elchin

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31.
by elchin 6y ago
I'm bothered by the UI design of this webpage.
32.
by elchin 6y ago
A professor in my grad school told me once "In US if you try to create a business and you fail, people will think you're entrepreneurial. In Europe they'll think you're incompetent".
33.
by elchin 6y ago
Yes, success is rented, not bought, and the rent is due every day.
34.
by elchin 6y ago
This. We need to keep in mind crimes rates in Switzerland are extremely low.
35.
by elchin 6y ago
"In reality, the German government has a double standard when it comes to the right to privacy. They will fully support that right if it's company's violating your privacy (especially, if they are American because protectioni
36.
by elchin 6y ago
Spot on! Swiss have the unity that I've never seen anywhere else.
37.
by elchin 6y ago
Is there a postmortem on how the hack happened?
38.
by elchin 6y ago
This is extra horrible for European, Asian and African students, due to timezones.
39.
by elchin 6y ago
I remember using Trillian back in the day, and the problem was that they couldn't keep up with features of each chat network, so I had go back to using ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc. separately.
40.
by elchin 6y ago
Military, especially Navy SEALs, are a lot more trained than police are, so their standards of behavior are higher. In US it takes 2-6 months to become a cop. In Germany, for comparison, it's around 2-3 years.
41.
by elchin 6y ago
How about just let Google Fiber do its thing?
42.
by elchin 6y ago
Yet he doesn't do anything about it? Hmm...
43.
by elchin 6y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. Especially points 4 and 5 - this is when you learn to get out of comfort zone!
44.
by elchin 6y ago
What project, if you were starting now from the scratch, would you use Perl for?
45.
by elchin 6y ago
Digital minimalism!
46.
by elchin 6y ago
Would using a trusted VPN prevent this attack, since even HTTP requests would be tunneled through a secure connection?
47.
by elchin 6y ago
I would expect that WhatsApp had to get an approval before the launch? Is Brazil less regulated when it comes to payment processing?
48.
by elchin 6y ago
Is this similar to FIRE?
49.
by elchin 6y ago
I like it, better use of horizontal space.
50.
by elchin 6y ago
How much would this person make if working at a big tech company?
51.
by elchin 6y ago
Will they still let Facebook buy co-branded clothing?
52.
by elchin 6y ago
It's also not i18n friendly - I speak multiple languages and in each of them I'd have to think how to pronounce it, and it sounds awkward
53.
by elchin 6y ago
Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink has a great chapter about how to act when you became a manager of your former peers. Joking around is definitely not the way to go to establish yourself as a leader.
54.
by elchin 6y ago
If you were starting a project now, would you choose PHP or Hack?
55.
by elchin 6y ago
Peter Thiel’s Zero to One makes a good case for #10
56.
by elchin 6y ago
German passports have fingerprint info stored in them - won't that prevent someone else from being able to use the passport? I would hope they check fingerprints at the border.
57.
by elchin 6y ago
The article makes it look like Germany shared data with Azerbaijan - was that the case?
58.
by elchin 6y ago
How does security of OpenBSD compare to modern hardened cloud OS kernels?
59.
by elchin 7y ago
Jocko Podcast. https://jockopodcast.com/
60.
by elchin 7y ago
Exactly. Every payment has a transaction cost.

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