Love Yourself

★ A tea party I will vote for (or, what is REALLY wrong with US healthcare)

I had no idea about US healthcare till I co-founded my current company in 2009. However, in last two years I have spent some time talking to some very smart people who work with health insurance companies as well as … Continue reading →

Reihan Salam dissects Matt Taibbi on #OWS demands

Tax hedge-fund gamblers. For starters, we need an immediate repeal of the preposterous and indefensible carried-interest tax break, which allows hedge-fund titans like Stevie Cohen and John Paulson to pay taxes of only 15 percent on their billions in gambling income, … Continue reading →

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★ Bankers’ Salaries vs. Everyone Else’s – NYTimes.com

Bankers’ Salaries vs. Everyone Else’s – NYTimes.com.

Naxalim – India’s invisible civil war

From Tehelka, via Harmanjit. Naxalism is one of India’s biggest problem. It does not get enough attention in media because its not impacting the middle-class directly yet. But, as the article shows, it has started to spill into urban areas. … Continue reading →

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★ R.I.P Steve Jobs

Apple Steve Jobs The Crazy Ones – NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997 – YouTube.

some of the best movie stills

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Google’s software is getting obsolete

Protocol Buffers, BigTable and MapReduce are ancient, creaking dinosaurs compared to MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. And new projects like GWT, Closure and MegaStore are sluggish, over-engineered Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. Designed by engineers in … Continue reading →

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Gmail passwords can be brute forced, if POP is enabled

The process can be sped up by use of multiple IP addresses, or a botnet. ★

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HTML EMAIL BOILERPLATE v 0.4 – great way to generate good looking emails

HTML email boilerplate creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc. While not … Continue reading →

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U.S. Unemployment Crisis: How to Create Jobs – TIME

The good news is that the American economy is back to its pre-crisis size. The U.S. GDP is now about $13.5 trillion, a bit above what it was in 2007. The bad news is that we are producing the same … Continue reading →

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Cheap GPUs are rendering strong passwords useless | ZDNet

An eight character, case sensitive, alpha-numeric password should take less than two hours. All you need is a machine with 4 Radeon GPU cards and some software ! Upgrade your password to at least 12 characters from the normal 8, … Continue reading →

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How Twitter + iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Apps

After email, SMS and iOS messaging, Twitter will now become a key social layer over the top of many of the apps on iOS devices. The features that app developers will have access to closely resemble what other platforms make … Continue reading →

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★ I am so looking forward to dro…

I am so looking forward to dropping my text plan once iMessage comes out.

Cell phone use is way up. So why did brain cancer rates fall?

In 1990, brain cancer rates in US were 70 per million. Today, there are roughly 60 times more cell phones, and each one is used for an average of about 20 minutes per day, up from just a minute or … Continue reading →

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iMessage will make SMS redundant (for me at least!)

Once iMessage launches, I am cancelling my SMS family plan ($30). Almost everybody to whom I send text messages is on iPhone anyway. ★

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Should companies track the hours put in by their employees – just to set the right expectations?

I’m sure we’re not alone, but Expensify is the only startup I know that tracks hours. (If you do, please share your data.) Unless you’re actually billing hours to clients, there might seem little reason to. But tracking hours gives … Continue reading →

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Being a Parent is like being in a bootcamp !

Babies act as boot camp…Even though I’d heard a million times that “being a parent changes you!”, I’d never put it in the context of it changing behaviors the same way that other boot camp-style processes do. ★

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Corruption Presents An Uncertain Future for Rapidly Growing India

There is one crucial missing link in India’s otherwise thriving and robust democracy, the absence of which will complicate the country’s political response to this economic problem: principled, motivated political parties. There is no party in Indian politics that could … Continue reading →

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On the 10th anniversary of its stores, Apple sends a poster to its store employees

Our first store, in Tysons Corner, taught us our first lesson within the first 30 minutes. We had just opened the doors when we noticed the steel already needed polishing. With a special polishing solution. And a special polishing tool. … Continue reading →

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It’s Not About You

NYT has a great article on what challenges await today’s generation: Life comes to a point only in those moments when the self dissolves into some task. The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself. … Continue reading →

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Kern.js – bookmarklet to kern visually

Kern.js is a simple javascript bookmarklet that adds powerful functionality to Paravel’s first-rate Lettering.js. Rather than having to guess-and-check CSS and make repeated, tedious adjustments, Kern.js allows you to kern letters like you would in a desktop app like Photoshop … Continue reading →

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DHH advises on Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal

Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits … Continue reading →

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60% of 2011 Intel Science Talent Search finalists had H1B parents

The study, conducted by the National Foundation for American Policy, found that 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition — also known as the “Junior Nobel Prize” — were the children of immigrants even … Continue reading →

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How to Travel in Style: Top 3 Travel Items for Men

Three items for men to travel in style and comfort: Dark, premium denim This is your ultimate travel item. The dark wash can be dressed down or up, looks great with everything, and is comfortable in-flight. Blazer or stylish jacket … Continue reading →

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Spritemapper

“One challenge with browser page loading is that various images – big and small – requires many calls to the server.A sprite is a conglomeration of all the (non-repeating) image assets of your design into a single image to be … Continue reading →

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★ Romney says apologizing for the Mass law wont be honest.

Romney says he won’t apologize for the law he signed: “It wouldn’t be honest.” Even though he realizes that the law is now a liability for him. He said, he is proud of what he attempted to do as governor. … Continue reading →

★ How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog

via bret.appspot.com

★ dJay for iPad – finally an app that utilizes iPad’s full potential !!

via youtube.com

★ State by State Health Care Options in USA

via coverageforall.org Somebody should convert it into a tool where people can type in their zipcode and household income etc to find out their coverage options.

★ Instapaper 2.3 for iPhone and iPad now available – Instapaper Blog

via blog.instapaper.com I love the intelligent algorithm used to figure out “dark mode”. I wish all reading apps (Kindle, newspaper apps, safari..) on iPad and iPhone have such a “dark mode”.