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sundeepon Startup Idea: Solve Personal Analytics

I'll give it a go ... always been interested in personal analytics.

sundeepon Exercism.io: Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems

I like the idea ... signed up!

(as others have mentioned, showing a few samples prior to registration can't hurt)

sundeepon Show HN : Interesting Words

she emptied a chamber pot over his head, according to wikipedia.

so, yes ... i don't think he listed her as one of the reasons to not take hemlock.

sundeepon Show HN : Interesting Words

I like interesting words ...

Clicking on the word reveals it's meaning ... and a reload gets another word.

I'm currently working on harvesting various corpora and on different measures of "interesting".

I might add commenting on specific words and submission of words soon.

sundeepon A hunger for organizations that are doing some good for society.

The problem with the idea of such a website is who decides what is a positive act and what's a negative act ? Maybe some sort of voting mechanism by interested users?

sundeepon ZumoDrive launches Palm webOS and Google Android clients

Not really.

ZumoDrive doesn't use space on your drive for it's storage. It simulates a network drive as far as your OS is concerned.

Dropbox actually uses space on your drive , and syncs that across your machines.

So , ignoring local caching done by ZumoDrive , we could think of it being network intensive , whereas Dropbox is space intensive.

(I could be wrong and would love clarification. Also, 'intensive' is probably not the word I'm looking for , but I can't come up with a better one now)

sundeepon I want to compile a C program so simple I can explain all of the assembly

Do you have a link for that article? Sounds like something I'd be interested in reading. Thanks.

sundeepon There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)

thanks.

sundeepon There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)

> Two of them, John Petrucci and John Myung, spent their high school days fanatically devoted to practice (before applying to Berklee together). During that time they had an agreement with each other to practice their respective instruments six hours a day, and if they hung out in the evening it was with the understanding that they'd finished their six hours practice.

Source? (Not that I doubt what you're saying. I want to read more from where that came from)

sundeepon Ask HN: Are there any meta question answering sites on the web?

I don't know of any but this is ,IMO , a very good idea.

(Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me Amichail,and it turns out,that by reading HN , I have subscribed to your newsletter. :) )

sundeepon Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com

Any plans of releasing the source code?

sundeepon LOLPython

> In the same vain

I think you meant "in the same vein" ... :)

sundeepon Buy somebody lunch

Yup, if you're anywhere near Mountain View. :)

sundeepon Ask HN: What strategy would you take to build a search engine today?

One step at a time :)

What you suggest would benefit from the performance/feedback from what the OP suggests.

This is basically what I am interested on working on currently , using "clues" gleaned from what the user is doing (a la RescueTime) to reorganize/reformulate a user's search query.

sundeepon Bad Design in Star Wars

I believe he was referring to Rambo III. :)

sundeepon Ask HN: Can iPhone camera be used to give you a full size keyboard?

i dont understand , are we still talking about a qwerty keyboard? or a special kind with just two rows, one of which is a "home" row that is placed wherever certain fingers are?

sundeepon Ask HN: Can iPhone camera be used to give you a full size keyboard?

how would the computer know which key your finger was on to figure out what keys are relative to that finger?

sundeepon Ask HN: Can iPhone camera be used to give you a full size keyboard?

you'd need to know where 'Q' was , absolutely , for you to know where "W" , "E" , "R" , "T" and "Y" were relative to that.

But pretty cool idea though ...

sundeepon Find out who your friends are following that you are not (on twitter).

apology for what?

He's providing a free service that you tried and didn't like.

sundeepon HN giveaway: SnapTwitter.com to any who can pitch an idea for it

a service that suggests twitter usernames? something like domainr.com

sundeepon Ask HN: Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance?

IQ in unequivocal terms ...

Thats your problem right there ...

sundeepon Ask HN: where to learn best practices beyond algorithms?

I find that stackoverflow.com generally has very good answers about stuff like best practices.

sundeepon Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?

I'd be interested in lifetagg.com if you dont see a use for it anymore ...

[sundeep@ymail.com]

sundeepon Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?

letsdrive.us -> for a carpool solution

neighbourly.org -> for a craigslist+maps mashup.

sundeepon Is Microsoft Actually Innovating?

> Microsoft has made a LOT of innovations. A massive amount of modern computing is based of how accessible microsoft made computing - if we still had to recompile our kernel to enable sound, I don't think we would be near as far as we are.

Sure , they've enabled innovation. How much have they actually done ...

sundeepon Google PowerMeter

The data could be useful ...

There could a lot of data gleaned about TV viewers , for example .. by analyzing power usage trends during tv show times. If a show is watched more , then advertisers would want to target that show more ...

sundeepon Google PowerMeter

I didn't mean to come off as short.

This seems to be a mutually beneficial service. The users stand to gain as can be seen from the testimonials here http://www.google.org/powermeter/demoproject.html

So the users aren't giving away anything freely.

Google obviously gains , with hard data about consumer usage.

sundeepon Google PowerMeter

They never supply something for free unless it will provide them the data they crave.

Why should they supply you anything for free?

sundeepon Wikipedia + Youtube + Flickr = Navify

someone else's content ..."

I seem to be missing something here ... How is what they're doing any different from what any other search engine does? Do you disapprove of the search engines making money too?

sundeepon Ask HN: What Web frameworks exist around Python?

Maybe the OP wanted the opinions of savvy , knowledgeable users of python web frameworks as well.