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sushi··on Ask HN: Which of your start up mistakes has taught you the most?
Apparently Indian VC's do not believe in taking risks. It's very rare of them to invest in companies which are not making money.

Thus screwing the whole notion of Venture Capital. Indian VC's act more like a Private Equity Firm than a VC in a traditional sense.

sushi··on Ask HN: What startups have you witnessed from its inception to going big?
Posterous.

I used it a few days after it was launched public and thought it was just anther blogging platform. I hardly paid much attention. After an year or two the service started to gain traction when some famous bloggers moved to Posterous.

I still don't use it but it certainly has grown big.

sushi··on Ask HN: Which design tool (open source) do you use for webpage design?
Choose the one you are most comfortable with. I prefer Komodo Edit when I am doing HTML and CSS because I have saved snippets on it and it also support auto-completion. I also use VIM by using zen-coding plugin with it.
sushi··on Flickr Restores Mirco Wilhelm's 3,400 Lost Photos
Either way, another sign of how things are at Yahoo.
sushi··on Ask HN: Request for help (designer co-founder needed)
Somehow I couldn't find programmers. I'm a designer and I had to learn linux/python/django etc. just so I could build my ideas.
sushi··on Florida schools replacing teachers with computers
This Ted talk by Sugata Mitra also talks about replacing teachers with machines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU

The fast-food delivery of education must change now that we have better tools to impart education.

sushi··on Scientist: Tata dreams of cars running on water
Genius! because if their cars do get fire* there's always some water to douse the flames

*http://indianautosblog.com/2010/11/tata-nano-recall

sushi··on Got an extra Android device? Sell it on Swappa...
Please don't make me login with facebook. I do have a facebook account but I don't feel comfortable using Facebook connect (like many others).

I won't mind twitter or plain old OpenId though.

sushi··on Google Buys Twitter? Chris O'Brien's 11 Predictions for 2011
You said Big?

The company loses more money than it makes. How it it gonna be big?

sushi··on Ask HN: Help me understand Python 2.x vs 3.x
I think this [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.python.org/doc...] slideshow presentation by Guido can shed some light on the syntactical and other differences between python2 and python3.
sushi··on Trunk.ly picks up the torch of del.icio.us
I wonder if Libya will take back the domain name if we save pr0n links.
sushi··on PG's essays, ranked "Google-style"
Interestingly there's no font-styling (or any css for that matter, he is using tables for christ's sake) on that webpage so the reason you are seeing Serif is because of your web browser more than anything else.
sushi··on Ask HN: Cloud music site where I can stream my own music?
What is this $4/month VPS that you speaketh of? The cheapest that I know is $5/month by prgmr.com.
sushi··on Dieter Rams: Principles For Good Design
He also mentions the same in the amazing documentary, "Objectified" by Gary Hustwit. Highly recommended.
sushi··on Ask HN: What Design schools would you recommend?
You raised a good point about US schools focusing more on 2 or 3 subjects rather than "integrated design". I find the idea of learning in an environment where artists from all sorts of fields (architecture, painting, sculpting, industrial design, graphic design, typography etc.) get to interact together and influence each other very charming.

Do you quite possibly know, what is the design scene in traditional art centers like Italy and France?

sushi··on Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
Speaking of DOCTYPE, it seems there is no DOCTYPE on HN.
sushi··on Gmail Lite: If You Build It Google, We Will Come
I don't know why TechCrunch is going so Glasgow over Google's ass for Gmail. It works perfectly fine for me and no one I know has complained either.

It's the TC who should rather work on TechCrunch Lite.

sushi··on Ask HN: Mac pro alternatives
I'd have suggested Dell too, two years ago. Not anymore.

The build quality of Dell is not worth money against the likes of Lenovo Thinkpads which seem to never get old and are sturdy enough to last years.

sushi··on /#!/ Why is there an exclamation mark in Twitter URLs?
It's called "shebang" and a discussion was done on SO few weeks back.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009380/whats-the-shebang...

Basically the purpose of the shebang in this case is to tell Google how to index pages.

sushi··on Twitter Raising New Venture Round at $3 Billion Valuation
It's not.
sushi··on Ask HN: do you know of any sites similar to pythonchallenge.com?
http://www.codingbat.com/ has good python challenges. Simple but good.
sushi··on Why I feel like a fraud
I think a particular quote from Sh#t my dad says will resonate here.

“That woman was sexy… Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won’t screw you, don’t do it for them.”

Let customers find out if your product is shitty. They won't buy it if it is.

sushi··on Ask HN: Posterous vs A Blog
You can also post on your WordPress blogs by email but I guess it is not known to many.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email

sushi··on Believe the Hype About India and China
It's not about better solutions. It's about getting customers by reaching out to them even if the solutions are not perfect.

There are many companies in this niche but they won't succeed until they reach out to these people who are not literate to begin with.

sushi··on Believe the Hype About India and China
I'm glad to see EKO (http://eko.co.in/index.php) making some solid progress as this post tells. It's nice they have started to make a profit.

I should tell that they have been trying this since last few years and one of the reason why the idea worked is that this startup reached out to people personally. The same is the story of Red Bus (http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/yes-you-can-build-a-web-com...) which reached out to the bus companies.

The trend I am seeing is that IT companies in India have bigger challenge in making people adopt the technology than marketing or anything else.

sushi··on Google Introduces API Console
Link: https://code.google.com/apis/console/
sushi··on Bloomberg launches $2,000 Email Newsletters
Good Luck with that. They'll need it.
sushi··on An online dating site for ugly people - welcome to reality
Try http://www.beautifulpeople.com
sushi··on Web App Site Designs
I had never seen http://www.playlistnow.fm/ mentioned in this list before. It's insanely beautiful website and you can find playlist for the work you are doing. Like if you are coding mention it there and it will find playlists for that and so on.

Pretty cool website. Not my website btw.

sushi··on Blogs with great writing?
I'd suggest http://www.aldaily.com/ which aggregates very good editorials and reviews from some of the best newspapers magazines and blogs online.
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