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by akg_67 13y ago
I agree with lack of interaction with MOOCs. I enrolled in three courses on Coursera and dropped out from two of them. The only one I completed, the instructor was engaging and interactive in the sense, he didn't show just the slides a
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Hackers tried to sell access to BBC Server(news.yahoo.com)
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by akg_67 13y ago
In 2014, I want to setup an experimental Openstack based cloud, blog about my experiences with it, and possibly setup a training, consulting and development services around Openstack.
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by akg_67 13y ago
Non-tech books, I read and liked in 2013: Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau Anything Your Want by Derek Sivers The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar Are You a Stock or a Bond? by Moshe Mi
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by akg_67 13y ago
Very timely article. I am being laid off tomorrow (fri). I sent out this article to my team as sharing my last piece of nugget before I head out the door! I think the question not only applies to a country or city but also the place you wor
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by akg_67 13y ago
It is not popular because the site lists all plans sold out, i.e. no new interest in the site.
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by akg_67 13y ago
Actually, during recent visit just a few weeks ago, I was surprised to find Apple Store in Sendai and it was busy (in Tokyo, I wouldn't be that surprised me). The main difference with phones I noticed between the visit this time and la
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by akg_67 13y ago
I used to work in Brazoria county, Texas where a few large manufacturing facilities never paid a penny in local and state taxes. One company employed about 10,000 people and there were another 40,000 employed as contractors and in supportin
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by akg_67 13y ago
Same error here in Seattle Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later? Bad gateway The web server reported a bad gateway error. Ray ID: c6aad60831a051a Your IP address: <redacted> Error reference number: 502 CloudFlare Loca
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by akg_67 13y ago
Just a week ago I returned to US after three week visit to India and Japan. Based on my recent experiences, I will say bribery problem in India is due to: 1. Lack of sense of community in 'givers'. For example, when a group of pe
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by akg_67 13y ago
Initially, I was using reCAPTCHA on my site. But after hearing from irate users and specially preventing new users from registering, I decided to disable and use a simplified CAPTCHA. Loosing new potential users to CAPTCHA wasn't accep
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by akg_67 13y ago
What was the age of oldest person you accepted as founder? What is the preferred age group? Do you accept husband-wife as founding team? Have you accepted any such teams in the past? What if the founders don't need money? They only wan
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by akg_67 13y ago
Actually, it was petrochemical company, one of the largest. And no, petrochemical industry doesn't pay much more than software profession. Comparing with my friends who are still doing ChE jobs, If I was still in petrochemical, I most
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by akg_67 13y ago
As a former chemical engineer, I agree with your gf's classmates. In late 90s, I was working on an advanced chemical manufacturing process control project with a team of software developers. I found out they were getting paid twice as
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by akg_67 13y ago
HFT Trading is an expensive proposition even for trading firms so I doubt individual investors can participate. Last I heard that it can cost you upward of $10K/mo to locate a HFT server in a low latency location (a primary requirement
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by akg_67 13y ago
Agree. The value prop appears to be "what people are talking about or at a specific location that you are interested in". The OP will be better of harvesting and consolidating information posted on other social platforms such as
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by akg_67 13y ago
Why does weekly spreadsheet suck for them? Are you interested in tracking time or the specific activities SE did with an account? Any software replacement for spreadsheet for SE will be swapping time spent on filling spreadsheet to filling
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by akg_67 13y ago
Do you already use Salesforce.com for other sales-related activities? What system your sales people use? Is there a central repository for customer information? If yes, then I will suggest consider using the same system. Do your SE enter or
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by akg_67 13y ago
I am wondering why author is not offering to volunteer to teach or help the teacher recruit students and do other things she is recommending. I guess it is easier to criticize than do something to make a difference. When I was in college an
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by akg_67 13y ago
Application Form is broken on Safari 6.0.5 on OS X 10.8.4. It doesn't display anything after "What tools do you like?" Error Console shows "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
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by akg_67 13y ago
The statement is true from my POV. In last 10 years, I have visited 100s of enterprise data centers and seen the transformation from primarily UNIX (non-Linux) and Windows server to Linux. Today I rarely come across UNIX and come across shr
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by akg_67 13y ago
I found this statement in the article to be the key of managing. "He basically explained nicely that my job was to do the things that Mark (Zuckerberg) did not want to focus on as much." I believe it is something Cook and other CE
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by akg_67 13y ago
I guess Greenwald, his family and friends are now on terrorist watch list. I wonder how soon Guardian will be dubbed Terrorist Organization. More and more, it appears western governments are following the policy of if you criticize us, you
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by akg_67 13y ago
Not being in SV, I am jealous of "pay-it-forward" culture of SV. Seattle doesn't seem to have same culture. Actually, even remotely by phone, I had better success with SV people giving me some time for discussion compared to
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by akg_67 13y ago
USA -> USSR. US govt has decided to follow practices of USSR govt as it considers them to be much more superior than the former USA govt practices.
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by akg_67 13y ago
Doubt those drives were from bad batch. As these were SSDs, most likely write wear. Two SSDs should never be in RAID 1 pair or replace at least one SSD in RAID 1 at predetermined schedule instead of replacing on failure only. They are going
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by akg_67 13y ago
For Indians with in-demand qualifications like technology: First year snow is fun specially if you never seen snow or live for extended period. Second year snow is okay. Third year oh! crap snow again. Fourth year snow is drudgery. Fifth ye
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by akg_67 13y ago
Hmm ... interesting that you believe site is just glorified App Store page. You are missing the opportunity to educate and converse with your target audience. Think of app as a product and site as a marketing, education, support, and commun
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by akg_67 13y ago
IMO, you shouldn't automatically redirect mobile users to app stores. It prevents user from browsing your site. Instead detect the device type/ platform and show appropriate icon indicating you have a mobile app but let users brow
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by akg_67 13y ago
MIT is no exception when it comes to the current class of inverse heroes. Recent events have shown that every person or organization will stoop as low as they can go to protect self-interest while preaching ethics and accountability to othe

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