RoadieRoller

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   by RoadieRoller 3y ago

   I've a Manager who loves one thing - Ask questions. No answer ever comes from him, but he keeps on asking questions. And as you can imagine, I am always at the end of it giving him answers. If I ask clarification questions back, he cou
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   by RoadieRoller 3y ago

   Loved reading this, especially the new car smell part.
3. 33.▲
   by RoadieRoller 3y ago

   Sorry. Newbie here. Which one is the orange site? Is it hacker news?
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   by RoadieRoller 4y ago

   I currently live in the US. Back in India where I am originally from, we have house roof tops which are flat. Most of us would spend an hour or more on the roof top, after dinner, staring at the sky and talking. Sometimes we wave and talk t
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   Ask HN: What do you write in Meeting Titles

   1 points by RoadieRoller 4y ago|0 comments
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   by RoadieRoller 4y ago

   You really have a rhyming point there.
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   India's Central Bank(RBI) Introduces Retail Digital Currency(rbi.org.in)

   2 points by RoadieRoller 4y ago|3 comments
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   by RoadieRoller 4y ago

   Preamble - I will be downvoted for sure, but let me still post it. The oldest software system known to us, and in continuous use would be 'religion'. The hardware in this case is obviously humans. If you observe, the computer and
9. 39.▲
   by RoadieRoller 4y ago

   I've a free Google Voice number I use as proxy. If I've to use a phone number for one time use (maintenance person, Online waiver forms etc) I give the google voice number. For friends, families, banks, office, I give my ATT numbe
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    by RoadieRoller 4y ago

    https://blog.patreon.com/a-note-from-jack
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    by RoadieRoller 4y ago

    Pogo was (still is?) a famous kids channel in India. There was a lot of comments back then that it was taken from them. Zoho is a $1B without copyright issues on their logo. So it doesn't matter anyway. https://commons.wikim
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    by RoadieRoller 4y ago

    India is considered a "cheap and poor" country in many ways. It's GDP is 1/10th that of United States. Even then, India has free health care, and in many states (out of the 30+ states), Govt run healthcare is the best. W
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    by RoadieRoller 4y ago

    I always start the chat conversation in office with a simple "Hi" or a "Hi, Do you have a minute?" This way, I am giving that person a choice if 1) He/she is in a meeting, they have a choice - to or not to reply 2)
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    by RoadieRoller 4y ago

    Deleted. Thanks
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    Ask HN: Why America build less Bathrooms per Bedroom

    5 points by RoadieRoller 4y ago|6 comments
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    by RoadieRoller 4y ago

    I agree. There is no free service. Fake is when candidates stuff in lot of technologies randomnly in their resume, doesn't add those technologies under any project or real experience in any company (think Tech. skills section vs Projec
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    by RoadieRoller 4y ago

    This!. This exactly is what I go through as well.
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    Ask HN: Fake Resume Keywords Finder

    7 points by RoadieRoller 4y ago|6 comments
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    by RoadieRoller 5y ago

    Zillow and Open Door are manipulating the home prices in US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27765536 Cheap Loans, surplus cash, and inventory hoarding.
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    by RoadieRoller 5y ago

    (I am not a US citizen, but visited many times) Why not build houses using concrete/cement? Poor Asian countries have been building houses for decades using concrete and less maintenance. No, it is not about weather. Concrete can be e
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    by RoadieRoller 6y ago

    My criminal mind says this could be a way for Apple (and Later Google) to benefit more, from the difference in the price of their phones - Thanks to pricing based on Storage. Once they allow these photo storages to duplicate your data, you
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    by RoadieRoller 6y ago

    Yes, it is.
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    by RoadieRoller 6y ago

    I just saw this displayed in a Best Buy store, but not on the headlines yet. This one is in North Irving, Texas. I hope it is some other issue and not related to what we discuss here. https://d3926qxcw0e1bh.cloudfront.net/po
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    by RoadieRoller 6y ago

    FYI. On a related note - I was downvoted a couple of days back for an almost similar comment on the ABP uBO combo. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058260 It seems ABP is shady that they let some businesses bypass the
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    by RoadieRoller 6y ago

    uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus on FF, blocks all the youtube ads for me. DDG didn't. I am okay to sacrifice CPU for not watching the ads and hence sticking with the former duo.
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    Linode Object Storage Is Down(status.linode.com)

    8 points by RoadieRoller 6y ago|0 comments
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    by RoadieRoller 6y ago

    You can give selective access[0] to the extensions in Chrome. The restrictive access is that it will get access to the webpage only when you click the extension. Read under "Let extensions read and change site data" [0] https:&#x
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    by RoadieRoller 7y ago

    78 arrested [1] 700 suspected in call center scam [2] 21 arrested [3] 15 arrested [4] https://www.news18.com/news/india/78-arrested-in-mp-for-invo... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-f
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    by RoadieRoller 8y ago

    > And don’t use any vehicle with a license plate that can be tracked to you, or the area around your house. And don't use any vehicle which has navigation system or live traffic info screen.
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    by RoadieRoller 8y ago

    I just took a Google Voice Number and put it in the resume. I get so many calls from recruiters and I will not even be notified as I don't have anything that connects them to my phone. I use the web interface of GV everyday end of day