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by bishnu 7y ago
In fairness, most headlines are chosen by editors and not article writers.
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by bishnu 7y ago
All these commenters with heartwarming anecdotes about older programmers need to familiarize themselves with the concept of survivorship bias.
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by bishnu 8y ago
'Tourist jam avoidance', as you put it, is built into these products. Just go to places they don't mention.
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by bishnu 8y ago
Musk didn't seem to mind when the media cycle fawned over him endlessly. Hype comes with scrutiny. Nobody put a gun to Musk's head and told him to appear on talk shows, to cameo in Hollywood blockbusters, etc. If he wasn't pr
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by bishnu 9y ago
"Where's the fully automated luxury gay space communism?" There are plenty of Star Trek games, dude.
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by bishnu 9y ago
It seems that checking to see if you're affected by the Equifax breach waives your right to sue Equifax: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/i-called-equifax-to-find-o... No idea how ironclad such a clause
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by bishnu 9y ago
Boy, will my parents be baffled by this.
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by bishnu 9y ago
No, because the set of users that would take FB up on this offer are the ones advertisers would like to reach most, and the subscription revenue would not come close to offsetting advertiser losses.
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by bishnu 9y ago
There seems to be a trend of the dark side of VC getting called out more and more, with names being named, and I am all for it.
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by bishnu 10y ago
It's only leverage because software developers have no solidarity. So yes, an individual can be threatened by this, but in reality the US government only grants 65 000 H-1Bs per year; Such a threat could be made easily irrelevant by ev
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by bishnu 10y ago
Uber has a web client. I used it a few times from a laptop when I was without a phone (coincidentally, left it on an uber). Does it not work from mobile devices?
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by bishnu 10y ago
If he does, he's come a long way from the John Carmack that consistently open-sourced his 3D engines and followed up with developers who failed to abide by the GPL [0]. (I don't think he works the way you describe at all). [0] ht
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by bishnu 10y ago
The prosecution admitted as much at her trial. Read up on United States vs Manning for more details.
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by bishnu 10y ago
There was no collateral damage to people in the field due to the Manning leaks, so I guess she figured it out.
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by bishnu 10y ago
Of course you can. Trump ended up winning fewer votes than Romney and McCain. The shame directed towards those that supported him publicly, I would argue, was very directly reflected in his vote totals. But you need more than that, you need
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CHiP smart oven bakes perfect cookies in under 10 minutes(kickstarter.com)
2 points by bishnu 10y ago|4 comments
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Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack(businessinsider.com)
658 points by bishnu 10y ago|440 comments
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by bishnu 10y ago
It would appear the drone is only capable of filming fit, attractive people.
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Google's Refreshes Copyright Transparency Report(googleblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by bishnu 10y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 10y ago
Overall it's an interesting article, but I have a quibble with this paragraph about how it actually backed by much Silicon Valley: "Silicon Valley, once so taken by Holmes, has turned its back, too. Countless investors have been q
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by bishnu 10y ago
Worth re-reading Marco Arment's blog post about selling Instapaper 3 years ago: https://marco.org/2013/04/25/instapaper-next-generation "Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown
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by bishnu 10y ago
It varied. The biggest difference is the Canadian interviews covered a lot more ground and asked very specific, fact-based questions. I interviewed for a bioinformatics research position at some podunk Sunflower genomics lab at UBC, and the
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by bishnu 10y ago
When I was searching for entry level SWE jobs in Canada in 2011 after abruptly dropping out of grad school, I applied to ~50 positions and interviewed at around a dozen (public+private sector) in Vancouver + Alberta, all paying $50K-$60K. A
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Nexus phones now identify suspected spam callers(plus.google.com)
303 points by bishnu 10y ago|238 comments
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by bishnu 10y ago
This speech, distilled: New Deal good, wars in the Middle East bad, LGBT rights for all. It's not clear to me how this is an endorsement of Trump or the Republican party.
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by bishnu 10y ago
Implicit in this "life after" plan is that things are going okay in San Francisco right now, which is a pretty interesting conclusion to come to.
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by bishnu 10y ago
There is nothing remotely precedent setting about what Thiel is doing here. Billionaires have long used courts to silence dissent [0][1]. [0] - http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vander...
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by bishnu 11y ago
If you're not asking yourself "what could a small but well-coordinated group of bad actors accomplish with our online tool" you're just being negligent. This 'but we did it in China' rationalization is so flims
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by bishnu 11y ago
I find the concept of a TV show that can only be seen on certain devices and OSes to be sad. I guess we've been trending in this direction for a while (no Amazon Prime Streaming app on Apple TV, for instance).
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by bishnu 11y ago
I think people will be shocked by how little housing prices decrease if the startup economy experiences a downturn.

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