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Very interesting concept. Excellent job. As others mentioned, it can be extended in to other attractive domains than code visualization. Developer tools don't tend to be as financially rewarding. Reminded me of a conversation with my f
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> what's their value proposition in 2017? I have been paid user of Dropbox for now 4+ years. The reason I have stuck with it because "It works! plain and simple." I have tried other storage services like Google, iCloud and
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Actually, there are higher incident of B12 deficiency in Indian vegetarians as found by a study done in late 90s (sorry I don't have specific reference). Indians dont have a practice of regular/ preventive doctor visits, annual ch
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There are two routes to finding jobs. First route is through personal contacts/network/referral/nepotism/cronyism. In this case, your strategy of customizing resume and application is an effective strategy as you know yo
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One event is rarely a driving force of change, it is always confluence of events that cause change. Lack of train is not root cause, it is a part of potential solutions to what ails the region. US would never had westward migration if popul
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I disagree with you. Keeping mid-America populated is in long term interest of US. Mid-America is one of the most fertile landmass in the world. To farm this land, you need farmers and farm-hands. The farmers/farmhands need a support s
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If US wants to revitalize mid-America, it has to build HSR through mid-America. The history of interstate highway system is good primer on it. Otherwise mid-America will empty out with time.
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Unfortunately majority of existing rail lines and nearby lands are owned by freight rail companies. So repurposing them for HSR or passenger transport is an uphill battle. The areas where freight rail lines are shared with passenger traffic
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> The problem is that a train running through Texas is useless unless you want to get to a specific city that the tracks actually pass through. This argument ignores the new and existing population clusters that form and grow along a tra
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Second this. Some of my friends and I use Scott's emails to discover cheap fares to any destination. We typically don't have any specific destination in mind. When one of us sees Scott's email with attractive deal, we check G
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Societies come and go and there is nothing wrong with it that was the response I got from a Japanese elderly man few years ago when we were discussing declining population and future of Japan during my visit to Japan.
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Most of my best bosses were non-engineers or people with no technical expertise in my domain. In my experience bosses who were recently engineers or technical experience in what I was hired to do to be generally micromanagers. It sort of b
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Dropbox, Netflix, Costco, Memrise (language learning app) are the only paid subscriptions I use.
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Rubin was married long before he left Google. He also has couple of kids now.
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Don't quit your job but try out the opportunity on the side. Try to find one person/business in US who is willing to buy what you are selling. Until you have made that sale, you don't have a business just "Hopes & Dr
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You are not alone. Look into population migration numbers among states.
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Changes in foreign exchange rates usually arbitrage out most interest rate disparities.
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"Fear" doesn't sell in SMB/Owner-operated businesses as well as it does in Enterprise. Most security selling is "Fear" based. SMB looks at potential post-event loss vs cost of buying a preventive security solut
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by akg_67 9y ago
Problem with Foundation for me is their atrocious documentation. Their focus on videos is a turn-off. It is much faster to scan text for relevant information than listen to someone drivel for 10+ minutes in video. Videos waste too much time
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You might want to look into Gensym (sp?) and their Hepatitis cure. The company got a big boost when they released the cure but now they are being pummeled by the market and analysts as the need for their cure is declining (fewer cases). The
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I meant doctor didn't come across confident in how he was handling the complications. He was trying lot of different things without proper reasoning. He was clearly flustered. I was actually more calmer and methodical than him.
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"Lower rate of complications" is much better than "ZERO rate of complications". When you had zero problems, you have no experience handling problems. When you had some problems, you know how to handle problems. When you
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It may have do with experience. When you have limited experience, you tend to use all your faculties and guided by logical reasoning. When you have lot of experience, you are guided by past experiences and likely to miss something new, when
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Funny, this reminded me of my own surgery that had complications. My surgeon said that he has done over 200 similar surgeries and I was his first complication. The first thing that came out of my mouth was no wonder you don't know how
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The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth(propublica.org)
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You may want to consider reviewing Boglehead wiki link I posted, specially the section about Asset Allocation. If all your investment is in S&P500, you are exposed to US Large Company stocks only. You may want to consider diversifying y
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I suggest you do some reading before getting started with investing. Bogleheads wiki and forum has good information and knowledgeable forum participants. https://www.bogleheads.org https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki
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As for BS, currying favor, stepping on others, disgusting politics, ... it will be everywhere, doesn't matter tech or any other field, doesn't matter for-profit or non-profit organization, doesn't matter paid or volunteer pos
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I suggest you do some reading before getting started with investing for retirement. Bogleheads wiki and forum has good information and knowledgeable forum participants. https://www.bogleheads.org https://www.boglehead
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by akg_67 9y ago
I haven't heard Big 4 in context of tech companies, only in context of accounting and consulting firms. Some stock market analysts use acronym FANG for Facebook, Amazon, NetFlix, and Google, best performing tech stocks recently.

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