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by flak48 6y ago
Doesn't stop them from including the clause in the contract though. (Though nothing is actually enforcable in India like you said, simply because you would probably be retired before the case would get a court date)
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by flak48 6y ago
Same as playing only the white keys right? (C major/ A minor)
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by flak48 6y ago
Yep. Inversion of control has always been the norm with whatever server/framework you choose. If you have a /myroute handler defined in express or flask or even form.php or form.cgi in Apache,you never had to write the code to mak
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by flak48 6y ago
What if one is being laid off and the company offers them a severance package of X weeks pay for signing some papers?
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by flak48 6y ago
> We've since migrated to cloud functions (on GCP; but AWS lambdas could also work) and it's just been a breeze. Did you run into cold start delays with GCP cloud functions? AFAIK it is one of the reasons many prefer AWS Lambd
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by flak48 6y ago
Welp. So that also rules out going to places with no connectivity.
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by flak48 6y ago
I guess there aren't all that many companies that can build such massive bridges. Now I'm wondering where else I might have seen a bridge made by the same people.
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by flak48 6y ago
Your comment is much more than this, but: just wanted to add that in a lot of places (like India) the norm is being forced to pick your major before entering college, which unfortunately negates a lot of the self-discovery that happens in f
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by flak48 6y ago
But the candidate's expected salary can be anything, right? Or is the fact that the company is going ahead with interviewing them, a sign that they may be willing to pay that figure?
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by flak48 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by flak48 6y ago
>Ironically I've had people email me that rejecting their spam is filling up their inbox with error messages. Wow
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by flak48 6y ago
We make an intuitive assumption about the final state and then use the rules we know to apply equations to verify the final state. In this case, the equations not matching up proved that our initial assumption (steady state) was itself wron
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by flak48 6y ago
The sheer volume of shares he offloaded everyday contributed significantly to the drop in price while he was selling.
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by flak48 6y ago
Grubhub deal is all stock. Layoffs were on the cards since more than 6 months already, COVID was just an excuse
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by flak48 6y ago
> I was reading the MDN docs on JavaScript promises and realized that the difference between Promise.all and Promise.allSettled wasn’t immediately obvious. Sorry, don't agree with you there
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by flak48 6y ago
Their whole selling point seems to be that their hardware + software can count people accurately without needing a camera. The premise being that cameras spook people. Cameras are already commonplace enough where I work, for security purpos
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by flak48 6y ago
> morally bankrupt How so, in 2020?
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by flak48 6y ago
The new sim looks simply spectacular. 12 years ago I built my first new PC just to play Crysis, with money that I had saved up over some time. Fast forward to today, I just have a Macbook Pro from work, as I almost stopped gaming entirely.
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by flak48 6y ago
Many consider hosting the repo (privately) on Github etc to be the backup.
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by flak48 7y ago
Of which 2 tracks won Grammys
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by flak48 7y ago
Obligatory 'we've had unlimited 4g data for $8/month in India since 2016' comment. Feels good to be first world at something
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by flak48 7y ago
40% of UPI transactions which are typically much lower value than say B2B transactions via RTGS etc. Also the per transaction fee is nil or negligible and not comparable to the percentage fee charged for card payments. They are under becaus
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by flak48 7y ago
This meltdown also exposed a bunch of embarrassingly poor engineering / design practices with several fintech startups. PhonePe, a payment app valued at $7 billion and a subsidiary of Walmart owned Flipkart has been down since this mor
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by flak48 7y ago
Maybe the link of this post itself should be updated
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by flak48 7y ago
If the pie were to become bigger, wouldn't the shack in Nigeria also cost more?
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by flak48 7y ago
I know about WeWorks deceptive accounting/reporting practices, but not sure what similar thing Uber has done when it comes to accounting?
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by flak48 7y ago
*Daniel Baker
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by flak48 7y ago
On a CAT III Instrument Landing System equipped runway, of which there a very few globally, sure. Like in this video where the plane lands itself at Amsterdam : https://youtu.be/Q0BNpgphL7s You can hear the autopilot discon
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by flak48 7y ago
Kudos to the show for still airing the episode anyway (whatever their reasons might have been)
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by flak48 7y ago
As someone planning to move to San Francisco from outside the US soon, is living in SF really as bad as all the blogs make it to be? I chose SF mainly because of its proximity to the outdoors (which I value highly) and relative lack of a co

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