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by falloutx 10y ago
This kind of free work is not unheard of. If you haven't heard of StackOverflow Moderator Elections[1], You'd be blown away by the amount of free work people are willing to do for getting internet reputation. [1]: http:/&#x2
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by falloutx 10y ago
This is probably the best Math Channel on Youtube. I highly recommend watching his Topology videos. Numberphile, Mathloger and Vsauce are other great youtube Channels which I subscribe to.
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by falloutx 10y ago
I don't whats the config of your computer, but Dropbox works like a charm for me. I have more than 600 gigs of data synced btwn Dropbox and my computer and it works pretty nicely. I never had to manually check whether a file has been t
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by falloutx 10y ago
So you're saying If I retweet you or embed your tweet on some other website, I would have to ask you first? Cause a lot of websites do that and they never ask any permissions. That would turn the Internet into a permission hellhole. Un
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by falloutx 10y ago
Can you explain how does the curation process work. What are the sources? And how do you/(or you code) decide what is worth curating?
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by falloutx 10y ago
"We're a Paypal for poets." Now thats something I can get behind.
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by falloutx 10y ago
The same graph with censorship events on: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?... Just on the start the spike, there are many events. Though I don't know how to find information on those events.
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by falloutx 10y ago
> I was happy paying $25 for an uber to the airport rather than $30 for a cab, but now it's something like $14 You were happy paying $25, but they wanted more costumers, even the ones who just want to pay 15.
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by falloutx 10y ago
In my opinion, giving large scale subsidies to customers seems like a business anti-pattern, and is surely gonna kill a lot of startups in near future. I have been sold to the Idea that Investors are killing any Internet "Business&quot
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by falloutx 10y ago
Ping pong tables are huge time sinks imo. And some other perks like that. A company where I interned just after college had a lot of perks. A great cafeteria where you could get anything for free, a gym and some pool and ping-pong tables. E
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by falloutx 10y ago
Fascinating to see Vue.js and Inferno both doing so well last year. Vue is definitely lot easier to learn than React, for new Developers, but I could be wrong since I haven't tried it a lot. Don't know how it scales up for large a
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by falloutx 10y ago
Its fascinating that author `prestocore` posted this on Feb 11, 2016 and it remained un-noticed for about a year.
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by falloutx 10y ago
Real question for me is that how good french people are at speaking English? If I go there, I wouldn't be able to speak any French on day 1, so It would be nice if there is a decent percentage of people speaking English so that I get b
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by falloutx 10y ago
One place where Piazza really excels is in their Sales. They used their network to get the big schools, now getting the smaller schools is relatively easy. I can't imagine a startup/small business selling software to say for ex. H
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by falloutx 10y ago
Typora for notes. Atom for Web Development.
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by falloutx 10y ago
Yeah that kind of my point is. If you're giving a job to someone(at the expense of someone more qualified) because of his/her/their race/ethnicity, thats special treatment.
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by falloutx 10y ago
> Facebook started incentivizing recruiters in 2015 to find engineering candidates who weren't already well represented at the company – women, black and Latino workers. Isn't this unfair to White or Asian men who might be equa
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by falloutx 10y ago
Its made by so called "coders". All it says to HRs is that they'll assign a number to each programmer so that they can compare programmers. HRs, as they often tend to be, make their jobs easier without doing work.
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by falloutx 10y ago
I literally puked when it ranked my previous college (A very bad public university in India) along with UT Austin & UW. UT Austin & Other good universities' students are more likely to spend their time on something productive a
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by falloutx 10y ago
Whats up so many Stallman posts lately?
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by falloutx 10y ago
Its really sad for those 50 employees who had to lose their jobs due to incompetence of Medium's executives and its business model. Its due to a deeply embedded business philosophy where CEOs and other business people try to create big
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by falloutx 10y ago
> We decided we needed to take a different — and bolder — approach to this problem. I don't know what model they can come up with except the Ad-revenue model from per post views. This is not a tech issue, but an issue with the busin
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by falloutx 10y ago
A better way to solve it would be to sell the whole network in pieces and pay the taxpayer back, but no, they'll never do it cause nothing better than wasting taxpayer money.
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by falloutx 10y ago
> even free for one carrier right now That free carrier right now needs you to sign up with your Aadhar Number, kind of like SSN but more Sovietness included. Other carries might charge a bit but their rules for registration are more lax
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by falloutx 10y ago
Indian apps/software are so intrusive. > 1. Enter your mobile number to receive an OTP. Why do I need to provide my Identity to a fucking railway station anyway. There are probably better ways to do this rather than this insulting w
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by falloutx 10y ago
> Levy, Steven (2001) Crypto: How Code Rebels Beat the Government – Saving Privacy in the Digital Age Thanks for telling me about this. I read about 50 pages of it on kindle this weekend. Its a beautifully written book.
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by falloutx 10y ago
I used to receive some in the past, but now I hardly receive it. Frequency was usually about once a month, but I haven't received any since last year. And then I ask my friends and coworkers and they keep saying they are getting it qui
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by falloutx 10y ago
> Automatically forge first-person email pretending to be from their users in order to virally promote themselves. This is my biggest problem with AngelList, along with their crappy hackathons. I open my mail and they mailed me to connec
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by falloutx 10y ago
Strong AI cannot be achieved, atleast not with current tech. AND If We get them, Strongly intelligent machines will be totally useless. Suppose you could make an (strongly) Intelligent machine, and tell to analyze some data, it can just say
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by falloutx 10y ago
> If there was a service that could do email, calendars, contacts, notes, passwords, bookmarks, rss/atom feeds, file storage/sync, and document editing well and in an integrated fashion (at least all within the same interface),

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