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by gsk 14y ago
I am sure you recognize a better reflection of what she favors is in the life-changing work that Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing.
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by gsk 14y ago
Thank you! This is a nice hack. Going to implement this at home.
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by gsk 14y ago
This is a honest post and very valuable. "why did I quit a job that met all these criteria? The easy answer is that I knew I didn't want to be an academic. But since the job was a stepping stone to a similar, higher paying job in industry,
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by gsk 14y ago
IANAL. That said, don't be afraid. Do the same project at home on your own equipment and make money. The company is exploiting your fear.
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by gsk 14y ago
Reading 'Still Alice' by Lisa Genova has helped me. http://www.stillalice.blogspot.co.uk/ Edit: Link.
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by gsk 15y ago
This is very well said. I was on H1B and was suffocating due to lack of freedom (oh, the irony). Moved to UK 5 years ago on a points based system, a british citizen now, working on my first startup.
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by gsk 15y ago
Can you say what specific feature(s) would make this your first choice instead of mediaelement? (I am a code contributor to mediaelement).
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by gsk 15y ago
Alongside Einstein's final hours (see Einstein: A Life by Denis Brian), I found Steve Jobs final hours to be profoundly human and moving. Steve Jobs admired Einstein and in some ways he seems to have faced death as Einstein had: with calm
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by gsk 15y ago
You can remove 8, 7 , 1 ,2... in fact, any digit and that will make the series convergent. You can go further. Remove 'any' group of digits that occurs in the series repeatedly (say, all terms with 373737 somewhere in it) and the series wil
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by gsk 15y ago
I stand on the other end. The reason why I choose tornado for my startup was because it did not use twisted (too early for twisted in my project). Tornado has a great modular structure so you can use each module on its own. The code is love
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by gsk 15y ago
Evelyn Waugh's words capture this rather well and applies to a much wider field: 'Humility is not a virtue propitious to the artist. It is often pride, emulation, avarice, malice - all the odious qualities - which drive a man to complete, e
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by gsk 15y ago
Yes. He did share his notebooks with E. H. Neville (Hardy's man sent to Madras to get Ramanujan to come to Cambridge).
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by gsk 15y ago
>I have played around with Python and like it but not sure how it will scale up to a large project. If by scaling you mean how to organize a large codebase, IMO, it is not hard at all and usually the python codebase is much smaller than
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by gsk 15y ago
I use both pycharm and Wing IDE for a fairly large project. I find coding python in Wing IDE easier because it is simpler (have a few virtualenvs, Wing IDE easily figures things out and code completion is pretty good). I use Webstorm (JetBr
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by gsk 16y ago
I understand. Isn't that what a manager's job is? Manage constraints? I have worked with some great managers and have a lot of respect for the good ones. However, we can't get our appreciation for our manager get in the way of our compensat
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by gsk 16y ago
This article is fiery and it has every reason to be. You can replace India with Russia, Brazil or any other country which has a dysfunctional government apparatus that is prone to endemic corruption. I wouldn't say there's no way out for In
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by gsk 16y ago
Well, that's one of looking at it. However, I think, we must not discount cultural factors that play a part on how a society deals with it. Some societies arrive at a more pacifist solution such as Polyandry. Societies in the state of Keral
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by gsk 16y ago
Wow, never seen condescension clothed so well before. You should realize that by saying "PHPFog is the only responsible party", you are open to some perverse accusations (like, if your kid turns out to be a criminal, you and the victims are
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by gsk 16y ago
that was not necessary.
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by gsk 16y ago
You know, when you split it like that, it almost sounds plausible. So, I looked closely at the PDF:- -"Web development work (Logo and fonts £2,317.50, Favicon £585, E-newsletter £1,080)" Creating a favicon costs a quarter of logo and fonts
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by gsk 16y ago
>Selling all your possessions to donate the proceeds to a poor family only gets you so far Actually, done well, it goes quite far. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11950843 I still agree with your sentiments, of course.
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by gsk 16y ago
The Art of Travel by Francis Galton (1872) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14681 Captures human ingenuity brilliantly. A timeless book that makes me look at _everything_ with an eye to make it better. A must read for any hacker of any per
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by gsk 16y ago
Indeed, a remarkable statement. Let us have some perspective, shall we. Literature is, if at all anything is, the collective mapping of human relationship (and an incomplete one at that). A shopkeeper like Zuckerberg (he sells ads) is not
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by gsk 16y ago
You should do things in this order: Change the site name. Wait for PG's response.
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by gsk 16y ago
Yes. Consider streetview. " I don't recall asking Google to build a fleet of androids to drive around my neighborhood taking pictures of me and my neighbors' houses, but they did so anyway." You have misread what google does. Legally, Googl
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by gsk 16y ago
These experiment do not prove much. For instance, it matters a great deal where these experiments were done. In all Indian cities (Bangalore, Delhi, etc), this "experiment" is being done all the time and the results are quite plain to see.
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by gsk 16y ago
On your last point, I found the exact oppisite with google app engine. I am using it to build an app that has integration with maps and docs and the infrastructure helps a lot to get the app to beta users quickly (it took me two weeks to ge
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by gsk 16y ago
Well, imagine playing chess. You can become a good player and the game is lot of fun, you can become a great player and game is even more fun. Now, imagine inventing--yes, inventing, not playing--a game like chess. That's the mother of fun.
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by gsk 16y ago
You know, I agree with you completely. This thread is rather depressing, a lot of people saying "it's not a big deal, he was young, etc". This is an ethically-challenged 19 year old who is boasting too much. It is a big deal (anyone remembe
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by gsk 16y ago
Your comment and the parent's lack empathy for someone's circumstances. Also, you should just make your point and not worry too much about votes and points. I say this because, presumably, the implicit goal of a conversation is to understan

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