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by amitutk 10y ago
There is room for vertical search engine. E.g., searching for research papers with Google is not very impressive.
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by amitutk 10y ago
> end up full of shit Could you give any details?
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by amitutk 10y ago
You can have a simple fabric script to copy .vimrc (and .alias, .bash_profile, etc) copied to a new server. You don't need sudo for any of this.
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by amitutk 10y ago
A HUGE advantage for vim is that you can login to any server, new or legacy, and it will have vim. At least it will have vi.
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by amitutk 10y ago
I was waiting for an Anandtech review to get definite answers to questions about the new MBP. Isn't it strange Anandtech hasn't reviewed the new MBP yet?
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by amitutk 10y ago
To find the time taken by jobs, it's simplest to just display current time in the prompt. You can quickly look at the time when the job start and the time after job ended. PS1="\@ \h \w> " This displays current time, host
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by amitutk 10y ago
There is a term for this: Backdoor bragging. Source: Jenna Maroney in 30 Rock.
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by amitutk 10y ago
Wow, blatant PR! India's billions have had access to Internet for several years now. While traveling last year in rural areas, I was able to get voice and Internet (3G), with data plans costing $4 per Gb. And I had the option to choose
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by amitutk 10y ago
Developers play games on this platform. The games are testing their technical competence. This info is passed/sold to recruiters. Hypothesis: If you are good at these games, you will be good at your technical job.
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Build or Buy? Anatomy of an Acquisition(techcrunch.com)
2 points by amitutk 11y ago|0 comments
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Hubspot CRM(hubspot.com)
1 points by amitutk 11y ago|0 comments
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by amitutk 11y ago
Your genetic information can not be used to discriminate against you. "The President has signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) that will protect Americans against discrimination based on their genetic inf
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by amitutk 11y ago
tl;dr - "The surprising answer to this question is that we breathe it out." O₂ in, CO₂ and H₂O out
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by amitutk 12y ago
By taking $367m at $11b valuation, they have given away ~ 3.33% in this round. You may work backwards for previous rounds. For initial rounds with no public valuation info, you may assume 25% of the company was given away in each round.
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by amitutk 12y ago
To automatically enable this for all term applications, create a file .inputrc in $HOME and put this: set editing-mode vi $if mode=vi set keymap vi-command "gg": beginning-of-history "G": end-of-history set keymap vi-ins
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by amitutk 12y ago
Aeropress is the best! Great tasting coffee, cheap machine, easy to clean and maintain.
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by amitutk 12y ago
To put that in perspective, if Flipkart has sales of $100M every day of the year, at $36.5 billion, it would be half of Amazon's e-commerce revenue of $67.9 billion [0]. [0] http://mashable.com/2014/05/08&#x
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Why did 30-year-old former Microsoft engineers apply to YC?(medium.com)
28 points by amitutk 13y ago|24 comments
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Investors prefer business pitches from handsome men, U.S. study finds(reuters.com)
1 points by amitutk 13y ago|0 comments
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by amitutk 13y ago
The comparison of 15% for 150k vs 22% for 813k is unfair because it suggests that $5m valuation is entirely because of YC. The fact that many YC companies don't raise clearly indicates that YC helps but not a sufficient factor. Since Y
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by amitutk 13y ago
A toy food would be something that tastes excellent or fun to consume but no real health benefit, e.g., you could run a toy car in your basement but not use for commuting. The worry with soylent or other food replacement is that it could ou
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by amitutk 13y ago
0.0001% of 316,856,000 is 317 (after rounding partial human beings caused by mathematical division), close enough to 400.
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by amitutk 13y ago
Neat, how you are doing the layout of the nodes?
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by amitutk 14y ago
and small companies don't fire people?
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by amitutk 14y ago
A key activity in bioinformatics is developing software tools for analyzing and interpreting data. If you have no knowledge of biology, you could still work as as soft engg. in this field. If you are willing to learn basic molecular biology
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by amitutk 14y ago
Don't start with organic chemistry or genetics unless you have a 5-year plan. Basic understanding of molecular biology (structure of DNA, central dogma, etc.) will be enough to get started. Finally, here is a book (1) that describes many al
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by amitutk 15y ago
I attended Dr Weisssman present this work a few years back at Dana-Farber. The somewhat long tl;dr is that while immune cells kill foreign material, normal cells have "don't eat me" signal, CD47, a cell surface marker. Cancer cells also hav
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by amitutk 15y ago
noob q: any reason not to use RAID5 or 6?
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by amitutk 15y ago
serious issue: didn't let me login with my apple id, wanted me to update my profile to have my email as my id. i had half a mind to give but still thought would give it a try. when i went to the the apple id site to associate my email to my
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Stubbornness Increases the More People Tell You You’re Wrong(wired.com)
1 points by amitutk 15y ago|0 comments

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