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by askar_yu 13y ago
Oh, I did not mean to describe your comment exactly as such. That was a polite and concise point-out by you. "Up-in-arms" was what I was expecting to come, not yours. I just found it amusing to immediately read your first sentence
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by askar_yu 13y ago
Saw your first sentence coming. Just getting past read the generalization "East" in the parent comment and thinking "Oh, somebody is gonna finger point and get up in arms about it!", then I see your comment :)
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by askar_yu 13y ago
This was one of those rare cases where I was ready to pay for the video; but then I am confronted with "Sorry, this film is not available in your region." and the buy or rent buttons are disabled. But guess what, somebody has up
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Putin: Russian officials in contact with Snowden before flight to Moscow(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by askar_yu 13y ago|0 comments
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Stockholm syndrome(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by askar_yu 13y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 13y ago
That - is there real zinger. More striking than the definition itself.
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by askar_yu 13y ago
Could somebody help me understand what's the hype about the Gay marriage/pride thing? I don't know why but I am noticing a lot of buzz recently about this ("Gay parade banned somewhere", "Minnesota approved the same-sex marriage", "US supre
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by askar_yu 14y ago
"How sad it is that there is not a single startup like Google, Facebook or Twitter from India, even though they are being powered by Indians in the silicon valley" I have a lot of respect for Indian IT workforce, having worked closely with
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by askar_yu 14y ago
Amazing story. A little off-topic question - how do stories like this get reported (got picked-up by arstechnica)? This isn't some standard Press Release or entry in the companies' blog. Is it initiated by companies (FB in this case) thems
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by askar_yu 14y ago
to me, Young Lee sounds more Korean than Chinese :)
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by askar_yu 14y ago
Istanbul indeed is an amazing city to walk through, but I think it's more so for tourists who find it exotic. Having lived here for more than a year now I find the streets here quite frustrating - because of the irregularity, extreme densit
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by askar_yu 14y ago
Was the wording of the headline that made you completely disagree? You can interpret stuff in anyway you wish, especially when you feel a need to argue against a point for the sake of arguing. From the context, overall OP's message is ver
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by askar_yu 14y ago
sarcasm...?
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by askar_yu 14y ago
While they had a valid point, Huawei != ZTE. ZTE is partly state-owned, but Huawei is not, it's all privately owned. PS: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertolsen/2011/02/24/huaweis-o...
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Gulag for gaijin - Japan's immigration control(economist.com)
1 points by askar_yu 15y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 15y ago
Fair enough. I've had couple 19-20 credit semesters which I barely survived; and I did not work during school. I've always admired those (especially international students) who worked while handling such workload as yours; yet excelled in t
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by askar_yu 15y ago
"As a computer science student, I don't really have time to read as much material unrelated to Computer Science as I would like..." I was a CS student who had a very alike mindset and I regret that. In hindsight I wish I had not let the "
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by askar_yu 15y ago
This comment totally made my day. You know, sometimes there are times where you can't really articulate your feelings; but then coming across something you say "oh, that's exactly what I thought/felt/meant". That's how I felt while reading
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by askar_yu 15y ago
One of the things I liked most about Google search was that there was no garbage on the page. Just a simple search field on a white background. But then came the black bar at the top (which I could not figure out how to get rid of), now th
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Mark Twain's 176th birthday(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by askar_yu 15y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 15y ago
google.ru has it as well.
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"100,000 Strong" initiative preparing the next crop of China experts(chinawatch.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by askar_yu 15y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 15y ago
I wonder how these non-US-residents were able to handle their visa issues.
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Coaching a Wave of Chinese Students for College in America(chronicle.com)
3 points by askar_yu 15y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 15y ago
hearing these two posts made my a bit happier; to be honest. I'd felt that there is something "wrong" with me being not as comfortable in typing as I am with pen and paper. Yes, I am more productive with plain pen and paper and I will stick
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by askar_yu 15y ago
Why don't you send an e-mail to the webmaster of the site? If you're concerned that the company may misunderstand your intent and take some legal action against you, may be you could send an anonymous e-mail...
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by askar_yu 15y ago
If there is a one takeaway for me here, it'd also be "don't be programmer, be a domain expert who happens to write good code". Well said! As for the frustration you have by observing people doing mundane tasks; I bet every person who has ha
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by askar_yu 15y ago
If you really consider this funny and worth sharing the text in its entirety as an HN comment, there is something very wrong with you. There are limits to satire.
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by askar_yu 15y ago
"3 hour project" - I wonder what the author's intent is to point out that it took him 3 hours to implement? (I've equally been curious about the ones where people share their weekend projects and remark it explicitly)
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Dropbox Partners with Softbank and SonyEricsson(thenextweb.com)
1 points by askar_yu 15y ago|0 comments

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