Alterlife

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by Alterlife 8y ago
The wording of this is so off. Hackers stole personal information stored by FACEBOOK not 'people'. It sounds like they are creating a new way for their company to avoid responsibility, just like banks created 'identity theft&
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by Alterlife 8y ago
I live in Bangalore and it sounds like this is out of some kind of paralell reality. KFC/pizza hut/dominoes don't set up shop in remote places 'without infrastructure'. It doesn't make "business sense&quot
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by Alterlife 8y ago
> They manage to deliver in rural India where there are no proper addresses and infrastructure. I don't think this is true. You have to enter a pin code when you order from Flipkart. It's used to compute the delivery fee. Flipk
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by Alterlife 8y ago
I haven't seen this in incognito either... which is probably why op is being downvoted. I didn't downvote because I feel bad for OP, but the information is innacurate according to my personal experience, which IMO is a actually go
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by Alterlife 8y ago
What you would like to watch. What you actually watch. This is why I hate YouTube recommendations. It feeds my monkey brain.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
> "so that you're never too satisfied or unsatisfied, just constantly craving more." That quote reminds me of Louis CK's interview with Conan ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c ) where he say
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by Alterlife 8y ago
The flipside of this story is that companies often only hire junior developers for the lower cost. Some companies 10-15 year old companies are composed 80-90% of junior developers, and that's a problem too.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
In the meantime, Apple builds walled-garden devices with limited functionality so that users are forced to buy several devices. It's unfortunate that every large vendor today has short-term incentives to screw users.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
The fact that this is even possible on a private device should be shocking, yet I don't even feel surprise.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Thanks, I see the critical line in the article now: "95.8 percent of female anchors and reporters had smooth hair" That is a totally different statement from the title to me. Almost all, actually probably ALL the women in my profe
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Do 95.8 percent of female newscasters have the same hair? I don't see it. Whats the source of that number? Where are the examples? All I see in the article is advertising and counter examples. From what I can tell, the women in news ju
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Wow, I'm sorry but I think that's terrible for the candidate. You have a job description and you shared that with them. You're basically hiring the most talented bullshitter. Very few people will know exactly what they want t
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by Alterlife 8y ago
> Alexa should be treated as a different kind of stranger. This is a beautiful analogy and it applies for adults interacting with Alexa / Google home as well.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Along with the article, I get a video where "a top designer explains how to plan the perfect open office". Color me confused.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
> 株式会社 To save other folks the trouble, Google Translate says this translates to: "Ltd.".
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Thanks for letting me know, I will avoid it.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
The first example is straight out of the oxford dictionary link that I posted. It's at the bottom of the page under "Informal, dialect". https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/them A couple of othe
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by Alterlife 8y ago
I substituted 'them' for 'those'. According to the interweb, it's grammatically acceptable in informal English. Similar to saying "Look at them eyes" or "One of them developers will get to it eventual
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by Alterlife 8y ago
> Most of the US captives in India will never send their most important product line to India. ... > it is just maintenance of a product line which will be phased out. This is unfortunate and, most of the time, true. I do wish we had
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by Alterlife 8y ago
I didn't mean to single you or anyone else out. I've seen this sentiment echoed in multiple online forums and as one of them incompetent developers in India, I feel the need to defend myself.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
There are starting developers who get paid that much but it's not common. I hear most consulting firms pay about 1.5-6L, and Amazon pays 12-14L.
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Hey, I don't agree with that either. In my experience, there is a normal distribution of idiots regardless of the country of origin. A lot of my colleagues and ex colleagues either work or have worked in Infosys/Wipro/TCS at
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by Alterlife 8y ago
I am in India, and I can't help but feel insulted by this comment. Is there some kind of magic that makes engineers better when you take them out of India? There are some great developers here and plenty of crappy ones. And some of the
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by Alterlife 8y ago
The idea and the website, both, trigger in me a visceral discomfort that I cannot put into words. If this is for tech, I hope it doesn't catch on. A resume is not soulless. If it is soulless, then a video is even more so. Also, video i
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Push it all the way to the left, listen to the Laural, then slam it all the way to the right during a silence. I find that if I move the slider while the sound is playing, or if I move the slider really slowly, my ears stick to the last wor
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Frankly I'd love a bot framework to turn the tables and call into my ISP's IVR to log a complaint. A bot that would do all the waiting, trudge through the options, deal with the transfers, tell them I did the standard debugging st
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by Alterlife 8y ago
This is such a great visualization. You can click on the dot you are interested in to draw a line that tracks it's movement through the years. The journey of Niger is especially interesting. Between 1947 and 1983, the birth rate actual
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Well, my son is 7. He loves everything :-) . Do you not use your Echo for prime music? About Alexa and Prime, I would also point you to this from the horses mouth: https://www.amazon.com/primeinsider/tips/alexa-tip
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by Alterlife 8y ago
Is that a fair comparison? A PC is an expensive general purpose computing device. Alexa is a cheap device which exists for the sole purpose of locking you into the Amazon-prime ecosystem. I have an Alexa which was gifted to me. My son loves
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by Alterlife 8y ago
The initial checkboxes (where you select news sources) are really slow. There's a half second lag for me between touching the screen and seeing the checkbox get checked in the UI. Are you rendering the checkbox as checked only after a

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