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prakashon Tablets

Here's another good example of etherealization: With Skype one can get a US (and a few other countries) number that gets routed to my skype id.

prakashon Algorithmic search is sinking

pretty much anyone that has switched over to some other search engine as their primary did so because Google's algorithmic search is sinking, for the past couple of years.

prakashon What would you do if you were CEO of Google?

Redirect google users to DuckDuckGo.

prakashon Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator

Congrats, YCombinator and Alexis! Great news.

prakashon Google Acquires Angstro, a Social Networking Start-Up

I was an early user of Angstro, excellent product and team. I discovered tons of interesting & relevant content via Angstro, and Rohit and his team were quick to implement interesting features.

Great acquisition for Google.

prakashon Ask HN: What is an alternative to Google? Really.

Privacy for one. http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

prakashon Ask HN: What is an alternative to Google? Really.

It's been almost a year since I switched to DuckDuckGo (http://www.cloudknow.com/2010/04/duckduckgo-as-my-primary-se...)

Heck, if Gabriel started charging users for the service, I would gladly pay him.

prakashon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)

Portland, OR. Senior Java Developer @Cedexis -- http://www.cedexis.com/

Skills: Substantial hands-on experience in Java/SQL web application development on Linux and a solid understanding of modern frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.) & Previous experience in internet infrastructure and high volume timeseries data processing is highly desirable

prakashon Ask HN: Please, help me understand what I am doing wrong.

sort of related, on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93yaq/anyone_else...

prakashon Blekko Review

I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try.

Give DuckDuckGo a try for a couple of weeks, you probably won't go back to whichever search engine you are using currently :-)

prakashon Tell HN: HN is now blocked by UAE proxy

Any HN users want to do a meetup in Dubai? My email is in my profile.

prakashon Racing to Fill Gaps Left by Google

Many of the people I invited to Quora felt this way, this was when FB was the only option.

One thing to note is that after you login, you can disconnect your twitter and/or facebook account. I disconnected FB.

Even if you don't plan to join, I would recommend the HN crowd to check out some of the questions under startups -- excellent info.

prakashon Poll: Which CDN do you use?

According to Cedexis, the top 5 CDN's in the US are:

1. Cotendo 2. EdgeCast 3. Limelight 4. Akamai 5. CloudFront

http://www.cedexis.com/en/charts.html;jsessionid=9523EC359AD...

prakashon HN frontpage 3 years ago

The last Miles & I heard from his friend, Nick B was/is alive. After that we didn't pursue it.

prakashon Turning on your Reality Distortion Field

Applies equally well to sales as well.

prakashon I'm interviewing Eric Ries of The Lean Startup tomorrow. What should I ask?

What best practices would he recommend if you need to do customer development & discovery over the phone?

prakashon Math is not linear, so why do we teach it like that?

An interesting quote I came across today from Edward Tufte:

One more example. If you are teaching math, hand out the proofs on paper at the beginning of class to all the students; then work through the written-out proofs aloud in class, following the proofs on paper.

That way your students aren't merely making notes and recording your words; instead they are thinking. I believe that students should THINK in class, not take notes. So give the students your lecture notes and go through them carefully in class, trying to insure understanding of each part as you go. Your voice in effect annotates and explains the material on paper.

(Of course, these ideas apply widely, not just to teaching math.)

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0.... -- It's the last paragraph under "E.T. ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR MAKING PRESENTATIONS".

prakashon Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO & AdWords

Awesome! 2 of my favorite HN startups, both of them got the "Make something users want" part right.

prakashon Top VCs Debate Rising Startup Valuations [video]

RethinkDB has been funded by A16Z as well.

prakashon Top VCs Debate Rising Startup Valuations [video]

Mr. ANDREESSEN: He’s building a fantastic – he’s building what’s going to be a great – he’s going into a huge market, you know, going up against incumbents, you know, all the incumbents in the space have been bought by the likes of Oracle and… he’s going up against, you know, incumbents that are not going to make the shift to the next generation nearly as aggressively as he is and there’s all kinds of market demand for this and numerous companies. But none of us are ever going to use the product – it’s not that kind of product.

Betting that Marc is talking about RethinkDB.

prakashon My book (about school, Harvard and Facebook) is now free to read on-line.

is there a pdf version to download and read? do you have plans to do this?

prakashon DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for the past 7 months

no worries :-)

prakashon DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for the past 7 months

none. I wrote it since I really like DuckDuckGo.

prakashon Congratulations Patrick

well said. pinboard is another startup in the same vein.

prakashon Quora Has The Magic: BenchMark Invests at $86 Million Valuation

I have a few invites if anyone is interested. fyi: Quora requires FB connect to register.

prakashon An open letter to Netflix from the authors of the de-anonymization paper

fyi: randomwalker is Arvind Narayanan.

prakashon [dead]

I thought he lived in buenos aires, argentina?

prakashon Noracle

With a handful of exceptions, most enterprise companies are sales companies in the long run.

prakashon What operating systems the Plan 9 Google guys are using

What's sam?

prakashon "Basically, It's Over" by Charlie Munger

From what I have read, investing in Goldman was Buffet's idea. Are the any articles that list Munger talking about the equity stake in goldman as well?