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trocker | 14 years ago | on: Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down

One of the most inspiring comments on this post - 'Sad news. Congrats on what you achieved though. Much respect. Best wishes on your next project.'

Seriously, chad, Congrats. :)

trocker | 14 years ago | on: Yahoo up for sale

I see a reason of why yahoo's share rose 81 cents during the after-hours of the CEO fired news.

trocker | 14 years ago | on: Shuush

well, a really nice niche concept!

Scaling up/down might be a bit of problem though. I'm not sure if this logic fits here:

You're shrinking down the tweets of the people who are more frequent,and vice-versa.The first time I used Shuu.sh I didn't notice much(my bad), but after a couple of time turning it on and off, I noticed what is happening.

Will it not make more sense to limit the 'number' of tweets shown based upon the frequency of the tweeter? And the number being decided based upon number or retweets of that tweet or something? Giving user an option of how many tweets from a person of specific frequency would he like to see or determining it on the basis of how many he is following and how many are following those who are being followed by this user.

Uggh.. I just realized, I made it sound more complex that it really is. Umm.. sorry for that ! :D

trocker | 14 years ago | on: False fears

For some unknown reason, I've been away from github for a while now. My presence there is unknow. I create new stuff which will be useful for people like me. But then again, I think how many will be there like me. I don't know how much useful my code will be for others, I dont know if it will ever be useful for others.

But there is a sense of giving back to the community that makes me feel bad everyday whenever I get to know new things from it, just because my contribution might not be significant enough.

trocker | 14 years ago | on: CSS3 Rainbow Dividers

Swweett Stuff. I've been waiting for something retro like this to be designed in CSS3 - Hardware Accelerated! How about we start off some open css3 design sources and lets make crazy stuff until its just a matter of combinations to make any aw3som3 effect!

trocker | 14 years ago | on: The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later

Its really pretty unbelievable that life takes such turns.These happen every once in a while. Steve Jobs says - you cant connect the dots looking forward,it is only possible looking backwards.What if a person just believed in his destiny and went off with only one belief that dots are going to connect for sure someday, and then they don't? Many must have tried to connect the dots but were unsuccessful. For all the entrepreneurs in the world,I think,it all boils down to this: 'Is it worth it, if the dots don't connect? Will they not complain that they should've taken the safe route?'. If the answer for both the questions are 'yes' for once,never think again - its only going to waste valuable time.

trocker | 14 years ago | on: Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new movies

Take a look at this:

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110901-715069.html

@bittermang : true, going back is painful and networks & cable operators are probably aware of this. But, as wsj puts it - investors of netflix are scared that its expenditure on the content deals will overtake their revenue and with netflix threatening the existence of so many network companies, netflix soon has to create its own content OR devise an extraordinary plan to sustain the network grudges against it.

It will be interesting to see individual networks starting up their own streaming services.

trocker | 14 years ago | on: "He started programming when he was 6"

Totally agree with 'seem less accessible' part.

Starting to program at the age of 6 is nice and good(if that is out of curiosity), but for me - I'd say - wait for sometime,do the things that you are supposed to do at that age, and when the time comes to be different, you'll know and follow it then. There is no point in bragging about when a person started to code.He might miss out on a lot of things as a child which might make him a different person and constrict his 'social' network. As a child spending more time in the programming world is not desirable, after all we all are programming towards making things work like humans would work, and we are missing out on the 'being human' part by programming in the time in which we are still growing as a human?

trocker | 14 years ago | on: Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50%

"Forrester recently predicted that the daily-deal market will be virtually nonexistent by 2016."

The market will be nonexistent is a conclusion overdrawn.Taking the statistical data and interpolating it might give us figures but it is really hard to believe that people's interest in saving money will be non-existent in four years.

What might happen ( what is happening presently) is there will be many more competitors in this market and it is very much unlikely that one competitor will be consistently able to secure all the good deals in the market.This might lead to market in which companies will thrive to get good deals with no significantly big success. In this very scenario, any company which will be able to successfully integrate the great deals from all the websites like groupon,living social etc can be very much successful without many efforts needed to be put in.

trocker | 14 years ago | on: Happy 20th birthday, Linux

woohoo! Linux! A couple of years back,when I was still in School, I was so darn scared to even touch linux. The reason being, I used to write "Hello World" type of programs and I'd be so so restless if I was asked to work on anything other than windows Turbo C++ . I now know how much power - raw computing gives.. Linux, Happy Birthday, its all cuz of you :)
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