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by ajays 16y ago
Discussion in the other HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294378
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by ajays 16y ago
> Okay... so...? Did you wait 10 years for a Green Card while in immigration limbo? Do you even know the difference between then and now? I waited 11 years, if it makes you feel better. And yes, I do know the difference between then and
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by ajays 16y ago
I have stopped reading what Vivek writes. It almost feels like he's writing inflammatory articles just to keep his name in print. I came to this country (US) more than 20 years ago. The I.N.S. (Immigration and Naturalization Service) were a
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by ajays 16y ago
I'm sorry I'm late to this discussion, but: some people seem to be saying, "what's the harm? what damage did he suffer?". I'd like to point them to Kyllo -vs- United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States . Basically,
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by ajays 16y ago
I'm curious: what kind of a business model does EyeQuant have?
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by ajays 16y ago
Thanks to your question, I did some googling and found this article, titled "La-la land: the origins" : http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/weekinreview/21basics.html He write, "Los Angeles's distance from New York was also comforting to in
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by ajays 16y ago
The documentary "Good Copy, Bad Copy" (a must-watch, by the way) has a segment on the Brazilian phenomenon called "Tecno Brega". You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2sv3jjJi8 Basically, the musicians give out free CDs
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by ajays 16y ago
An analogous story I heard (and it could just be a rumor) was that such lack of regulation was also why the movie industry took off in LA. The story goes that Edison had lots of patents on movie-related tech, and wanted to squeeze the movie
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by ajays 16y ago
You mean, 50% thicker than it needed to be....
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by ajays 16y ago
That was an interesting article. I wish more of the media would highlight Natalie Portman's scientific cred. The last sentence, "You can be a scientist, but if you want your name in lights, you’d better play one on TV." made me a little sad
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by ajays 16y ago
If anything, I think women generally have _better_ communication skills than men. You do realize that we're talking in vast generalizations here. Engineers run the gamut; there will be sexist, racist and bigoted engineers too. But my experi
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by ajays 16y ago
Single page: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-ge...
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by ajays 16y ago
That's a pretty good list. Here's another one that's just come out: Easley and Kleinberg's "Networks, Crowds and Markets" : http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
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by ajays 16y ago
She doesn't mention it, but another great thing about being an engineer is that engineers are quite egalitarian and the evaluation criteria is often very objective (speed of the code, complexity of the algorithm, etc.). As a result, women
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by ajays 16y ago
I disagree. The reason it's not clean is because they threw everything including the kitchen sink into it. C is a very simple and elegant language. You can write down the specs for it on a dinner napkin. And implement a compiler for it over
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by ajays 16y ago
I am ashamed to admit that I have too much time on my hands today. The same video, with an alternate soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXZrkqKo8NQ
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by ajays 16y ago
He is not being critical of Islam; he's being biased against all followers of Islam. He is saying that a Muslim cannot be an impartial jury member at a trial for a Jew. For the record: I think all religions suck (some more than others).
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by ajays 16y ago
You're right. I guess there's no comparable word for someone who's biased against followers of a particular religion, as there is one for someone who's biased against a race. So I used 'racist' as a proxy. Does my use of that word somehow t
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by ajays 16y ago
I was for him till I read this: In one recent letter to the court, he said he wanted Muslims “excluded from the jury” because he was Jewish and “Islam preaches death to Jews.” Now he comes off as some old racist, cranky dude.
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by ajays 16y ago
Not much substance in the article, but: HBG come across as whiny little losers ("oh noes! we are being threatened!!"), and Anon seems to have gotten bored and moved on.
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by ajays 16y ago
For me: Advertised Speeds Above 3 Mbps Data as of: 6/30/10 Comcast Corporation 100 Mbps - 1 Gbps Advertised Speeds Above 768 Kbps and Below 3 Mbps Data as of: 6/30/10 AT&T Inc. 1.5 - 3 Mbps Firstly, I don't think Comcast will giv
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by ajays 16y ago
The site is down. Can someone please post more about it? What's the schema for the data? How clean is it? What are they trying to achieve with this release? Thanks!
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by ajays 16y ago
FTA: "CEO Daniel Dreymann tells Venturewire that Goodmail was unable to make a profit after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stopped supporting the system last year." I was one of those who used to complain to Yahoo bitterly about spam with the "goodmail
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by ajays 16y ago
I don't know why you're dragging Yahoo into the timesheets discussion. Yahoo does not have timesheets.
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by ajays 16y ago
If you're working for a government grant or project, you are required to fill in timesheets. I knew people in Lockheed, Grumman, etc. who had to diligently fill out which project they were working on, so that their time could be billed to t
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by ajays 16y ago
I attended a talk by an economist, and he gave the following explanation of how things worked. The assumption is: the value of a seat goes to 0 at the instant a plane takes off. For a given number of seats available, you can plot a price (Y
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by ajays 16y ago
There's stealing, and then there's stealing. I don't think what this kid did was actual "stealing". Had I been at Valve in a position to hire, I would have definitely considered hiring the kid (after evaluating how contrite he was, and how
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by ajays 16y ago
IMHO, Obama and company got carried away. They saw this opportunity to enact something comparable to Social Security and Medicare, and wanted to go down in the history books as having achieved something similar. Unfortunately, like any big
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by ajays 16y ago
+1 If the Republicans are serious about an economic recovery and want startups to flourish, then universal healthcare is a cornerstone of such an effort. I know of other people too who are afraid of leaving their (big-company) positions bec
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by ajays 16y ago
The irony is: the same Congresscritters who vote against universal health insurance get top-notch health insurance paid for by taxpayers: http://www.suite101.com/content/health-care-for-the-us-congr... After 5 years of service, they get l

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