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raghuson How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching

I've always enjoyed your writings kalid. I esp liked http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide.... Thanks so much for your site!

raghuson Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain

Sorry I wasn't clear, yes I did mean to ask if Doodles were as high-pressure/high-reward an area as Ads and Android

raghuson Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain

Doodles?

raghuson Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain

The article says it was all cash

In July, Zynga lost a bid for PopCap, a mobile game company. Zynga offered $950 million in cash.

raghuson A Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes - it wobbles more than you might think [video]

I did not know that, thank you.

raghuson A Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes - it wobbles more than you might think [video]

It is quite amazing that in spite of the moon's rotation about its own axis and our (the Earth's) revolution around the sun where the moon comes along for the ride, we still only ever see just a bit over 50% of the surface of the moon. That takes some amount of dexterity on the part of the moon.

raghuson Poll: Should HN display comment scores?

How about displaying comment scores only to users with a certain karma threshold and/or have been with HN a certain number of days or weeks?

Presumably the folks engaging in nasty arguments are relatively new folks who haven't added much value to HN?

raghuson Where can I get large datasets open to the public?

Also, check out http://aws.amazon.com/datasets

raghuson Airbnb

I'm curious -- VRBO could easily pivot and handle transactions themselves, directly. Instead they've chosen to offer optional insurance:

In general it is true that BigCo X could do function/feature/integrate Y and totally kill Startup Z - but it doesn't happen all that much.

raghuson The obsession with next

Is there way to follow a twitter conversation like a thread on HN with indented replies? Or maybe a 3rd party site that does that?

raghuson Show HN: Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)

http://awurl.com/IbOmC46sP

raghuson 10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil

I have the print copy of this Time issue and they do exactly that and it makes it so much more readable.

raghuson An Awesome Book

There are simpler ways: nieces and nephews for example

raghuson How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

Stupid question: what does MVP stand for here?

raghuson Why are technical recruiters so clueless?

Speaking of career moves, this made it through GMail's spam detector this morning:

Hello Raghu,

Based on your resume, we are pleased to offer you the position of Mail Order Shipment Inspector( MOS Inspector) in our company. Your duties will include receipt and registration of packages, submission of detailed reports to our management and shipment of packages to end customers with postal labels we will send you. Depending on the number of packages you process, the monthly pay would be in the range of USD 1,500 - 2,500 Not sure if you are still looking for a job but let us know if so, so that I could get back to you with more details. Also, please add my address into your address book to prevent my messages from filtering into your junk mail folder.

Thank you, Victoria Premo

raghuson Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

IIRC Jeff Bezos hinted at this when he spoke at Startup School a couple years ago

raghuson Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels

1. It would have been good to see some quantitative numbers to back up the assertion which sounds plausible

2. His own comment form at the bottom has side aligned labels (and no comments so far - so maybe he's right?)

raghuson MIT Globe Genie (Random Street View)

Dunno about that but I am just hoping to either re-live a memory or, waste some random time virtually driving between cities I may not be able to visit anytime soon.

raghuson MIT Globe Genie (Random Street View)

I lack the skills to write it but it would be great if I could enter the addresses of two US locations and a website took me for a virtual drive along the route by using Google Maps + Street View

raghuson Search Google Docs From Within Gmail

What I'd really like though is the ability to attach a file in my Google Docs a/c to an email I am composing in Gmail

raghuson Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record

At which point another startup will solve the problem of what someone's original identity was.

raghuson Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

even if the user can't identify the song, they can hum it - I've always wondered what a computer equivalent of NPR's Car Talk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Talk would be like

raghuson 7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language from scratch

sws?

raghuson Primer (film)

... and it's expiring from Netflix Streaming Sunday midnight (5/30) so catch it today!

raghuson Primer (film)

... and it's expiring from Netflix Streaming Sunday midnnight (5/30) so catch it today!

raghuson Posterous (YC 08) unveils Post Editor 2.0

Which kind of makes sense, doesn't it? Why build the whole thing when you're not even sure that people will care.

raghuson Scaling MySQL to 700 million inserts per day

This seems to be at Yahoo!

raghuson Ask HN: How do you fight procrastination?

I'll tell you later

raghuson Working with Mark Zuckerberg

One sentence that caught my attention was "He doesn't care what he said yesterday, even if he was presented with the same product."

raghuson The 2005 email that spawned Picnik, Google's latest buy

Would love to hear pg's thoughts on how well the contents of this email would do as a YC application