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by ecobiker 11y ago
The US banking system has not adapted to the modern world at all. Anyone who has worked with ACH will tell you how bad it is from a payment processing point of view - for those who don't know - you only receive negative ack, i.e., whe
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by ecobiker 11y ago
(Disclaimer: Slightly off-topic. Also, it's not my intention to belittle their lifestyle. I hope I don't come across that way.) Some of the things they need even in this disconnected lifestyle - like the mobile home, laptops, book
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by ecobiker 11y ago
NYTimes is identifying the wrong problem here. What if Toys R Us sends an employee to India to train the team there (that's not uncommon). I'm struggling to understand the key takeaway from the article.
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by ecobiker 11y ago
OneNote is now completely free and available on iOS as well (where it has a full 5-star rating). As much I love Evernote, it's going to be an uphill battle for them. (And not to mention the handwriting experience and integration with t
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by ecobiker 11y ago
To summarize how great chromecast is - my mother who could not figure out the smart tv (or apple tv or a computer), streams youtube/netflix effortlessly via chromecast and a tablet.
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by ecobiker 11y ago
Voting is only a small part of participating in the political system. As an outsider, I find people here in the US (or probably just SF) to be more active for their causes. But it's not enough. There is no easy tech solution here. Peop
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by ecobiker 11y ago
>> Someone at Microsoft needs to go back to the first commit and track down every bit of code that was taken, and investigate the origin of the code, and properly restore the copyright notices. It is specifically to avoid these issues
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by ecobiker 12y ago
The way I see it - it's hard to "transfer" all the learnings we get from our everyday driving experiences to other fellow drivers but a machine can do that. It's going to be a sum total of all of its learnings and its ne
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by ecobiker 12y ago
I understand where this concern comes from. But what I'm unable to reconcile is if a life form can get more "advanced" or even survive long without knowing co-operation and in general being more civilized - Live and let live?
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by ecobiker 12y ago
I have worked on a fairly large scale distributed system where we had to deal with DST. The week before the switch was always the craziest. Until... we switched the boxes and the database to UTC. Even if DST is abolished, leap second will b
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by ecobiker 12y ago
It is possible with Github at least - using a combination of the list repo events API & the create commit API.
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by ecobiker 12y ago
Is it really possible for someone to find motivation to risk their lives to fight for a paycheck? It would definitely motivate a few but can it motivate a large enough population making private armies feasible?