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by fakeer 13y ago
I get bank statements and postpaid mobile bills. When I wrote a bank (Kotak, India) the executive's first reaction was - "please contact the user" - of course I had mentioned in the email that I've no idea who the intended recipient(Some on
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by fakeer 13y ago
For those who follow tl;dr religiously, the answer is: Yes it is.
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by fakeer 13y ago
To be honest his first observation felt absurd, so much that I dared not read further of the post. Sometime ago I chanced upon one of his posts and it had the same mood - an attempt be voracious and fanatic about sth even though he would be
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by fakeer 13y ago
What I don't get, and I say this also because I really don't understand the politics of the most famous country on the planet sitting 1000s of kilometres away and where I have been t0 just once, are the following: 1. There's one guy who doe
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by fakeer 13y ago
Why was reST not supported and contributed to by the community, BTW? I saw a comparison here[1] and good that GitHub supports[2] other markups too. I don't think there's much of a need to move to Markdown other than just for the sake of usi
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by fakeer 13y ago
I've always struggled to find what is supported in a HN text box(MD, reST or whatever markup language) and what is not and somehow that YC or HN post/official page has eluded me till now!
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by fakeer 13y ago
Yes, the article only talks about what managers and company wants from employees - get them to do more and more work, put more hours by selling bs of "ownership", which even they don't understand what it means.
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Your Kickstarter Vacation. My Money. No.(i.gadling.com)
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by fakeer 13y ago
I think the thought process is simple - you run a paid service and it's good, liked by people and you see another service, free, being acquired(acquihired most likely) and you feel bad about it(not jealousy necessarily) and you give your op
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by fakeer 13y ago
Even paying apps go for for a sale, less often though. For me Pocket is so seamlessly integrated with my online presence that it will of course to see it go(considering acquisition will kill it or somehow make it unusable - ad etc) but the
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by fakeer 13y ago
No! They just want to be developed but in their own way. You really have no idea about what is culture or in what way cultures of countries like India(my country) are shaping, do do you?
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by fakeer 13y ago
I am an Asian and I don't think I'm an anti-Asian or a racist for that matter. It was a rant for sure and frustration more. But not at all racist. You read just anything and judge it too!
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by fakeer 13y ago
Is there a verification process after application process ends?
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by fakeer 13y ago
But why would anyone send a CV in a text format until and unless specifically asked, which usually happens when the HR needs to edit the file to convert it to some company wide practised format, for reasons known by them or above almighty
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by fakeer 13y ago
Usually the case is - if an organization A is opposing or campaigning against an organization B then A is mostly likely to be funded by {C} which is an organization or a group of organizations opposed to A in a financial, philosophical or s
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by fakeer 13y ago
Fcuk the source! It's true for most Asian companies and I myself have worked for one; have done that, been there. There was a time(many years ago when I was a fresher in that company and was sent on site ) I used to to hear NOO, YOOO NOO
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by fakeer 13y ago
Can they actually hold off collective might of media houses and billionaires who actually call the shots and make politicians dance to their tunes, mostly because of they have taken the dirty money? What if the bullies resort to proxy arm t
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by fakeer 13y ago
>> and hardly something to defend on any forum (especially, this forum) It was not about defending, I genuinely was curious because it was a totally absurd observation and now as you have already stated it is(i.e. a personal statem
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by fakeer 13y ago
>> Installing and updating plugins is not something we do multiple times everyday. That doesn't mean it always feels good to go and update each one rather than update all in one go and adding, removing, listing - all are made so si
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by fakeer 13y ago
Any particular reason or use case for this? A friend has received his Pi yesterday, hasn't set it up. Can ask him to try it :-)
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by fakeer 13y ago
Used it sometime ago. It was good. Sane. Beautiful with quite normal decisions regarding what users want/need, contrary to Ubuntu's what we want users to want/need . Stable. Loved the way it worked just out of the box. And the best thing
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by fakeer 13y ago
>> Nokia has got the pulse of markets like India, Africa You are right, they have. Mainly because people in these regions do not buy a phone just because everybody else is buying it even though many features either shall not be any
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by fakeer 13y ago
Dear anyone, starting on Vim , please go through the article(which is very good actually, I use 2 of them) but I really wouldn't suggest you to try these or any plugin for that matter, in the very beginning. Rather just do the vim vim. I
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by fakeer 13y ago
I don't know about Analytics, never used it. But I strongly believe search needs to be decentralized. Something like P2P. I mean it's like basic healthcare rights (or right to live) on the Internet. Without search most of the Internet is
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by fakeer 13y ago
>> "OMG, $x is fucking $y!" IMHO, looks like didn't.
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by fakeer 13y ago
I pay for Netflix from India and for that I've to pay for a broadband service which is INR 2.5K (~$50) which is very costly for India, especially for a single person usage + VPN cost. Somehow I am not able to make HBOGo work on my Mac with
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by fakeer 13y ago
This is outrageous and downright corruption! There's no way a babu or department might have bothered to look at what tool students or colleges use if some booty was not involved. I am fine with people using any productivity source but for
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by fakeer 13y ago
Anything on the radar? I did not see any social network you listed other than KakaoTalk and the elk which are mobile messenger. Though their SNS quotient can be disputed, they are certainly nothing like Facebook which is a part of the pos
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by fakeer 13y ago
I remember, this was my tutorial when my lead had told me to practice writing some dummy device drivers as our team was supposed to merge into kernel team. Well, the merge didn't happen and this was my first and last device driver. I liked
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by fakeer 13y ago
Notifo was shut down long ago. I just saw the goodbye post. Ironically their blog is hosted on Posterous.

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