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by enitihas 6y ago
For developers working at Microsoft? How are they paid via? They are paid out of Microsoft profits. If Microsoft stops making the humongous amounts of money of Windows, Office, SQL Server, the salaries aren't going to be paid out of th
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by enitihas 6y ago
Everyone gets to say anything in my opinion, I am no-one to stop people. But they should also try to ponder over the question over why authors don't deserve to be paid for their labour.
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by enitihas 6y ago
I don't understand how so many people here are commenting as if giving out books for free was a good idea. Considering that a large part of HN makes fat salaries writing software which is either sold for high price(MSFT types), or mini
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by enitihas 6y ago
> Microsoft actually makes something in crude terms. Software companies create value with the product they build. The IP is the product. Software companies create and sell products out of the labour of software developers. Publishing com
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by enitihas 6y ago
Publishers are rent seekers and software companies are not? Microsoft selling windows and office is ok but publishers making money is not?
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by enitihas 6y ago
https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
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by enitihas 6y ago
Is there ever an instance of power being taken away from armed groups like police or military, in any country? I think it's very easy to grant power, and very hard to revoke. Also, what happens if the police departments refuse to accep
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by enitihas 6y ago
If you delete the account, the account name is irrelevant. You can give the exact name, and still no information could be obtained via it.
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by enitihas 6y ago
Someone would have to add their integrations though. The features won't be joined magically together.
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by enitihas 6y ago
They could have gone to 2001 technology way back. The Go FAQs say -> > " We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it." I mean if you are going t
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by enitihas 6y ago
It is a very damning read. Quoting just one part "... had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men. ... The failure to address the abuse was attributed to a combination of factors
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by enitihas 6y ago
Fortunately, it seems google has separated security updates from the OEM updates on some newer phones it seems. The phone I bought In November 2018, right now is receiving monthly security updates via Play Services updates, and is right now
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by enitihas 6y ago
Apple has let all sorts of things slip in which seem unbelievable. e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15828767 So I don't get shocked anymore see
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by enitihas 6y ago
Apple has had more simple "unbelievable" bugs, e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676 (Anyone can login as root without any technical effort required) And to top it off ( https://news.ycombina
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by enitihas 6y ago
If you haven't watched "Yes Minister", give it a try. It is a very good satire on beaurecracy.
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by enitihas 6y ago
There can be an option --interactive. So if you type "ls --interactive", you get a fuzzy search prompt, where you can enter free form text, which can be matched against the main page description of each option, and the options can
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by enitihas 6y ago
Other aspects are communicating, researching, not a deep dive into human psychology to ensure people don't pirate your software.
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by enitihas 6y ago
/s
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by enitihas 6y ago
You can opt in for detailed billing report, and get detailed daily reports on what you are being charged on. You can load it in any db of your choice and ask all the questions that you want.
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by enitihas 6y ago
If only I could upvote this multiple times.
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by enitihas 6y ago
> “rise in state capitalism with deep pockets”." I think that term was coined to describe the EIC.
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by enitihas 6y ago
Your comment makes it seem like "smart business people" should ignore Government bans on things even if the things are harmful as long as there is "demand" for them. So is it OK to export to banned drugs in the UK if the
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by enitihas 6y ago
Opium was made illegal in China since 1800 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_opium_at_Humen ). The government even appointed a commissioner to solve the Opium issue and the commissioner proceeded to destroy
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by enitihas 6y ago
So in short, the British wanted stuff from China, but had nothing China wanted, so they resorted to smuggling drugs to China, and when the government objected and burnt a large amount of Opium, the British went to war against China for thei
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by enitihas 6y ago
If you want to run linux, buy from a manufacturer with decent linux support. In my experience, all my dell laptops worked seamlessly with linux. No driver hackery required. WiFi never stopped working. However, HP seemed to have very poor su
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by enitihas 6y ago
What information is lost in OmniFocus when backing up to a textual format?
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by enitihas 6y ago
I think OmniFocus can export in a wide variety of formats, including plain text formats, so you can always take backups of plain text files. I agree that a FOSS solution is preferable to a proprietary one, however, an easy to use software w
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by enitihas 6y ago
I was a big fan of org mode, and I still think nothing beats it for free form note taking. But if your use cases are very simple todo tracking, you might want to try OmniFocus. I have bene using OmniFocus and found a very easy to use replac
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by enitihas 6y ago
The performance implications of this would be huge, and I hope it remains opt in for long time.
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by enitihas 6y ago
And how exactly is that different than the current low salaries in Georgia compared to Connecticut?

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