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xtac

13 karma · joined April 18, 2009

NY, LI

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xtac··on Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
So you go places by yourself? or with others? How do find so many podcasts/content to listen to. Also do you ever get out at your destinations besides hotels? I'd love to know more about this. I love driving but I find I have no where to go. I'd love to chat
xtac··on Cardpool (YC W10) acquired by BlackHawk Network
I used these guys in the past, excellent customer service, 100k daily is a great metric to have!
xtac··on Ask HN: Single founder seeks SEO/promoter for revenue share
I'd like to talk you about this, what is your email?
xtac··on Help Me HN: Can't think of new ideas I am interested on working on
I've been in the same position for nearly 2 years. Contact me at xtac@ymail.com
xtac··on Ask HN: Do you do most of your shopping online? Maybe we have the same problem.
Simple, I don't. Most of my purchases are from amazon, and I order and forget. I get reminded once I see it at my doorsteps.

There are few services which you can forward tracking number, and they update you when the status has changed.

UPS shows you how many days till delivery now, and you can have them remind you but it does not work too well, always delayed, but never the else I don't see it being useful as something like tripit at all

xtac··on Ask HN: Anyone else understand a language but not able to speak it?
That's interesting, I also forgot to mention that my parents spoke punjabi, and I find myself understanding punjabi more so than hindi. While alike they are very different and often confusing.
xtac··on Ask HN: Anyone else understand a language but not able to speak it?
I agree confidence is key. I will be india for a month let's see how that goes.
xtac··on Ask HN: Anyone else understand a language but not able to speak it?
Are you actively trying to learn it? Do you find it hard to tie words together?
xtac··on Ask HN: How are the UPS/fedex tracking systems architected?
That would never happen. Huge security concerns.
xtac··on College is Overrated
Not too sound biased as a pol sci degree holder but I think people grossly underestimate political science as a major.
xtac··on Jailbreak for ios 4.0 and iphone4 just released
I urge anyone looking to do this to:

1. save your shsh keys locally and to cydia 2. If you are on 4.0 do not upgrade 3. Wait couple more days for reports

xtac··on Ask HN: Any husband-wife teams out there?
your yelp page links to http://bloombeautylounge.com it's currently suspended by HG
xtac··on Ask HN: Can young entrepreneurs with no coding experience launch a startup?
First, forget about the dozen industry leaders who pledged to you. Also be honest with yourself in the possible future of this product. Odds are you are not the first.

Make sure if this is built you can succeed without their pledges.

Second, research,research,research the idea extensively.

One you have done that do as much work as possible as you can in building it, as far as you can go, this will allow you to see your idea through.

Once you have done that if you are still interested in building it, either

1) ask a coder friend, or find a coder and put them on as co founder

2) outsource the development

If you have no $ than try to produce it yourself no matter what

- non coder

xtac··on Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperger's
tau, go fix mine please

http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/downloads/people/...

;(

xtac··on Business lessons from The Wire
The wire is the greatest show ever to land on TV. It has a novelistic approach which introduce characters slowly, however once they are established the show becomes almost too good. There will never be a show like this, ever. Please give yourself another chance, you will not regret it.
xtac··on A look inside the Y Combinator interview room.
Good luck!