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myprasannaon CEOs made 299 times more than their average workers last year

Workers can become CEOs too? If it's just CEO hatred culture, then the job creators will move.

myprasannaon Show HN: Pair programming whiteboard for system design interviews

Looks cool! :)

myprasannaon How researchers discovered we have “two brains” [video]

Does anyone know why the left vs right hand behaves the way it does at the end of the video? Left as an exercise for us?

myprasannaon 12,000 startups are being created every day in China [video]

I feel like these people have no clue what they are investing in. Is it just me? :)

myprasannaon Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?

My best guess would be a bunch of friends in a crypto lab cooked it up. It's not that there were no leaks. There were reviews done in the cryptography mailing list and changes were made. Just that they happened publicly online. The first idea was proposed in 2008, while the client was first launched in 2009.

myprasannaon Show HN: Marauders Map (Circle Hackathon)

It seems like a FB cookie bug, hard to figure out. Try incognito.

myprasannaon Show HN: Marauders Map (Circle Hackathon)

You do know we use your system to test code right? :)

myprasannaon Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

myprasannaon Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA

Numbers about hulu accelerating revenue for the movie industry and actually combating the free pirated ones with a better service might have been a good counter-point followup.

http://steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why-the-movie-industry-cant...

myprasannaon Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

likealittle.com suffered with them too. They are pretty darn evil, they ask for a ransom to let you move your site.

myprasannaon The CEO's job

Agree with Ted. I've heard so many horror stories from people who thought this way in the beginning. Yishan Wong, would give you good stories about, how zuck tried the contracting route when Accel funded them and very soon pressed the hard revert button.

Jessica - I'm a YC founder too, and most people have strong opinions on this. (http://bit.ly/9uDFfe); Maybe, you should ask pg, what he thinks.

myprasannaon Picking BackType

Victor - I'm the co-founder of likealittle.com; Curious to hear about how you saw our growth, and your experiences in the dating market. Would love to get in touch: myprasanna@gmail.com

myprasannaon LikeALittle's Ridiculous Hacker House

If you guys want to join the mess, we're hiring :)

http://lal.com/about/the_game

myprasannaon Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

I've just recently spoken with my friends, and I know for a fact that it atleast takes a month from point of checkin to review/test/stage/production. If you disagree, I think what you are talking about, is probably an exception and not the norm.

Being secretive about release cycles is pointless stealth.

myprasannaon Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

Got it :)

I still know for a fact that, it takes at-least a month on average, for a search change list to reach production. Would you disagree Matt?

myprasannaon Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

Matt, How long would you estimate, for a search changelist to hit the production at Google? I've got friends working there. Prepare to be surprised.

myprasannaon Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

I'm the author of this post and by no means I expected this to be on the top of HN today. It was a surprise. I din't do any good editing on this, since it was my personal blog and I had sent to Michael Arrington, who wanted to edit/publish it. For some reason, he backed out at the last moment and it din't make it to TC. Welcome to the world of citizen journalism.

Sorry about the typos/errors. I'm looking into this now :)

myprasannaon Timing Lessons

Twitter's real founding story. The not so famous version.

http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/How-did-Jack-Dorsey-Ev-Willia...

myprasannaon PG about to speak at Facebook, partnership announcement to follow

A quick question: Is instant personalization just removing a click that is otherwise required by an application to access all this data? Is there any new data that I can't access via the api, that is coming here.

Maybe devs who work with FB connect more often can clarify.. Thanks in advance.

myprasannaon Ex-Google News, Bing Engineers Set Out To Build ‘Newspaper Of The Future’

One can gift apps to a friend. 100 means, stuff is being paid out of the pocket.

myprasannaon Ask HN: Place to sleep in Mountain View

I've listed a place on craigslist. Let me know if you are interested: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sub/1791983605.html

(myprasanna at gmail)

myprasannaon Women, Men, And Other Things Done Wrong By Silicon Valley

I'm sure the readers of this post, are skewed towards the work-life balance believers. I don't. Most of the best entrepreneurs I know, don't. Apple. Facebook. Microsoft. Paul Graham as well.

A few posts I like about this subject:

http://blog.asmartbear.com/sacrifice-your-health-for-your-st... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/calacanis-fires-people-... http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/20/european-startups-need-t...

myprasannaon Ask HN: alternatives to EtherPad?

I am an early user of etherpad & loved it. I'm hosting and maintaining it here: www.ietherpad.com

Cheers.

myprasannaon EtherPad Open Source Release

Alternatively you can use: http://ietherpad.com/ Thanks.

myprasannaon Tell PG: Cal football game (same day/campus as Startup School) to start @ 1:30

The link is getting a 403 Forbidden. Any ideas, where I need to be watching for updates from BASES?

Cheers.

myprasannaon Bootup Labs

Is this true? Can someone with more knowledge of convertible line of credit, comment on this?