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amitparikh

1,180 karma · joined February 20, 2011

Amsterdam / Northern Virginia / Washington, D.C.

Cross Media Analytics @ Comscore, Inc.

BSc.EE from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.

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amitparikh··on The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents
and that's the biggest hypocrisy... what they are really supporting are the interests of existing businesses.
amitparikh··on An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users
The man was once blind and now he can see. I'd say that's a Jesus-like miracle.
amitparikh··on F.lux makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day
F.lux changes the color temperature. It's the difference between using fluorescent bulbs and incandescent bulbs... significantly reduces eye strain at night.
amitparikh··on Facebook Acquires Sofa
it's basically a KDE Kompare clone. The most innovative thing they've done is to provide native integration with new distributed source control environments.
amitparikh··on Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
but be honest, how many people did you show that to that said, "what's Twatter?"
amitparikh··on Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day
I'll be the first to say... Thank you for putting the vowels back in your name. "Twttr" looks horrible.
amitparikh··on Speed up Google Chrome by enabling hardware acceleration and pre-rendering
YMMV, but I've had problems with Google Maps -- specifically zooming with the mouse scroll wheel -- when I had Chrome 9's hardware acceleration enabled through about:flags.
amitparikh··on Procrastination and Perfectionism
Me too. I think the worst part is when I "sit on [it] for much too long." I always find myself holding onto projects/design papers/documentation because I know (or, actually, think) that I will be able to fine tune them further and make them "perfect".

Even though I submit great work, I end up getting less work done and as a result, end up looking less competent than some of my peers.

amitparikh··on Amazon takes on Netflix with movie streaming service for Prime
This is an anticipated -- but still interesting -- move from Amazon, especially given RedBox's anticipated challenge to Netflix as well.

Obviously, Amazon has the resources and connections to push out to a larger audience immediately and I'd be surprised to see them "lose" given the leverage of the deal -- Amazon is offering this VOD-service on top of Amazon Prime, so customers are getting more value.

The coming months will tell if the cost will eventually be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher Amazon Prime fees or by branching the VOD service into something new and independent.

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