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Rahul Sood
Personal blog · rahulsood.comstartupsbusinesscareer
Rahul Sood's personal blog at rahulsood.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Rahul Sood's posts on gaming: his hands-on time with the Steam Controller, a 2010 piece on console versus PC gamers, and WoW server capacity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rahul Sood is a founder, builder, and angel investor backing ambitious ideas.
Most-linked posts?
- /2010/07/console-gamers-get-killed-against-pc.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-28
What Hacker News says?
It looks like it could work. I think I'd accidentally press the buttons on the back, though. Does anyone remember the SpaceOrb 360 [1]? I had one for a little while but returned it because it just didn't work as well for me as did a keyb/mouse combo. If microsoft won't match console gamers against PC gamers [2], how will steam pull it off? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb_360 [2] http://www.rahulsood.com/20…
Comment linking /2010/07/console-gamers-get-killed-against-pc.html
on “Steam Controller”Submitted Microsoft's Bing funds Parse competitor as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMicrosoft tried pitting average pc players against pro console players. [1] Guess what happened? The pro's got destroyed... Skill in Halo is mostly coping with the bad controller. Skill in Counter-Strike is very different... [1] http://www.rahulsood.com/2010/07/console-gamers-get-killed-a...
Comment linking /2010/07/console-gamers-get-killed-against-pc.html
on “My time with the Steam Controller”Submitted Ugh, it was my birthday... as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat was probably the case back in vanilla (pre-expansion) WoW. With the introduction of cross-realm battlegrounds in 1.12 - a month before the first expansion - followed by the activation of arenas in the first expansion, they most likely considerably expanded their server capacity to accommodate for the increased load. I remember seeing news articles back in the day just a few months before Burning Crusade's launc…
Comment linking /2006/02/blizzard-going-crazy-for-opteron.html
on “That WoW server blade”Submitted Rahul Sood's goodbye to HP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steve Ballmer on when MSFT was a Startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Brand is a Living Breathing Entity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello From Seattle - Rahul Sood Joins Microsoft as a story · 1 points
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