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by ajays 16y ago
I made the mistake of skimming over the post. 1. I can't speak for everyone out there, but I'm guessing that most of the people out there have no interest in this drama. This is high-school theatrics played out by so-called grown-ups. I ski
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by ajays 16y ago
According to the TSA, http://bit.ly/b133H4 , "there is no fondling, squeezing, groping, or any sort of sexual assault taking place at airports. You have a professional workforce carrying out procedures they were trained to perform to kee
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by ajays 16y ago
I didn't read the entire article (the buzzwords were carpet-bombing my brain cells). But I'm wondering how different from email will FB's mail be? Will it be a blend of, basically, Google Wave, FB updates and regular Email? Is this why Lars
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by ajays 16y ago
Folks, from what I hear, "Staff Engineer" is a top-level position; it's not your garden-variety engineer on staff. These are people who have risen to a high position in the company as individual contributors, eschewing the management path.
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by ajays 16y ago
I've heard that Google gives RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) and not many options. RSUs basically are stock grants which vest over time. Of course, you don't get as many RSUs as options. But there's no question of RSUs going underwater (unles
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by ajays 16y ago
Whoa... Delhi/Jaipur in May/June? That's probably the worst time to visit the north. I was there this year in May, and the temperatures were regularly over 45C (113F) during the day. It's hot, Hot, HOT in May/June. If you're not accustomed
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by ajays 16y ago
Wait... whut? She has strong opinions about gender, etc. so we shouldn't believe her? Occam's Razor, man! Use it! Why in the world would she blame this dude out of the blue? What does she possibly have to gain? Several commentators have men
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by ajays 16y ago
At the Wegmans I remember, the manager would pick people from the front of the line to move them to the newly opened registers (to keep things fair).
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by ajays 16y ago
There are ways to be "non-profit" and still make a ton of money. "Non-profit" only means that the organization should not make a "profit". A trivial example would be if you ran your own non-profit, and basically paid yourself all of the "p
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by ajays 16y ago
The voting patterns for this prop look interesting: http://vote.sos.ca.gov/maps/ballot-measures/19/ It's surprising that even Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties voted against it. Otherwise, the Bay Area seems to have been the primary d
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by ajays 16y ago
In 1923, New York State passed a law repealing Prohibition, even though Prohibition was a part of the Constitution. http://bit.ly/9m0NDX One would imagine that a law of Congress has less "power" than a Constitutional Amendment?
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by ajays 16y ago
I was sort-of expecting this. I am very disappointed, even though I don't smoke pot. To me, it was a question of personal freedoms. Here are some reasons why Prop 19 didn't pass, as far as I can see: 1. Fear of the unknown. People are fairl
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by ajays 16y ago
You're missing the point. There's questioning, and then there's questioning. What these officers were doing was not "questioning", it was berating. They were just trying to act like sheriffs from an old Western. If they really wanted to qu
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by ajays 16y ago
I'm sure there are people with all sorts of issues with test-taking. But there are a fair number of shirkers too, who use this as an excuse to bypass the system. I remember once I was teaching a class, and one of the students sprung this on
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by ajays 16y ago
"The problem I see is, people don't come on facebook to find stuff, they come to checkout what their friends are doing." I think I addressed this in my comment. I don't think there's much value in advertising on FB itself (which is what I m
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by ajays 16y ago
I don't work for Facebook and have no inside knowledge, but here's what I think. It helps to step back and take a look at the big picture. Companies have a certain number of advertising dollars. Companies that are really big in the consumer
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by ajays 16y ago
In the late 90s, I was working in a univ lab as a post-doc, when the IPO market was hot. There there was this brokerage company ("Wit Capital") which would give out IPOs to us serfs on a first-come, first-served basis. They usually got very
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by ajays 16y ago
Biological weapons are easy to make. Remember Aum Shinrikyo in Japan in the 90s? Or Jonestown? It would be a fair assumption that half the world's militaries have some sort of biological weapons. Granted, many of them won't be able to put t
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by ajays 16y ago
You may not want to believe it because your mind is made up, but: WikiLeaks did offer the US DOD the option to censor names in the documents. The fact that the DOD chose not to tells me that it is the DOD who doesn't care, and not WikiLeaks
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by ajays 16y ago
Lets flip this around. We can all agree that if we knew in 2003 - 2009 that the gory details of the occupation would come out, many of the abuses would not have happened? So now that we know that sites like WikiLeaks will leak such informat
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by ajays 16y ago
Microsoft doesn't understand that if you piss off enough people over the years, it's hard to get respect back quickly. If you haven't followed the anti-trust case, you won't understand. For years, Microsoft treated others in the personal-co
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by ajays 16y ago
Care to give a link (or an easily searchable name) for this "Mine car version" ?
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by ajays 16y ago
In the Pakistani northwest, there are towns which specialize in making knockoffs of guns. See, for example, Dera Adam Khel. There blacksmiths, using very primitive techniques, make duplicates of AK47s all the time. I think you underestimate
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by ajays 16y ago
Failure is one aspect. But what if there's a bug? Suppose there's an extreme edge case where a bicyclists fluorescent jacket appears as a road to the car; so the car chases down the cyclist and runs him over. This is not a hardware failure,
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by ajays 16y ago
Sorry to comment spam, but, Yahoo has a "PlaceFinder" API that does geocoding (and address cleanup): http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/
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by ajays 16y ago
I hacked up one of the first address validation services on the Internet: http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html , back in 1998(?). I've since moved on, and the backend database hasn't been updated in nearly a decade. But it works fairl
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by ajays 16y ago
Presumably, Twilio knows who their top users of the international SMS feature are. Why not just look at the logs and email the top users, telling them the service is going to be discontinued? This isn't rocket science, people.