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Thanks for recommending this. I read the reviews, it looks awesome. I just placed the order.

This amuses me. In my experience I haven't seen any porn site player being faster or better than youtube; or may be I have too little experience to make a judgment on this. I find the fast-forwarding on youtube most efficient when compared to other video playing sites on web. The switching between full screen and half screen acts cranky at times, but other than that youtube videos run just fine. Also, many players don't even allow fast forwarding.

Oh yes, the MIT lectures. I should have known that. Thanks for the link.

You totally sold your FYI. Noted down in the list. Once I am done with some basics, this book is definitely going to be read.

Hm, but wouldn't that be specific to the current happenings rather than the basics, even if you go for an years subscription. It will definitely give a lot of insights. I don't follow 'The Economist', so you can correct me.

Not at this point. I am a developer and I run a consultancy with one more guy, so I am generally short of hours. But I will see how much I can grasp on my own and then may be consider something.

Pretty small text :). Going to begin with it.

My understanding is:

When you are using a ruby or python based web framework, each request is a blocking request i.e. after each request you wait for the response before proceeding further e.g. urllib.urlopen(), which as a result causes the no of requests handled/second to go down. Using eventmachine or gevent respectively for ruby or python is one way to overcome this.

In node.js there is no such concept of blocking requests and everything is processed in a single thread. But you can always fork multiple processes using its cluster module http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html

edit: Oh, I was not trying not advocate anything. nodejs is indeed just a choice, if I didn't make myself very clear when I said "My understanding is:"

Yes, thats pretty valid. But I have seen people trying to promote their product on support forums facing a huge backlash. Although I can assume that if my product really has something valuable to offer, trying it won't be worthless.

What you are saying is right indeed, but most of the problems that you talked about are people problem rather than having to do something with the tag of "labs". Otherwise how different is the failure of two consecutive products by the same team under the same "labs" banner from the failure inside two entirely different banner!

That particular statement reflects a lot of experience and maturity and I was just appreciating that. Nothing to do with Daniel.

Oh, finally!

I recently saw that android phones have shortcuts for important/frequently-used settings e.g. wifi, hotspot. at the top of notification screen, so you can just drag the screen down and quickly make the changes. In iPhone if you have to switch on or off your cellular data, you have to go through 3-4 screens.

edit: ok, it has limited but important set of shortcuts which does not include cellular data

> "Yes, I am, but only because I have money. Before I was just weird"

Not sure about the history of this woman but I am sure that she didn't inherit the money, she made it.

Read through quickly at first and got mislead by 'target' assuming that anything passed as a target will start spinning and tried to spin an image :), which of course is not the case. Nice effort though.

Off topic: What are the other sites doing "your browser is not supported" with chrome?

Since you talked about accomplishing a decent company, here is the argument - http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/peak-age-entrepreneurship/

Just for your first line, feeling pressed is different from feeling depressed, and I think that the article is referring to "feeling depressed". It is more or less trying to convey the same message as yours which conveys doing something instead of sitting idle. It's just that you want to get things done in a hurry. See the analogies to believe - Gordon Gekko, Bill Gates.

I wonder if socl.com was available or bought for $s!!! Mostly bought, because thats too cliche a name to be left lurking.

The read is indeed true but hasn't it taken the nose and beans analogy a little too far, beyond reader's interest? It could have been a better read if there was a little diversion from nose and beans to some actual scenarios.

This almost sounds like a comparison between growth of China and India, where China just gets the things done when it needs to while India lags behind trying to gather people's consensus; and I believe that neither of them are correct. Reasons are pretty simple. If you are a bully, things are bound to fall apart sooner or later while if you are a total pushover, you don't even own what you are doing. I have seen both the approaches working and then failing, at work. As a boss, being a bully can only work when you are sure that you have hired the last pieces of talent who did not have any other option. Well, if that is the case then you better be a bully. Otherwise if you have a got an extremely talented programmer whom you want to run on your terms, then it ain't gonna happen. Pushover - this can only work when the boss has got another talented boss in disguise amongst his own workers who actually works and makes the decisions on behalf of him. It happens; but if everyone is unsure and starts making his own decision then failure is inevitable. In fact, contrary to the article, push over boss has a better chance of sharp success in case he finds a brilliant worker who does not hesitate in taking the lead. Of-course that is not going to work for ever, but might work long enough.

