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by KiranRao0 3y ago
To me, these lessons feel very similar to the lessons learned working at a midsized company. Was there any particular takeaways that are exclusive to working at a FOSS?
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by KiranRao0 3y ago
I find it common for human customer support people to give inaccurate information. I don't know about "outright lying", but I've had people tell me things that are factually incorrect.
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by KiranRao0 3y ago
Shoving somewhere in a datacenter and virtualizing so that 96 different clients can use it at once.
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Why are railroads 4'8 1/2" in the US?(astrodigital.org)
2 points by KiranRao0 3y ago|2 comments
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Using Blender's path tracing to simulate a film camera(imgur.com)
2 points by KiranRao0 3y ago|0 comments
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by KiranRao0 3y ago
My personal take: Microsoft isn't facing the same wage competition it used to, so doesn't have to increase wages.
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by KiranRao0 3y ago
> I really don't want to restart with the hassle of configuring a js project from scratch. Done it already a thousand times, and that's a thousand times too many :) This is the key. For small apps, it's far more effective
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
I would expect small class sizes to be considerably more expensive.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Slowing down would be hard since it's a live stream
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
While I agree, often times the places that need the most heat are those with snow. So it may still be better to optimize for cooling in many cases.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
I don't see that as explicitly a bad thing. If a rational founder thinks they can gain more by working on their friends startup, it might be better for the collective to have more people working on the more promising project.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Right to jail
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
People have not left the labor force in the last few months. The labor force participation rate is still on a steady upward march since the initial lockdowns. Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/charts&#x
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Does anyone have a comparison to other nations?
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Every domestic and international flight I can remember (post 9/11) has checked my ID immediately before boarding.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Slightly tangential, but the most effective way to be invited to a party is by hosting them.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Does anyone have thoughts on the announced 40k show produced by Henry Cavill?
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
This is why I love HN. These comments allow me to not click.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
The time saved is not the time required to click 'subscriptions'. The time saved is the time not spent mindlessly scrolling through endless recommendations designed to keep me hooked.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
You're describing the advantage and disadvantage of the YouTube recommendation algorithm. It's really effective at recommending videos I'd be interested in/would click on. However it's so good that it'll easily
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
I feel like I have a unique one here. The chrome extension: "Replace Youtube's Home with Subscriptions" It has easily saved me over 100 hours by preventing me from continuously scrolling through youtube recommendations. http
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
2fa backup codes can be useful here for the services that provide it.
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Cattle Grid(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by KiranRao0 4y ago|0 comments
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
While this is true that a local computer is often faster than a single cloud instance, I've often noticed code running on cloud instances (dev servers, etc) end up finishing their task more quickly. It's usually because most tasks
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
In Iceland, they cogenerate hot water and power due to the abundance of geothermal. Not exactly a common case that's replicable everywhere, but mildly interesting.
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
A book named "How will you measure your life?" by Clayton Christiansen that dives pretty deeply into the topic, among other things. The theory presented was called "The Trap of Marginal Thinking". On the margin, it may a
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
In some ways, Steam has provided an experience better than having no DRM. I can hop in a friend's computer and download any game I've purchased. Or I can delete old games to free up space and redownload them later (without having
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Ask HN: SQL Query Google (Or Other) Calendar
1 points by KiranRao0 4y ago|2 comments
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
Which provider is this? Only gigabit I've seen in Beanfield (which provided excellent symmetric gigabit service to one of my old employers)
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by KiranRao0 4y ago
> "zero downtime" isn't free, and has a direct cost to implement Thank you for writing this. I was implicitly trying to convey this in the article, but glad to have it be explicit.

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