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I am awake late night watching this thought provoking video. I just finished listening to it 3rd time now.
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Linux is so cool. Using Linux or Linux tools can give you tiny moments of joy, just like anything built by geeks, like iPhone, Skype etc.

Today as I woke up, I found that one of the 12 servers we use at BiRhymes was not accessible from India (the ones at the Joyent data center). No, our apps weren’t down, they were up because that server is only used to handle REST calls from MySpace.com so the only person who should access that server is MySpace and of course MySpace has servers in USA. The static files are servered from Amazon S3.

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– via Letman

Thanks, but how do you know?

Google understands a few other things most Web companies still don’t. The most important is that you should put users before advertisers, even though the advertisers are paying and users aren’t. One of my favorite bumper stickers reads “if the people lead, the leaders will follow.” Paraphrased for the Web, this becomes “get all the users, and the advertisers will follow.” More generally, design your product to please users first, and then think about how to make money from it. If you don’t put users first, you leave a gap for competitors who do.

– Paul Graham

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There is always so much to do in a startup that people won’t be too picky about your paper qualifications, if you can solve problems for them without screwing up.

– Paul Graham

My startup BitRhymes is looking for such talented guys.

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

– Albert Einstein

“The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.”

So now its Good vs (Normal, Bad and Worse). God is playing foul.

via Geek and Poke

Web 2.0 is harsh world, no palce for slackers and wimps.

http://www.makemakemake.org/index.php?/projects/so-cal-fire-poster-project/

One of the most creative presentations I have seen (I have seen a lot, I used to work at SlideShare.net, world’s largest collection of presentations). If you are a traveler at heart, you would love this.

BTW, Slideshare is running Worlds Best Presentation contest. This one won my vote.

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