Edit: In fact, as I think about it more, a pushover/fair boss does not have a better but a far better chances of succeeding.

1. A pushover boss earns respect because he listens to everyone - Win

2. The probability of finding an extremely talented worker is equal for both kind of bosses - Win

3. The chance of retaining a talent is higher just because he does not interfere much in the work - Win

4. The chance of succeeding the project is higher because he lets other (might be better) people in team make/alter the decision - Win

Interesting!

Haven't been using anything like hunch till now, so asking here. How does it work? Is is just parsing my tweets and recommending stuffs based on keywords? Where does the recommendation data come from?

EDIT: One more thing. It's pretty quick compared to some other services which try to read the tweets and do something with that. Is it really fetching and processing all the tweets before recommending?

EDIT: Ok, the above question was kinda dumb. Since it uses hunch, so it does not need to get the tweets any way. But, would be interesting to know how hunch does that, because considering that twecommend sends the request to hunch and hunch responds after doing all the processing, it is still quick.

Not sure about the other features (could not find it actually) but if only it lets me set a list of contacts for which it reminds me the birthdays and also tells me that I haven't talked to them in a long time. Sigh.

>Google, being late to the party

This is biggest advantage I guess. Seeing both the models (Facebook and Twitter) working, Google+ tries to bring the best of both, wherein when I add someone to a circle, it's like following him rather than adding him as a friend, which is more like Twitter; but with it's rich media interface, the stream looks as good as Facebook. And not to mention the granularity of user control over what to share with whom, which again is a better version of what we have on Facebook. So it's more like the best of both worlds where you don't necessarily have to be friends with someone to broadcast and if you are friends, then well, you are friends.

It almost looks like the "html only" view of gmail which is originally meant for slow connections. Nevertheless, lighter is better and it is definitely soothing.

Isn't it already well past its DOA phase! I think DOA is too big a word to be used for a product which has already kept the entire tech community waiting for months - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_launch_major_...

It's surprising when people find it difficult to understand the importance of email/some kind of notification for the activity on your social profile, but the this cannot be the only reason to be credited with the failure of Wave. I still feel that Wave is a great product and it could not catch up just because it was ahead of its time. And the few admirers could not use it because others were not ready to use it. A lot of new age collaboration tools do the same what Wave did long time ago.

Oh yes, the word is "anonymous slander" and I also appreciate the fact that many a times ideas don't come out just because you are too scared. I was just trying to point out the irresponsible use which is kind of bound to happen if given in hands of irresponsible people.

I see that you are a co-founder. So curious about this - did launch of Google circles affect your decision to launch or not to launch? I am asking because Google circles kind of deals with similar group bound problem, though it's not anonymous but very helpful!

For the bigger picture of use case mentioned here, what's wrong with IRC. And for the specific use case mentioned in the blog as in School/College, I don't understand how hiding in a closet can relate to productivity. This instead might encourage people to single out someone who is already low and take a dig. As mentioned, people can log in as anonymous but nothing stops you from taking someone's name out there!

Why can't we call VPS as cloud! I think the "cloudy" character does not come just because we do not know how or where is it running or what the hardware is, it comes more because I can deploy an application or store a data somewhere on the earth right from my home. A better way to put it could be - VPS are first generation cloud/kind of raw version whereas EC2, GAE, Heroku et al. are the advanced cloud systems where some things could happen automatically.

The most urgent thing I needed on Facebook - "Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself - just like real life"

Might just call it a better version.