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by eshvk 14y ago
How does race even come into the picture? Is the incompetence of a judicial system not something the citizens of that country should be concerned about? No one is claiming that the country is racially inferior just because the system is bro
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Do Indians count as 'Asians' in the American vocabulary? If yes then I can shed some light on why they become so successful. No. Asians refers to people from East Asia. The terminology is different in England, I believe.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am not sure it is that simple. The bay area just beats the crap of other places hands down when it comes to starting companies. Let us look at one of the closest competitors: Austin. This is a city that has a great cultural scene, no stat
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by eshvk 14y ago
As a person who graduated 10 months back, I am not disagreeing with you that the raw numbers look crazy. However, when you normalize those taking into account environmental factors that I mentioned (housing, food and other expenses), I am n
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by eshvk 14y ago
Well, taxes, living expenses (Housing, food, transportation) are equally ridiculous compared to other areas of the US too.
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Myths of Running: Forefoot, Barefoot and Otherwise(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by eshvk 14y ago
> 3. Any general tips or advice about what area/s are best to meet some chilled out, smart, like minded people? It depends on what exactly you want to do: 1) Meet tech folks, learn about interesting technologies? Go to meetup.com, find
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by eshvk 14y ago
Couple of ways: 1. Ask a friend (Googler) to invite you as a guest, not sure how many people can be really invited. 2. Interview there.
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by eshvk 14y ago
sneakernet is still the fastest method of transferring data. :-)
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by eshvk 14y ago
Sure your assertion may be valid for the HN demographic who have iPhones, I am not convinced that Steve Jobs's presence or absence was the main USP for the wider population of people who buy iPhones.
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by eshvk 14y ago
You can very well have the same issue with Google. There are folks who have had their Google account shut down for some innocuous issue with Gmail, G+. It hasn't necessarily lead to an exodus from Google.
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by eshvk 14y ago
Thanks, maybe I will play with it for a while before I decide whether or not to do the upgrade.
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by eshvk 14y ago
Has any one used Bing Maps in San Francisco? If so, can you comment on how good it is with public transport?
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by eshvk 14y ago
So learning Hadoop can be split up into several pieces: 1. Learning the idea of Map-Reduce. This is fairly easy and you could browse through the original research paper and figure that out. 2. Learning the weird, wild animal called Hadoop (
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by eshvk 14y ago
Not sure about Seattle, but I would bet that there would be more users of the app in SF and NY than DC which is probably why the devs chose to prioritize these cities.
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by eshvk 14y ago
> (3) They didn't realize quite how bad it was. Just because customers started finding hilarious problems on days one doesn't mean they're trivially easy to find. With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. As a digression: I wonder if the
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by eshvk 14y ago
> If he had lived for another five years, apple would have a new product. As it is, we're looking at ipad 8 and iphone 11. There are a ton of smart, talented people working at apple, but no indication of focus or vision. Maybe, after a
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by eshvk 14y ago
I have used both the Sennheiser PXC450 which are active noise cancelling headphones and the Shure SE 215 which are in-earphones. The Shure by far is the one that I have used most for coding/running. It does take some getting used to and ear
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by eshvk 14y ago
Hah..A certain recruiter send everyone in my team a fedex envelope with a recruitment letter hand signed (sent to the company mailing address). I got the darn thing twice (followed by usual Linkedin spam by the same recruiter).
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by eshvk 14y ago
I have often been tempted to go get a suit from these guys ( http://www.syedbawkher.com/ ) who promise a bespoke suit as good as Saville Row. However, the number they quote ~ $1000 is not exactly cheap enough for me to experiment.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am confused: Are you actually saying that asserting one's Indian heritage means that one has to accept all the shit that happens due to an incompetent completely broken system?
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by eshvk 14y ago
I pay a few dollars more just to get my stuff by prime. Sometimes, the third party seller is selling the same thing for lesser (with n >> 3 day) ground shipping and still Amazon's consistency of service makes it an easy decision to
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by eshvk 14y ago
I would argue that the English spoken by as a vernacular in India contains enough idiosyncrasies to be classified as a -glish.
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by eshvk 14y ago
> As someone especially sensitive to smell I applaude your decision to not wear smelly deodorant. One of the problems I noticed when I decided to start using scent free products is that it is extraordinarily difficult to find deodorants
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by eshvk 14y ago
Once square has linked your credit card is linked with your phone number and email, every time you make a transaction with that card, you get a text message/email receipt.
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by eshvk 14y ago
> - Are you profitable? If so, for how long? For some reason, a few companies seem to think that including investor infusions while computing profitability is somehow a good thing. It is wise to (gently) probe and figure whether this
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by eshvk 14y ago
We experimented with 10 AM scrum but I found that if I came to the office at 9ish, I used to get distracted with the thought of Scrum. Eventually, we decided to move it to the afternoons at 4:30 which works out well because you are almost d
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am still not sure that one needs to go all the way to India to do all of this. Couldn't the "Chinese miracle" be replicated here here in America with any demographic that has low participation ratios in the Olympics due to reasons other t
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Another point that is missed is the Indian diet. A large portion of the population is vegetarian ( and not all kinds of meat are eaten ). Could you clarify further what proportion of the population is vegetarian? Surely, there are hig
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by eshvk 14y ago
This seems like a good idea but there are a couple of issues though: 1. I believe from anecdotal evidence most young children start serious preparation so that by their teens, they would have to have a significant portion of their technique

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