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by Smirnoff 10y ago
I must say this is strange. As an Uzbek citizen you don't need an exit visa (OVIR) to go to Kazakhstan or Russia. I guess they were trying to hustle you. @pavel_lishin: The exit visa costs about $50 -- you pay a fee to the government a
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Here is a dirty little trick to make sure your check appears instantly in your account -- first you cash the check, then you deposit that cash to your account.
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Because discussion was not substantive enough.
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Thanks for your question genericone. I think it depends on the person whether he/she wants to be nice or not. Personally, I take a deep breath and wait for a few hours to reply if I think I am mad or I am offended. Notifications are th
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Interesting idea about packaging information/feeds as mini-magazines on reddit. Thanks!
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
lotharbot, we thought about this too. There are plenty of popular websites and message boards that don't support watching certain threads and topics. But we need to start somewhere, so we start here. Thanks for you feedback!
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Hi jbob2000. I understand your concerns. In fact I have got a few people tell me that they like the HN the way it because of the great content. Don't get us wrong, we don't want to change that. What we do want is to give some peop
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
abhi3, thanks for your question. While we will give this product away for free to HN users, we plan to monetize the technology behind this in near future. One of the uses of our notification system is to notify users about certain keywords
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Thanks for feedback Nikolay. We wanted to add many things. Notifications via SMS is for super busy people, who go offline from time to time but would never want to miss a reply from pg. Also, we are considering adding a Telegram bot for not
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Thanks! This was a weekend project, so we couldn't get it done in time. We have got a few things started :)
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
IDEA: Hacker News is a great resource for news and interesting discussions. However, sometimes I wish it could do a little better in some areas like reading on mobile, sending notifications about replies, and perhaps having more social fea
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Apply HN: Make HN social – follow users, topics, and get notified about replies(notify.uz)
55 points by Smirnoff 10y ago|48 comments
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
I think the article pretty much answered its question about why people growing up poor have hard time regulating their food intake -- it's because their parents weren't smart and/or because these kids weren't taught abou
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by Smirnoff 10y ago
Yes, on mobile phone it might take a few tries just to alter that web address, especially when the domain name looks like sslmadomaiinnahas . Try remembering that. Navigating to the front part of the url to copy that domain is borderli
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
And Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan??? We have been using servers located in North Virginia so far -- it is not that bad actually, definitely better than buying hosting locally. PS: Why downvotes? If you disagree, please care to post your reasoni
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
Yeah, Metro administration in DC always infuriated me because they gave zero f*cks about quality, contracts or safety. 1. One time, they stopped working with a startup (which provided payment cards/passes via direct paycheck/depos
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
You should go and meet with them in-person even if you do get accepted for Skype interview. You can only ask so little in 20 minutes, so why waste this opportunity?
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
It's definitely better than the previous version. But, honestly, I already gave up on browsing Hacker News on mobile. Instead, I just use a dedicated MiniHack App. I think it would be cool to open up API even more and let community cre
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
I foresee Google being replaced by something else. As a search engine Google has been stagnant for a while. I still cannot black- or whitelist websites that I want or don't want to show up in my results. Really, I want to control what
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
My grandmom probably had Alzheimer's because she would always forget what my name was (she'd think she is talking to my little brother) or she would ask the same questions every 5/10 minutes. I can see slight similarities wit
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
How is your company even competitive compared to other up-and-comers (Jack Erwin, Beckett Simonon, etc) that do exactly that but for lower prices? Really, your shoes are pretty pricey ($225). For that price, I EXPECT to have some service (w
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
This is from Telegram Bot FAQ -->The bots can receive: - Service messages (people added or removed from the group, etc.) And that's with Privacy Mode activated!
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
That could have been the case. A friend of mine kept adding lots of bots to the group until several of us started getting random spam messages the next day.
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
BEWARE: do NOT add random Telegram bots to your groups!!! Some bots copy the phone numbers of the users and add them to spam lists. So do not get surprised if you get spam messages in your telegram from Russian phone numbers offering fake g
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
Kevin, thanks for your advice! 1. We definitely want to start with countries, which OT hasn't penetrated yet. 2. Since we will start with restaurants that do not use OT (or similar service), we may consider having only paid plans. And
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by Smirnoff 11y ago
Hi Kevin and Sam, We are about to finish building a table reservation system (think OpenTable or SeatMe but on steroids). Although it's a "Me Too" product, we will offer features that our competitors can't or won't,
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by Smirnoff 12y ago
They did release an iOS version -- it's called Signal [1]. Unfortunately, it's not gaining that much attention in the mainstream. PS: Currently, it's only cross-compatible with Android's Red Phone but TextSecure is proba
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by Smirnoff 12y ago
Purely speculative but people whom I know to be the most successful in education and career happen to be born between November and January. Age doesn't matter though. Some of them jumped a few years ahead of their classmates so they su
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by Smirnoff 12y ago
Reaching to top right corner is NOT going to be an issue soon. In the next iPhone version, Apple is going to duplicate the top right and left buttons on the bottom around the centered HOME button. This is not a leak. It's what I would
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by Smirnoff 12y ago
Doing business in countries like Uzbekistan is tough because of inability to get payments. But there is a solution to that and it's called MIDDLE MAN. For example, Facebook ads are really picking up here. Of course, most small business

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