate post either. From a purely business perspective aligning with Microsoft is toxic.

I don't know what you mean by toxic, there are 1000's of companies like Adobe, Autodesk, id Softwares, EA etc which went on to make Millions and Billions of Dollars because they aligned with Microsoft and built over their platform. If maybe John Carmack was religious enough to hate Microsoft or not build over their platform, he wouldn't have created one of the best game developing company. Maybe he would have spent his time discussing what color the next version of Macbook would be, on discussions.apple.com.

What I really find interesting in this article is how some of the Facebookers are already considering Google as a Big Brother of Online world and in most cases, It is. I think Google is to Today's startups what IBM was to 70's & 80's Startups and Microsoft was to 90's Startups, a Gigantic and Monopolistic enemy to fight against.

they(Google) don't think Facebook's staff has the brainpower to succeed where they have failed. "If they found a way to monetize all of a sudden, sure, that would be a problem," says one highly placed Google executive. "But they're not going to."

This is the same kind of Arrogant and cocky attitude which made IBM irrelevant in PC market, Microsoft irrelevant in Online market and Maybe Google in Advertising. History repeats Itself every decade, atleast in Technology.

This site has been submitted before.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481910

This article is from the year 2007, Please specify it in the title.

quote is by Confucius. :)

Thanks a lot. :) This video made my day.

Can someone point me out to the video "What If." mentioned in the Article. I tried searching in Youtube but just couldn't find it.

Default bing search on IE6 has been resolved on June 3rd, It seems it was a bug and it is fixed now.

I think this was the previous HN account of his site. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thenextweb

Best of Luck man, I hope you come out with good content.

The demo video isn't even up yet, and some people are already calling it the future of communication. This looks like one of Google's narrow-minded tactic to sideline Bing's news today.

After being flagged twice, this is back again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579890