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by harikb 7y ago
Is there any evidence Obama campaign made people install apps in the pretext of a poll and harvested FB data? Don't confuse using "FB advertising platform" with "stealing FB data outside of their terms and selling it&quo
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by harikb 7y ago
Nice way to show the content. Really brings home the fact that nothing much has changed for 2020, only getting worse. > When CA was closed down many employees simply moved to new companies doing the exact same thing. One of the more well
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by harikb 7y ago
This is the same company that released an amazing/life-changing email client called Google Wave and did not automatically make gmail content accessible in it. I got an “invite”, I invite my colleague who sits 10 ft from me, we logged i
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by harikb 7y ago
AFAIK Twitter used to have it / released this feature. May be it is was via invitation. I remember applying for it. I think they got inundated with requests and pulled the plug
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by harikb 7y ago
Nm. That was my poor attempt at some js humour
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by harikb 7y ago
This only replaces about 325 js dependencies. So you are right, it doesn’t do anything. To get to the point of having any functionality, we have to wait till it replaces 7,967
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by harikb 7y ago
In case anyone hasn't seen the John Oliver episode on it [1] , it is worth your 5 minutes 1. https://youtu.be/kxatzHnl7Q8?t=16
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by harikb 7y ago
Back in the day, when I was part of a startup, the DB guy was all into making us write “provide agnostic” sql in case we ever wanted to switch to Mysql or Oracle. We were actually using Postgres. This was a nightmare. Things started improvi
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by harikb 7y ago
I am surprised you read it that way. I was justifying what management does - as in the are usually paid to make sure shit doesn’t hit the fan. But the architect/engineer who design these should have made better decisions.
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by harikb 7y ago
There is plenty of blame to go around beyond the management. Management is always going to deflect, deny, or do whatever to save their face. There must be “architect/lead engineer” level folks whose primary task is to engineer these
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by harikb 7y ago
Most people underestimate the value of refactoring existing code. Even a prototype provides a good base to start the refactoring. Of course it will help if the programming language helps with easy refactoring. In my projects, I expect to re
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by harikb 7y ago
Most answers below are wrong on one thing. Yes, your house may be reassessed, but only the structure portion can be reassessed. If have a 1 M house, usually land is 800 K and house is 200 K, and in the case of a long term owner, it could be
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by harikb 7y ago
Historically property taxes funded schools in CA and many other states. Yes, some recent other prop-related taxes like Prop-30 have been funding general funds in the pretext of supporting education (exclusive education funding was only for
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by harikb 7y ago
They have it backwards too > meant that new housing could cost cities more in services than it would bring in through taxes. New or resold houses reset tax to current rate. Yes, there is this provision to transfer low prop tax to another
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by harikb 7y ago
There is a certain risk associated with buying used items. Even a item exchanged for cash via Craigslist can have issues - say a lens issue that only shows up in certain lighting. Too bad, we can’t solve that. However these platforms can so
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by harikb 7y ago
This! In addition to all of the above, it is very hard for the candidate to judge what "0.X % of the company" is worth. Like if one gave up, say 50,000 in salary, is the equity worth that much or some good multiple of it. The &quo
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by harikb 7y ago
Claiming that congress doesn't have subpoena powers and everything needs to be taken to Supreme court is not "legal defensive measures". That is the only thing that matters to this sub-thread here. Remember, it is only a whil
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by harikb 7y ago
> I am pretty sure similar criticism has be forced on TV, Cellphones, Comic books and what not. No, there is a shit load of difference. It is far more costly to spread misinformation through those other channels. Sure nation-states and t
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by harikb 7y ago
OP is simply asking for a compromise, a better solution that yours. Instead of avoiding JS altogether, don’t give it access to things it should never have access / no business mucking around
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by harikb 7y ago
If my manager asked me all these questions every 1-on-1, I would be always feel unprepared and would shun future 1-1s. Sure one or two, to get the conversation going is ok.
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by harikb 7y ago
Without artificial heating or cooling, it is far easier to survive India than many parts of say, US or Europe. So in terms of ancient civilization, India is the ideal climate
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by harikb 7y ago
I just spent two hours today to wait at an “urgent care” facility in southbay (my regular doctor of 20 years! wouldn’t give me an apt after several days of trying). I think I owe north of $400+ for this one time visit because I am in the ea
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by harikb 7y ago
It doesn't work quite like that. Builders buying livable property and demolishing it make economical sense only in a very very few percentage of homes. My guess is < 2% of entire area we talk about. For the other 98%, it is far fa
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by harikb 7y ago
> Maybe have Amazon ship your items to a community mailbox without the brown box? I ship to an amazon owned pickup location sometimes. I thought this would be enough of a nudge. But no, it still comes in a box. Because everyone walks in
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by harikb 7y ago
I think “afford to pay” is different from “let us price gauge so high the customer rethinks whether they really need it”. Charging 3 or 5 times is highway robbery.
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by harikb 7y ago
Hypothetically, he might have remembered his real password but the Government didn’t protect the bit-rot capable hard drive and it is the hard drive that is now bad. May be sector level checksums and probabilities rule them out but it is po
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by harikb 7y ago
In addition, his page lead me here http://archive.is/S01gX Start at "The little gears that couldn't." section PS: had to archive the link because of SSL errors prevent direct access. my guess - my browser ha
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by harikb 7y ago
> ... ICANN and Verisign's oversight of the .com domain is itself overseen by the US Department of Commerce. Indeed, ICANN argues that it is merely complying with the wishes of the Department of Commerce, which authorized ICANN to r
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by harikb 7y ago
It should be priced the way Google priced .dev - Good names cost slightly more than what one can make from squatting, but not prohibitive for a real business. People's personal names are unlikely to fall in that category.
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by harikb 7y ago
I was about to say you are being cruel by calling these widowmakers

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