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by __sr__ 8y ago
Broadly speaking, there are two types of H1B applicants[1]: 1. Applicants being hired directly by US companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc. These applicants have either worked for a while at one of their offshore subsidiaries or were
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by __sr__ 8y ago
People who work primarily on Windows have trouble writing bash scripts. That’s not exactly surprising.
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Chrome is the only mainstream browser without a decent reading mode these days — because doesn’t want people hiding advertisements. One of the reasons I prefer not to use it. And enabling reader mode doesn’t need any power user skills, does
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Doesn’t Google Apps support MS Exchange on the server? The paid one, that is? I remember there was a lot of hue and cry over Google dropping MS Exchange option for free Gmail around the same time when Windows Phone 8 launched. But at the sa
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Well spotted!
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No one ever accused the MBA toting managers of being tech savvy .. or smart, for that matter. /s Sarcasm aside, in my experience, most managers do not understand technology even at a high level. Even the ones who come from a tech backg
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Advanced Physics Research. Or an OS for the 21st century which discards the warts accumulated by the mainstream ones over the decades — which they refuse to discard for backwards compatibility.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Well, my experience has been drastically different - although I haven’t tried to use Linux as my daily driver in the last 4-5 years when I switched to macOS after having used one or the other Linux distribution as my main OS for about 12 ye
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I had a similar experience a few months ago. I run Windows 10 Professional on my iMac using Boot Camp for Windows specific stuff — hard to believe, but such things do still exist in 2018. I was facing some slowness while working on somethin
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You said it yourself — you’ve been running ThinkPads with Fedora. So essentially, you have restricted yourself to one particular line of laptops and one distribution. That is probably why you havn’t felt the pain of having to figure out why
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Yup, I have to remove a bunch of apps/games I never asked for after every major upgrade.
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Here is a book about something that happened as recently as 1971 — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...
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And here is something that happened in the “Modern” world — circa 1971. May not be at the same scale as the Nazi Holocast, but no less horrifying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K... https:
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By default, yes. But it can be increased. See limit(1) and ulimit(1).
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You can start with Wikipedia[1]. I’ve read more then a few books over the years — I’ll find some for you. [1] I know Wikipedia is not the best source, but it should give you some idea of what I am talking about. Here are some links: https:
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Famines are caused by environmental issues, a monsoon affects crops or bad policy like Mao in China or Kim in NK Maybe — but at the same time tonnes of grains — which should have been sent to provide relief to the affected — were being
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Bengal famine is just one example. Read about the history of the Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD.
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> I'm not aware of any event in modern human history that resembles the scale, the intent, the execution level and the pure evil that makes the final solution program. Read the history of Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1
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At the same time, there is no pressure on users to use iCloud. Or even buy Apple devices. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in any segment.
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> I must have missed the part where Google is letting state run Chinese companies run their data centers and sharing the data with the Chinese government. When that happens then Apple and Google will be on equal footing when it comes to
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I am not defending Apple. My point is that no corporation an (or should) is above the law. If the law is problematic, it should be fixed. But no one can be allowed to go against it. Let’s say Apple leaves China. So what next? Do you have an
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> No one said it has to be your job or passion. I've fixed a couple of areas in OSM, but I've probably spent not more than a few hours working on it in total. That doesn’t work unless everyone else is doing it. And for that to
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Yeah, I’ve nothing better to do than roam around fixing maps. It’s not like I have a daily job or anything. /s It the same argument when someone talks about an issue with an open source software. The response is, “The source code is av
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There will be no “backlash” against the government. China is not a typical democracy. And do you really want a corporation to have the ability to hold a nation state hostage? What’s next? Allow us to sell our stuff without taxes, or we’ll s
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That is one of the worst arguments I’ve ever heard. Apple (or any other company) can’t refuse the law of the land. Had they refused, the Chinese government would simply have told them to pack their bags. Someone else would have replaced App
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The difference is that most of the things back in 60s, 70s and 80s were built by people who were actually passionate about computers and programming. Then the career types took over — the ones who spend more time planning sprints and follow
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There was a lot of FUD in BSD space back in 90s. People were worried they might get sued out of existence. And the original version of FreeBSD was lacking some critical things because they had to get rid of a lot of proprietary code to avoi
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In many ways Windows is better designed than Linux - although it has its own problems to weigh it down.
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Agreed. In addition to the factors you outlined, another reason behind the success of Linux in enterprise is Java. Java essentiallly enables people to ignore the OS altogether. So in essence, Linux becomes a dumb platform which can, in theo
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They should be opt-in, not opt out. And opting-in should come with some benefits. For example, you can get Kindle cheaper if you can live with ads. I can, kind of, understand ads if the OS were free. But someone who bought the OS for full

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