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Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
259 points by akudha 4y ago|258 comments
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by akudha 4y ago
Maybe they’d introduce a car that not only drives itself, but also cleans itself? :P
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by akudha 4y ago
What's the incentive for Google to EVER give the accounts back? Ethical, moral responsibility? Being a nice entity. And it takes zero effort to do so, especially once he is cleared by the cops? You know, stuff like Don't be evi
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by akudha 4y ago
feels the need to charge at all lol. Bill Gates' book on climate change is selling for $14 (Kindle version) https://www.amazon.com/How-Avoid-Climate-Disaster-Breakthrou... I can understand charging for hard copy, but
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by akudha 4y ago
This is cool! How/where does it get the new releases data from? Would be nice to have a service like this for books
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My Week with America’s Smartest* People(nymag.com)
2 points by akudha 4y ago|0 comments
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by akudha 4y ago
If they were dishonest about that then that does not look great IMO. If they weren't and both companies were fine with it then it seems OK. He was billing the companies 8 hours a day, each. Is this unethical? Sure. But he had no work
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by akudha 4y ago
One of my ex-colleagues simply quit one day - no emails, no notice...nothing. Another one of my ex-colleagues told me he was doing two jobs, but only working 8 hours in total per day, if that. Then COVID layoffs happened. In the first case,
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Ask HN: What music do you play, while programming?
22 points by akudha 4y ago|42 comments
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by akudha 4y ago
I agree a lot of podcasts are just rehashing the same sets of ideas. The same can be said about books released these days - most of these books should be a ten page article at best. That said, there are definitely gems waiting to be discove
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by akudha 4y ago
Side hustle nation Nomad Capitalist Behind the Bastards Citations Needed (I highly recommend this one) Love Fruit - the fruit fest podcast My no code story
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by akudha 4y ago
Most people have no clue where/how everyday things are made. Reminds me of this video where a teenage girl was saying food comes from supermarkets, not farmers
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by akudha 4y ago
On New Year’s Eve at NYC, the streets are jam packed. There is barely any space to move. Everyone around you has their camera out, trying to take photos of the ball drop. The only thing you can see are flashes. Then you’d curse yourself f
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by akudha 4y ago
I am not sure this argument is made in good faith. Governments and government bureaucracy have enormous power over an ordinary citizen - part of the reason why there is rampant corruption in India (in the govt sector) is because people don&
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by akudha 4y ago
Measuring everything is terms of money is wrong and extremely bad attitude. Rules and laws exist for a reason. You can’t put a price on upholding the law
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by akudha 4y ago
This case is extra special, as anyone who has ever dealt with any Indian bureaucracy can attest to. I went to my university for some paperwork (years after I had gotten my degree) - I was treated like a leper and openly asked for a bribe. T
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by akudha 4y ago
I agree. I went because it was novelty to me, I had moved to NYC and wanted to cross it off my list. Cops, huge crowds, bone biting cold, long waiting times… not worth it. But worst of all is still camera flashes, in my opinion
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by akudha 4y ago
Some years ago I went to see the ball drop at NYC. It was a terrible experience. Every single person I saw had their phone out, the only thing I could see was flashes, everywhere. Nobody was seeing anything with naked eyes, just through the
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by akudha 4y ago
Of all the people who worked on this, nobody thought it was illegal or land them in trouble? Like, how does one come up with a plan like this, sell it to their colleagues and see it through to completion? The level of entitlement ("la
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by akudha 4y ago
I have a couple of thousand books on my ageing Kindle. Looking for a new ereader, will check out Kobo. Do you buy books from Kindle and convert them to ePub?
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by akudha 4y ago
Woah. 4 TB? What kind of project is it?
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by akudha 4y ago
This is awesome. How did you manage to convince your employers, of 4 day work week? I was just thinking about it, I don't think there is any chance that I can convince my own employer of it :(
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Ask HN: Resources to learn generative art programming?
208 points by akudha 4y ago|83 comments
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by akudha 4y ago
Curious, what book did you order at Amazon?
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by akudha 4y ago
I have seen the 800k figure quoted elsewhere too. But even 80k per DAY is insane amount of money. Let’s say half of it is profit. 4M/40k = 100 days. For the amount of damage he has caused, for the amount of pain he has inflicted - 100
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by akudha 4y ago
Jeez! 800k per day. That is obscene, for a charlatan. How much of this is profit I wonder. 4M is chump change for someone making THAT much money. Plus, who knows how much money his nut job supporters are donating to him.
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by akudha 4y ago
Have you tried this one? https://neeva.com/ No idea how good it is, I remember it was posted here a while ago
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by akudha 4y ago
One way to make it more enjoyable could be to do it by topic - this way the universe of words would be much smaller, instead of the entire dictionary. Topics could be - music, baseball, food etc
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by akudha 4y ago
Suppose you had a old car. You know its limitations, you've used it for many, many years. You know its problems, its quirks and warts. You also know the workarounds for its quirks. In all, it is good enough for most of your needs. It r
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by akudha 4y ago
People underestimate the cost, time and other resources associated with a court case. Especially the stress. My employer (a tiny company) sued another company because they owed them a bunch of money. We are in the right, legally and ethical

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